One Lap of the Web: Porsche product planning secrets leaked, a visit Ferrari factory circa 1988 and the $30 million Chevy Nova

-- A Porsche insider might have just leaked all of the German automaker's big reveals for the next few years if a photo posted at Jalopnik can be trusted. There aren't any real earth-shakers here, but be on the lookout for a Boxster and Cayman GTS, the Macan and an old-school targa top for the 911http://edit.autoweek.com/apps/pbcsedit.dll/red# at the next few auto shows.

-- How much is a '75 Chevrolet Nova worth to you? $15,000? $25,000? How about a few bucks more than Fangio's record-smashing Mercedes-Benz W196? That's right: Someone has listed an airbrushed Nova done up as a Sept. 11, 2001 memorial on wheels for $30 million on Hemmings. Either someone with good intentions has gone off the deep end, or a savvy marketer has realized that a nutso price is sure to draw media attention to the car. We're mentioning it here, so it looks like that strategy isn't entirely ineffective.

-- We already know that production electric vehicles can be quite the sleepers at the drag strip, but if you design and build an EV with nothing but speed in mind, you can start to see some really impressive figures. Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, built a car that can sprint -- and we mean sprint -- from 0 to 62 in a neck-snapping 2.15 seconds. That's not quite Top Fuel dragster territory, but it's better than a Veyron. By comparison, the previous EV record-holder posted a sluggish 2.68 second time. Sure, Delft's car only has 135 hp, but its 320 lb weight means there's not a whole lot to motivate.

-- Who is history's greatest automotive engineer? The question, posed at Hooniverse, is a bit trickier to answer than one might imagine -- the movers and shakers like Henry Ford were, after all, not always willing to push technological boundaries once they'd hit upon something that worked. Commenter responses range from Charles Kettering (prolific tinkerer and perfector of the self-starter) to Og (inventor of the wheel) with standbys like Gottlieb Daimler and Colin Chapman making a strong showing. Add your thoughts at Hooniverse.

-- Markus Haub still remembers his 1988 trip to the Ferrari factory, which is hardly surprising -- how could a stop in Maranello in a year when tester F40s were stalking the roads be anything but memorable? Fortunately, for the rest of us, he snapped a few images that he's now sharing at Petrolicious.

By Graham Kozak