Thursday, March 18, 2010

AutoWeek Daily Drive — Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Thursday, March 18, 2010                 
The 2010 Subaru Impreza WRX STI Special Edition adopts some chassis components from the Japan-market spec-C...
Don't be careful what you wish for; wish for exactly what you want. You might get it. Want an STI with more performance but at a lower cost? Willing to give up a few minor features to get it? Then the WRX STI Special Edition is for you. And for us. We just drove one on the Streets of Willow at Willow Springs racetrack in the California desert and had a bunch of fun hustling it through the...

  McLaren Automotive laid out its ambitious plans to become a competitive player in the high-performance car market on Thursday and wants to build up to 4,000 top-shelf sports car annually by the middle of the decade. The company held a grand opening at its base in Woking, England, to celebrate...

  Porsche sits atop the annual U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study rankings released by J.D. Power and Associates on Thursday. The German sports car maker rose from 11th place to top 2009 co-winners Buick and Jaguar and lead the annual study of 3-year-old vehicles. Lexus, which ended its 14-year...

  Nissan Motor Co. said it will build the new Leaf electric vehicle at Britain's Sunderland assembly plant starting in early 2013, with initial capacity of 50,000 units. The Japanese company and its French alliance partner Renault will invest more than $642.6 million in the project, including the...

  Peugeot driver Marc Gene set the fastest lap time at Sebring on Wednesday during testing for this weekend's 12-hour race. Gene posted a time of 1 minute, 45.811 seconds around the 3.7-mile circuit for a speed of 125.885 mph in the diesel-powered Peugeot 908 HDi. Practice and qualifying sessions...


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  Volkswagen is officially creating a company to develop sporty cars; it will be called Volkswagen R GmbH. This may sound familiar--VW already calls some of its specialty cars Rs--and now it's bundling sales and development all into one unit.VW has the Scirocco R and the Golf R for cars, as well as...

  BMW chairman Norbert Reithofer has confirmed that the German carmaker will introduce a new front-wheel-drive entry-level model positioned and priced below the existing 1-series as part of plans to help increase part sharing and to bolster the potential for production savings between the BMW and...

  General Motors is developing a windshield display system designed to outline the edges of roads in fog and highlight a deer before it crosses into traffic.The system works by collecting information through vehicle sensors and cameras and projecting laser-generated images onto the windshield. It can ...

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