| Lincoln MKT EcoBoost 2010, Ford's big surprise |
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Potency remains new Lincoln MKT EcoBoost and also it wastes economy, since it comes with an engine of 6 cylinders, smaller than those of 8 cylinders but of top yield thanks to the system EcoBoost de Ford. Photo: Ford Motors
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Jaime Flórez
Autoproyecto.com
If completely new Lincoln MKT of 2010 had come to the market approximately ten years ago, probably the antipathy that the SUV managed to wake up (initials of utilitarian sports vehicles, in English) it would not exist. The MKT is undoubtedly what all the SUV must have been, with all the titles of expediency of this type of sports utilitarian vehicles, and without almost any of his defects.
This Lincoln's crossover, the mark of luxurious vehicles of Ford Motor Company, brings together in only one product characteristics as profitable as his two options of engine, both V6, but the most powerful of them with the system that Ford has baptized like EcoBoost. This is not another thing than an engine V6 3.5 liters, with two twin turbocharger - feeder, which deliver 355 horsepowers, much over his two most direct competitors, the Acura MDX and the Audi Q7.
There stayed behind then the wrong perception of which a vehicle of medium size to big, like this Lincoln's crossover, had to be impelled by an engine of 8 cylinders to offer good performance.
Potency remains this Lincoln MKT EcoBoost and also it wastes economy, with better performance than the Acura and Audi. And we can go further, because the numbers also turn out to be favorable to Lincoln MKT when he is compared with the Lexus GL460, the Cadillac STS and up to Infiniti M45x, all of them with engines of 8 cylinders, thirstier but obviously less powerful than the V6 EcoBoost.
Also, it is enough to take the key with it so that the door opens in spite of only oppressing any of the keys in the traditional digital board of Ford. Already inside, the engine ignites oppressing the button, and it is there when this Lincoln of his bajísimos begins to make a show levels of noise and vibration.
Lincoln's engineers thought about everything, because up to fridge they have set in the console of the MKT, and he is not a simple conservative of cold products, but a fridge with his own compressor that it can cool up to 7 canisters of 12 ounces or four bottles of half a liter. The serviceability so much of the driver since it has belonged to all the passengers a priority for Lincoln and is as well as still the third seats line, that it is standard, offers largeness to everything to give, even for adults of reasonable size.
Also it is necessary to emphasize two crystal roofs that illuminate grandly the cabin, the bigger one on the first two lines and other on the third one.
With the highest technology
Lincoln MKT has speed control of adaptable cruise, which allows to establish a constant distance between this vehicle and the one that goes forward.
This way, if the front vehicle reduces the speed or he decides to stop, the system acts reducing also the speed to keep the established distance constant.
It is provided with the system BLIS, which he informs opportunely about the presence of other vehicles in the blind spots of the MKT, those where the rear-view mirrows do not work.
An additional system is alert on the pedestrians' presence that is crossed ahead of the vehicle.
The most extraordinary of all these additions is the Active Park Assist, which is enough to activate it and journey at low speed next to the parked cars, so that he detects himself a space where the vehicle fits, alerting immediately the driver.
As soon as there was taken the decision to park in this space, everything what it is necessary to do is to put the transmission in reverse and to release the direction and the brake, so that the system takes charge of moving the frill himself, while the car enters the established place.
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| Advances in October indicate end of the depression in the USA |
| Good sales are announced by GM, Toyota and Ford |
Detroit, Michigan
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The clients' inflow to the concessionaires of the principal marks caused an increase of the sales of motorcars last month. Photo: Alvaro Ortiz / Washington Hispanic.
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After several months of ups and downs in the sales, the American automotive industry offered last Tuesday, the 3rd consistent signs to be going out of his depression that began one year ago: most of the manufacturers of motorcars brought better sales in October.
General Motors, the biggest manufacturer of the country, brought his first monthly advance in his sales in almost two years in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC, and in the whole nation, at the time that the Asiatics Hyundai and Subaru were the big winners thanks to his models that they consume less combustible.
Other important motorcars manufacturers-Toyota, Ford and Nissan - also brought better sales.
The motorcars manufacturers had said that in October it would be a test of the force of the self-propelled market, after the volatile effect of the successful governmental program “Money for Old Edicts”.
The industry staggered during a difficult September, affected by the collapse of the demand on having concluded the program, which was offering reductions, which fed a sales wave during the third trimester.
Nevertheless, the demand of motorcars and other new vehicles last month allowed that General Motors Co. and his rival of Detroit, Ford Motor Co., they will inform better results.
The sales of GM raised 4,7 % opposite to October, 2008, while those of Ford showed a profit of 3 %. His Japanese rival Toyota Motor Corp. announced that his sales advanced less than 1 %.
