Autoweek Daily Drive — Wednesday, December 12, 2012

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTO SHOWS   |   VIDEOS   |   COLLECTOR   |   SUBSCRIBE Wednesday, December 12, 2012                  Jackie Stewart says that access roads in and out of the Austin, Texas, racing facility need to be upgraded.... Jackie Stewart says Circuit of the Americas must improve roads for U.S. Grand Prix Three-time Formula One world champion Jackie Stewart has called on the management of Texas' Circuit of the Americas to make improvements to the track's access roads. The new, $400 million-plus Circuit of the Americas is 14 miles from downtown Austin, and one of its primary public access routes is the two-lane Elroy Road. In November, Circuit of the Americas hosted its inaugural United States...   Honda recalls minivans, SUVs Honda is recalling 871,000 Honda and Acura cars to fix the ignition interlock so that the vehicles don't roll away after the key has been removed. A worn part ...   Calstart celebrates 20 years of clean transportation Was anyone around 20 years ago in Southern California? Show of hands? Remember how different a time that was? The Cold War had just ended and all those aerospace engineers and rocket scientists were walking around unemployed. An awful lot of cars still had carburetors. There was no such thing as a...   BMW M6 Gran Coupe set for Detroit show debut BMW has revealed its 560-hp, twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter V8-powered M6 Gran Coupe in a series of official photographs ahead of the sleek four-door's public debut in January at the   Buy Bruce Willis' motorcycles and Live Free or Ride Hard If you've always wanted to add “owning a vehicle with celebrity provenance” to your pantheon of materialistic achievements, then allow us to present you an opportunity: All-American ass-kicker and real-life GI Joe action figure Bruce Willis is donating five motorcycles for auction at   EV maker Coda trims staff Not much more could go wrong for electric-car maker Coda, which has struggled to sell its four-door EV in the United States since officially launching it here in March. But Web reports, first seen at www.plugincars.com, say...   The end is near for the French flagship sedan France will no longer have a domestically produced flagship when output of the Citroen C6 ends later this month. The C6's demise marks the end of an era in France that reached its pinnacle in the 1950s. That was when the first Citroen DS sedan arrived. The iconic shark-shaped car proved that the ...   2013 Cadillac XTS Premium Collection review notes EDITOR WES RAYNAL: This 2013 Cadillac XTS is a whole lot of car for the money in my opinion and a fine competitor to what? The Lincoln MKS,...   COTA receives $29.3 million from Texas trust fund to support F1 US Grand Prix Less than a month after the inaugural United States Grand Prix Formula One race at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, Texas...   Formula One could add Austrian GP at Red Bull Ring to fill 2013 schedule A revived Austrian Grand Prix is emerging as a real candidate for the 20th Formula One date in 2013 that became vacant when an event in New Jersey was postponed. According to Red Bull’s motorsport consultant Helmut Marko, the energy drinks maker is “open” to the suggestion, ... You May Have Missed...   Keselowski, Bowyer ineligible for new-look NASCAR Shootout at Daytona Here’s something officials couldn’t have envisioned when they tweaked the eligibility rules for the upcoming NASCAR Shootout in Daytona Beach: neither the reigning Sprint Cup champion nor the second-ranked driver is eligible for the Feb. 17 exhibition race at Daytona International...   Rubens Barrichello doesn't live up to the hype, likely not returning for second IndyCar season After he left Formula One as a relatively successful driver, Ruben Barrichello came to IndyCar as one of the most highly touted rookies. However, it is looking as though he will stay in Brazil, and not return to IndyCar.The driver, whose best IndyCar performance in 2012 was a fourth-place finish at ...   2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup paint schemes are starting to show up With the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season right around the corner, several of the new models and paint schemes are starting to pop up around the web.Check out photos of some of the new cars, and keep your eye open as Autoweek will keep posting more photos as we find them....   Mercedes-Benz GL, Porsche Boxster S are the 2013 Autoweek Best of the Best winners: Autoweek TV Also in this episode: the hybrid Jaguar C-X75 supercar runs out of gas, and Ford develops a fix for EcoBoost-equipped Fusions and Escapes.TRANSCRIPT-- We tell you our Best of the Best for 2013.-- Jaguar pulls the plug on its hybrid supercar.-- And Ford has a fix for engine fires in the Escape and... 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