AutoWeek Daily Drive — Monday, April 12, 2010

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTOSHOWS   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   MARKETPLACE Monday, April 12, 2010                  The F-150 will get EcoBoost this year as Ford rolls out the engine in a batch of new models. The Explorer is... Ford confirms EcoBoost for F-150, Explorer The mighty Ford F-150 pickup is getting a V6, a potent EcoBoost powerplant. Ford confirmed more of its plans for the rollout of EcoBoost through the end of this year. And, as expected, Ford's top-selling flagship truck will get the 3.5-liter V6 EcoBoost engine in rear-wheel-drive models. It makes 365 hp in the Taurus SHO. Ford also confirmed what we've been predicting for more than two...   Model Ts take flight in California The first flight over the Pacific took place just south of Los Angeles just more than 100 years ago, on Jan. 14, 1910. At that time, only seven years after the Wright Brothers' first flight, the Model T had been in production just one year. To commemorate the centennial of that milestone in...   Celebrate 40 years of Nissan's Z car with our special Web-zine It's the 40th anniversary of Nissan's iconic Z car. You can join the celebration with a special-edition Web-zine created by the editors of AutoWeek. A great historical compilation from the AW archives, this special issue will take you from the Fairlady to the latest 370Z, with the...   Greystone Concours: Batman's mansion hosts a car show When the city of Beverly Hills puts on a concours, it picks a good location. The city owns the staid and stately Greystone Mansion, originally built in 1928 on a steep hillside above the city by oil tycoon Edward Doheney for his son, Ned. After the Doheneys left in 1955, it was used for any...   Nissan mulls Titan engine variations Nissan engineers and designers are playing catch-up to create the next-generation full-sized Titan pickup, now that the project is back on their plate. A plan to develop the pickup jointly with Chrysler off the Dodge Ram collapsed last year. Now Nissan must make up for lost time. "We were...   Infiniti demands luxury look for Leaf variant Infiniti executives are taking pains to ensure that their luxury version of the electric Nissan Leaf hatchback will be markedly different and more upscale. This year, U.S. officials of Infiniti reviewed initial designs at Nissan's San Diego styling studio and complained that they simply looked... You May Have Missed...   Castroneves rolls at Indy Grand Prix of Alabama Substitute Helio Castroneves for Will Power as the Team Penske driver atop an Izod IndyCar Series race in 2010.Castroneves took the victory on Sunday in the inaugural series race at Barber Motorsports Park because Power, who had won the season's first two races, got caught with the wrong pit...   Dixon scores 50th win; Hagan and Coughlin claim NHRA trophies in Houston It was a milestone day at the 23rd annual O'Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals at Houston Raceway Park on Sunday.Top Fuel driver Larry Dixon joined the immortals of drag racing by winning the 50th race of his career. Funny Car's Matt Hagan, a second-year driver, scored his first career win."I can't ...   Audi Le Mans race car wins in debut in France Audi's latest Le Mans 24 Hours challenger claimed a dominant victory in its debut in the Paul Ricard 8 Hours on Sunday.Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello led all but two and half laps of the opening round of the European Le Mans Series on the way to a four-lap victory over the Aston Martin Racing...   Newman capitalizes on late caution to win Sprint Cup race in Phoenix Ryan Newman led the final three laps (only four altogether) after a late-race caution took the Subway Fresh Fit 600 away from Kyle Busch on Saturday night at Phoenix International Raceway. It was Newman's first win since the 2008 Daytona 500 for Roger Penske before he moved to Stewart-Haas Racing...   Rojas/Pruett, Assentato/Segal score Grand-Am wins at Barber Motorsports Park Memo Rojas and Scott Pruett rolled to a dominating victory in Saturday's Porsche 250 before an estimated crowd of 25,000 at Barber Motorsports Park, while problems hit two of their traditional rivals in the battle for the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype championship. Pruett took...   Video details on the Ferrari 599 GTO--in Italian The photos are nice, but we've been looking for video of the Ferrari 599 GTO. And we found some from the factory--but it's in Italian, not English. Sorry, no subtitles or anything. But the images are cool. So brush up on your Italian, or just turn down the volume, and enjoy.... 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.