The German Audi has announced that its Audi Q3, the new compact SUV from Audi, the third member of the Q model range following the Q7 and Q5, has been awarded the title “Car of the Year Readers” Editorial Prensa Ibérica, La Vanguardia and Autofácil. To gain this award, the Q3 has had to impose an additional six finalists who reached the final stage, getting 22% of the vote.
Among the models that made the final SUV was another newcomer, Evoke Land Rover, the BMW 1 Series compact models, Citroen DS4 and Ford Focus, Peugeot 508 saloon and.
At the award ceremony, which was also recognized other players in the world of motoring, among others attended by the Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, José Manuel Soria.
The award won by the Audi Q3, in addition to the prize “Car and Drive 2012″ has also achieved this year the German model, is mainly due to the versatility of use and sporty design. In fact, the Q3 has become since its launch in one of the most popular models.
As explained from Audi, this is the third time the company wins the “Car of the Year by the Readers” in its ten years of existence. In the first edition of the Audi A8 was selected as the best car model 2003, and in 2007 the most votes was the Audi Q7.
With today’s global economy in topsy-turvy turmoil, finding low cost car insurance is essential, so expect to do a little shopping around, comparing rates to find the best deals.
You’ll need to have all of your pertinent car information, based upon what your state’s insurance coverage requirements are. As you shop, you’ll want to compare the rates and premiums of each car insurance company, which is fine, however don’t just stick to the official websites of these car insurance carriers, as they will want to praise their own products while talking trash about their competitors.
Keep in mind, too, that the rates and premiums for car insurance isn’t the only important consideration. Remember that just because the cost is low, doesn’t mean the policy is the best. The company might keep their rates low by dropping other important factors.
Another thing to keep in mind as you are shopping around for quotes on car insurance is to get a quote for both the annual rates as well as the monthly rates from companies. The reason for this is that you will discover the lowest rates are the ones that are paid in advance for the year, rather than by the month. Ask the car insurance carriers if they offer yearly payment plans.
Hunting for discounts as you shop around for quotes is another way of ensuring that you get low cost car insurance.
The Italian Fiat car company has announced that just redesigned its range of Fiat Bravo, with the ultimate goal of responding to the current market situation. So, from now on, customers may wish to purchase a Fiat Bravo from just 12,100 euros, making it the cheapest model in its segment.
The price mentioned above corresponds to the version of Fiat Bravo Active equipped with petrol engines of 1.4 liters and 90 horsepower with standard equipment that includes elements such as air conditioning, radio-CD with MP3 and ESP. Also, the same version with the 1.6 Multijet diesel of 105 hp is offered for only 14,200 euros.
For its part, Fiat said that an Mylife the new finish will now offer a unique endowment standard in its segment, including, in air conditioning, 4 airbags, fog lights, cruise control, leather steering wheel and shift and aluminum wheels 16-inch black color.
Also, the Bravo MyLife also offer a more attractive design and personnel among other new features include items such as pillars of the doors in black piano-black, chrome door handles, black grille on piano-black and anti-powered dashboard This new finish scratches, pinpointed from Fiat, is available with a diesel engine 90 hp and two diesel engines of 105 and 120 hp. For these versions, the price will range between 12,800 and 15,800 euros.
MyLife version also has the possibility of incorporating the new mylife Pack, which offers only 600 additional euros rear power windows, front seat armrest, rain and dusk sensor kit and smoking among others.
Finally, Fiat maintains its campaign to facilitate the renewal of the Spanish fleet offering an additional discount of thousand euros on all cars in the range applicable to buyers who turn in a used car with over seven years and three months of owned by the customer
In order to continue increasing its market share in the segment of medium-sized MPV, the company renewed its offer Toyota Verso Model 2012. As pointed out from the company, Verso currently occupies an excellent fourth place, having increased its market share in 2011 a 2% to 8.4%.
As a novelty, the new Verso range incorporates advanced multimedia infotainment Toyota Touch touchscreen from Active finish. This system includes optionally, a navigation system, Bluetooth connectivity and advanced ability to access many applications with Internet access with Toyota Touch & Go.
For its part, the finish is standard Advance Xenon headlights with headlight and parking sensors front and rear. Also offered as an option from Active finish, a new video system for rear seats with CD / DVD integrated USB input, and input for external devices.
Inside the new Verso offers a greater perception of quality, thanks largely to the new design of dark blue upholstery for finishing Active and a new mixed fabric and leather finishing Advance. Meanwhile, abroad and has increased the range of body colors, with the new color Blue Nether.
As for the powertrain range terms, the new Toyota Verso diesel engine retrieves the powerful 2.2 D-4D 177 hp, available at Advance finish, leaving the current range consists of two petrol and three diesel engines.
As pointed out from Toyota, this model will be available from 21,100 euros of the 130 version and 32,950 euros Live version 150D AutoDrive Verso Advance.
Since 1999
To our knowledge, in recent days, the Japanese automaker Honda has achieved accumulated sales worldwide of 800,000 hybrid vehicles since the launch of the first model with this type of technology now makes twelve.
Moreover, the company said that in 2011, the Japanese car company reached a sales volume of 200,000 hybrid vehicles, representing an increase of 30% over the previous year.
The first hybrid model that produced the Japanese company was the first generation Insight, which was launched in late 1999, being able to go 35 miles on just one liter of gasoline. Later, Honda introduced hybrid technology in models like the Civic or Accord.
