New Car?

Who has car he/she knows that the time is only good for a thing, to do with that the price of market of the vehicle lowers, and the maintenance cost increases. After all, the repairs become more frequent, and larger, what ends up weighing in its budget.
To understand the increase in the maintenance expenses seems easy, but the same is not applied to the increase of the expenses with the insurance of the car. How to explain that a car that loses value to every year, suffers increase in the insurance? After all, the insurance is not good to restore the car in case of total loss or do I rob?
Replacement drops, but repair is more expensive although the reasoning above seems quite logical he is I fail, therefore it considers that the insurance is just good for the replacement of the vehicle, whose I cost evidently it drops with passing of the time.
It is necessary to remind that in most of the cases the insurance has as objective the repair of the vehicle that was white of accident, and it is there that part of the problem resides. The repair of the vehicle demands the use of new pieces, whose prices arise much more than the price of the own vehicle zero km.
In 2004, the Public Ministry entered with action against some of the largest assemblers of the country, alleging abuse in the determination of the prices of the pieces avulsas. The request would have if based on study that verified that to set up a new car buying piece for piece it costs eight times more than to buy a vehicle zero km. It is worth to stand out that the difference just reflects the high cost of the new pieces, since they were not embedded in the calculation the expenses with work hand, funilaria and painting in the assembly.
Why are the pieces expensive? Here it is important to remind that leaves of the cost of the pieces he/she is due to the fact that the same ones finish oneradas for the tax in cascade that happens in its productive chain that is going of the maker to the assembler and of there for the concessionary and only then for the final consumer.
The high cost of the pieces ends up feeding the industry of the crime, since the robbery of vehicles, above all used them, for it dismounts it grows. And it is exactly this cycle that explains the reason of the increase of the cost of the insurances of used cars. The high repair cost was not enough, that elapses of the high cost of the new pieces, the increase of the thefts for it dismounts it ends up implying in larger risk for the insurance company.
Thefts encarecem safe Risk this that can be verified in the rate of sinistralidade of the insurances of solemnities, that in January it was of 64%. Translating, for each R$ 1,00 in sales of insurances the insurance companies spend R$ 0,64 on the average with the payment of compensations. As larger the incidence of thefts and robberies, larger this rate, and larger, therefore, the cost of the insurance.
Before this context, many drivers opt for not holding its vehicles used with more than five years. Even so, in the practice, what happens it is that when he/she needs to repair the vehicle, they don't have as arcar with the high cost of the new pieces and the car ends being abandoned.
The economy that does in not hiring insurance finishes it costing more expensive, because doesn't tend money to pay for the pieces, the driver indeed faces an equivalent situation to the one of total loss. To worsen the situation many times the car it is financed, so that not even it is possible to sell the vehicle, because the ownership doesn't belong it. Front to this situation happens many irregular transfers of vehicles, what only contributes to worsen the situation of this market segment.

Prisma

When he/she spoke about the amplification of the factory of Gravataí, in Big Rio of the South, GM cogitated to produce there more two models besides the Celtic. The first, according to the speculations of the market, would be a sedã. As the reader already knows, this month the Prism, the Celtic sedã was presented (he/she reads the evaluation of this car here). The other car would be an utilitarian one sporting small, that would come to dispute market with it Ford EcoSport, that today reigns alone in its segment. Because eis that, in the Living room of the Automobile of this year, Chevrolet shows a “design exercise”, the Prisma Y.
And the one what is the Prisma Y? Nothing less than an utilitarian one sporting small, done on the platform of Celta/Prisma. Fiat made the same with FCC Adventure (he/she reads more here on him), but creativity exercises are not more as not very pragmatic as they were in the past. When they appear, it can bet that or they will inspire new models, case of FCC, or they will be base for the development of a product, as we bet that will be as the Prisma Y.
Chevrolet didn't disclose technical information on the car, as free empty space, mechanization, internal space and other tracks of the type, but it informs that the trunk was privileged, being larger than the one of the Prism (of 439 l) to favor the practice of whole sport type, of surf the bicycle. It is not secret that, in spite of parrudo, EcoSport doesn't offer a trunk there very reasonable (just 292 l, not very larger than the one of a VW Gol or that the one of Fiat Palliates). It would already be an advantage of GM.
The tires are of hoop 16” and, for the photos, it is noticed a good height in relation to the soil. Exaggerated, as the double escapes in the back, typical of cars equipped with motors in “V”, but enough to face the highway to the ranch in the week end.
For the mechanization, it can be bet in the 1,4-litro, in the entrance versions, and in at 1,8-litro for the most sophisticated. The 2-litros could also be an option, but perhaps he doesn't fit in the coffer of the motor.
Speculations to the part, and adapting the popular dictation, when the market says or it is, or it was or it will be. Him Ford EcoSport should take advantage of well its last moments of solitude in the segment that he inaugurated in Brazil.

Nissan

One of the stars of the stand of Nissan in the Living room of the Automobile, new Nissan Murano, was presented to the press in the track of tests of Pirelli, in Sumaré, inside São Paulo, with the mission of competing with BMW X3, Volvo XC90 and Volkswagen Touareg. Besides the beautiful drawing, he counts with more two attributes to try to occur well in the taskwork: the price, of R$ 220 thousand, the more bass among the mentioned models, and the group motor and exchange. But will it be that gets?
That answer will only be given when the sales begin, on October 23. To good of the truth, the vehicle is already with pré-sales in the living room, but, according to Nélio Bilate, director of sales and marketing of Nissan, his main paper is it of attracting public to the resales of the mark, in the same way that the sporting 350Z do. “Murano is a show car, a sculpture in movement, and he/she should bring many customers to our stores that, if they could not buy it, they can be interested in vehicles more accessible of our mark”, Bilate said.
That intelligent strategy, that it could be followed by Chevrolet, with Corvette, and for Ford, with Mustang, he/she gives image results for the marks, especially for Nissan, that intends to grow in the Brazilian market.
Returning to Murano, its value is lower than the one of two mentioned competitors, tying with the one of Touareg V6, that is its competitive one more direct in the line Volkswagen. With relationship to the other two models, BMW and Volvo, the comparison doesn't favor Nissan. First because, in spite of more caros,Volvo and BMW they count with the international recognition of deluxe marks, while Nissan acts in a more accessible segment. The own company recognized that when creating Infiniti, its deluxe division, to example than they made Honda, with Acura, and Toyota, with Lexus. In the USA, the mark compares Murano to the following models: Buick Rendezvous, Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander and Chevrolet Trailblazer, none of them for sale in Brazil for official import.

