New Ford Focus ECOnetic

It has just come to the concessionaires the least pollutant and thriftier Ford Focus. Light esthetic changes and the inclusion of the system ECOnetic (more known like Start/Stop), are the principal innovations of a car that divides equally 3,8 liters of consumption of fuel.

Ford adapts for the first time the system Start/Stop in one of his models and the elected one has been this Focus in his version 1.6 Duratorq TDCi that, thanks to this new technology that allows the saving of fuel and the reduction of pollutant emission the ambience, obtains a few average consumptions approved below four liters for every 100 covered kilometers and places the emission in 99 grams of CO2 per kilometer.

In a future, Ford, will include the above mentioned system in many of his engines. Propellents, which will have the challenge of placing his emission level below 120 grams of CO2. The price of sale of the first ECOnetic amounts to 19.329 euros, approximately 900 more, that the version that does not mount the above mentioned system.

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Both the exterior and the interior of this Ford Focus scarcely change with regard to the habitual model. In the exterior we appreciate the new tires, of more limited dimensions. In his cockpit, the dashboard receives light changes in his instrumentation and there appears for the first time the switch of the system ECOnetic. Placed in the center of the dashboard, this button allows to connect or disconnect the system to will. Remember that with the Start/Stop, the engine stops automatically and gets connected of equal form on having touched the pedal of the clutch or of the gas pedal.

The version Trend has system of navigation, integrated into the dashboard, relies on with a seven inches screen and rear camera for the help to the parking.

Ford Focus ECOnetic is provided with an engine of four cylinders in line, direct injection of fuel and turbo-compressor of variable geometry. The cylinder capacity is 1.560 cc and CV delivers a maximum potency of 109. The change is a manual of five relations.

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Yamaha XMAX 250, releases bodywork

Scooter de Yamaha increases his cylinder capacity and mounts a new bodywork developed in only one piece that offers better protection from the wind and the meteorological inclemencies. His image has improved very much thanks to a new hood of more modern esthetics.

The rims, of 15 inches ahead and 14 behind, have been re-designed to update his aspect and to improve both the safety and the march comfort. The driver goes now much more comfortable on a new seat more ergonomic that supports two heights and his filling increases. In the just placed chest under him there is place for two integral helmets. The glove compartment located down the handlebar has seen his storage capacity developing and it is provided with safety lock.

The picture of instruments of the Yamaha XMAX 250 receives a new design more updated that is alike very much that of any motorcar. In him we gain access to the information of clear and precise form thanks to three clocks and the display.

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The heart of the XMAX 250 is a single-cylinder engine of four times and four valves, with liquid refrigeration and electronic injection. With a cylinder capacity of 250 cc it is capable of delivering 21 CV of maximum potency to 7.500 returns. The transmission is automatic. They compose the braking system a game of simple discs in both axes with a 267 mm diameter. ahead and 240 mm. behind. For his part the suspensions are provided with a telescopic pitchfork in the front axis and a shock absorber in the bottom. It weighs 180 kilos and his deposit has a capacity of 11,8 liters of fuel. Thought to move for the city, the Yamaha XMAX 250 measures 2,22 meters long, 0,78 wide and raises of the soil 1,34 meters.

Comfortable, agile and powerful, the new scooter of the Japanese signature turns into the ideal partner for the urban trips without giving up going out to highway.

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Subaru Impreza XV in the Lounge of Geneva

The Lounge of Geneva, one of the most important appointments in the world of the motorcar in Europe, gave for much in his last edition of 2010. Between the principal innovations that there appeared, as this engine blog moved forward you, stands out Subaru Impreza XV in the Lounge of Geneva.

With this official presentation, the model XV of Subaru is announced worldwide in Europe, where he hopes to obtain a good acceptance on a complicated market. It seems that with it, the good-looking Japanese mark for be consolidating on a global scale betting for competent cars.

It is necessary to emphasize that Subaru Impreza XV will have a few adapted shallows and a high suspension, something that can resemble a Crossover. It is a more uncouth version, of field and with bars in the roof and a new aileron. Of course, one of the negative aspects is XV his aspect; let's say that it is slightly esthetic, to the Japanese style.

New Impreza XV, which will be thrown to the European market after the summer, offers a new style Crossover. The frontal grill with exclusive design, the new steps of wheel, the longitudinal rails and the rear aileron accentuate the identity of this new version of the Impreza. Gasoline will be offered by the engine Boxer 2.0 and by Boxer Diesel.

