Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Autoweek Daily Drive — Wednesday, July 11, 2012

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012                 
Ayrton Senna's career is chronicled in a movie....
Asif Kapadia knew he had a hit on his hands when his documentary film Senna debuted at the Sundance Film Festival to a sold-out audience. In fact, all of the screenings at Sundance sold out in a "big hurry," Kapadia said, "and I knew it was going to be a hit." The film won the Best Documentary award at Sundance and has gone on to rave reviews around the world, telling the story of...

  EDITOR WES RAYNAL: Personally, I think the 2012 Mercedes-Benz C300 is a class act. It's well built, feels solid like a tank, is fast enough (barely), has good grip with AWD—overall it's a nice smallish car. I...

  What is it? Despite its clunky name, the premise for the 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek is a fairly simple one: Subaru takes the basic Impreza five-door formula, injects it with a bit more go-anywhere ability,...

  This year marked the third-annual Autoweek/ZF Fantasy Camp, a golden opportunity for you, our ultrapassionate readers, to become one of “us” for a day. Twenty readers drive 10 cars on track, evaluate them and write about them. Yes, there's even a deadline! If you haven't made it to...

  NHRA drivers Erica Enders, Ron Capps and Steve Torrence participated in a teleconference on Tuesday. The transcript is as follows: THE MODERATOR: I would like to welcome everyone today to the teleconference for the NHRA Western Swing. As many of you know, the Western Swing is a...


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  Gary Bowers of Pennsylvania and Dave Walsh of Georgia won the top two awards at the Goodguys 15th PPG Nationals in Columbus, Ohio, on July 8. Bowers' highly customized 1965 Ford Mustang won the Goodguys 2012 Optima Batteries Street Machine of the Year honor, and Walsh's black 1932 Ford Victoria...

  Volvo outlined three new technologies that it says will help make the Volvos of the future a good deal safer: autonomous driving, “Intersection Support” and animal detection.Volvo says it's tailoring technologies to the way people drive, by which it means poorly. The company claims that ...

  A group called Consumer Watchdog announced that it is suing Hyundai on behalf of drivers who purchased 2011 and 2012 Elantras based on claims that Hyundai made in its advertising for the Elantra. In Bird v. Hyundai Motor Cars, the plaintiff, Louis Bird, alleges that in “high-impact television,...

  IndyCar's race director said on Tuesday that he considered giving Justin Wilson a penalty for hitting Dragon Racing crew members during last week's practice session in Toronto.A penalty would have come, IndyCar's Beaux Barfield said, if the incident would have occurred during a race....

  Also in this episode: Mini draws up plans for an expanded 10-model lineup, Mercedes-Benz announces an AMG version of the CLS wagon and Ken Block burns rubber in his new Gymkhana video. TRANSCRIPT-- Chevy offers a money-back guarantee.-- Mini wants to maximize its production.-- Mercedes gives extra...


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