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Revving the 21 automotive brands to participate in the first International Motor Guadalajara (SIAG), to be held from today until July 10. After three years without any event held in Mexico specializing in the automotive world, Guadalajara show the glamour and releases for 2012.

Brands like Dodge, Nissan, Ford, Acura, Alfa and Lincoln come with a card up his sleeve, news, new technologies that Mexican consumers will find available. A special section will be hybrid vehicles or clean, just as there will be specialized activities on trends in design, taught by Daniel Mastretta, creator of the first Mexican sports car bearing his name.

Ecology will have a very important, so much so that this item opens the week SIAG themed, with a space for experts show the efforts that the world is doing to transform the car into a good friendly with the planet.

There will be engineers and technicians will explain to the audience the new clean technologies introduced by the automotive industry to look after the environment in which we live.

One of the speakers wills Elrond Rodriguez of Fiat Power Train (FPT), who will talk about green technology engine of one of the most awarded companies for this service in the world.

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German automaker Daimler factory plans to hire 950 workers for a truck plant in Brazil, where sales of heavy vehicles is rising amid strong growth in infrastructure projects.

The measure will help to increase 7% payroll Daimler plant in Sao Bernardo do Campo, according to data provided by a local steelworkers union.

The company, which produces trucks under the Mercedes Benz, confirmed the hiring.

The German automaker, which last year announced plans to spend $ 900 million to increase production at the plant until 2012, seeks to tap a boom in sales of trucks in Brazil.

The country is experiencing a sharp increase in the purchase of heavy equipment transport, driven by a government plan infrastructure investment of U.S. $ 1 billion.

Sales of trucks in Brazil rose 18% in the first five months of 2011, 68,155 units, according to information released by the local chapter of the automotive industry, Anfavea.

Sales of Mercedes Benz Daimler units climbed 8.5% in the period, slightly less than his rival Germanic Volkswagen.

Currently, Daimler employs 13,000 people at the plant in Sao Bernardo do Campo. The new staff will help implement a third shift at the production line, which now employs about 9,000 workers.

According to a union in the sector, Daimler has hired 1,900 workers since September 2009. The new charges are valid for one year, the group added.

From tomorrow until July 10, Expo Guadalajara, Jalisco will host the Guadalajara International Motor Show (SIAG), considered a world class event that frames all the information generated by national and international automotive industry and looking affect the Latin American market.

For 10 days the assembly plants show the public the news of their brands, launch new models nationally and internationally.

The program includes SIAG in five thematic days:

- Green Day
- Day of Design
- Women’s Day and the car
- Day of the auto industry
- Dealer Day

Remember that from 2011 the SIAG was established as a biennial event based institutional Expo Guadalajara, backed 100 percent by the state and municipal governments in the Metropolitan Area of Jalisco, to help promote regional economy.

Among the participating brands include: Ford, Fiat, Chrysler, Dodge, Acura, Alfa Romeo, Honda, Jeep, Lincoln, Mazda, Peugeot, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Renault, and Mitsubishi.

The public will have the opportunity to see major releases like the Nissan Versa, a compact sedan derived from the new V platform, the Mustang ST 2012, Wolf 2011 Harley Davidson and the new Ford Icon 2012 Hatch. Just as the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid 2011, among others.

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Features:

• Find and contact customers with the right profile to be invited to test a car for 48 hours.
• Coordinate date and place of delivery and return the car.
• Coordinate schedules with the client to carry the vehicle where indicated.
• Undertake the delivery of cars to customers and report on the loan conditions, vehicle characteristics.
• Perform removal of cars with collecting relevant information provided by the customer on the loan and his experience with the brand.
• Manage and support the design of materials required to perform demos, such as chocolates, stationery, etc…
• Inform the technical support area of possible technical failures in vehicles, then the loans.
• Coordinate maintenance and vehicle condition. In addition to keeping track of documentation such as plates and insurance, among others.
• Monthly report on the results of the surveys to customers using the demo.
• Report weekly on loans to sales management.
• Provide support for promotional events, brand cars and sport events.

