Founded in 1960, SYRSA Automoción S.L. is the largest dealer of Renault in Spain.

Being Andalusia its area of influence, Syrsa has 5 centers in Seville and 3 in Huelva, a workforce of 365 employees and a turnover of 212 million euros with sales of 8,600 new vehicles and 4,060 used vehicles.

SYRSA Automoción Inc., is active in four main areas:

• Sales Renault vehicles.
• Sales of opportunity vehicles.
• Sale of spare parts and accessories.
• Repairs and maintenance of vehicles.

So welcome SYRSA Automoción and thanks for supporting us!

On Saturday June 28 we presented the Challenge 2008 Logan to 1st and 2nd course of college Marcassins in Vaudricourt a village in the region of Pas-de-Calais in France.

This presentation has served to tell the kids the whole project, but mainly it’s served to make them participate: as from a photo, with the flags of countries they have identified each of the countries where we are going to pass, including those more rare. Even capitals!

But the most interesting thing and that who is the objective we have set with this school is to involve children in some exchanges with drawings with the Caritas school in Istanbul where we will take the school supplies. The idea is to do a series of drawings for gifts to children in Istanbul who also will do the same. They have also made a nice letter of invitation for that henceforth the two schools can share experiences together…. We will continue its progress!

Pictures after the break

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Thanks to Emergya, innovation and technology will also support us!

Emergya is a group of engineer, designers and highly qualified technicians who are very close and have a great knowledge of free software and its community.

Emergya has become a reference in developping project based on free software in Spain and more precisely in Andalusia, where thei managed some of the most important programs.

More about Emergya: http://www.emergya.es

The Challenge wants to give an affectionate greeting to all kids and teachers at the Marcassins of Vaudricourt School in north of France!.

This week we make a presentation to convey the objectives of the Challenge on solidarity and cooperation deal. For its part, they will make some drawings to be exchanged with many others kids in the Caritas School in Istanbul. This work is part of the project’s education and intercultural solidarity. Asia is the theme for the year 2008-2009, so the Challenge will be a good excuse for fun way of introducing the study of these countries.

The interesting thing about this project is that we are bringing together two schools, one in Istanbul with Caritas most disadvantaged and with few opportunities and secondly to Marcassins in northern France with more possibilities. This first contact will serve as seed for future mutually supportive relationship that is beneficial to both schools.

The Challenge will start from Seville, the city of Manzanilla and jamoncito rico, the cervecitas in the street and salmorejo,… dreams of arab and magical nights, the city where Spanish participants work. Then we will stop at Valladolid who also lie ahead in the headquarters of RTS (engineering Renault for Spain / Portugal / Morocco) and then make the itinerary we had planned at the beginning to Uzbekistan. Next, we will climb by Kazakhstan to enter Russia by the Samara region to visit the latest acquisition of Renault (the big factory of Avtovaz, which manufactured the Lada) and then go through Moscow, visiting the Avtoframos factory where also Logan is been manufactured. From there we will reach Bucharest after passing through Ukraine and Moldova. This trip will give summarising: 16,000 km, 46 days, 11 Renault visited sites, 17 countries…

As you see more countries, more kilometers, more visited Renault sites!

You have to forgive us for having left you without news these past few weeks. We have been confronted with numerous setbacks and we have wasted a long time.

The most important has been the lack of visibility on whether the Chinese authorities were to give us the necessary authorizations to enter China with cars on schedule. We never had an official negative, but everything indicated that it was to be a very, very difficult deal and we would know the answer at the last minute, something inconsistent for the success of a project.

Nevertheless, this setback gave us the opportunity to find an alternative safer, cheaper and that enhance the goals we had set for the trip. With what, we remade the itinerary leaving the same number of km and travel days, but with the start at Seville, a positive point for participants from Spain, and we will diverted to Russia in Uzbekistan rather than continuing toward China, and end in this way in Bucharest, before passing by factories Russian Avtovaz and Avtoframos.

So a new itinerary more interesting was born: Seville-Paris-Istanbul-Tehran-Tashkent-Moscow-Bucharest.

On the other hand, our dear friend Ralf, the German participant, has had to leave by availability problems for devoting the necessary hours for this project. Too many women commitments e think. This gave the opportunity for two other Spaniards participants. Javier Cortes that will phase in Seville to Istanbul and Alfonso Palacios that will phase Istanbul to Bucharest. The first is a mechanical specialist with experience in Renault repairing network and in the F3000 as an engineer track, he is not really bad, hopefully he could repair a loose sleeve. The second one is not very mechanical but is a specialist in traveling by rare countries, he perfectly knows how to deal with all sorts of situations and he’s able to communicate in all languages but does not know any one. He is a real joyita.

For the rest everything continues as scheduled for Thursday, July 17 when it will be the departure from Seville (it seems that it will come a big fish to cut the ribbon…)

We keep in touch!

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Potentialis Sécurité is the first company who has chosen to sponsor us. We thank her warmly for her commitment and welcome her in the Challenge team!

Potentialis is a company specialised in companies and people security and surveillance. Employees’ training is made in accordance with the client’s needs and in the respect of the law. To serve you at her best, Potentialis is present in Marseille, Toulon, Avignon, Lyon et Paris; their credo is above all your security.

If you wish more informations on Potentialis services, don’t hesitate to contact them by phone +33 (0) 4 42 04 01 43 ou by ee-mail : info@potentialis-securite.com

Potentialis website : http://www.potentialis-securite.com

Welcome to our new address: http://challengelogan.free.fr

To provide you with an easier reading, a better interactivity, and articles in several languages, we decided to change our web address and especially the blog engine.

Here are the new features:

• New look
  
• Articles available in several languages
  
• Newsletter (new message notification)
  
• Challenge departure count down

For the anecdote, Wordpress will replace Blogger.

Enjoy your reading, and don’t forget to send us your comments!

Challenge Logan will happen. Renault Technologie Roumanie, Renault engineering center in Romania, has decided to support us in this adventure and confirmed us his commitment.

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This week, we will present the Challenge package to those Renault representatives who could commit themselves with us. Of course, we will keep you informed of how things go on. According to the first comments we have had, we really have a chance to make the Challenge come true.