There was less encouraging news on behalf of Chrysler Group LLC, whose sales fell down 30 %, although they improved compared to September. The sales of Sling in the country also went down, dragged by a strong and surprising fall in the sales of his popular sedan Civic.
Emily Kolinski Morris, Ford's principal economist, supported that the sales in October indicate “a real underlying demand for new vehicles” after the sudden and temporary rise in the sales for the program of “Money for Old Edicts”.
More economic
The models least consuming Ford's fuel, like the sedan Merger and the small sports van Escapes they sold well, so both showed increases of about 25 %.
The entire sales of Ford's motorcars raised 11 % opposite to October of last year, while those of the mixed vehicles increased 23 %.
The new models 2010, like the Taurus and Lincoln MKT, also sold well in many distributors.
In contrast, the sales of vans type pickup of Ford collapsed 10 %.
SPECTACULAR JUMP OF HYUNDAI AND SUBARU
° The biggest winners in the numbers of sales in October were the surcoreana Hyundai and the Japanese manufacturer Subaru.
° The sales of Hyundai jumped in October 49 % to 31.005 vehicles, especially thanks to his popular thrifty sedan of fuel Elantra.
° Subaru for his part, registered a jump of 41 % thanks to the strong sales of his models Outback and Forester.
° Later the big manufacturers follow, with minor percentages but with major volume of sold units, GM (4,7 %), Ford (3 %) and Toyota (1 %).
| They design exclusive version for the USA |
| The Fiat is born American 500 |
Dee-Ann Durbin and Tom Krisher
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The Fiat 500 was presented in the general offices of Chrysler Group LLC, in Auburn Hills, Michigan, last Wednesday, the 4th. This Italian version will be the base of the exclusive model for the USA. Photo: Carlos Osorio / AP
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Chrysler glides to renew his mark of motorcars Dodge under a new upturn plan, while he announced that the cash accumulated by the company has grown to almost 2.000 million dollars since it went out of the protection for bankruptcy in June.
Under the plan, the motorcars manufacturer thinks about how to introduce four new models Dodge for 2013 and introduce new location, interiors and engines in most of his current line. The new Dodge include the sedan Fiat 500 for the market American and designed by Fiat SpA, the Italian manufacturer who now possesses 35 % of Chrysler.
This sedan will be a key component in the plan of five-year reform of Chrysler LLC that was delineated in Auburn Hills (Michigan), his central head office, last Wednesday, the 4th. Chrysler lacks at present a competitive product in the segment and competitive of small sedans, the biggest of the national motorcars.
The sales of the Chrysler have fallen down greatly this year and the buyers flee to other marks in search of more economic cars.
Chrysler, with 84 years of history, lost more than 8.000 million dollars last year and it would have remained without cash if the government had not intervened to his rescue with 15.500 million dollars. Chrysler turned out to be forced to ask for federal protection for bankruptcy months behind this year.
| Manufacturer leaves world cup |
| Formula 1 remains without Toyota |
Jim Armstrong
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One of the racing cars of Toyota, with Jarno Trulli to the rudder, advances in Bahrein, the last career of the F-1 this year. Photo: Michel Spingler / AP
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Toyota announced his retirement of the world cup of Formula one for the need to reduce costs and to concentrate on his business principal sector.
“ With base in the current economic ambience, we know that we do not have another option any more than us to withdraw of the Formula one”, affirmed the president of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, on Wednesday, the 4th before the journalists. “It was a very painful decision for the company”, it affirmed.
Toyota is, after Sling, the second big Japanese self-propelled company that leaves the Formula one in last 11 months. Sling moved back in December before a worsening of the economic situation.
Paradoxically, Brawn GP, which assumed the control of once I equip Sling, it gained the world cup this year.
The Toyota managers said that the retirement of the Formula one will be entire, and pointed out that they might return to the sport if the economic conditions improve.
Toyota made debut in the Formula one in 2002 but it never gained a career. The best result of the team was in 2005 when Jarno Trulli ended second in Malaysia and Bahrein.
Toyoda said that the villains resulted from the racing team did not influence the decision to leave the sport.
“ Our decision had not changed although we had obtained a victory”, expressed Toyoda.
In spite of a good beginning to the period 2009, Toyota ended I conscript in the builders' championship.
Trulli and Rip-off Glock were the pilots of the Japanese team this period. Trulli culminated eighth and Glock tenth in the pilots' championship.
RENAULT ANALYZES HIS DECISION
° The executive director of Renault, Carlos Ghosn, pointed out that the self-propelled signature will announce before end of year if it remains in the Formula one.
° Ghosn told that “before end of year – it is not missing very much, only a few weeks - the F-1 we will announce our strategy on the Renault role in”
° The Renault exit would be another blow for the Formula one, which on Wednesday lost the team Toyota.
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