According to a report by international agency Associated Press, Nissan Motor Co is the Japanese brand with better recovery from natural disasters that affected the country in Japan in March. The results, highlighted the increase in local production and global.

In recent months, the brand increased its production by 0.8%, reaching 80 thousand 35 cars in Japan and globally, production reached 368 000 914 units. According to Nissan, this was possible thanks to a rebound in sales in the United States, China and Europe.

Meanwhile, Toyota Motor Corp announced that production in May fell 54.4% to a total of 107,000 vehicles in Japan 437. Globally, however, production decreased 49.3% to 287 000 811 units.

The month of May was crucial to the Japanese brands, according to AP, most notably because they perceived the consequences of natural disasters. Honda Motor Co also registered losses of up to 53.4% ​​in local production and 50.4% worldwide.

Berlin – Volkswagen AG secured a majority stake in the German truck manufacturer MAN IS an important step to deepen an alliance that includes the Swedish company Scandia AB, the automaker said Monday.

Volkswagen said it has secured 53.7% stake in MAN titles, giving you 55.9% of voting rights.

The announcement comes nearly two months after VW say that it had increased its stake in MAN to more than 30%. That caused a mandatory takeover bid under German law.

Volkswagen is “more than pleased” with the result, said its CEO Martin Winterport said in a statement.

“We aim to achieve substantial synergies between MAN, Scandia and Volkswagen is coming …” he said. “We continue working quickly in close collaboration with the authorities for global regulatory approvals required.”

Last month, Volkswagen said that was “constructive talks” with the European Commission for permission to merge, it says are necessary to achieve savings.

But he said the Commission had said that VW’s top executives should not join MAN’s supervisory board until the permits were approved. He said Winterport and two other executives had withdrawn their nominations to the board.

Ferdinand Piece, head of VW’s supervisory board, said more than a year ago that he wanted the cooperation of MAN and Scandia, which Volkswagen had as its main shareholder.

In November, MAN said it was seeking closer cooperation with Scandia, which spoke of a possible combination of the two brands, but said the two should remain separate.

The flat reading on consumer spending is called after 10 consecutive months of gains, the Commerce Department said on Monday, and then recorded a downward revision to spending in April to 0.3%.

Washington. U.S. spending on consumption was unchanged in May for the first time in almost a year, probably reflecting a plunge in auto sales, government figures showed that also pointed to a rise in underlying inflation pressures.

The flat reading on consumer spending is called after 10 consecutive months of gains, the Commerce Department said on Monday, and then recorded a downward revision to spending in April to 0.3%.

Market expectations were that consumer spending, which accounts for about 70% of U.S. economic activity, rise just 0.1% in May after an originally reported figure of 0.4% in April.

“We will cut fuel consumption and GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for the second quarter. That’s a couple of tenths of a point. It was a small impact on consumers by higher energy prices and problems in the supply chain, “said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Pierpont Securities.

“We’ll see a good rebound in GDP in the third quarter for full production in the automotive sector, which was a bit behind in the second quarter,” he said.

When adjusted for inflation, spending fell 0.1% in May, its second consecutive month low.

Spending on durable goods fell 1.5% after remaining steady in April.

Last month, spending probably was contained by a sharp decline in purchases of motor vehicles because of interruptions in automobile production given the lack of spare parts after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March, which left some models without inventories.

Sales of motor vehicles in May touched it’s lowest since September.

The weak reading in May suggests that consumer spending, which has been beaten by high gasoline prices will be much weaker in the second quarter the annual rate of 2.2% recorded in the first three months of the year.

While the report fits with other data that illustrate the loss of momentum in the economy, the decline in gasoline prices should push spending and therefore growth in the third quarter.

