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The automotive world has changed a huge amount in the past two decades, especially when it comes to affordable sports cars. It’s a shock to realise that it’s now 20 years since the Nissan 350Z was introduced, especially for those of us old enough to have have attended the original media presentation in California. Yet the new Nissan Z, which we’ve also met in the US, is only two generations removed from that car and much more similar than it is different. Back in 2002, the 350Z felt like a renaissance car for Nissan, an affordable two-seat sports coupé that combined punchy V6 power with rear-wheel drive and a handsome exterior, this styled by a young designer from Leicester called Ajay Panchal. The driving experience lacked high levels of finesse of finesse, but the 350Z’s combination of strong performance and fun, tail-happy handling won it fans around the world. But as times and tastes changed, the Nissan didn’t. The 370Z arrived in 2009, and although it was wider and had a slightly plusher cabin, the basics remained as before: a naturally aspirated V6 up front sending drive to the back. It sold well enough for Nissan to keep making it, and indeed to facelift it and create a hardcore Nismo variant, but never in volumes that would allow any significant investment in a substantial update. It lasted 12 years, with its retirement marking the end of the Z-car line in Europe. Not in North America, though, where Nissan has opted to throw the dice one more time. The general fall in coupé sales meant the company wasn’t prepared to stump up for an all-new model, so beneath the Z’s retro bodywork is much of the 370Z’s structure. The closeness of the relationship is borne out by the fact both share an identical wheelbase. The big change comes under the bonnet, with the arrival of a turbocharged 3.0-litre V6, this sourced from sister brand Infiniti’s Q50 and making an impressively bristly 400bhp but adding about 80kg compared with the old V6. Buyers can choose either a six-speed manual or a nine-speed automatic gearbox, with the senior Performance trim also adding a limited-slip differential at the back. The crisp lines of the retro exterior design work well, although the strangely large fuel-filler cap at the back is further evidence of the need to bend new metalwork around the 370Z that continues to lurk underneath. Being a child of the eighties, I really like the Z32 300ZX-style rear lights, too. But the anachronistic impression persists when you get into the cabin. The Z has plenty of modern touches, including digital instruments and the mandatory touchscreen in the centre of the dashboard, but the core architecture seems barely changed from that of the 370Z. That means awkward, hard-to-see rotary heating controls tucked low down and a trio of supplementary analogue dials on the dashtop, turned towards the driver. The seat-adjustment controls are still awkwardly positioned between the seat base and the transmission tunnel. A mechanical handbrake lever and high/off/low rocker switches for the heated seats add to the dated vibe. Performance has definitely improved, though. The 370Z always had to be worked hard to give its best, whereas the Z’s new turbocharged engine has much more low-down muscle. The 350lb ft torque peak is fully present from just 1500rpm, and although there is some predictable lag at basement revs, enthusiasm builds rapidly and the engine gains a muscular voice as the rev counter heads towards the red. Peak power comes at 6400rpm, but the engine will happily go to its 7100rpm limiter. The shift action for the manual gearbox is light and a little lacking in feel but accurate once the knack is gained, and the Z has a switchable rev-matching function to smooth your downshifts. The chassis starts out well, too – certainly under gentle use. The Z’s steering has been switched to electric power assistance, the 370Z having used a hydraulic rack until the end. The new system has nice weight and delivers progressive, linear front-end responses. Grip from the Bridgestone S007 tyres initially feels promising, and the Z is keen to change direction and to hold onto an intended line. Traction is also good:the car can be launched hard without drama. But upping the pace and moving onto rougher roads soon proves that the new Z’s dynamic polish doesn’t go very deep. Bumps make the chassis feel underdamped and bring the more worrying sensation of vibration in the car’s structure. The tyres’ enthusiasm fades quickly as loading increases, with the Z surrendering to understeer surprisingly early in tighter turns. It feels much more nose-heavy than I remember the 370Z being. Adhesion levels at the back are equally limited, and it’s predictably easy to deliberately overpower the rear tyres with the stability control switched off. My test car was an LSD-equipped Performance, and it did feel stable and progressive when oversteering, but results in the open-diffed Sport model would probably be less elegant. The continued ability to indulge in low-speed hoonery makes the new Z feel like a close relation of both the 370Z and the 350Z. The problem is that so does everything else. The new engine is definitely a step forwards in terms of both punch and drivability, and the Z now feels up to 2022 standards in terms of interior technology; but beyond that, I’m really struggling to nominate any areas in which it feels like a significant step forwards from its predecessors, and in several areas, it actually feels like a regression. The Z has the odd distinction of feeling old even when it’s introduced, being well off the standards of the far more advanced Toyota GR Supra. At least it’s a disparity that Nissan implicitly acknowledges with some very attractive pricing. The kick-off in the US for the Z Sport is $41,015 – $2525 less than Toyota wants for the considerably less powerful four-cylinder Supra. At $51,015, the Z Performance also looks like good value when compared with the Supra or the base Porsche 718 Cayman, although that does make it $10,000 more than the entry point for the V8-powered Ford Mustang. Yet the Z feels like a car that’s cheaper than its peers with good reason, lacking the dynamic finesse that normally comes as standard in this part of the market. Leaving aside the negative effect that importing it would doubtless have had on Nissan’s fleet-average CO2 emissions figures on this side of the Atlantic, Nissan is probably right to keep it away from Europe. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/nissan/z

