Win a Porsche Boxster and help fight cancer

To help fund research for the Lymphoma & Leukemia Society, a raffle called Drive Away Cancer is offering a 2010 Porsche Boxster or $55,000 as the grand prize. The Drive Away Cancer campaign is organized by Omar Dawood, a survivor of stage IV hodgkins lymphoma who was diagnosed at age 14. He is now a physician and was recently nominated Man of the Year by the Lymphoma & Leukemia Society.

One Lap of the Web: Dying wishes, Euro cars and worst traffic jam in history

We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we’re not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there’s more out there than we’d ever be able to cover, here’s our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. If you’d like to start the day off with a good cry, read about 17-year-old Zach Sobiech over at Autoblog.

Nissan launches new model avalanche

Nissan president and CEO Carlos Ghosn plans 60 new models By Tim Pollard Motor Industry 14 May 2008 10:32 Nissan will launch 60 new products in the next five years, the company’s latest business plan reveals. And it'll need every new model it can lay its hands on, amid a profit warning and a 30 percent collapse in profits this year. The company certainly loves catchily titled grands projets; following hot on the heels of the Nissan Revival Plan, Nissan 180 and Value-Up, it’s now announced the Nissan GT 2012 plan – spelling out the company’s strategic aims for the next five years.