Also, in the Lounge of Geneva 2010, to the margin of the world presentation of Impreza XV, Subaru also offered the European presentation of Subaru Hybrid Tourer Concept and the European presentation of Plug-in Stella, last development of the mark in electrical cars. He emphasizes the latter aspect, which gives sample of the development of the technology of electrical cars carried out by FHI for several years. Plug-in Stella takes almost one year being commercialized in Japan.

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Volkswagen Cross Golf, maximum polyvalency

Volkswagen has presented in the Lounge of the Motorcar of Geneva the new generation of Cross Golf, a vehicle that bases on the Golf Bonus and joins the advantages of a monovolume with those of a todocamino. Next April will come to the concessionaires and his engines offer includes three of gasoline and two diésel.

The new generation of Cross Golf differs esthetically in the new horizontal band of the broiler, placed between the optical groups and the paragolpes, in a few more robust protections but simultaneously more elegant, and in a few new applications chromed in the wings of the vehicle. He has rims of light alloy with new design and a 17 inches diameter, and it will leave to the market with six different colors for his bodywork, from which he emphasizes the elegant and classic dark black effect pearl.

His interior is provided with sports seats for his front squares, both carpeting in cloth of two colors with double seams, frill and lever of changes covered in leather and the pedals are of aluminum of high quality. The capacity of load of his porter changes according to the position of the seats, in normal configuration it is 395 liters, but if we knock down completely the later ones it can reach the equivalent to 1.450 liters.

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With a very finished equipment, Cross Golf of Volkswagen enjoys lighthouses technology LED, termorrefractarias moons, day light, air-conditioner, electrical rear-view mirrors, frill with adjustment in height and screen multifunctionality. As options, the German mark proposes leather hangings, optical groups bi-xenon, adaptive lighting, camerawoman of rear vision and the assistant for parkings.

Inside the offer in gasoline engines the TSI 1.4 of 160 we will emphasize CV, with him, the new generation of Cross Golf consumes 6,8 liters of average and obtains a saving of fuel of half a liter for every 100 kilometers covered with regard to the previous generation. His emission level is of 159 a gm / km.

From the diesel engines the TDI of 140 we can emphasize CV, which with manual change places his consumption in a few scarce 5,3 liters and the emission in 138 grams of CO2 per covered kilometer.

Volkswagen puts at the disposal of the family Cross Golf the new boxes of automatic change DSG of seven relations for the gasoline and of six for the diésel. The only model who does not benefit from this automatic change is the one that mounts the engine TSI of 105 CV.

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Ampera the new car of Opel, of trip.

Opel is in charge of trip for Europe to his new electrical car, with an action very peculiar and accompanied for bloggers of the mark, which they were reporting all the live way. A perfect trip up to Geneva, without noise, without contamination and without hurries.

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The first electrical vehicle completely talented and finished to be able to be led in any place or moment.

The electrical cars have the difficulty of the form of recharging, in this case the distance was very long, approximately 600 Km, from Rüsselssheim up to Geneva, another vehicle would have to find where to load electricity and to hope 2 hours that it should finish the process. The Ampera has a battery of Ión of 16 kilowatt-hours Lithium (kWh), can circulate more than 500 km continued non-stop, without being plugged to the electrical network. When it unburdens itself, and a safety time stays, there is activated the engine of internal combustion that generates electricity to continue without noticing anything.

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His side design in the shape of drop presents it like light, aerodynamic and modern. His interior is the most futurist of this ultramodern prototype.
A hybrid car with the only format prepared for the hard competition that will begin next year between the big marks, all of them prepare or finish his last models in motorcars and the first one in electrical.
Opel sent to one of his executive high places driving up to the Lounge of the Motorcar in Geneva, Gerardo Corsini, the director of the division of electrical cars of Opel - Vauxxhall, piloted during the whole trajectory, more than 600 Km, the new jewel accompanied closely for bloggers of Opel, to continue very close and directly the first trip of the new protagonist, all this without expressing carbon dioxide. The trip began at 9:30 a.m. of February 28, the blog realized continuous updates during the trip and he kept on reporting after one day came to Geneva, until March 3, before beginning the Lounge of the Motorcar.
Fed by a batteries pack with more than 220 cells of ión-lithium of 16 kWh
Equivalent potency 150 cV and a constant pair of 370 Nm
Acceleration from 0 to 100 Km / in 9 seconds
Maximum speed 160 Km / h

The Ampera is thought to be able to cover long distances if to refuel, something that other electrical cars do not have, with a free electrical emission mobility without the conventional limitations. It is enough to plug in it to the conventional current of 230 V.
In Europe the requests of an infrastructure are already studied to recharge vehicles to recharge electricity, with European electrical companies including Iberdrola.

