AutoWeek Daily Drive — Wednesday, July 1, 2009

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTOSHOWS   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   MARKETPLACE Wednesday, July 01, 2009 The Audi TTRS is available in coupe and convertible versions.... Audi TTRS is the fastest TT yet The plane is waiting in Cologne, Germany, and we're late. The autobahn clears, and the Audi TTRS gets whipped back to third gear. The thump in the back is instant and brutal, with basically no turbo lag. The five-cylinder burble gets deeper, the turbo whistle convinces you it's working hard, and the Audi launches past the commuters. Fourth gear rips it past 125 mph, fifth doesn't seem any...   Bring back the gray market! It seems that just about everybody who served in the Army or the Air Force in Europe in the '70s and '80s--and there were hundreds of thousands of you--imported a gray-market Porsche 911 when they came marching home. Sometimes this was easier to do than at other times. But many of you had to do...   Lamborghini Gallardo pays homage to longtime test driver Lamborghini is paying tribute to its longtime test driver, Valentino Balboni, by putting his name on a limited run of rear-wheel-drive Gallardos. It's called the LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni, which denotes the 550-hp rating. It's the only current Lamborghini that channels power to just the rear... You May Have Missed...   Tony George out as Indianapolis Motor Speedway boss Tony George will no longer have day-to-day responsibility for running his family businesses, including the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Current chief financial officer Jeffrey Belskus is the new CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp., and current chief legal counsel W. Curtis Brighton is...   Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren to run in four SCCA races this summer Sports-car enthusiasts will be getting a taste of the exotic this summer, as the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren will debut in SCCA competition on July 26 at the Speed World Challenge GT Championship at Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, Ill. TRG Motorsports and Circle B Motorcars of Texas will run the...   The AutoWeek List: Top 10 Movie Cars 10. Eleanor from Gone in 60 Seconds Our take: The 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500 was Memphis Raines's unicorn and the final piece needed to complete Raymond Calitri's car order. After eluding the police in the thrilling final car chase through the streets of L.A., Raines misses...   NASCAR preps for second visit to Daytona this year Some facts, figures and random thoughts before this weekend's NASCAR Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series races at Daytona International Speedway: Let's be clear--NASCAR controls almost everything, but it can't control the weather. Nobody could stop the rain that turned the Daytona 500 into the...   Kimi Raïkkönen to compete in WRC Rally Finland Ferrari Formula One driver and 2007 world champion Kimi Raïkkönen will make his World Rally Championship debut in July on the WRC Rally Finland. Raïkkönen has expressed interest in rallying in the past, going so far as to suggest that he could see himself switching to the sport full time once... CLICK HERE TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the AutoWeek Daily Drive E-mail or to sign up for other AutoWeek e-mail products. IMPORTANT: Please add AutoWeek.com to your E-mail Address Book to ensure you will continue to receive our newsletters. Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail. You will not receive a reply if you use this e-mail address. Crain Communications, 1155 Gratiot Ave. Detroit, MI 48207.