Though we’re not too much into electric cars here at the Insider, we are very into fast cars. And the Buckeye Bullet, a student-built, 100% electric-powered land-speed streamliner from the kids at Ohio State University’s Automotive Research Center is both electric and fast—way fast.

On Tuesday of this week, the Buckeye Bullet electrocuted the electric streamliner record at Bonneville with a scorching 291 mph. The next day, they did it again with a buckeye-popping 307 mph average (320 mph top speed in case you’re wondering). Unfortunately on Thursday, the team really tried to push it, but the Bullet succumbed to a severe case of clutch carnage. Check the record breaking run at their blog—The Buckeye Bullet.

Source: DiscoverHybridCars

Highly anticipated to some—mythological pipedream to others, the 2010 Porsche type 301 has finally seen the light of day. And not only has one of these Stuttgart masterpieces been spotted, but the auto-insiders over at RidePros.com actually got their hands on one and conducted a full-blown test drive. Lucky buggers. Due to copyright issues, we can only display the logo here. For images of the type 301 and the entire salivating road test, follow the link to RidePros.

Source: RidePros

Warning, the following video contains shockingly graphic footage of a Datsun 1200 Coupe beating the bejezus out of a Nissan GT-R—watch at your own risk.

If you’re not familiar, the Datsun 1200 is actually a 25 year project in the making—dubbed the White Zombie. It’s a homebuilt, full-electric street/strip car. In fact, it’s the world’s fastest street-legal electric car.

So, hang onto your extension cord, because with performance numbers like this, green-performance is here to stay.

Ferrari’s next Grand Tourer simply sounds bad ass. Heavy camouflage hides the exterior, but there is no masking the high-whine of an Italian-bred V-12 powerplant. Thank you, Enzo’s ghost.

Yup, the land-speed record-seeking freaks are at it again. Seeking to smash the current record of 763 mph, land-speeders extraordinaire Richard Noble and Andy Green unveiled a full-scale model of the Bloodhound SSC.

Designed to hit 1050 mph in 42 seconds, the Bloodhound SSC is powered by 3 different motors. The first, a jet engine, takes the car to 300 mph. The second, a rocket, takes the car to the four-digit mark. And finally the third, an 800 hp gas-burning engine serves as an auxiliary power supply and powers the rocket’s oxidizer pump.

Altogether, this bundle of powerplants generates 135,000 horsepower, which makes for one hell of a hybrid! Look for the Bloodhound SSC to start sniffing out the new land-speed record in early 2012.

What do you get when you take a Lamborghini Gallardo, beef up the thunderous tone of that famous Lamborghini Exhaust, strip the dead weight and kill the front-wheel drive? A Lamborghini Valentino Balboni, that’s what.

So, what do you get when you strip the top off of said Lamborghini Valentino Balboni? A Lamborghini Valentino Balboni Spyder, that’s what!

Now for some, a top-down track machine doesn’t make sense, since they tend to be heavy and sluggish compared to their top-on brethren. But once you get an eye and ear-full of this gallant bull runnin’ ‘round the ‘Ring, you may start throwing dollar bills and begging for the top to come off!