Due to that, perhaps Murano until it conquers some buyers of those vehicles, but not, certainly, those that look for in the car a larger value than the one of a mere means of transportation. When the subject goes social status, the scale it will hang for the Europeans. At least in the case of the XC90, the load will also influence, since Volvo is larger and he/she has space for seven occupants.
That doesn't remove of Murano, in a whole way, I appeal him of being a crossover of those dared of the market (who not to consider it beautiful he/she won't stop noticing it). Crossover, be said, it is the definition that gives him the vehicles with traction in the four wheels and go-free reasonable, but without resources off-road as reduced march. The pretense of these cars, on the contrary, it is to offer the robust load of the out-of-highway with a the same or very close of the one of sedãs dirigibilidade.
I eat it was already said, this crossover was tested in the track of Pirelli, a controlled atmosphere and that, no matter how much he/she offers several conditions different from floor, he/she will never stop having the taste of a laboratory. There are not traffic lights, where he/she/it can test the agility of the car. There also are not other cars to surpass, there is not traffic, there are not valetas or holes. In spite of that, it was possible to have a brief notion of the behavior of the vehicle.
Before entering in the car it is worth to speak of the motor, a V6 of 24 valves and 3,5-litros that, due to the cylinder capacity, it almost sounds as if it was a V8. Called of VQ35DE, he is, since the magazine “Ward's Auto World Magazine” it instituted the prize of better motor of the world, there are 12 years, one of the ten finalists in all the editions. The potency, of 231 cv to 6.000 rpm, and the torque, of 32,4 kgm to 3.600 rpm, they do with that he has enough force to carry the 1.875 kg of the crossover. Unhappily Nissan didn't disclose the data of acting of Murano.
Married with that good motor it is the transmission XTRONIC CVT, continually variable, that he/she has the advantage of not having engagements for the change of marches, but you polished, that allow to vary the relationships of march of 2,3710 (the more fort) for 0,4390 (the fastest), unassuming the diferencial.
In the practice that means that there is not I shut up or losses of time in change of marches (especially because they don't exist) and that the exchange stays in the strip of rotation of maximum torque the whole time, guaranteeing smaller consumption of fuel and the best answer of the motor the whole time.
Boxes CVT just be possible in vehicles of small motor owed exactly to the torque of the big motors, very loud for the system. That technical difficulty comes being corrected day-to-day, like Audi it already proved with the system Multitronic. In the case of Nissan, the belt among the pulleys is of steel ultraresistente.
To the Done steering wheel the initial presentations, it arrived the moment of entering in the car. The surprise is due to the wide internal space, especially for the passengers of behind. Murano has entreeixos of 2,83 m, what is reflected even in space to stretch out the legs in the bank of behind. Crusades, the legs are so far away from the front bank that other person would fit with crossed legs in yours I glue. Even so, it is possible that there was still rest (that test was not accomplished, reader).
In the front banks, the same good space and the roof, same low, it doesn't inconvenience tall drivers, of more than 1,80 m. Of face, he/she calls the attention the hand brake, or better, of foot. Its travamento and liberation are made everybody by means of the more pedalzinho to the left, that is to say, if he/she wants to stop, it is necessary to press it. If he/she wants to leave, press it again that he liberates the brake.
The panel brings three clocks, of the left for the right: bill-turns, velocímetro and a clock that it gathers the marker of the level of fuel and the one of temperature. In the steering wheel they concentrate commands of the radio and of the controller of speed. Here there is a new evidence that, in spite of well built and daring, Murano would not have as competing with BMW X3 and with Volvo XC90: the direction column just has adjustment in height, not in depth.

Even so, the car won't be the duty in comfort, since the driver's bank has electric fittings even for the distance of the pedals. The commands of the retrovisores are in the central panel, not very ahead of the exchange lever, in good position. In the door they are the commands of the glasses and of the restraint of the doors. I command them better positioned they are the one of the central computer, below the screen of information, almost as if it was a control table in miniature.
Tied up motor, is enough to accelerate so that Murano becomes quickly in movement. The test atmosphere, of laboratory, I eat it was already said, it didn't allow that they were appraised several characteristics that a family course would only have propitiated, but it is easy to notice that the motor has enough disposition to take the crossover to good cruzeiro speeds with the agility that is demanded from a car of this load.
The stability, usually under suspicion in cars of very big free empty space, it is quite good, at least in the conditions offered by the track of Pirelli, that counted besides with a small space of fast deviation of obstacles with wet track. There were not out-of-highway spaces there in that it was possible mensurar the capacity to face difficult lands, but at once, due to the lack of reduced march, it can be said that she is not also there of the largest ones.
More select conclusions will depend on more time and distance traveled with the car, but the brief evaluation the one that he was submitted allows to say that Murano doesn't have, in the Brazilian market, any car in its exact market segment, what turns it a pioneer. And a pioneer that presents enough qualities to turn it easy figurinha in the streets, in spite of the modest expectations from venda(8 to 10 a month).

Hyundai

Ask Adrian Ruhi and to its father, Joaquin, if it is easy to photograph cars “secrets”–especially during the hour of the rush. But with Joaquin to the steering wheel and Adrian seeking a good angle, the couple got several photos of Hyundai Veracruz, the newest crossover of the Korean mark, without any camouflage!

The flagra happened in United States, but the best part of that history is that that car is already in Brazil, more exactly in the stand of Hyundai in the Living room of the Automobile, where it was already presented to the press, but not to the public. In the stand, he continues just camouflaged by a blue layer. When she be removed, the car will have its world premiere. And in Brazilian soil.

Veracruz was announced there is very little time for Hyundai as the ninth vehicle to integrate its range products for the line 2007–and we have exclusive photos to advance the visitors of the living room and our swellings the novelty.