In the past three years, the hybrid technology race has accelerated and the Japanese company has introduced six new cars with this technology.
In fact, 4n Today, the Japanese company sold a total of seven hybrid models in nearly 50 countries around the world. It is also expected to begin next spring on the new Acura ILX marketed hybrid in the U.S. market.
The German carmaker Opel, an integral member of the General Motors Corporation, announced to coincide with Britain joining the UK H2 Mobility project, its intention to start selling hydrogen-powered vehicles from 2016.
To our knowledge, the UK H2 Mobility initiative in which participating Opel was founded with the aim of promoting the production and use of hydrogen vehicles in the UK, thereby reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Through this project, which involved the British government and thirteen representatives from industry, aims at ensuring that by 2014 begin to market these vehicles in the United Kingdom.
And is that the German company spent more than a decade researching the technology of hydrogen fuel cells in order to develop a new type of vehicles that combine the advantages of electric refueling speed and autonomy of the models traditional.
At present, Opel is already beginning to take its first steps in this type of mobility and already has 30 units of hydrogen cars in Europe. In fact in the last three years, over one hundred fuel cell vehicles have traveled about three million miles in testing.
The German carmaker Opel has announced in recent days that their model Opel Astra has been appointed as the car with the lowest rate of defects according to the results of the “DEKRA Used Car Report 2012.” This report evaluates annually conducted eight classes of vehicles and three mileage levels using data from 15 million inspections conducted over 230 different models.
With a rate of 96.9% of non shortcomings, the Opel Astra has achieved the best result of all cars tested in the “best individual score.” This result is not new to the German mark since it is the third consecutive year that the company is done with the leadership in this category. In fact, in 2011 the award went to the Insignia and 2010 for the Opel Corsa.
On this occasion, the Opel Insignia was placed in second position in the ranking of individual-Rated, with a rate of 96.0% no deficiencies. However, with this score, the Insignia if you managed to place a wide margin at the head of the middle segment.
About these results, the Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Aftersales Opel / Vauxhall, Alain Visser, said that “the fact that our brand has had the best car in the DEKRA report for the third consecutive year is further evidence of the high quality of our vehicles. ”
The Spanish subsidiary of Nissan Motor Company, Nissan Iberia, has announced in recent days his plan to promote and accelerate the deployment of a network of fast charging for electric vehicles in our country. For this purpose, among others, Nissan will donate 43 fast loading equipment at no cost, several operators to be installed in the different communities where the brand has signed agreements with local governments and has prepared grants for car sales electrical
These charging stations, which at first mainly be installing gas stations, public access will be located at strategic points, such as towns and cities outputs. All this, with the aim of creating a network that offers customers more freedom and flexibility and allows users to increase the distance they can go electric vehicles in one day.
In fact, since the Japanese company hopes that this momentum will help increase sales in our country the Nissan LEAF, which was launched in Spain last year. Thus, the Managing Director of Nissan Iberia, Manuel de la Guardia, said that while the autonomy of 175 km of LEAF Nissan is sufficient for most daily trips usually make 80% of the population, the extension of networks Fast charging will allow drivers to cover longer distances in a single day. ”
Also, the Guard has added from Nissan is in talks with different companies heavily involved in the development of electric car infrastructure and with existing partners have signed agreements with Nissan zero-emission mobility ”
For 2012 comes the new Tiguan to Argentina. This compared with the 2008 version comes with some design changes; more than anything are aesthetic grill, bumpers and optics. In the interior also leaves some changes.
Equipment the Tiguan 2012:
* Emphasizes safety as it has six airbags, ABS and stability control. The 2012 version adds fatigue detector and a tire pressure gauge.
* Steering wheel with satellite controls.
* Control the air conditioner.
* For the premium version brings bi-xenon directional lights, integrated GPS with touchscreen, parking assistance system and the system Assita Park Keyless Access (keyless).
The 2012 Tiguan in Argentina comes in three different versions in which we have Sport & Style, Exclusive and Premium.
Not change engines, which have a gasoline engine of 200hp at 5100 2.0TSi RPM, other diesel engine 2.0TDI 140CV at 4200 RPM for.
Tiguan 2012 in Argentina
2012 Tiguan prices in Argentina
Tiguan 2.0 TSi * manual, the price from 47,600 to 58,400 dollars.
Tiguan 2.0 TSi * Tiptronic, 50,000 to $ 60,800.
Tiguan 2.0 TDi Tiptronic *, between 50,400 and $ 61,200.
We saw the Fiat Palio 1.4 Attractive Fiat Palio 2012 and 2012 Essence now comes the turn of the sports version, I’m talking about the Fiat Palio 1.6 16V Sporting 2012.
Sporting Fiat Palio 2012 comes with all previous versions equimiento brought, the only thing that changes is that the pallium Sporting receives a distinct instrument panel. What changes is that it brings the serigraphs gradient, the numbers are a bit larger and pointers are white board, and not forgetting the SPORTING logo.
Fiat Palio Sporting inside
As for the engine of the 1.6 16V Sporting brings E.torQ, which comes with an output of 115 hp and maximum torque of 16.2 kgfm at 4500 rpm.
For the Sporting version there are seven color choices, two of them exclusive: the Red and Yellow Modena Indianapolis, selected to accentuate the sporty look.
At the moment we do not know the price of the Fiat Palio Sporting 2012 in Argentina, but it is assumed that up to 90,000 pesos.