AutoWeek Daily Drive — Thursday, November 19, 2009

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTOSHOWS   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   MARKETPLACE Thursday, November 19, 2009                  Auctioneer Dean Kruse's money problems are continuing. Shown is a 1912 Model T that will be a featured lot a... Auctioneer Dean Kruse’s money woes continue Auburn, Ind., auctioneer Dean Kruse has been ordered by a local court to pay more than $1.3 million to an Indiana bank, and a leasing company has asked a federal judge to repossess Kruse’s 1985 Cessna jet, which had been insured at $3.5 million. These two recent events are on top of several months’ worth of financial woes for one of the classic-car world’s best-known...   2010 Mitsubishi Outlander GT: An AW Flash Drive What is it? The 2010 Mitsubishi Outlander GT is the latest version of Mitsubishi's crossover. It is powered by a 230-hp, 215-lb-ft, 3.0-liter V6. It makes the 0-to-60-mph run in 7.1 seconds. How's it drive? I just piloted this in the deep sand of the desert west of Palm...   2010 Taurus Limited, an AW Drivers Log INTERACTIVE EDITOR DALE JEWETT: The first thing to understand about the new Taurus is that it's big! We're talking Crown Victoria big here. Owners of previous-generation Taurus cars will be amazed. And kudos to the Ford styling department; it has managed to make the Taurus visible on the...   Racing and Rallying Driving races and driving rallies are specialties now. But back in the day, even Formula One drivers could be found sideways at full bore on snowy mountain roads, having a go at the Monte Carlo or the Alpine. Graham Hill was my teammate on the Ford rally team when we were shoving fiberglass-...   F1 plot thickens as season ends The month of November is supposed to be a quiet one for Grand Prix racing, as everyone takes time out at the end of a long, hard season. A lack of testing means there's little action to report. This year, however, things have gone mad. On Nov. 2, the morning after the last race in Abu Dhabi, we...   The 101-year-old Chevrolet Camaro owner, an AW interview Virgil Coffman is 101 years old, but he has a youthful taste for cars. His newest ride: the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Transformers Edition, complete with eye-catching yellow paint and 400 hp. AutoWeek senior Web reporter Greg Migliore caught up with him recently. Here's the interview.... You May Have Missed...   Will Power lands full-time ride with Penske Will Power apparently proved to Roger Penske that he is worthy of a full-time job.Penske's IndyCar Series team confirmed the signing of the popular Australian with a media alert for a Thursday teleconference. The sponsor of the car will be unveiled then.Power was signed to a short-term deal last...   Beth Paretta from Aston Martin, an AW interview Beth Paretta is Aston Martin's operations manager on the East Coast. She's the face of the brand for dealers and a true car person in every sense of the word. She's also one of AutoWeek's 10 Secret People. That means she could have a major impact on the car world going forward--you just don't know...   L.A. auto show: Honda to uncork ‘P-NUT’ design study Honda will tear the cover off a futuristic, ultra-compact urban coupe on Dec. 2 at the Los Angeles auto show.It’s called the Personal-Neo Urban Transport, or P-NUT, and Honda is billing this as an aggressive design study. It was conceived at the advanced design studio of Honda R&D in Los... CLICK HERE TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the AutoWeek Daily Drive E-mail or to sign up for other AutoWeek e-mail products. IMPORTANT: Please add AutoWeek.com to your E-mail Address Book to ensure you will continue to receive our newsletters. Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail. You will not receive a reply if you use this e-mail address. Crain Communications, 1155 Gratiot Ave. Detroit, MI 48207.