Veracruz is the name of one of Mexican States, with dozens of serene beaches along the Golf of Mexico. In agreement with the release of Hyundai, Veracruz “it will be much larger than a Honda Pilot, he/she will have more space for load that Mercedes-Benz GL and he/she will offer heady drawing, conduction of walk automobile and equipments premium.”
Veracruz will bring the “Hyundai Hideaway”, a third array of banks, dobrável, to accommodate a total of seven passengers, besides a motorzão 3,8-litros V6 with automatic transmission of six speeds. Control electronic of stability it will be series equipment and the traction in the four wheels it will be offered as optional. Hyundai aims its competitors as “medium-big crossovers”, like Honda Pilot, Nissan Murano, Subaru Tribeca and Lexus RX 350.
Hyundai didn't still disclose where the new utilitarian it is being manufactured, but it is investing weighed in a factory in Mexico. If the production goes for there, and considering that Hyundai is also gotten to turn a maker Brazilian of vehicles, Veracruz can arrive in Brazil, in a second moment, without the incidence of the same taxes that you/they are collected of having mattered common (due to the agreement automotivo between Brazil and Mexico), that is to say, for a better price than the one of its imported competitors of another places or for representatives without national production.

Stark

After Troller discovered that the best way to create a Brazilian industry of automobiles was to attack in niches with little competition, as the one of jeeps, the trail opened by her created new initiatives, as the one of the Technology Automotiva Catarinense S.A, or TAC, company that, judging by the project that presented in the Living room of the Automobile, he/she should become shortly well-known of the public. And the responsible person will be the jipinho Stark.
Besides having daring and pleasant drawing, the new jeep it should please for other characteristics, as the independent suspension in the four wheels, traction in the four wheels, marches reduced and the lightness (1.300 kg, against 1.850 of Troller T4, for example). The price, other fundamental factor, it was not still disclosed, but, as the release of the car it will be alone in the second semester of 2007, it is very capable of the company to get to take it to a quite competitive landing.
Another factor that the company boasts as advantage, the motor 1,8-litro of origin Volkswagen, with flexible technology in fuel, can be a pênalti. That because, tends reduced march, the jeep would be enabled the trafegar with motor to diesel, wanted by jeep owners and other drivers by being more economic and strong that motors the gasoline or to alcohol. If that motor transforms Stark in a more option in bill in the segment, to example than GM is trying to do with Chevrolet Tracker, equipping it with motor 2-litros the gasoline, the strategy will demonstrate success.
For a vehicle of proposal out-of-highway, still more national, Stark is revealed, for the description supplied by the maker, a sophisticated model. He will come with brake disks in the four wheels, four individual places, leather banks, hydraulic direction, air conditioning, glasses and electric restraints and you rotate of league-light.
According to TAC, the jipinho has distribution of the same weight among the axes, that is to say, 50% of him on the front axis and 50% on the back axis, what enlarges the capacity of traction of the vehicle and its dynamic balance.

In acting terms, Stark arrives to 159 maxim km/h. In if being about an utilitarian one, in a whole way, that is practically a dice irrelevante, still more considering that, in the trails, speed is what fewer matters. In the highways, with maximum limit of 120 km/h, much less. It is in the torque that the jump of the cat resides and, in this case, we will have to wait for more information and for the evaluation of the model to say if he assists or not to the expectations.

Chevrolet Corvette

There are some machines that are born with a basic purpose, the one of they be accelerated. That is, without a doubt, the exemplary case of this beautiful one than the American engineering, so accustomed to create big cars, drunkards and with suspension extramacia, he/she can do: Chevrolet Corvette Z06. Lighter and potent than the car of normal production, the C6, the Z06 are what the company could do to the public of more sophisticated for sale.
In first place, due to the powerful motor LS7, a V8 of 7 liters. In spite of the megacilindrada of this motor, he is not a big block, but yes the largest small block already produced by GM, making Corvette to return to the famous measure of 427 cubic inches. With block of aluminum, the LS7 surrender 512,6 cv to 6.300 rpm and he/she has torque of 65 kgm to 4.800 rpm, with rotation court to the 7.100 turns. It could be more potent, but the propeller adopts a conservative configuration, well to the American taste, that prefers a more durable group.

The valves, for example, are made of titanium, but the command is in the block, as in the old motors 4.1 that equipped it Opal. There are also just two valves for cylinder, one of admission and another of escape. And it is enough, since, just with that, the motor becomes already too strong. The virabrequim is made of wrought steel, to support the effort that the high compression of 11:1, for an American motor, imposes. The motor is all set up by a special team in the Center of Performance of Wixom, in the State of Michigan, that weighs each one of the pieces in scales of precision so that everybody has the same weight exactly.
The group gets to be reasonably light (1.421 kg, in march order), considering that Corvette, in spite of bass (1,24 m of height), it is big (4,46 m of length), what was obtained with the intensive use of light materials, as fiber of carbon, magnesium and aluminum.
The acting of a group of these it is exactly what one can wait of him, perhaps better: 0 to 100 km/h in 3,7 s and maxim of 318 km/h, obtained, according to Chevrolet, in the autobahns of Germany. In the same country, more exactly in the circuit of Nürburgring, of about 20 km, Corvette completed the plan in 7 minutes and 43 seconds. The consumption, surprisingly, is of 11 km/l, better than the one of a lot of Brazilian sedã of motor a lot, but very smaller.
Inside, the car is a little narrow and the access, as convém the sporting of that ancestry, it is complicated. Well installed, the driver has before itself all the instruments that she could need to drive the large car well, besides a lateral accelerator.

Corvette Z06, lowers and potent, with independent suspension in the four wheels and the old back traction, preference of 10 among 10 drivers of sporting profile, reaches lateral accelerations of 1 g frequently. That measured it is as by force of the gravity, that is to say, when the car is accelerated in curves, the force that he exercises on the driver it is the same that he would feel if it was played in a cliff, but without the danger of hurting. The Z06 are practically a mountain-Russian one private. In May of this year, WebMotors had the chance of testing the car in Indaiatuba, inside São Paulo (he/she reads here more on that). There, it consists that GM didn't have plans of marketing the Z06 in Brazil. It is the company, up to where it is known, it continues without that programming, what opens space so that independent importers, like Forest Trade, swallow the vehicle to Brazil.
The price, as it is habit in those cases, it is not disclosed, only under the customer's consultation, but, only in the quality of reference, the Z06 cost, in the USA, US$ 70 thousand, not very less of R$ 150 thousand. With import costs and imposed, that value bend in Brazil.

For who can pay for him, this Corvette is an excellent one asked. So much for the acting as for the 54 year-old tradition. Already for who wants more than the Z06, it is enough to wait: Chevrolet still prepares a version more fort of Corvette, that perhaps swallows of turn the mythical name Stingray to the market (he/she reads here more on that). Or him or Blue Devil, Blue Devil. It is to wait to see, besides in Brazil!

