Autoweek Daily Drive — Wednesday, June 20, 2012

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTO SHOWS   |   VIDEOS   |   COLLECTOR   |   SUBSCRIBE Wednesday, June 20, 2012                  The view from Doug Peterson's race car at Road America.... Video shows race car flip from driver's view Doug Peterson brought a new race car to the SCCA Chicago Region's June Sprints at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., June 15-17. But the car's status moved from new to trashed in a few blinks of an eye. Video from a camera mounted on the car shows Peterson making a move to the right as the field moves toward the start/finish line. A car two ahead of Peterson's slows suddenly and is hit from...   2012 Infiniti G37 Sport: Review notes EXECUTIVE EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: We've said it before, but it's worth repeating: If your brain wants a Nissan 370Z, but your lifestyle requires a sedan, this 2012   Bench Racing: Front-wheel-drive coupe edition We are now living in a golden age of the inexpensive coupe. Some of you may scoff at that fact, but with the Scion FR-S and the Subaru BRZ landing in the $25,000 range—and V6s such as the Ford Mustang, the Chevrolet Camaro and the Dodge Challenger priced at just slightly more—there may...   In search of the Targa Florio, part three Checking directions to Nino Vaccarella's home with the hotel concierge, he looked up immediately and said, “He is a very famous man here, you know.” When we arrived at his house Vaccarella opened the door and showed us in. He is a courteous and modest man and is revered as a...   Full throttle on the wide-open road, part two Arnold, Neb., has a population of roughly 600 residents and embodies the classic American small-town ethos. Neighbors know each other's names, doors are left unlocked and kids walk to school unsupervised. It's quaint, classic and also happens to have just eight hotel rooms. So when the Sandhills...   California takes top three spots for most cars stolen, again The National Insurance Crime Bureau's annual report has again named California as the state in which your car is most likely to get stolen. The state has seven spots on the list of the top 10 cities, with Washington and South Carolina filling out the other three....   Q & A: Dalziel talks about Le Mans and beyond Ryan Dalziel stormed to the biggest win of his career so far when he helped Starworks Motorsport to the LMP2 title in the world-famous Le Mans 24 Hours. The victory—by more than a lap—was a sensational result on the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,-based team's debut in the event. Dalziel,... You May Have Missed...   2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed set for Goodwood debut Bentley is unleashing its fastest production model, the Continental GT Speed, on June 29 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The car can be ordered now and is expected to begin arriving in October as a 2013 model. The flagship model will pump out a whopping 616 hp and 590 lb-ft of torque from a twin-...   Aston Martin revives Vanquish name for DBS replacement Aston Martin is reviving the Vanquish name for the replacement of the DBS coupe, which will feature a full carbon-fiber body, a 565-hp V12 and a mass of engineering revisions in an effort to eclipse Ferrari's F12 Berlinetta.The Vanquish name goes back to the beefy, old-school model of 2001. Aston...   Feel the speed with video hot lap around VIR Here's a video distributed by the American Le Mans Series that provides a unique look at a hot lap onboard Muscle Milk Racing's HPD ARX-03a prototype at Virginia International Raceway.The team mounted a GoPro HD Hero camera on the front of its car and produced a video that gives a real sense of the ...   Le Mans Blog Day 3: Audi owns Le Mans Audi owns the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It's not only because the factory effort now has won the once-per-year race in 11 of the last 14 years, but because its footprint stretches over most of the inner and outer area of the Circuit de la Sarthe. You can't throw a freshly kneaded, baked and half-eaten...   Watch the Tesla Model S get painted Elon's Muskovites are edging ever closer to the moment of truth, that moment being a year or two from now when owners report utterly blissful contentment with their Model S sedans, deliveries of which start this Friday.We'll be there at the event, hoping to cadge some precious time behind the wheel ...   Jeg Coughlin Jr. is fan choice for K&N Challenge at Norwalk NHRA fans have voted in Jeg Coughlin Jr., driver of the Jegs.com Mopar Dodge Avenger, for the eighth and final spot in the 28th-annual K&N Horsepower Challenge, which will be held as part of the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals on July 7 at Norwalk, Ohio. Coughlin received 66 percent of the...   F1 hires marketing whiz Michael Payne away from International Olympic Committee Formula One has hired Michael Payne, one of the world's most accomplished sports marketers, away from the International Olympic Committee.The move is part of a restructuring at the top, as F1 continues to make new executive appointments in preparation for the eventual departure of Bernie Ecclestone,...   The new Porsche Cayman is coming to Los Angeles: Autoweek TV Also in this episode General Motors shuffles its design staff, the government is looking into Toyota again and we check out the Lexus ES350.TRANSCRIPT-- A new Porsche Cayman is headed to Los Angeles.-- GM shuffles its design staff.-- The government expands a safety probe of Toyotas.-- And we'll... CLICK HERE TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the Autoweek Daily Drive E-mail or to sign up for other Autoweek e-mail products. 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