Bikes & Cars...

According to a recent post on Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur's web site, its Apollo hybrid supercar will take on the 24-hour race at the legendary Nurburgring track in Germany May 22-25.

The car that will take its turn around "the Green Hell," as Formula One racers dubbed the track years ago, is based on the production Apollo. It uses a 100-kw electric motor and a 3.3-liter V8 gasoline engine that alone can churn out 630 horsepower. According to the gearheads over at Popular Science, the motor and engine can deliver 800 horsepower combined. That should be enough, even for the world's longest race track.

If a supercar hybrid isn't green enough for you, check out this weekend's fourth annual Green Grand Prix, which begins and ends in Watkins Glen, New York. Entrants run the gamut from hybrids to Flex Fuel to a converted Isuzu Trooper that runs on wood chips. It's the only SCCA-sanctioned rally for hybrids and alternative-fuel vehicles -- and you don't get much more alternative than wood chips.