Report: Porsche intent on building 918, if it’s profitable Don’t rush to your dealer, as it could still take five years. Fisker says 100,000 plug-in hybrids a year could be built at Delaware plant Export hopes are high. Work Truck 2010: Nissan working to bring NV200 to U.S., electric version possible, too Should Ford be worried? Other news: V-Vehicle’s DOE $250m loan application still in limbo, so $87m in state incentives are... 

Filed under: Spy Photos , Sedan , Mercury , Luxury Mercedes-Benz C-Class spy shots – Click above for high-res image gallery Our spy photographers have just snapped these shots of the next Mercedes-Benz C-Class undergoing winter testing, and these latest shots give us the clearest look yet at the entry-level luxury sedan’s updated front and rear. The baby Benz should make its official debut later this year, and these photos clearly... 

eBay find of the Day: all-electric 1966 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa conversion So close to awesome. Report: Feds probing Prius’ unintended acceleration incident, no new recall issued One car in California is causing a lot of problems. Report: Nissan has 56,000 pre-orders for all-electric Leaf Or something. Other news: KAIST’s On Line Electric Vehicle draws energy from the road, now in use in S. Korea Owning an Electric Car prepares and... 

Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Chevrolet 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Carbon – Click above for high-res image gallery For the truly hard-core Corvette fanatic who likes to spend weekends thrashing his or her car at the track, there is only one Corvette worthy of consideration: the Z06. However, thanks to the ZR1 , the lightweight, normally aspirated 7.0-liter coupe is no longer the absolute quickest Vette, but it is felt to have the... 

Filed under: Classics , Technology , Audi , Chrysler Unintended acceleration didn’t start with Toyota , nor did it start with the Audi 5000 – it’s probably been around since the first man put a leg over what he thought was a tamed horse. Automobile Magazine takes a look at the phenomenon of accidentally wide-open throttles circa 1957, when Chrysler began the process of putting Bendix Electrojet fuel injectors into four of its... 

Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Mazda Mazda Kabura Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery Ikuo Maeda, Mazda ’s design overlord, designed the soon-to-be-Stateside Mazda2 . He also penned the Mazda RX-8 , following quite literally the path his father laid before him: Maeda’s father created the original Mazda RX-7. Now Maeda wants to bring the RX-7 back to life, saying “I do have a strong yearning to revive... 

Filed under: Motorsports , Videos Click above to view the video after the jump If you were following the news coming out of Infineon this weekend during the Sears Pointless 24 Hours of LeMons race, you might’ve heard about a nasty crash involving the ONSET Cavalier. Going into turn 11 at about 1 PM on Saturday, the wagon – an easy top ten contender – squeezed through an opening on the back straight before being tapped on the... 

Toyota joins Clean Energy Partnership, helps build new H2 stations That makes five more hydrogen vehicles in Europe. Update on the CMT-380 microturbine hybrid sports car It’s really too bad this thing isn’t in production today. Report: Shell CEO expects plug-in cars to reach 40% market share… in 2050 Who’s going to prove him wrong? Other news: U.S. Annual Energy Outlook predicts “alternative vehicles” won’t... 

Filed under: Etc. , Work , Specialty Which one would you choose? The Chip Foose John Deere 4020 or a John Deere 620 orchard model? Vote after the jump ! Chip Foose’s John Deere 4020 is pretty kickass, but the reality is this: You needn’t enlist the services of a famous pro rodder to get a slick-lookin’ John Deere tractor. Take, for instance, the John Deere 620 orchard model shown above. …  Read More →

Filed under: Etc. , Videos , Humor , South America Luckily, no one on the overpass appears to be driving a convertible – Click above to watch the video after the jump What happens when you combine a flooded underpass, a traffic-jammed overpass, and a passenger train in Buenos Aires, Argentina? You get a real-life Six Flags water attraction. Those people standing near the train tracks? They need towels. Hope everyone up on the road above... 

Filed under: Aftermarket , Performance , SUV , Geneva Motor Show , Land Rover , Luxury Hamann Conqueror II – Click above for high-res image gallery There were so many debuts at the Geneva Motor Show this year that a few new cars were bound to slip through the cracks. We happened to miss this custom Range Rover Sport from Hamann, probably because the 670 horsepower Tycoon Evo M was sharing the same stand. Named the Conqueror II, it follows... 

Filed under: Performance , SUV , GM , Saab , Spyker , Luxury Spyker D12 Peking-to-Paris concept – Click above for high-res image gallery We’re all well aware that the recently sealed deal between Spyker and General Motors means good things for the ailing Saab brand – in fact, without Spyker’s eleventh-hour intervention, the Swedish automaker would have been lost to the annals of history. Apparently, though, the Saab tie-up... 

Filed under: Etc. The Autoblog Weekender – Click above to find out what you missed It’s a feast of moving pictures this week, an ensemble cast telling 18 tragi-comi-dramatic stories such as: Volvo doing some naughty things forward and backward in its new S60 , capitalist Communists in love with the Porsche Cayenne , Optimus Prime getting a Michael Bay makeover otherwise knowns as a Bay-kover, the Audi RS5 grumbling about everything,... 

Filed under: Concept Cars , Convertible , Coupe , Performance , Misc. Auto Shows , Luxury Morgan Aero SuperSports – Click above for high-res image gallery As if we didn’t have enough reasons to look forward to the Pebble Beach Concours this August – beautiful weather, beautiful machinery and beautiful scenery, to name but a few – news comes by way of Autocar in the U.K. that Morgan plans to debut a new 2+2 concept at... 

Report: BMW will offer up to 700 urbanites an electric 1 series lease Who’s ready? CARB approves of Roush’s propane-powered Ford F-250 and F-350 The wait is over, for those of you who’ve been waiting. Transonic gets Supercritical with fuel injection, claims 50-75% improvement Well, it “prevents droplet diffusion burn.” A good thing, apparently. Other news: Europcar pre-orders 500 electric vehicles from Renault,...