Monday, June 21, 2010

AutoWeek Daily Drive — Monday, June 21, 2010

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Monday, June 21, 2010                 
The 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe...
What is it? First of all, the car we drove here is the V6 version of the CTS coupe. Cadillac will hold a press launch of the far more potent 6.2-liter, V8-powered CTS-V coupe at an unspecified later date. By doing separate intros for each model, Cadillac not only gets people to notice its base CTS coupe, but it gets twice the coverage. These desperate times call for marketing innovation....

  The redesigned Honda Odyssey minivan, scheduled to arrive in dealerships this fall, is lower, wider, roomier and more aerodynamic than its predecessor. It also will have more standard features and will be priced about the same as the current model. Exterior design never has been a big...

  Call it the Fiesta Movement for grown-ups. To help launch the 2011 Regal sedan, Buick will host a social media Web site with videos from buyers supplied with flip cameras, just like Ford's campaign for the youth-oriented Fiesta small car. But the Regal site will feature reviews, not the...

  Raymond Parks, owner of the first championship-winning NASCAR team, died June 20 at his home in Atlanta. Parks, 96, was a moonshiner-turned-mechanic who owned and fielded the Oldsmobiles that Red Byron drove to two victories in eight starts and the 1949 “Strictly Stock” (now Sprint Cup) ...


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  What is it?The newest generation of Jeep's iconic Grand Cherokee can still rock-crawl with the best of them but looks a whole lot nicer doing it, both inside and out. Development began on the new JGC, as Jeep aficionados call it, back in 2006. At that time, Daimler and Chrysler were one. So...

  Jimmie Johnson took advantage of a huge mistake by hard-charging road-course specialist Marcos Ambrose to take his first NASCAR road-course win on Sunday in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.Just two days before, Johnson downplayed the lack of a road race win on his...

  Tony Kanaan ended a two-year losing streak on Sunday in the Izod IndyCar Series, but his drought was even longer at Iowa Speedway.Kanaan crashed out of all three previous races at the short oval, so going the distance in the Iowa Corn Indy 250 must have only added to his satisfaction.Kanaan passed...

  If Tony Schumacher is going to win an eighth NHRA Full Throttle Series Top Fuel championship, he's going to have to take advantage of days like Sunday at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway.Schumacher won the race on a day when points leader and Schumacher's No. 1 nemesis, Larry...

  Paul Tracy has signed a contract to drive for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing in the Izod IndyCar Series event on July 4 at Watkins Glen International.Tracy will be the third different driver to replace Mike Conway, who was injured in a crash at the end of the Indianapolis 500. Conway is expected to miss...

  The Izod IndyCar Series will return to New Hampshire Motor Speedway in 2011.IndyCar last raced in Loudon, N.H., in 1998, while the defunct CART World Series raced there before that. While the mile-long track might not be the most high-profile in the United States, it is an oval that most drivers...


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