AutoWeek Daily Drive — Wednesday, May 5, 2010

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTOSHOWS   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   MARKETPLACE Wednesday, May 05, 2010                  The 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic in 2003, when it was named Best in Show at the Pebble Beach Concours... Ultra-rare 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic sold A 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic was sold to an undisclosed buyer, auction house Gooding & Co. said on Wednesday. The price was not revealed, but the Wall Street Journal reported that the car was sold to the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif., for between $30 million and $40 million. That would be a record. This is one of just three Atlantics built--ever. Each is distinct, ...   Sibling rivalry: Dodge Challenger SRT8 vs. Challenger R/T Mopar Sometimes it can be hard to choose--do you take the Dodge Challenger SRT8, with its 6.1-liter Hemi V8 and the six-speed manual, or the Challenger R/T, with the 5.7-liter V8, five-speed automatic and several goodies from the Mopar catalog? Ride along with us and make your choice....   High-voltage confidence General Motors has never backed down when it comes to the Chevrolet Volt. Not once. Not through a succession of leadership changes, a historic bankruptcy or oversight by the federal government. When there where doubters, the General didn't blink. Criticisms and cynicisms--pushed aside. That's...   Ken Block and his Ford Fiesta slide into Forza Motorsport 3 Rally and gymkhana driver Ken Block is torturing tires with a Ford Fiesta these days. So our Microsoft friends at Turn 10 Studios, makers of Forza Motorsport 3, have their version of Block and his rally Fiesta sliding their way around some open space and through the warehouse available for...   FIA allows Ferrari to update its engines Ferrari has been given permission by the FIA to modify its engines, and the team will have the revised units in action in Spain this weekend. Although all F1 teams are subject to a strict engine freeze, manufacturers are allowed to introduce updates for specific reliability purposes if the FIA...   Keep distractions from distracting Agreed: Distractions are a danger to safe driving. Problem: A distraction is not recognizable for what it is except in retrospect. Afterward. At the moment it occurs, a distraction is simply an attraction. An attraction elsewhere, indeed, to something not relevant to your immediate concern--...   Kyle Petty charity ride: A trip among friends turned into something big Strictly speaking, the inaugural Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America was the infamous and grueling Santa Clara, Calif., to Greensboro, N.C., "death march" of 1995. But Kyle Petty led a smaller ride the year before, a Greensboro-to-Phoenix run that laid the groundwork for this week's 16th-annual...   Design your own Ghost with the new Rolls-Royce iPhone app So you want to build your dream Rolls? Now you can. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars said its first app for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available at the App Store. The app allows you to configure your own Ghost, Rolls' newest model. The Ghost app allows you to choose from the thousands of design...   GM names marketing vice president General Motors said it has hired Joel Ewanick as vice president, U.S. marketing, effective May 24. Ewanick, 49, will report to Mark Reuss, president, GM North America. GM says it hired Ewanick to raise the position of its four brands--Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac--in consumers' minds....   Graham Rahal to drive for Rahal Letterman Racing in Indianapolis 500 Graham Rahal is back where he belongs--in the Izod IndyCar Series, with Rahal Letterman Racing. As of now, the deal is for just one race--but it's the series' biggest race of the year. Rahal, 21, will drive the No. 30 car of the team co-owned by his father, Bobby Rahal, the winner of the 500 ...   Jersey City dumps proposed F1 race Jersey City, N.J., appears to have lasted all of one day as a potential host to a revived U.S. Grand Prix. Roughly 24 hours after the city made public a proposal to have Formula One race on a circuit built in its Liberty City State Park, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy made it clear that he...   Klien joins HRT F1 as test and reserve driver Grand Prix veteran Christian Klien, 27, has been named the third driver for the new HRT Formula One team. Klien made his F1 debut with the old Jaguar (now Red Bull Racing) team in 2004. The Austrian driver also served as a test driver for Honda and BMW, and has participated in international... You May Have Missed...   2011 Chevrolet Volt is ‘99 percent’ ready, in engineering speak It’s almost done.The 2011 Chevrolet Volt, now just months away from launch, is at the “99 percent level” of engineering calibration, a General Motors executive said on Tuesday.In plain English, that means the extended-range car is ready. The driving characteristics likely...   IndyCar: Kentucky test washed out Even though Tuesday's weather at Kentucky Speedway was fantastic, rain still managed to force Izod IndyCar Series officials to cancel the only test session ahead of this month's Indianapolis 500.Persistent "weepers" of water seeped through the 1.5-mile oval after it absorbed more than six inches of ...   Tony George talks, but won't reveal spending Former Indy Racing League and Indianapolis Motor Speedway boss Tony George apparently supports the substantial cost-cutting initiatives the Speedway and the IRL implemented during the past year, though he admits “several loyal people” have left the organization his family owns.“We ... 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. 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