Autoweek Daily Drive — Tuesday, May 15, 2012

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTO SHOWS   |   VIDEOS   |   COLLECTOR   |   SUBSCRIBE Tuesday, May 15, 2012                  The 2012 SLP Chevrolet Camaro Panther 600.... 2012 SLP Chevrolet Camaro Panther 600: An extra dose of power There is no shortage of aftermarket Camaro offerings, so it's nice to see veteran General Motors tuners SLP come up with a novel Camaro package, one that even has some historical significance. The company calls its limited-edition series Panther, a name used by Chevrolet for the original project to produce a Ford...   Taylor Lynn Foundation to run McLaren MP4-12C in goldRush Rally as fundraiser Organized groups of exotics sports cars often garner a lot of attention, almost always positive, but sometimes negative—see Death Race 2012. What often goes unnoticed is that this attention is sometimes used to support...   918 Alert! Porsche's stinging spyder grows closer to becoming reality The first fully road-going prototype of Porsche's upcoming 202-mph hybrid-powered 918 Spyder has been seen during shakedown runs at the company's R&D center in Germany.   RM Monaco sale tallies $43,410,615 RM Auctions sold 87 percent of the lots it offered at its Monaco sale held last weekend at the Grimaldi Forum. The result was $43,410,615 in total sales, with six lots bringing more than $2 million...   IndyCar Series teams taking a conservative path to qualifying day at Indianapolis IndyCar teams have used the first three practice sessions at Indianapolis as a virtual classroom. They're collecting data about how their new cars react in different conditions on Indianapolis' 2.5-mile oval. They're trying to decipher...   Ford offers an inside look at development of 2013 NASCAR Fusion: Video Ford Motor Co. utilized its Product Design Center to craft its newest race car, the 2013 NASCAR Ford Fusion. The team helped the car keep its brand identity. In this video, members of the design team share their thoughts on the design process and on Ford's newest racing machine, set to make its... You May Have Missed...   The Elegance, the other old-car event in Hershey, returns for 2012 The course itself measures less than a mile, but it's been a much longer road for the Hershey Hillclimb, with many dips and turns since its late-1950s genesis as a local amateur event, to the salad days of the '60s, to a sputtering revival earlier this century.All of that preparation, all of that...   Fan vote likely to put Dale Earnhardt Jr. into NASCAR Sprint All-Star race at Charlotte There's a question mark in the space beside the words “Fan Vote” on a recent announcement touting Saturday night's Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The announcement lists the 20 drivers already in the race and has blank spaces for the winner and runner-up of the Sprint...   One Williams crew member still hospitalized after garage fire at Formula One Spanish GP One Williams F1 team member remains in the hospital in Barcelona after suffering burns Sunday's fire, the team confirmed. He is reported to be in good spirits and is expected to return to the United Kingdom in the next 48 hours.Meanwhile, the Formula One team again thanked the paddock community for ...   Listen: Upcoming Ford Focus ST to employ sound symposer While BMW employs a digitally sanitized/perfected sound file to give M5 owners the proper sense of aggro urgency when motoring at pace, Porsche went a little more organic with its employment of a sound symposer to feed the 911's flat-six growl into the cabin of the extra-refined 991.Essentially,...   Justin Pawlak claims second round of 2012 Formula Drift Championship: Video Ford Mustang drivers Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Justin Pawlak take on Road Atlanta in round two of the Formula Drift Championship. Pawlak won his second straight Formula D event....   Massa on Ferrari hot seat as Formula One heads to Monaco Felipe Massa is coming under ever increasing pressure from Ferrari to raise his game after another poor race at the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.Massa had another terrible weekend, starting 16th and landing a drive-through penalty on his way to a 15th-place finish in the race.The...   Newgarden tops speed chart in a wild happy hour of practice at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Happy hour meant happy days--or at least happy Monday--for several Indianapolis 500 teams trying to improve their stance as the week-long warm-up to qualifying began.The final hour of Monday's practice saw six drivers take a turn atop the speed chart with rookie Josef Newgarden of Sarah Fisher...   We mourn the passing of Carroll Shelby: Autoweek TV Also in this episode: The Williams team claims its first Formula One victory in nearly eight years, and BMW gives us a first look at the 3-series wagon.TRANSCRIPT-- We mark the passing of a true auto industry legend--Carroll Shelby.-- The Williams Formula One team was on fire in Spain.-- And BMW...   Eterniti Motors sells first Eterniti Artemis at Beijing auto show Eterniti Motors, which first showed us the Hemera super SUV concept in Frankfurt, then the production version--called the Artemis--in Beijing, sold its first car at the Chinese show. The company took five orders for the Eterniti Artemis, four in standard specification and one bespoke version. The... 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.