A finished sedan

Ford Fiesta to the Mexican

“5 stars” in proof of shock

Montoya is the surprise

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With his stylized lines and his luxurious interior, the new model Sentra 2010 of Nissan uses the most modern and lasting thing in materials and technology. To throw this sedan, his builders have combined a very attractive design with an engine of high yield and efficiency. Both elements are already giving much that to speak to the specialists of the automotive industry.

Carlos Guzmán
Autoproyecto.com

Nissan Sentra has happened of being a simple economic car to a finished sedan that even might be called luxuriously in the version SL. Already in his sixth generation, the Sentra combines elements of high yield with a pleasant interior, offering us a sedan with high ambitions.
Nissan faces big competition in this segment with venerated Toyota Corolla, reliably Sling Civic and the dynamic one Mazda3, for example. The exterior design characterized by a protuberant nose and the lack of interesting lines in general, it is perhaps the foible of the Sentra. But I believe that the Nissan vision has been to create an efficient, comfortable and spacious sedan, and this is first of all a functional sedan.
His versions. - The Sentra is free in several versions, according to equipments and amenities, but the most luxurious is the SL.
The standard list of amenities in the SL is long, beginning for the excellent seats of leather that are of high quality, a sound system with 6 loudspeakers and radio satelital, glasses and electrical insurances, seat of the driver with electrical adjustment, control panel of the stereo and the control of cruise mounted in the frill, air conditioning and a transmission CVT (variable continuously).
My test car also was including the called Premium Plus Package (that includes slippery roof and front seats with heating), and a system of optional sound Rockford-Fosgate with 8 loudspeakers that produces big volume and high fidelity.
For the city
Under the hood we find a 2.0 liters refined and modern engine that produces 140 horsepowers. The Sentra feels light and the acceleration is more than adapted. The transmission CVT works to the perfection with the engine. Nissan has been using this type of transmission in some time already, and apparently he has re-designed and perfected it to the maximum. The fuel economy is between 25 miles per gallon (MPG) and 33 MPG, what is together with other cars in this segment.
The suspension is firm without being uncomfortable, ideal for the daily handling. Nissan incorporates stabilizing bars in the front and rear suspension. I would like having seen an electronic haulage system, although the brakes are an anti-lock and incorporate a system of electronic distribution of braking.
Inside the cabin
The Sentra SL 2010 has grown in comparison to the previous generation. Immediately he feels more it spread in all the directions, from a higher roof up to major space for the occupants in the rear seat.
The porter has a wide mouth and a capacity of 13.1 cubic feet; the rear seat can swoop down, to take long objects.
The cabin of the SL is undoubtedly an agreeable place. The handling position is raised lightly, resulting in excellent visibility. All the control panel is intuitive and easy to operate, and only it took a few minutes to me to acquaint me with the board and the console.
As for design, the interior has consistent lines and the materials are excellent for this class of vehicle, although the design is purely functional and perhaps he lacks something of character.
The frill regrettably cannot fit in a telescopic way, only vertically, and on having fitted, the seat in my ideal position looked like to me that I had always left the frill very far to be completely comfortable.

The vehicles Ford Fiesta will go out of a Mexican plant, which was already re-opened after his reshaping, with a manufacture capacity of up to 300 thousand annual units.

Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico
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The self-propelled company Ford announced the reopening in March, 2010 of his plant in the outskirts of the city of Mexico where his new sub-compact model will produce Holiday, destined for the market of North America.
The plant of Cuautitlán Izcalli, municipality of the State of Mexico, is planned to produce in the first year approximately 180.000 units of Ford Fiesta 2011, although there was established a maximum capacity of manufacture superior to 300.000 vehicles opposite to the expectation of a self-propelled recovery of the economy and the sector.
“ As the markets should be opened, we think that this number can grow, reason for which we have put the entire capacity in reason of approximately 300.000", made sure Eduardo Serrano, president of Ford de México, at the end of a trip for the plant, last Tuesday, the 6th of October.
“ We see in different parts of the world some indicators that they suggest that we might begin seeing a recovery of the industry; it will be gradual, it is not going to be overnight", it added.
Ford Fiesta will be sold at first only in Canada, the United States and Mexico, although in the second stage it tries to be extended to other countries like Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru.
The reopening of the plant of Cuautitlán Izcalli is part of investments for 3.000 million dollars in Mexico that Ford Motor Co. announced in May, 2008.
The governor of the State of Mexico, Enrique Peña, announced on the same Tuesday, the 6th that only in the Cuautitlán plant nearly 1.200 million dollars will invest.
Together with his German associate Getrag, Ford also will construct a new plant in the central state of Guanajuato, where transmissions will be made.

New York
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The model Tiguan de Volkswagen was put to the demanding tests of shock of the NCAP and he achieved the highest qualification. Photo: AP

Volkswagen of America, Inc. announced that the Tiguan 2009 obtained a qualification of “5 stars” in a test of shock of the Program of Evaluation of New Edicts (New Car Assessment Program, NCAP) of the government. NCAP is part of the safety National government of the Traffic in the Highways (NHTSA), affiliated to the Department of Transport, which gives the consumers information about transport safety from 1978.
The above mentioned program offers principally qualifications for the tests of frontal and side shocks and recently he added other one for the vuelcos, all destined to help the consumers to carry out his decisions of buy of a vehicle.
The qualifications from 1 to 5 stars are informed the consumers by means of an easily recognizable system, in that 5 there is the maximum that can achieve a vehicle.
“ Volkswagen is pleased of that our Tiguan has obtained the biggest qualification in this test of shock (“5 stars”), done that demonstrates again that our corporation produces some of the surest vehicles in the industry”, affirmed Mark Barnes, general manager of operations of Volkswagen of America, Inc. “Our vehicles have numerous technologies of safety that help to prepare accidents as far as possible and help to protect our occupants when the accident is inevitable”, added Barnes.
In addition to being one of the surest compact SUV at present available on the market, the Tiguan also offers an entertaining handling and the performance for that a Volkswagen expects of.
As all the Volkswagen of the year I shape 2009, the Tiguan includes a system of electronic stability that Volkswagen calls a Program of Electronic Stabilization (ESP).
Source: News Autoproyecto.com

Charlotte, North Carolina
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Juan Pablo Montoya, of Colombia, declares before the start of 500 Miles of Fountain, California, on Sunday, the 11th. Photo: Reed Saxon / AP

During 26 careers, the Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya and his team leader concentrated on the only one thing: to qualify to the chase, the final part that defines the championship of the Cup Sprint of the NASCAR.
Montoya is the pilot only one that could have ended between the five first ones in four careers that have been disputed of the chase. Even last Sunday, the 11th of October, champion of the series remained third in 500 Miles of Fountain, in California, test that Jimmie Johnson gained, three times.
The Colombian appears third in the classification, to only 58 points of the leader Jimmie Johnson, and stays firm in his determination for being the first foreign pilot in gaining the championship of the NASCAR.
“ We are not already giving points”, made sure team leader Brian Pattie, in reference to the conservative strategy that they used the whole year. Montoya looked for good laying, not victories, and this way the fact was that it entered the chase, without victories, but with a final position I mediate of 13,9.
They all knew that that would not be sufficient and there were doubts if the team 42 had more that to offer.
They took little in demonstrating that yes, with Montoya at the head in all the practices of the first date in New Hampshire, where it marked a record for the circuit on having gained the first start position. Almost his first victory took in an oval, but it was overcome by Martin in the final returns and it had to be content with the third position.
Then it reached the fourth position in Dover and other the following week in Kansas. It has achieved it with aggressiveness, as when it was thrown to the interior rail close to the end of the career to pair off with the champions Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon, and with new cars that Pattie had reserved for the chase.