Italy's far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and her coalition allies have met President Sergio Mattarella and say they are ready to form a government "as quickly as possible". He is set to ask Ms Meloni in the coming hours to become prime minister. Veteran ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attended the brief talks, despite shaking the coalition's unity with leaked pro-Putin remarks. Ms Meloni has sought to assure Italy's Western allies nothing will change. The Brothers of Italy leader could be sworn in as early as this weekend as the country's first female prime minister - and first far-right leader since World War Two. She said her coalition of right-wing and far-right parties was unanimous that she should lead Italy. Ahead of Friday's 11-minute meeting, she said they were "ready to give Italy a government that confronts with awareness and competence the urgency and challenges of our time". Less than a month after Italians voted for a new Senate and Chamber of Deputies, she is set to replace Mario Draghi, who was due to return from an EU summit on Friday. Alongside Ms Meloni at the presidential palace were Matteo Salvini of the far-right League (Above R) and Mr Berlusconi (L) - the 86-year-old head of centre-right Forza Italia - who for days has been at the centre of a row surrounding two leaked recordings underlining his pro-Putin views. In the first audio leak, he was heard boasting that Russian President Vladimir Putin had sent him 20 bottles of vodka for his birthday and called him "number one among his five best friends". BERLUSCONI: Vodka and lovely letters from Putin Then, in a leaked speech to party colleagues, he backed Russia's pretext for its war, baselessly blaming Ukraine's president and the West for pushing the Kremlin into an invasion. He insists his remarks were taken out of context and that he backs the Italian and EU position on Ukraine. However, his pro-Putin comments are nothing new: last month he told Italian TV that Russia's leader had merely sought to replace Volodymyr Zelensky with a "government of decent people". The leaks piled pressure on Giorgia Meloni, 45. Her other far-right ally, League leader Matteo Salvini, has also long been seen as a Putin admirer, but Ms Meloni needs both men in her coalition to form a majority. Another key Berlusconi figure, Antonio Tajani, who hopes to become foreign minister in the new government, told centre-right counterparts in Brussels that his party and its leader were pro-Nato and against the "unacceptable Russian invasion of Ukraine". Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Twitter that while Mr Berlusconi was enjoying his Russian vodka, Giorgia Meloni was demonstrating what true principles were. Ms Meloni has already tussled over the main government jobs with Forza Italia and the League in the weeks since her nationalist, anti-immigration Brothers of Italy party won the September elections with 26% of the vote. The two smaller parties both won little more than 8%. Mr Berlusconi's party refused to support her pick for speaker of Italy's Senate, Ignazio La Russa, and the centre-right leader wrote a note describing Ms Meloni as over-bearing and arrogant. Although Ms Meloni has sought to come across as moderate, the new Senate speaker is a co-founder of her party who collects memorabilia of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Brothers of Italy's own roots date back to the country's post-war neo-fascist movement. Mr La Russa was first to meet the president on Thursday, followed by the new speaker of the lower house, Lorenzo Fontana. The Chamber of Deputies speaker hails from the far-right League and in 2018 praised Russia's leader as "a shining light even for us in the West". President Mattarella later met party leaders who will form Italy's opposition. Centre-left leader Enrico Letta said the views of both Mr Berlusconi and the new speaker Mr Fontana rang very serious alarm bells. Centrist leader Carlo Calenda also had deep concerns about the ex-prime minister's pro-Putin comments. Assuming Ms Meloni and her new government are sworn in over the weekend, a vote of confidence next week is seen as a formality, given the size of the right-wing majority in both the Chamber and the Senate. Her initial task will be to help Italians fund their energy costs. But she has also worried the LGBT community with attacks on the "LGBT lobby" and same-sex parenting, and she has called for a naval blockade of Libya to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63327290