Kia Picanto

In the presentation of its new car, Picanto, Kia insisted on illuminating the origin of the name, of the French piquant, or spicy. That could give the idea of a car with sporting proposal, but Picanto, with its motor 1,1-litro, doesn't follow that line. Its spicy aspect refers more to the eight available colors, some very strong and daring ones, to the finish, excellent, with great construction, and to the price, quite competitive. For R$ 34,9 thousand, the car brings metallic painting, fog lights, hydraulic direction, glasses, restraints and electric retrovisores, air conditioning, play-cd with MP3, wheels of light league of 14 inches (with tires 165/60) and, for R$ 5.000 the plus, automatic exchange. All this with five year-old warranty. The spicy, therefore, he/she says respect to the competition.
When somebody refers to Picanto as car is not expression force. He is, really, the smallest car for sale in the Brazilian market, with 3,50 m. Only to compare, him Ford Ka has 3,62 m, 12 cm the plus, although the trunks of both have close sizes: while the one of Picanto has 157 l, the one of Ka behaves 186 l. That par excellence turns it an urban car, with the advantage of counting with four doors, non available option for the competitor done by Ford. Far away from being a problem, the reduced size it is something wanted by a lot of people, that want an agile vehicle in the traffic and small enough to fit in any he/she wanders.
Another of its advantages in relation to the competitors is the motor 1,1-litro. The cylinder capacity, not very adult than the one of national models, is not reflected in more potency, on the contrary: with 64 cv to 5.500 rpm, he is more modest than Fiat Fire (65 cv with gasoline), that Volkswagen EA-111 (72 cv, also with derived him of petroleum) and that Chevrolet VHC (77 cv, with gasoline, in the most potent version, used in Corsa).

The big taken out it is that potency, for who walks with the car in the city, is not reflected in any practical benefit, what turns that argument type a mere marketing strategy. Torque, for its time, is of fundamental importance, since it guarantees faster answers and more agile traffic light exits, for example. In that inquiry, Picanto counts with the motor of larger torque among its competitors. They are 9,9 kgm. Besides the maximum torque to have to be loud, he also has to appear in low rotations. In Picanto, he appears to 2.800 rpm. Who arrives close it is the EA-111, that it presents, with alcohol, 9,8 kgm, but the high 4.300 rpm.
The good motor would be still more beneficiary if the model had I weigh low. And he/she has. Picanto weighs 890 kg with manual exchange and 910 kg with the automatic. WebMotors had the chance of testing the two versions, that bring, as only differences, the system of remote control of the doors in the key and airbag as exclusiveness of the automatic version.
The evaluation course, of just 4 km, it was in a whole interesting way for bringing curves in drop and in high-speed, ascents, gone down and straight line. They were necessary, see the reader, the hills that usually meets in the cities. That because Picanto is low, but he/she has a wheel in each point of the chassis. Theoretically that can aid him to face those villainous ones better, still worse when they are irregular, but it was not possible to evaluate that subject in the itinerary chosen by Kia.
With short entreeixos, of just 2,37 m, and little height in relation to the soil, Picanto makes curves closed with easiness and he/she has excellent esterço ray. When he/she leaves, of front, he behaves in an exemplary way. When it is heard the tire sing, for example, that happens in the four wheels, not in an alone one, a demonstration of the great equiilíbrio of the coreaninho. It facilitates, for that, the hydraulic direction, with three windowsill turns to windowsill. The escalonamento of marches, in the manual version, is necessary: nor you tan too much, making the motor to scream the whole, nor long time in exaggeration, removing of its car answer capacity and of maintenance of the speed, especially in ascents and with the loaded car.
In the automatic version, the four marches sit down not very the lack of more a companion, one Thursday that could help the car to use its motor better. With two people on board, he sits down a little more, especially because the first march is longer (he/she needs to be). The subject is that that car, as all the others used in the cities, he/she will just walk most of the time with its driver. So much is as soon as, in some great metropolises, there are roads reserved for cars that circulate with more than a person as option to decrease the traffic. Only with the driver, the automatic version of Picanto it proceeds very well. When he/she needs more force, it is enough to step strong in the accelerator and to work the kick-down for the car to go auspiciously without difficulties.
The one that more impresses in Picanto is its good finish. There is not rebarbas of plastic and the pieces have a pleasant touch, of plastics of high quality. There is also fabric coating in the doors. In movement, it is not heard suspension noises, in fact, very common (McPherson in the front and torsion bar in the back), nor the noise of the motor. It proves that the torque is fundamental it is that Picanto reaches the 110 km/h not very more than 3.000 rpm the (him bill-turns are going up to 8.000 rpm). The exchange, in this case, didn't need to be exaggeratedly shortened for the car to move.
The commands and the position of driving healthy very good, even for tall drivers. For being a car of high roof, Picanto it accommodates its passengers well. A passenger of 1,80 m, behind a driver of same height, will feel a little the space lack for the legs, but not for the head. If the driver goes smaller, or vice-versa, everybody will travel without complaints or desconfortos.
In terms of prices, the R$ 34,9 thousand could be salted, but we see the competition. With less series items that Picanto, Celtic Chevrolet Super 1.0 FlexPower costs R$ 33.703; Fiat Palliates Fire Flex, also without the same package, he/she leaves for R$ 32.802; already VW Fox Plus, with the same items, is sold by R$ 45.039.

None of the three competitors offers automatic exchange as option, but everybody has a more generous trunk, what should be taken into account for who to need of space for suitcases or he/she has the habit of traveling. None of the national ones, in a whole way, has five year-old warranty, an encouragement for who resists to buy cars of Kia. Controlled by the group Gandini, the mark was already reiterated demonstrations that came to Brazil to be. It is worth to remind that the warranty being worth for who it follows the scheduled revisions strictly continues only.
In what he/she refers I hold it, Picanto didn't still have values cotados, but the line Kia, except for the Beast, that has index of high sinistralidade, is of less than 5% of the total value of the car. For Picanto, therefore, wait an insurance in the house of the R$ 1.500 the R$ 2.000 real.

For those and another are that the new compact it can worry the competition. For Kia, Picanto in the eyes of the others will be refreshment.

