Monday, July 16, 2012

Autoweek Daily Drive — Monday, July 16, 2012

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Monday, July 16, 2012                 
The Honda Fit received virtually no exterior changes for 2013....
The 2013 Honda Fit carries a base sticker price of $16,115 including $790 destination—the same as that of the 2012 model—when it arrives in dealerships on Tuesday. Changes for 2013 consist of a new exterior color, named midnight plum pearl. The orange burst metallic paint is canceled. The

  Nissan designers and product planners recently took an opportunity to ride in one of the few vehicles that is faster than the Nissan GT-R to gain some...

  What is it? The Chevrolet Spark minicar was designed with buyers in Asia and Europe in mind. But with fuel-economy targets rising in the United States, the Spark received some upgrades and was shipped over...

  EDITOR WES RAYNAL: Well, I guess I couldn't avoid it forever, much as I tried. In the back of my mind I knew that someday I was going to get stuck driving a 2012 Scion iQ. I was looking forward to it about as much as a root canal, and after driving it my instincts were right. There's not...

  Ford is recalling about 8,200 copies of the redesigned 2013 Ford Escape SUV to fix a carpeting flaw that could affect the driver's ability to use the...

  Jaguar hasn't offered a four-cylinder engine since 1948 and no V6 since the small, lackluster X-Type was pulled from the United States four years ago. But in an era of mpg obsession, even this proud British luxury brand is...

  Ford Motor Co. is bringing its Auto-Start-Stop system to the United States, the first time it has offered the system in this country in a nonhybrid application. The $295 option will be offered only on 2013 Ford...

  Rock stars are supposed to have personal pilots, gorgeous wives, homes on the water and expensive cars. As far as we've surmised, rock stars are not supposed to stand around in sweltering heat, slapping at gnats, waiting to have pictures taken with cars they do not own. Yet Brian Johnson does...

  The Marussia Formula One team on Monday issued a statement regarding the July 3 crash of test driver Maria de Villota, which resulted in the 32-year-old...


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  Kasey Kahne is smart enough to realize that he might have just stolen one Sunday afternoon at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. On a day when Denny Hamlin seemed to be in a class by himself and was virtually unchallenged almost from the start, Kahne still managed to beat him in the Lenox Tools Sprint...

  Roger Penske said on Sunday morning that A.J. Allmendinger “absolutely” will return to his team's No. 22 Dodge for the upcoming Brickyard 400 if he passes his next NASCAR drug test. Penske, between previously scheduled obligations, spoke briefly to reporters at New Hampshire Motor...

  Travis Pastrana powered his Red Bull RallyCross Dodge Dart to an impressive win in Saturday's Sylvania SilverStar zXe Global RallyCross Championship event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. Pastrana won his heat handily and started third in the 10-car final before making his move on...

  Experience has taught Denny Hamlin the best way to handle adversity.The 32-year-old NASCAR Sprint Cup star lost a race on Sunday that he almost certainly should have won. A mix-up over how many tires to change late in the race dropped Hamlin from the lead to 13th place for the final restart. A...

  Sammy Swindell continued his stellar World of Outlaws sprint-car racing season by winning the 29th-annual Kings Royal at Ohio's Eldora Speedway on Saturday night.Swindell won the race for the third time in his career and earned $50,000--the second-largest winner's purse in sprint-car racing--for...

  Sports-car racing veteran and automotive television personality Tommy Kendall is the latest addition to the new SRT Viper GTS-R team that will compete in the American Le Mans Series. The team's first on-track appearance, as reported last week, will be at the Aug. 4 ALMS race at the Mid-Ohio Sports...

  A drive for 25. At least that is what some NASCAR Camping World Truck Series drivers would relish.With the 2013 season schedule expected to be released soon, some drivers shared their opinions for the series to expand back to 25 races in a Friday news conference before opening practice for the...

  Jeff Gordon has a long trip planned for Monday, the day after he hopes to be the fastest driver at the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.He's heading to Rwanda for the ribbon-cutting of a cancer center, part of his effort to raise money and awareness for health issues in that...

  In a contract year, with Stewart-Haas Racing trying to find sponsorship for his No. 39 Chevrolet, Ryan Newman got some bad news earlier this week when the U.S. Army announced that it was ending its participation as a NASCAR sponsor.Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) of the U.S. House of...


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