Gasoline prices have fallen sharply from its peak of $ 4.02 per gallon in early May.

Despite the decline in fuel prices, the pressures of inflation continue to push.

The price index for personal consumption expenditures (PCE for its acronym in English) rose 0.2% after rising 0.3% in April. Compared with May of last year, the index rose 2.5% in 12 months, the most since January 2010, after rising 2.2% in April.

The core PCE index, which excludes food and energy rose 0.3%, the biggest advance since October 2009, after rising 0.2% in the previous month.

The core PCE index, which is closely watched by the Fed, rose 1.2% in 12 months to May, the biggest advance since August.

The index climbed 1.1% yoyos in April and the Fed would like it to be about 2%.

Revenue rose 0.3% last month, slightly below expectations for a rise of 0.4%. In April, also rose 0.3%.

“There is so significant because in terms of spending already knew the subject vehicle and the rest of the goods sector of retail sales,” said Alan Evensong, chief economist at T. Rowe Price in Baltimore.

“It implies that we have had modest growth in underlying revenue, based on the expectation that the labor market recovery will continue and the expenditure side, we had a break, again for the vehicles,” he said.

In the most advanced facilities for the manufacture of automotive chassis, the traditional techniques of welding have been replaced by laser joining techniques, where prefabricated sheets (known as plaques) are joined by laser welding and welding processes strong.

The manufacture of welded plates as one of the most important applications in the automotive manufacturing and the high demands of this industry in terms of quality, require extremely rigorous and consistent control of welds during all stages the production process.

This challenge has been overcome with the use of an automated control system that can inspect 100% of the weld. The system consists of a sensor integrated into a CMOS camera Photon focus, a laser line generator and a ring of LEDs, which analyze the profile, and pore structure of each weld. The defects are detected by a combination of laser triangulation (3D) analysis of the grayscale (2D) in 3 parallel proceedings: 3D profile analysis, analysis of the welding structure in 2D (texture analysis of the welding) and analysis of the pores in 2D.

The inspection system has reduced the time of detection and also helped to increase process safety, ensuring the high standard of quality required by today’s automotive industry. It also provides an efficient method for documenting the testing process of welding, thus improving the profitability of the manufacture of chassis.

This system has been used a camera MV-D1024 Photonfocus-80-CL-8 CMOS. Through the use of technology Lingo, this camera enables the capture of the laser line triangulation process and simultaneously records images to grayscale for the analysis of pores. The CMOS sensor of this camera has a linear response at low illumination levels and logarithmic response at high light levels, allowing you to simultaneously capture grayscale images and laser triangulation.

Another outstanding performance Venezuelan midfielder Jorge completed Andres Conclaves, to culminate in sixth place in the sixth valid category Indy Lights race, staged on Saturday afternoon at Iowa Speedway oval in the United States.

A week after crossing the finish line in third place at the Milwaukee Mile track in Wisconsin, “Chicken” Gonzalez repeated another solid presentation Beardy Auto Racing team, a result confirmed in fifth place in the overall standings of the tournament met six of the thirteen official dates.

The native of Los Toques 20 years old, started from eleventh place in the formation of departure and from the scheduled start of the test for a distance of 115 laps began to gain positions, total distance completed the same number of turns the winner, the American Josef New garden.

As in the latest confrontations, Conclaves was the best of the two members of the formation Auto Racing Beardy, beating on lap fifteen and her partner Anders Kroch, then took advantage of the problems that confronted Esteban Guarneri to win a new square, while at halfway beat David Stella and immediately Victor Carbone, allowing them to secure the sixth place finish, just a second and a half of fourth-placed Spanish Victor Garcia.

Throughout the weekend Jorge Conclaves became the only wheel in order to lower the barrier of 20 seconds in Iowa oval of 1.4 km, stopping the clocks at 19 “8508 during final practice on Friday afternoon after the ratings. In that round the average obtained by the Creole was 259.4 mph.