Peugeot

Peugeot presented, in the County of Jujuy, Argentina, the 307 Sedan, that comes to complete the family of medium-compact of the factory in Brazil–composed, besides the hatch, by convertible CC and for the perua SW. Manufactured in Palomar, also in the neighboring country, the model will be for sale starting from August 24.
As in the hatch, they are three versions: Présence, Feline and Griffe. The first, of entrance, arrives for R$ 54.700,00 and he/she will just have a motor option, the flexible 1,6-litro 16 valves in fuel (it rotates with gasoline, alcohol or any mixture of both) of respective 110/113 cv. For intermediary Feline and Griffe, of top, the motor of 2 liters will also be offered the gasoline of 16 valves, of 143 cv, with variable command of valves for the admission.
The prominence is due to the level of series equipments. From the basic version they are present brakes to disk in the four wheels, with ABS, electronic distribution of the frenagem forces and aid to the emergency frenagem; double airbag; air conditioning; electric glasses in the four doors, with command a-touch; and you join electric with automatic acionamento (reached 10 km/h).
For Feline they are acrescidos air conditioning with two resfriamento zones; play-cd with command satellite in the direction column; retrovisor eletrocrômico and the option of automatic exchange of 4 marches, with command seqüencial.
The version Griffe counts with covered banks of leather; play-cd with capacity for 6 disks, inserted in the panel; solar roof with electric acionamento and kit Bluetooth of communication without-thread with cellular. It will just be offered with automatic exchange and he/she brings sensor of aid to the parking in the back bumper.
Built on the same platform of the hatch, the 307 Sedan has identical distance entreeixos: 2,61 meters. It is distant of some competitive models, like Honda Civic (2,70 m) and Renault Mégane (2,69 m). Although the engineering has been efficient in getting good use of the internal space, the numbers don't lie: there is less comfort for the passengers in Peugeot, compared to the competition.
The sedã grew 26,7 cm in length, compared to the hatch. The front brings the same drawing adopted in the line in the beginning of the year. The back already has more conservative lines, even so you pleased. The lanterns use conventional lamps, instead of most efficient LEDs (issuing diodes of light).
In agreement with Peugeot, the 307 Sedan reaches 204 km/h of maximum speed in the version 2-litros with manual exchange, accelerating of 0 to 100 km/h in 9,7 seconds. With automatic exchange, it arrives to 203 km/h and it is going from the immobility to 100 km/h in 10,7 s. The 1,6-litro arrive to 186 kmh, reaching 100 km/h in 12,6 seconds.
He/she brings the same configuration of suspensions of the hatch, independent in the front type McPherson and for torsion axis in the back. To the steering wheel, it showed that inherits of the model of which derives the efficiency in overcoming irregularities in the floor and disposition for a more sporting conduction. During the evaluation course, in the space of successive curves, the 307 sedã exhibited neutral behavior, in spite of the largest weight in the back–they are 90 kg in the version with automatic exchange (1.384 kg) and 81 kg in the with automatic box (1.411 kg). He/she remained to know like him he/she will behave with the great full trunk.
Its trunk, in fact, presented as other prominence, it generates polemic. The factory stands out the 623 liters of capacity, that would turn it from a distance the largest of the segment. However that value is only obtained in a hypothetical situation of filling all and any space of the compartment–with water, for example. For the method VDA, that uses rectangular blocks and he/she resembles each other to the conventional use, they are 506 liters. It is still a great number–and he/she should stand out the fact of Peugeot to declare both numbers, illuminating the obtaining methods of each one of them. Nor all the factories make that, opting for the most favorable value.
Its direction has weight and answer ideals, with perfect operation of the attendance eletroidráulica. The automatic exchange, of 4 marches, also exhibition good operation, but it could be better, case was adopted to 5 march–as in competitive Honda Civic and Renault Mégane 2-litros, mentioned above. That change certainly would bring more agility to the sedã Peugeot–that has good tank of fuel, with 60 liters.
The variation of the admission valves in the motor of 2 liters provides more elasticity to the motor, eliminating the need of march reductions in retakings of speed. That characteristic, however, it is more easily noticed with the manual box. It competes for the good acting the torque of 20 kgfm to 4.000 rpm, a good regime, being considered the fact of being a motor multivalvulado. In the motor of smaller cylinder capacity, the values of 15,5 kgfm (alcohol) and 14,2 kgfm (gasoline) they also appear to 4.000 rpm.
The expectation of Peugeot is to sell 3.200 units of the 307 Sedan in 2006, divided in 640 of Presence, 640 for Feline with manual exchange and 1.920 of Feline and Griffe with automatic exchange.

