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| Between the best of the Edict Show |
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The spectacular model 370Z of Nissan appears between the ten best vehicles that were exhibited in the recent Lounge of the Motorcar of Los Angeles. It is coupé will go on sale in the country in January, 2009.
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Perry Stern
Traditionally, the revelations of the show of Los Angeles get overturned more to the fantastic thing than to the functional thing. But this year, the exhibition developed in an a little less luminous ambience. This was not an obstacle so that many manufacturers were already presenting new models, any in stage of production and others like prototypes. Although the majority comes from East and Europe, an American outstanding figure heads the list of the 10 best vehicles presented in the Los Angeles Edict Show 2008.
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This Nissan 370Z attracted very much the attention of the criticism and of the assistants to the Autoshow in the capital angelina.
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1. - Ford Mustang 2010
The Mustang is one of the cars with more followers in the nation. The version 2010 of the car of the wild horse is completely new... in a certain way. At first sight, for design and dimensions he remembers the current model. Nevertheless, if it sees it closely, you will find a renewed exterior, a very improved interior and more potency under the hood. The plastic ones and the leather used award an image of quality and luxury. The engine V8 exceeds potency: 315 horsepowers and major efficiency in the fuel consumption.
2. - Nissan 370Z
This is the first important redesign of the legendary model Z since it returned to the United States in 2003. It is completely new inside and on the outside. As his name indicates it, the last one Z brings engine V6 3.7 liters that opens impressive 332 horsepowers. The coupé Nissan 370Z will go on sale in the country, according to the programmed, in January, 2009, at a price near to the $ 30.000.
3. - Porsche Boxster/Cayman
It is difficult to choose between these two cars. Although the exterior of both vehicles has been updated, as used Porsche has us with his new designs, the changes are very subtle. Both the basic versions and the S or Sport of both vehicles offer major potency: Boxster S is provided with 310 horses and Cayman S with ten more horses. Both will go on sale in March.
4. - Convertible Infiniti G37
With the popularity of the versions sedan and coupé of Infiniti G37 in rise, the throwing of a convertible was alone a time question. The new one G37 Convertible shows an attractive rigid roof of three pieces that bends and keeps in his accommodation in spite of only pressing a button. It will come in the next spring.
5. - Mazda3
Mazda re-designed his compact sedan Mazda3 for the first time. The changes tend to the evolution more than to a revolution: it incorporates many distinctive elements of his models RX-8 and CX-7.
6. - Lexus RX350/RX450h
The series RX of Lexus is like a generation of all luxurious area, one of the most popular of the market. In his interior he emphasizes a screen of top assembly and a system of navigation that provides information of the traffic in real-time. The new version will go on sale in February. 7. - Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder
As his younger brother of rigid roof, the convertible one LP560-4 Spyder offers 560 horses. It develops his potency thanks to his engine V10 5.2 liters and a sophisticated system of integral haulage. Capable of reaching a maximum speed of 200 mph.
8. - Mini And
The Mini And electrical one is impelled by an electrical engine of 204 horsepowers and it will have a 150 miles autonomy. Fed with rechargeable ión-lithium batteries, the Mini And it will be free initially only with two squares.
9. - Nissan Cube
After ten years of success on the Japanese market, the Cube finally comes to the country in the next spring. It will be able to seem small on the outside but it is surprisingly spacious inside: five squares and very much place for the buys. The Cube is provided with an engine of 4 cylinders and 1.8 liters, 122 horsepowers. Nissan hopes that the Cube should manage more than 30 mpg in highways.
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Ford Mustang 2010 heads the list of the best cars that were exhibited in Los Angeles.
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10. - Kia Soul
Kia Soul is all compact area with elegant urban style, accessible price, good economy of fuel that was thrown straight to the heart of the buyers. Kia offers to the buyer the possibility of personalizing the interior of his Soul with different colors, cloths, systems of audio and lighting. Kia hopes that the Soul equipped with all the optional possible ones, 20.000 should come to the sale lounges at least from $ at the beginning of next year.