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Graceful Lamborghini Superleggera, the last Italian missile

The surname Superleggera returns to Lamborghini after the success of his last version, which managed to sell more than 600 of these vehicles in only one year. The new Graceful LP 570-4 Superleggera is the most light of the current scale of Lamborghini with 1.340 kilos in weight and it has been presented in society in the last lounges celebrated in Tokyo and Geneva.

The Italian signature it reckons to deliver the first units of this one supersports at the beginning of the next year. Set in an impactante green color, the LP 570-4, is a coupé that measures 4,39 meters long, 1,90 wide and only it raises of the soil 1,17 meters. The materials used in his construction have helped to reduce his weight in 70 kilograms with regard to the previous version.

The Lamborghini designers have drawn a series of modifications in his structure directed to optimize his aerodynamics. After an intense work in the tunnel of the wind, the Superleggera is provided with a new front paragolpes that includes a few enormous captures of air in trapezoidal form, a few completely smooth shallows that help to take the air without obstacles to the rear diffuser and in his rear they have placed a small aileron (optionally it can substitute for one of major size) which mission is that of holding the car to the soil.

In his sports interior the carbon fibre abounds, there have been eliminated all those superfluous elements that could penalize the weight of the car and it has been decided in favor of the Alcántara to cover the seats instead of the skin. There has air-conditioner bi-area and electrical window openers.

Lamborghini Superleggera mounts a propellent of 10 cylinders arranged in V of gasoline and direct injection with a 5,2 liters displacement that is located in rear central position and that delivers 570 CV of maximum potency. The turning moment is to 540 Nm to 6.500 returns and his relation promotes weight it is 2,35 kg for CV. Associated there can go to the engine a manual or automatic change of six relations and also he has haulage to four wheels.

The services of this Lamborghini are of infarction: his maximum speed reaches 325 km / h and it is capable of spending from 0 to 100 km / h in little more than 3 seconds. Thanks to the introduced progress, the emission level has diminished in more than 20 % with regard to the past generation of the Graceful one.

As options Lamborghini he proposes a cage anti I overturn, fire extinguisher, diverse models of rugs and frill, a bundle in which one still makes more use of the fibre of carbon, rear camera, system of navigation GPS or a special bundle of lighting LED.

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New Porsche Cayenne

Porsche has submitted his luxurious Cayenne to a slimming remedy and now it presents itself as a more agile and efficient car. Not only it has lost weight, his new line is more stylized and it is provided with propellents of new generation, what helps to improve his services and to save fuel. The todoterreno of the German signature preserves his qualities offroad but it improves his philosophy of daily use.

His image is now more sports, similar to the rest of products of Porsche. The distance between axes has grown in 4 centimeters to improve his habitability. The Cayenne enjoys a console and dashboard again designed with more ergonomic managers. The rear seat moves longitudinally up to 16 centimeters and can lean back in three different positions.

The family Cayenne mounts in his most accessible model an engine V6 of 3.600 cc that sees his potency increased up to the 300 CV reducing his consumption even in 20 % thanks to the transmission (optional) Tiptronic S of eight relations, and places in 9,9 liters every 100 kilometers. The propellent of 8 cylinders arranged in V increases his potency up to the 400 CV and lowers his consumption to 10,5 liters of average.

The highest of scale, Porsche Cayenne Turbocharger, has a propellent V8 with double turbo-compressor, 4.800 cc and 500 CV of potency, which now consumes 11,5 liters of average, 23 % less than the previous version.

The Diesel, with an engine V6 of 240 CV and 550 Nm of maximum pair, also reduces his consumption in 20 % and if earlier it was spending of average 9,3 liters now it remains in some more than interesting 7,4 liters.

The new one S Hybrid has a propellent V6 of gasoline with turbo-compressor capable of delivering 333 CV and an electrical engine that helps with others 47 CV, with this set, the average consumption of this hybrid reaches 8,2 liters and his emission is 193 grams of CO2, turning into the cleanest Porsche of the whole scale. It is provided with system Start/Stop and automatic transmission Tiptronic S of eight relations.

The gasoline Cayenne costs 62.624 euros, the diésel 64.631, the hybrid reaches 84.625 euros and the highest of the scale, the Cayenne Turbo 128.522 euros.

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