Jeep Commander

The utilitarian sport (SUV) of seven places up to now formed a niche inside of the niche, with quite limited offer of models, being the most recent Audi Q7, of price in the heights. When shimmering that opportunity, DaimlerChrysler he/she starts to offer Jeep Commander, a derived of Grand Cherokee that uses the same architecture, mechanization, suspensions and system of permanent total traction now. In fact, it is first Jeep with seven banks. Clear project intention, its more rustic lines send to the tradition of the mark that, in the last times, had been attenuated even in Cherokee Sport. Indicators of this more style “durão” they are the windshield, the back optic group and the rectangular and vertical lateral glasses, something debatable, but that attract a faithful public.
DC bets in the price of R$ 237 thousand to attract buyers that need the two extra positions in the third array. And it was about placing Monday and third arrays in different plans in order to improve the visibility for the occupants, as it happens in theaters and movies. A step in the roof allows elevations around 12 cm for each array. Of the last for the first, therefore, there is a difference of 24 cm. All the banks behind are rebatíveis and they form plane platforms. Commander won a new steering wheel and the superior part of the panel is different from it of Grand Cherokee. Another novelty, the solar roof divides in three parts, and in the array of the there are half two fixed sections, one beside the other.
In the total length of the vehicle they are just 4 cm extras, so that the space for legs in the last array is very limited. The limit of the comfort is in the stature below 1,60 m, although those two passengers count with independent system of air conditioning. The access is reasonable. If seven passengers travel, they just remain 170 liters for baggage, but the volume can increase excellent 973 liters even in the five passengers' case. Or 1.775 liters with all the rebutted back banks.
The motor Hemi V8 of 5,7 liters and 326 cv/51 kgm are also the same to it of Grand Cherokee. It maintains, besides, the desligamento of four cylinders in cruzeiro speed that, in ideal conditions, it saves up to 20% of gasoline. The active system of permanent traction 4x4 Block-Drive II, with reduced, possesses electronic distribution of torque in the central diferencial. You differentiate yourselves lineman and back of limited sliding they received electronic gerenciamento. The automatic exchange box of five speeds with command manual seqüencial has programs of changes, including a specific one for towings.
Commander just comes in a version, quite it completes. There is sensor of parking, windshield cleaners with sensor of rain and monitoração of pressure of the tires, only to mention some. Available still a complete line of accessories of Mopar, of lights off-road supports it of bicycle for roof.
A challenging space out of highway, in Campinas (SP), it was good to demonstrate the qualities of Commander. In spite of its 2.318 weight kg in march order—110 kg the more in relation to Grand Cherokee with the same motor—, it shows agility when winning obstacles. The back suspension still with rigid axis, solution of undeniable robustness, doesn't translate her in limit to the comfort. On the contrary, the long course of the suspensions and springs dimensionadas the impacts that the great differences of the soil impose decreases well. Ascents and gone down radicals are due without the smallest difficulty.
The answer of the traction 4x4 Block-Drive 2 now are faster: an eighth of turn of any wheel just allow to the system to identify the need of additional torque. If necessary, 100% of the force can be addressed for just a wheel, in case she is the only in conditions of providing movement to the vehicle. With so much available potency, they are rare the situations in that he/she becomes, in fact, necessary to place in action the reduced of 2,72:1. The electronic controls of traction also help.
Brakes ABS to disk in the four wheels with additional attendance in emergency and divider of performance for the two axes, besides front tongs of two pistons, assures great frenagem efficiency. The electronic broker of trajectory in curves includes an additional function, capable to mitigate eventual tendency to the capotagem the one that whole SUV, for its high center of gravity, is subject in severe conditions or for the driver's inability. In the case of Commander, the total height arrives to 1,82 m.

Many good the entrance angles (37°), of exit (24°) and of dorso (24°). They are going free from the soil of 21 cm and of 51 cm to 15 km/h to win flooded spaces are aptitude examples in the use severe out-of-highway. The total length of 4,79 m doesn't impede that has a reasonable turn diameter—12 m among guides—to facilitate the maneuvers. A weak point is the visibility for the back glass, because the elevated position of the last banks and respective head encostos disturb. Mirrors external superdimensionados compensate part of that disadvantage.

Audi

The project of the first utilitarian sport Audi was begun in 2002, under the code AU 716. In the beginning of 2003, the first prototype would be shown in the Living room of Detroit, USA. Not by chance: the American market is the main consumer of SUVs and the objective of Audi, among other factories. The name of that prototype was Pikes Peak, in reference to the famous race in the ascent of the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado. Concluded in the end of 2005, the model it arrives now to the Brazilian market in only version, for R$ 379.950,00. Its competitors are BMW X5 and Mercedes-Benz ML 500, everybody in that price strip.
The version offered here is she equipped with motor V8 of 4,2 liters and direct injection of fuel (FSI). He/she has potency of 350 cv to 6.800 rpm and powerful 44,5 kgfm of maximum torque to 3.500 rpm. Its package of series equipments is quite complete, remaining few items as optional. In Europe there are two other versions: one with motor V6 of 3,6 liters FSI, Monday with 3-litros TDI (diesel) of 6 cylinders.
With 5 meters in length (it weighs 2.165 kilos), he/she is 1,98 m of width and 3 entreeixos meters tall, the Q7 are quite comfortable and he/she treats its passengers very well. The legs of who he/she sits down in the bank of back they are very suitable, without passing the sensation of being “with the knees in the chin.” Divided in 40/20/40, those banks can be moved longitudinally, what guarantees more space. The Q7 can take 7 passengers, thanks to a third array of banks with two places–for people with up to 1,6 height meter. He/she offers, according to the factory, 28 different combinations for seats and baggage, enlarging its space for load, of 775 liters, with to 3rd rebutted array of banks, for 2.035 liters, being also rebutted the second array.
That utilitarian sport of 3 generation has the same system of traction quattro offered in the models RS4 and S8. In normal conditions, the central diferencial makes the torque division in 40% for the front axis and 60% for the behind–and you differentiate yourselves they are autobloqueantes and they cannot, to each other (esquerda/direita), to make divisions of the torque, in way to always guarantee adherence. The exchange is automatic, with possibility of operation seqüencial (for the lever or for the butterflies behind the steering wheel) and 6 marches.
The efficient suspension is independent in the four wheels, set up in sub-chassis, and in the same configuration ahead and in the back: arms triangular superpostos (built in aluminum), with bars estabilizadoras. Its springs are pneumatic and they allow that the height is regulated in relation to the soil by means of MMI, system multimídia of control of the functions of the vehicle. It is the same as it equips the A6–I model of which the Q7 inherited the drawing of the panel and interior. There are five operation manners: dynamic, for high-speed in asphalt (that besides improves the aerodynamic coefficient of the car, lowering of 0,37 for 0,34 and minimizing it drags); automatic; I comfort; off-road and “lift.” The free distance in relation to the soil can vary of 165 mm (dynamic way) up to 240 mm (lift, just used to overcome obstacles in it out-of-highway).
To the steering wheel the Q7 waste potency and he/she answers with vigor to the accelerator. The small certain earth space for evaluation, with aclive and accentuated decline and I step (plenty) irregular, it was overcome easily–it would still be better case the tires they helped, being others that not the 265/55 of 19 inches and drawing returned essentially to the use in conditions “on-road.” Asphalt space was not programmed for evaluation of the utiliário sport, just that in shut circuit, inside of a ranch in the municipal district of Nazaré From São Paulo, SP. One of the alleged reasons (besides the few available cars) it was the fact of they be everybody with plates of the European Union.
The Q7 bill with electronic system that maintains dry the brake disks, even under intense rain. Controlled eletronicamente, is tied up to the sensor of rain, evaluating the speed of the windshield cleaner, besides the position of the accelerator and the rotations of the motor. Periodically–and in imperceptible way to the driver–it works the brake slightly (action combined to a small and also discreet acceleration, in way to maintain the speed). The constant and soft contact with the tablets always maintains the disks dry.
In the tiny list of optional consists the system of aid to parking, with a small camera set up in the back cover. The artifice collects an angle of 130 degrees behind the Q7, and the image is shown in the screen of MMI, in the center of the panel. Engatar is enough the ré and the system is worked. To park SUV, it should be followed the yellow strips exhibited in the monitor. It costs R$ 3.400,00.
Another item that consists of the list of optional is the automatic control of speed adaptativo. According to the factory, the Q7 are first Audi and the 1st utilitarian sport in the world to use that technology. Selected the cruzeiro speed (up to 200 km/h) for the lever in the direction column, and one of the four conduction programs for MMI, the system constantly monitors ahead the traffic by means of a small radar set up in the front bumper. The distances are exhibited in the screen placed in the panel and the radar has reach of 180 meters. The program evaluates any alteration of speed ahead in the car and it is tied up to the electronic controls of motor, exchange and brakes. In case he/she notices a desaceleração, automatically it works the brakes of the Q7 and, in a first apprenticeship, he/she lights visual alarms in the panel of instruments; in the second apprenticeship, it brakes with more intensity, giving a “chacoalhão” in the car, in way to alert the driver on the danger. At the same time, he/she prepares the system of brakes for an emergency frenagem–but it never stops the car. This action will always be of the driver's responsibility. For that apparatus he/she pays himself R$ 12.360,00.
There is, also, the system of lateral attendance, that applies similar radar technology. The assistant is destined in the strip changes. Using radar with reach of 50 meters, he/she notices the presence of another vehicle and it alerts the driver by means of LEDs (issuing diodes of light) in the external retrovisores. Also offered as optional, it costs R$ 3.900,00. Added the three apparatuses of aid to the safety, the price of the Q7 arises for R$ 399.620,00.
Of series the Q7 bring sound system BOSE with 14 speakers and play-cd with capacity for 6 disks; airbags for driver and passenger, lateral and type curtains; air conditioning with 4 resfriamento zones and opening of the electric trunk, with height regulável. There is lights bixenônio with fachos you addressed (they accompany the movement of the steering wheel in the curves) and solar roof in two sections, just opening up the front. Also as optional hook of towing escamoteável is offered with electric acionamento.