Source: MSN Edicts
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SINCE IT HAPPENS WITH all the things of the life, there is always a good side and the bad one. Like that it is as in the latter edition of the year this specializing supplement of Washington Hispanic assembles the ten best models of vehicles of the recent Lounge of the Motorcar of Los Angeles, together with ten vehicles that find major rejection – or they are not of the taste, to say it in softer terms - between the American consumers. In the first case, it is a question of a survey realized between the specializing self-propelled criticism and the assistants to the gigantic self-propelled exhibition that developed last month in Los Angeles. Another list there arose from a study done by the magazine Forbes, whose results, as we point out pages further on, it brings several surprises.
SINCE it COULD NOT be otherwise, the topic of the situation that faces the automotive industry was the news about the year. The leaders of the construction companies of the United States (Ford Motor, General Motors and Chrysler), came repeatedly to the Acropolis to request the urgent help that they need. In the end, after numerous conversations, interviews, accusations and agreements that seemed to crystallize already, everything finished with severely slips in the Senate. The hopes of the inhabitants of Detroit – the City of the Engine of the United States - were coded in what would do the White House. Let's hope, for good of the industry, that with the opposing solution initially – a loan for 17.000 million dollars - there should turn out to be beneficiaries not only the captains of the industry but the consumers, with better models of vehicles, more economic ones and less pollutants.
THE LAST NEWS about the year was not pleasing for the motor-car industry in the USA and the rest of the hemisphere. General Motors de México, for example, announced that from December 22 it was starting the temporary works suspension in three of his plants in the above mentioned country, like part of a plan to reduce his production in North America (Canada, the USA and Mexico) opposite to an adverse world situation reflected in minor sales. The company said that the personnel will stop working and a part of the days will be on account of holidays. Little earlier, GM had announced the achievement of technical unemployments in 20 factories in the United States, Canada and Mexico and that it reckons to cut away in 250.000 vehicles his production in the first trimester of 2009. The normal production is 750.000 motorcars and trucks.
Meanwhile, the Japanese self-propelled companies are afraid that the ordeals of his rivals in the United States cause a collapse of the market that will affect them also. The spokesman of Toyota Motor Corp., Hideaki Homma, admitted that an important problem is that the manufacturers of Japanese cars in the United States share the same providers of parts as his American rivals. In spite of everything, we hope that 2009 should be better for the industry and that big ideas arise to achieve the goals that reactivate this sector.
Up to the next one,
Víctor Caycho
Publisher of Autoguide / Washington Hispanic
E-mail: victor@hwc-md.org
| Not everything is lost in Brazil, say specialists |
| Crisis beats to industry of the biofuels |
Alan Clendenning
Sao Paulo / AP
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An employee fills with ethanol the tank of a car, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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A few months ago, the investments were raining on the industry of the biofuels of Brazil, but the world financial crisis has beaten hardly to this sector banishing to the investments and the credit.
" I am ready to start all my plans, but the opportunities have disappeared", there complained Robert Rodrigues, the Brazilian ex-minister of Agriculture that had to suspend his plans of establishing a company procesadora of ethanol due to the absence of foreign investors.
Many small or medium producing companies of ethanol will end up by being acquired by bigger others if the credit lines requested promptly the state banks do not manage to erase his debts, several participants predicted in a conference on biofuels in Sao Paulo last week.
Bad news
An important ethanol manufacturer declared himself in bankruptcy in November in order to restructure a debt for 100 million dollars that he could not pay. Analysts and industrialists predict that there will be more crisis, and a trade union group informed that it has cancelled or postponed 50 per cent of new orders of teams.
" There will be more bankruptcies", there augured Eduardo Carvalho, the director of the department of ethanol and sugar of the conglomerate Odebrecht SA, one of the biggest companies of Brazil.