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The price of the dollar in the Colombian interbank market this Thursday started with a maximum price of 4,843.00 pesos. The representative rate of the current market on this day is the highest that has been recorded in history and stands at 4,815 pesos. You can read: The government called for calm, but the dollar broke another record Until 8:34 in the morning, the maximum price reached was 4,908.50 pesos, surpassing its historical record. This value continued to advance and minutes later, at 8:45, it reached 4,921.01. During the opening days of the negotiations this Thursday and until before 9 a.m. m., the average price was 4,891.53 pesos. For before 10 in the morning, the maximum price was 4,921.01 and the average was 4,881.76 pesos. Meanwhile, the behavior of the dollar continues to mark historical highs in Colombia, last Friday it exceeded the barrier of 4,700 pesos for the first time, on Tuesday it was around 4,800 pesos, reaching a maximum price of 4,794 pesos achieving a new mark, Y yesterday, only 49 pesos separated the currency from the 4,900 pesos. More news: Alleged Amazon manager job offers by SMS are false So far this year, the Colombian peso has devalued against the US currency by 21 percent, which in absolute terms indicates that its loss in value is close to 834 pesos. Although the appreciation of the dollar is not exclusive against the peso, the Colombian currency has had a greater fall than those of other economies because the high uncertainty of investors due to the world situation adds doubts about the direction of the local economy. In an attempt to send a message of calm to the market due to the escalation of the so-called greenback this week, José Antonio Ocampo, Minister of Finance, said on Tuesday that the country would have a responsible macroeconomic policy, "we are going to comply with the Fiscal Rule, not there are going to be exchange controls, we are going to diversify exports,” he said after adding that in the face of oil and gas exploration they are still doing the exercises to establish what is needed on that front to guarantee that the country has a good volume of exports and , therefore, a good capacity to support a solid balance of changes. "I think that this is positive news and we hope that this commitment to macroeconomic stability will be recognized by the markets where there has been a lot of uncertainty in recent days, but we hope that in the coming days the markets will begin to calm down," Ocampo said. However, the dollar's response to these calls for government confidence were the records set on Wednesday and what is being set this Thursday. https://www.eltiempo.com/economia/sector-financiero/trm-dolar-hoy-precio-del-dolar-en-colombia-20-de-octubre-2022-711153

The Renault 4ever concept revealed at the Paris motor show previews the brand's second retro-inspired electric car, following the earlier Renault 5. After the unveiling, we caught up with Renault Group design executive vice president Laurens van den Acker, who detailed the process of reinventing a classic, the design opportunities afforded by electrification and the future of Alpine and Dacia styling. After the 5, we couldn’t not talk about the 4… We have a chance to reinvent our icons like this with the energy transition. They’ve become relevant again. So many memories contribute to them. For many it was their first car to drive, their holiday car, where they had their first kiss. When cars all go EV, they risk becoming banal, but these cars help answer that." How closely does this concept preview the 4? "I love concept cars and have done my share of dream cars, but this is not the style of Luca [de Meo, Renault Group boss]. We make a promise and keep to it. With the 5, what you see is what you get. With the 4, it’s still two years away, but the upper half is still essentially very close – the lights, the cabin." Was the 4 an easy car to reinvent? "With the 5, it was relatively painless. It just came out the pens of our designers. The 4 was more laborious. It [the original] was not a pretty car! People didn’t buy it for beauty. It took more effort." Could you have reinvented the 4 and 5 previously as petrol cars? "I don’t think we could have done them as ICE cars. You’d have needed a big front overhang, the wheels couldn’t be as big, the turning circle would be impacted. Due to EVs, we can now reinvent icons." Are you realising the opportunities of electric cars now in design? "At the start, people needed to be reassured by electric cars [with familiar looks]. People are beyond that, and now the appetite is to see the differences. We notice people want to stand out. For us as designers, that is fantastic. There is a hunger for innovation and many new brands. "Fifteen years ago, I’d have thought by now there would be three huge multinational companies, but the opposite is true with lots of new brands. This opens up the eyes of consumers to choice." What clues does the Alpenglow concept car give to Alpine’s future? "Luca de Meo says that Alpine should be a cross between Ferrari and Tesla, which is some ambition. The concept will be an inspiration for all the Alpines to follow, lightweight, very sexy, high technology, something close to racing that moves the heart, eyes and emotions." How can Dacia evolve design-wise? "Dacia is a wonderful brand. It’s very in sync with the time. It’s what you need and no more. The essentials are there, and now we give it a flavour with more outdoor spirit. Before the focus was on price, and there was no aspiration. The outdoor spirit gives a chance to make an affordable kind of Jeep or Land Rover." https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/renault-design-boss-electrification-allows-us-revive-icons

Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after 45 days in office marked by turmoil, triggering the second Tory leadership election in four months. Ms Truss said her successor would be elected by next week after a rebellion by Tory MPs forced her to quit. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said he would not run in the contest but other senior Tories are considering bids. Tory MPs revolted against Ms Truss after a series of U-turns on her economic plan sapped her of authority. In a brief speech outside Downing Street, Ms Truss said the Conservative Party had elected her on a mandate to cut taxes and boost economic growth. But given the situation, Ms Truss said: "I recognise that I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party." Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and other opposition parties called for an immediate general election following Ms Truss's resignation speech. Ms Truss said she would remain in post until a successor formally takes over as party leader and is appointed prime minister by King Charles III. Mr Hunt - who was appointed chancellor last week - has said he will not stand in the leadership contest to be the next prime minister, but none of the candidates who stood against Ms Truss in the previous contest have indicated whether they'll be standing. A quick guide to Liz Truss Liz Truss's resignation speech in full Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 backbench committee of Conservative MPs, said it would be possible to conclude a leadership ballot by Friday next week. He said he expected Conservative members to be given a say on who succeeds Ms Truss, but would set out further details later. And he sidestepped questions about whether one or two candidates would be likely to run, telling reporters: "The party rules say there will be two candidates unless there is only one candidate." Ms Truss will become the shortest-serving PM in British history when she stands down. In her speech, Ms Truss said she entered "office at a time of great economic and international instability", as war rages in Ukraine and living costs skyrocket. The prime minister said her government delivered on providing support for energy bills and reversing a rise in National Insurance, a tax on workers and companies. But Ms Truss's resignation comes after a period of political and economic turbulence, which forced her government to ditch tax cuts that sent financial markets into a tailspin. The prime minister sacked close political ally Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor and appointed Mr Hunt as his successor as she attempted to calm the markets. At Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Ms Truss insisted she was a "fighter, not a quitter" after Labour's leader asked her why she had not resigned. But more instability followed, when Suella Braverman quit as home secretary and a vote on fracking fell into disarray, with some Tory MPs accused of bullying. Remarks made by 1922 Committee chairman Sir Graham Brady - that under current rules, the last two candidates from the leadership contest go to the membership unless there's only one left - suggest there is still a bit of wiggle room. One of the wheezes that's been discussed in Parliament in the last few days is that MPs could set such a high threshold that only an MP with a lot of support would get there. It's not certain what's going to happen, to be frank. This is an unprecedented situation. We should have more details by the end of the day. Sir Graham will be conscious of spelling out how the next leader will be chosen. There are a lot of MPs who don't want this to go to the Conservative Party membership - they think a new leader needs to be chosen as quickly as possible. The logistics of trying to consult the membership in only a week are hard to figure out - unless it was a quick online ballot. But even that would be a hard task. As for MPs, if they're to end up choosing the next leader themselves, how can they coalesce around one person? It seems unlikely, impossible even. So, we wait for more details on what exactly will happen. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63332037

Completely lifeless, the sunfish that ran aground in the Azores has the same weight as a blue whale at birth. It happened in the Azores, a group of Portuguese islands in the Atlantic Sea. A 'majestic' sunfish woke up dead on the coast. Due to its impressive dimensions, it immediately caught the attention of local fishermen. It was then that the local authorities intervened. This was what they discovered. A scaly giant with an 'airhead' After measuring the animal, it turned out that the sunfish weighed around 3 tons. This weight is comparable to that of a baby blue whale, the largest marine mammals on the planet, according to records from the Marine Mammal Organization. However, it is not the first time that the Azoreans know of this species. By contrast, a similar scaly giant was first sighted in December 2021. It was floating lifeless over the North Atlantic. Immediately, the authorities recovered the body and took it to specialists from the Asociación Naturalista del Atlántico, a local non-profit organization. It was then that they determined that it was one more specimen of a Mola alexandrini, or southern sunfish: the largest vertebrate fish that exist in the world: “OCCASIONALLY, IT MAY BE FOUND SUNBATHING ON ITS SIDE NEAR THE SURFACE,” DOCUMENTS THE NATURALIST DATABASE, “AND IS BELIEVED TO BE USED TO REWARM AFTER DIVING IN COLD WATER IN SEARCH OF PREY, RECHARGE ITS OXYGEN RESERVES AND ATTRACT THE SEAGULLS TO FREE THEM FROM PARASITES.” Regarding the finding of the sunfish in October 2022, the researchers say that it is the "heaviest bony fish in the world", as described for the Journal of Fish Biology. The official measurement of the specimen is 3.6 meters high and 3.5 meters long. José Nuno Gomes-Pereira, a marine biologist from the Atlantic Naturalist Association, assured that the photographs taken do not do justice to the beauty of the animal. On the contrary, the carcass is a truly "majestic specimen," he told Live Science in an email. Until now, it is unknown how many similar specimens will exist on the planet. https://www.ngenespanol.com/animales/encalla-un-pez-luna-de-3-toneladas/

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