Rubs of Ford

The 23 of August of 2006 mark the release of the flexible version in fuel of the motor Rubs of 1 liter of Ford. That four years and three months after the official presentation of the new generation of Fiesta, in May of 2002. The delay perhaps didn't go so noticed if in the release of the car Ford had not also exhibited a model flex, that ended up finding the on the way to the production, just in the version with motor 1,6-litro, two years and four months then, in September of 2004, when Fiesta Sedan was presented. Only arriving now, the 1-litro flex places before the avid consumer for provisioning it with alcohol an interesting dilemma, to example than it had already happened with the motor 1,6-litro: its development, for there of competent, it turned it better of using with gasoline than with alcohol.
The explanation is simple: one of the measures main takings to transform it Rubs in flexible went increase its compression rate, of 9,8:1 for 12,8:1, more favorable to the etanol use. That is a politics of Ford for its flex, the one of doing a motor to alcohol that rotates well with the fossil fuel. With gasoline, a high rate turns easier the detonation occurrence, the call “pino beat”, that is the combustion before the correct time. That front of irregular flame can cause to a hole in the head of the piston.
So that that politics was possible, Ford had to count with extensive use of the electronics, with more advanced devices, as the electronic thermostatic valve, that maintains the work temperature of the most appropriate motor to each fuel (103ºC with alcohol and 93ºC with gasoline) and the traditional ones, as the adjustment of ignition point. With all this, the motor consumes alcohol in a more efficient way. The subject is that the same happens with gasoline.
As the flex, more than a subject of mere choice, is also a powerful economy instrument, the consumption relationship between the consumption of alcohol and the one of gasoline is what determines the best business. In other words, forget that history that, if the price of the liter of alcohol costs up to 70% than it costs one of gasoline, it compensates to provision with etanol. That general rule not always it is worth.
In the case of Fiesta 1-litro, the consumption with alcohol is of 9,8 km/l in the highway and 8 km/l in the city, in agreement with Ford. With gasoline, the numbers are, respectively, of 15,9 km/l and 12 km/l. Dividing the consumption of alcohol for the of gasoline, for each situation (estrada=15,9/9,8 and cidade=12/8), he/she/it arrives to the correct price proportion between the alcohol and the gasoline. For the use in highway, the etanol cannot cost more than 61,64% of the value of a liter of gasoline; in the city, if that relationship passes of 66,67%, the fossil fuel will offer a relationship of better cost.
With that, it is only advantage to use alcohol, in Fiesta 1.0 Flex, in Goiás and São Paulo, in agreement with the monthly rising of prices of ANP, so much in the highway as in the city. For those states, in courses rodoviários, there is also to have some care, since the alcohol doesn't offer the same autonomy that the gasoline, being necessary to stop more times to provision. In the urban cycle, it is advantageous to use the alcohol under some little conditions, since the etanol is better taken advantage of by a hot motor. In short courses, of less than five kilometers, to use the etanol, to not to be for subjects of social responsibility and commitment with a cleaner middle-atmosphere, it is cold.

Course plane Para to evaluate the behavior dese motor better, WebMotors opted for the evaluation of a model Sedan, heavier than the hatch and, therefore, more subject to show eventual weaknesses. He/she grieves that the course chosen by Ford for the evaluation was just composed of straight line, situation that it should be present in a lot of cities, but certainly not in most. Some ascents, even if little, they would give a better idea of the torque gain that the car had, of 8,87 kgm for 9,12 kgm, with gasoline, and 9,28 kgm, with alcohol. The maximum torque, in the two cases, is reached to 4.750 rpm, but, according to the company, 88% of him are already available to 1.500 rpm. In the previous motor, the maximum torque appeared to 2.750 rpm.
That until it could be a great gain, it didn't go the car to have been heavier than the previous model: of 1.028 kg, he passed to 1.076 kg. In the practice, the acting improvement, there was been, it is not significant (Ford doesn't disclose acting data). Perceptible it is not, at least. The car continues tends less motor than it would be ideal. For the Sedan, the best would be a propeller of, at least, 1,3 liter of cylinder capacity, middleman among the 1-litro that it carries the hatch without shine, but also without great complaints, and the 1,6.

