Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Autoweek Daily Drive — Wednesday, June 6, 2012

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The Honda Fit EV has a 92-kilowatt motor that creates the equivalent of 123 hp....
The Honda Fit EV has been given a 118-mile-per-gallon equivalency rating by the Environmental Protection Agency, the highest rating of any electric passenger car to date. Using a 20-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery, the Fit EV has a total range of 82 miles in the combined driving cycle. The EPA has estimated the Fit...

  The vehicle in these photos might resemble an Alfa Romeo Giulietta from some angles, but the raised ride height, chunky all-terrain tires and slotted grille hiding behind the camouflage suggest a prototype of the 2014 Jeep ...

  Summer is nearly upon us, and it's time to hit the road. What car better than a convertible in which to take that road trip? Here we offer not a comprehensive list, but rather a collection of the most current top-down models that we think should be on your radar. From Bentleys to Volvos and...

  Ford has created a commercial on the streets of Key West, Fla., as part of an effort to build hype for its upcoming turbocharged Focus ST. The hook? It was filmed by fans. The video shows Tanner Foust and stunt driver Greg Tracy driving head-to-head. Fans packed the streets and shot video of...

  Will Power, Dario Franchitti, Ed Carpenter and Mike Conway preview the upcoming Firestone 550k at

  IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard told Autoweek that the sanctioning body's technical committee, led by Will Phillips, will decide how to proceed with aero kits for 2013.


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  Next year’s Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix will not see a ticket-price increase, event chairman Bud Denker said in an open letter to the community on Wednesday.Denker also explained what happened with the patching of concrete in Sunday’s Izod IndyCar Series race.His letter...

  Nissan took another step toward competing in this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans on Monday. The company saw 15 cars running with Nissan power in the test, including the DeltaWing.The day also saw the return of Martin Brundle to the Circuit de la Sarthe. He will compete in the Greaves Motorsport LMP2...

  The gorgeous, over-restored 1948 Chrysler Town & Country pictured above did not sell at Mecum's Indianapolis sale last month. At an event where nearly 70 percent of the items on offer sold and sales exceeded $52.6 million, bidding for this particular car stalled at $75,000 and did not budge....

  Formula One Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel will be a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman on Monday. Vettel became the youngest champion in F1 history when he won the championship in 2010 at the age of 23 years and 135 days. He then went on to become the youngest double world...

  We're all for upstart automakers. Anybody who has what he or she feels is a better idea and can fund the design and production of an automobile, who can leap the myriad regulatory hurdles of the alphabet soup of government agencies and deliver a product to people who'd like to buy it is a special...

  Want to check out the Circuit of the Americas racecourse from from a driver's perspective?Check out the in-car footage from the yet-to-be-released video game F1 2012 by Codemasters. Included in this sneak-peak video is a three-lap tour of the Austin track at speed with Formula One driver Lewis...

  Three-day reserved grandstand and general-admission tickets to the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas outside of Austin, Texas, go on sale on June 10 at 10 a.m.The circuit announced on Tuesday that three-day tickets start at $159. Grandstand seating, also sold as three-day...

  I'll offer this disclaimer right off the top: There's no way to prove what I'm about to suggest because folks in Daytona Beach and Charlotte aren't going to admit it. And absent that, everything that follows is pure speculation.But here goes: NASCAR is thrilled when Kurt Busch occasionally...

  Also in this episode: We wrap up a year living with the Honda Odyssey minivan, Ford touts the power and fuel economy of its three-cylinder engine, and Infiniti hires Audi's Johan de Nysschen.TRANSCRIPT-- Mercedes wrings more power out of the SLS AMG.-- Ford brags about its three-banger EcoBoost...

  The first weekend of June saw the return of racing to Belle Isle in Detroit, where it had been sorely missed. The return was looking like a triumphant one until parts of the track literally fell apart on national television during the Izod IndyCar Series race that was the weekend's main event....

  Citroën boss Yves Matton has given Nasser Al-Attiyah his full support after Al-Attiyah confirmed that he would skip the next round of the World Rally Championship in New Zealand, June 21-24, to continue his preparations for the Olympic Games in London this summer.Al-Attiyah, a Dakar Rally winner in ...


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