2011 Infiniti QX56 - Really is Inspired Special to The Auto Channel By Marlon Hanson Texas Auto Writers Assn Infinitiâs marketing tagline is âInspired Performanceâ and it appears that much more than solely performance is inspired in every new Infiniti model I have driven to date. A recent trip to Louisvi ... Continue reading
2010 Volkswagen Golf TDI 4 Door Sedan Review
A Diesel in The Big Apple (and Environs) Most of my new car reviews are either here in Auto Central's home town of Louisville KY or up in the Rockies around Vail, Colorado. But this time I had a great opportunity to spend more than a week with a tester and for, many reasons I chose to a test the 2010 Volkswagen TDI, in ... Continue reading
2011 Hyundai Sonata Limited Review (Updated)
2011 HYUNDAI SONATA LIMITED Updated Review and Weekly Road Test Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau If you check TheAutoChannel.com archives youâll find that Iâve already written about the new generation, 2011 Sonata. I attended the launch in San Diego in February and was as impressed as most of the ... Continue reading
2010 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E550 Coupe Review
MERCEDES-BENZ E550 COUPE A Coupe with Style and Panache By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau This is another of those cars that I didnât want to give back at the end of the week. Itâs one of those cars that felt sooooo good in every way. I also felt deprived and a bit disappointed because I was ou ... Continue reading
Pacific Mobile/Biosign car finishes 3rd at Mid-Ohio
Lexington, June 20, 2010: Every member of AIM Autosportâs Grand-Am Daytona Prototype team is elated following a brilliant race to third place at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course yesterday. After being in the hunt throughout the 2h 45m timed race, a push in the final stages saw the Parcific Mobile/Bioisign No. 61 For ... Continue reading
Thunderhill Raceway & TSRS Results - June 20, 2010
Mini Stocks Feature Race 1. 88 Brandon Spreen Boerne, TX 15 laps QT 19.652 Fast Time 2. 68 Taylor Wright McQueeney, TX 15 laps QT 20.669 3. 3 Tim Fiedler Austin, TX 15 laps QT 20.926 4. 5 Bobby Chaffee New Braunfels, TX 15 laps QT 20.556 5. ... Continue reading
Sato Scores His Best Oval Qualifying
NEWTON, June 20, 2010: IZOD IndyCar Series rookie Takuma Sato, who had never raced an oval track until seven weeks ago, looked like an oval veteran Saturday as he drove the No. 5 Lotus - KV Racing Technology Honda/Dallara/Firestone entry to a season best seventh qualifying position on the tight Iowa Speedway oval. Sato ... Continue reading
Simona De Silvestro Qualifies 20th in Iowa Debut
NEWTON, June 20, 2010: After a 2-week break that saw the Team Stargate Worlds/HVM Racing crew work at a blistering pace to get the team's sole back up car prepared for this weekend, Simona De Silvestro and crew arrived at Iowa Speedway this morning looking forward to qualifying for tomorrowâs Iowa Corn Indy 250 ra ... Continue reading
Coughlin Preps For First-round Match-up
BRISTOL, June 20, 2010: Five-time world champion drag racer Jeg Coughlin Jr. will begin his quest for a second victory at Bristol Dragway opposite veteran Johnny Gray after qualifying 11th in the field of the 10th annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals with a 6.764 at 204.35 mph in the JEGS.com Chevrolet Cobalt. Coughlin ... Continue reading
Pumpelly/Bertheau Take Mid-Ohio Victory
LEXINGTON, June 20, 2010: Spencer Pumpelly and Steve Bertheau won Saturday's GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, after the top two Grand Sport (GS) cars tangled and spun out with less than five minutes remaining. The pair, driving PRG's No. 41 Sargent & Lundy Porsche 997, ... Continue reading
LEXINGTON, June 20, 2010: A flawless first-hour strategy that saw GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing make four key pit stops in just under the first 60 minutes of the EMCO Gears Classic came up short after a miscue during the teamâs fifth and final stop of the race ultimately resulted in another sixth-place finish for t ... Continue reading
Elkhart Lake, June 20, 2010: Australian driver Owen Kelly has finished in an outstanding fifth place in his NASCAR debut at the Bucyrus 200 at the Road America road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin today. Kelly turned in a storming finish aboard the #27 K1 Speed Ford Fusion of Baker Curb Racing, passing cars and racin ... Continue reading
NEWTON, June 20, 2010: Will Power earned the PEAK Performance Pole Award for the Iowa Corn Indy 250 presented by Pioneer by the narrowest of margins. The Team Penske driver claimed his fourth pole of the season with a four-lap average speed of 181.337mph (1 minute, 10.9925 seconds) on the .875-mile oval. Scott Dixon, t ... Continue reading
Late-Race Spin Ends SunTrust's Podium Streak
Mid-Ohio, June 20, 2010: A three-race streak of podium finishes, which included a dominating victory in the recent Memorial Day Classic at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., came to a rather unceremonious end for the SunTrust Racing duo of Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor in the closing laps of Saturdayâs GRAND-AM ... Continue reading
Firestone Indy Lights Final Results - Iowa - June 20, 2010
NEWTON, Iowa - Results Saturday of the AvoidTheStork.com 100 Firestone Indy Lights event on the 0.894-mile Iowa Speedway, with order of finish, starting position in parentheses, driver, laps completed and reason out (if any): 1. (1) Sebastian Saavedra, 115, Running 2. (2) Martin Plowman, 115, Running 3. (3) J.K. Vernay ... Continue reading
Subaru Announces Pricing for 2011MY Impreza Model
- Starting price held for 2011MY - CHERRY HILL, N.J., June 18 -- Subaru of America, Inc. announced pricing for the 2011MY Subaru Impreza (non-turbo) models. Pricing for the 2.5i, 2.5i Premium and Impreza Outback Sport are held to 2010 model year levels. Subaru of America continues to enjoy record sales after its best-e ... Continue reading
New Design Director at Saab Automobile
TROLLHATTAN, Sweden, June 18 -- -- Former Pininfarina and Bertone designer joins Saab leadership team -- Will lead design for Saab's product expansion program Saab Automobile today announced the appointment of former Bertone and Pininfarina designer Jason Castriota as its new Design Director. Castriota, 36, now takes t ... Continue reading
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