In suspension terms, Fiesta continues being one of the best of the segment, with good success. It just inconveniences when the floor is wet and the suspension is humid. What happens it is that the scouring pads, wet, screak, giving the impression that the car can be with some defect. When it evaporates, Fiesta leaves of having screaked it.
Inside, the lack of an adjustment of height of the steering wheel is compensated by the same adjustment, only that of bank. With that, the drivers of more than 1,80 m that eventually if they run across with a Fiesta they will get to see the instruments in a reasonable way. Without any adjustment, the part of top of the clocks is occult for the hoop of the steering wheel. Out that, the ergonomics is quite good, although it is to owe the one of Focus, which, considering the segment in that each car interferes, he/she does more than sense.
For R$ 29,32 thousand for the hatch and R$ 31,39 thousand for the Sedan, which the consumer will start to find in the entrance models is the option of also to use the alcohol, besides the qualities that the two cars already exhibited, as the beautiful drawing, ready to move in Europe, the good trunk of both (305 l and 478 l for hatch and sedã, in the order) and a quite competitive price in relation to the competition. With relationship to the dilemma among using etanol or gasoline, it fits to the pocket and the conscience of each one to solve. For rational approaches, it will be a restricted option the few places in the country.

Fiat Mille

The persistence, far away from being a defect, it can be a great quality. It is enough to see the case of Fiat Mille, the old I Unite. There are years he insists in being one of the sold cars of the market, the cheapest, one of the ones that offer the best internal space and, more important than that, one of the most economic. Now, with the kit Way, Fiat wants to show that he can also be stubborn in facing lands of the which few cars would at least dare to arrive close.
Be in the version of three doors or in the one of five, the value of the kit is of R$ 700. With that, the values for the basic car, in the two versions, arise respectively of R$ 21,61 thousand and R$ 23,18 thousand for R$ 22,31 thousand and R$ 23,88 thousand. It is worth to say that those are table prices, difficultly practiced by the market, that comes offering good discounts in the purchase of a new one.
The kit includes soleiras in the doors, painted box of wheels of black, protecting of stop-muds, coating of the central columns and caps with the therefore “Way”, but that perfumery is all only good to give a more beautiful aspect to the car, what gets. In spite of being the people's old acquaintance, Mille with the kit Way he/she gets the attention through where it passes. The functional part of the kit is the increase of the empty space free from the car, 4,4 larger cm, and the adoption of tires 175/70 R13, of the same mark that used them in him Ford EcoSport, Pirelli Cinturato P4. The fact of they be larger it didn't impede that the steppe continued in an of the best positions found to today in national automobiles, inside of the coffer of the motor.
The tires, besides they leave most arranged Mille to face earth highways, also alongaram the marches, since the diameter of the group roda/pneu is larger (57,4 cm of diameter, against 56,1 cm of the original). There are a good aspect and a bad one in that. The positive is that the car needs less turns to maintain the same speed (almost 100 rpm the less), what turns it more economic and less noisy in high speed, maintaining the 120 km/h without esgoelar the motor. The negative already consists of the loss of the traditional agility of the car, always smarter of the market one of the 1-litro. He insists in not wanting to walk in the same way that the normal version, being necessary to force a little more the shortest marches to have a similar result.
Same when demanded, in any way, the excellent motor 1-litro Fire maintained intact its main characteristic, the low consumption of fuel. Few get, for example, to reach the mark of 10 km/l in urban cycle using alcohol. Everything albeit the combination Fire-Mille is a more than happy marriage, allying a motor of good torque in low rotation and of turn easy to a car of just 810 kg, in its version three doors, but to get a consumption of these era something that several fans of the etanol wanted since the first car to alcohol left the production line.
In the evaluation accomplished by WebMotors, they were traveled 460 alone km in the city, in an effort so that the tank if it emptied and it was possible to also evaluate the car with gasoline, but the period of loan of Mille was not enough. The pointer of the gasoline insisted in not going down, of way none. The maximum the one that he/she/it arrived went to the acendimento of the light of reservation of the tank, that indicates there to be still 8 liters of fuel to burn. That, get curled, after 460 km...

I eat it was already said, Mille Way acting is it of a common car 1-litro, not very inferior to the of common Mille. The visibility, especially the back, was recently considered the best of Brazil in a test accomplished by Cesvi Brasil (he/she reads here more on that), what just confirms the impressions of any driver with relationship to the vision quality that the car offers, practically without blind points.
The kit Way offers a more little of mobility in the cities, allowing practically to ignore some hills, valetas and holes, although not everybody. In the earth, don't wait acting of out of highway, but yes some thing comparable to the that Fusca did, facing and winning difficult lands since with the necessary care. It is not surprised if the car wins a light trail, for example.
Another item in that Mille is champion it is in the space use. Among the small cars, he has the largest trunk, just equaled by the New I Palliate in 290 l. It was him, also, the pioneer among the hatches in the disposition of higher banks to compensate the short entreeixos, something presented by Volkswagen as a great solution in Fox.
As nor everything is flowers, the position of driving is not of the best, with an adjustment of distance of the bank that harms tall drivers. If there were a height adjustment or the option of more distance for the bank, that would already be healed. The space in the bank of back it is not also big, but it is honest.
In movement, the steering wheel is shown precise and, in spite of the lack of hydraulic attendance, he is among the lightest of the market for maneuvers. The high suspension and the position of driving don't stimulate any sporting daring, in spite of Mille to behave well in curves. Nor he/she gives to have any pilot ravishment with the car, considering its parca reserves of acting.
Inside, the car is conserved with the same simplicity that always characterized it, but with the possibility of a something the more of equipments, as the air conditioning and the hydraulic direction, two optional that they tend becoming damage, especially if the car be sold in less than three years, minimum period of amortization of a car.
As Mille doesn't have versions that swallow those series equipments, its installation doesn't enter in general in the composition of the price in the tables. That value is composed by the quotation of most of Mille, that is to say, of cars that left factory without both. In the best of the hypotheses, they become just good you differentiate of resale, but, considering that the air conditioning costs R$ 2.990 and that the hydraulic direction nor it is sold as optional, but as accessory, the investment can be loud too much.
With all those persistences, some beneficial, other nor so much, the most annoying of whole is the one of the partial odometer, that whenever he/she separates the car it ponders in disappearing. It is necessary to work it whole to times.

If the persistence of Mille in staying in the market is good or not, who has been opting that he/she is the consumer, and the reasons are evident. As efficient, roomy means of transportation and of low cost, the veteran of Fiat didn't still find competitive to the height. Who insists in buying it he/she has good arguments to do it.