It is believed that between 30.000 million and 40.000 million dollars in new investments projected for the next four years in this sector will end cancelled, pointed out Marcus Jank, president of the Producers' Association of Sugar-cane, although it did not give details.
They predict recovery
The Brazilian industry of the biofuels, founded in the decade of 1970 and now concentrated on the agricultural state of Sao Paulo, for time is considered to be an example on a global scale, and his method of manufacture of ethanol by means of sugar-cane is cheaper and effective than others, between them those of the United States, which uses corn.
John Melo, executive president of the American Amyris Biotechnologies, affirmed that the Brazilian industry of the ethanol will survive because the demand of cheap renewable fuels of course will recover when they raise the oil prices again.
Amyris is collaborating with Brazilian producers in a joint enterprise that plans to produce 1.000 million gallons of fuel by means of sugar-cane a year for 2015.
The Brazilian and American governments are financing meanwhile research projects and development in order to impel the ethanol business undertaking in Latin America, but the world financial crisis of course will banish to the investments of the private sector, supported the secretary of Agriculture of the United States, Edward Shafer.
Most of the producing plants of sugar-cane cost approximately 200 million dollars, and process up to approximately 2 million metric tons of cane annually, with an ethanol extraction of up to 160 million liters.
| Habit liberates chemists who give well-being sensation |
| To sing in the car is very healthy |
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Elliott Yamin, one of the winners of American Idol, shows how to sing in the car, like driver or passenger, in the international Richmond circuit, Virginia.
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Donna Bentley handles 45 minutes to come to the office where it is employed like attached district attorney at New Bedford, Massachussets, and in this space there happens something that his son qualifies of "criminal": sometimes it transforms in Cher.
" Do you believe in life after love?", he sings passionately to the rhythm of the deafening music. "I dog feel something inside me say, I really don't think you're strong enough now", he continues.
Bentley is more than the thousands of persons who live through a double life; more of the incalculable individuals who sing like Jon Bon Jovi in his Toyotas, roar like Pink in his Fords or hum like Smokey in his Prius.
To sing in the car, say the experts, is a deeply deep-rooted primary impulse and that still does not stop being comprised. But if our ancestors neandertales were humming cheerfully while they were dragging an animal died by the savanna – and the scientists think that this way it was - the same impulse it is still current nowadays.
In fact, because the trajectories are every more lengths and the people are making use of the wide scale of options of high fidelity in the sound devices, who sing in the car are any thing less a species in extinction.
More music that earlier
The long trajectories can be more bearable with a radio satelital, where you listen to them can enjoy specific caprices, like stations dedicated completely to Led Zeppelin.
Surveys realized by the industry suggest that almost all the cars 2009 will be equipped with an entry for iPod or MP3, what will allow to the drivers to listen to the songs that they choose.
It might look like a small change but it is not like that, indicated Dan Levitin, teacher of psychology of the University McGill of Montreal and author of the book "The World in Six Songs; Musical How the Brain Created Human Nature" (The world in six songs; of what way did the musical brain create the human nature). "In the last years we have been listening, singing and doing more music", pointed out Levitin.
A 16-year-old current adolescent listens to more music than his grandfather listened in the whole life", it mentioned. "Now you can support in the hand the whole programming of a radio station", he said. "The technology has given us freedom". And that includes the freedom of singing in the car.
Tom Vanderbilt, author of "Traffic, Why We Drive The Way We Do and What it Says About Us" (Traffic: why do we handle as we do it and what says that about us), it mentioned that also he thinks that more and more people sing in his car, although this has not researched of conclusive form. Nevertheless, studies show that more and more persons are covering major distances in his cars and without any company. And it is this ambience semideprived of the motorcar what he might impel to many persons to sing and to sing bad music aloud.
" The people have his weaknesses, his secrets, some pleasures that generate theirs fault", he said. "The car represents a "sure" place for these persons, one in which they can listen to the songs that they do not want to put in his house or place of work".
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