FROM REUTERS:  Fisker Automotive is the latest example of a greentech startup that has amassed a shockingly large amount of money on the promise of a product that’s still in the pipeline. The company confirmed with me that in a combination of loans, grants and equity, Fisker has raised over $1 billion, (first reported here), [...]

SPEED F1 announcer Steve Matchett gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the Red Bull flexible front-wing.

 FROM BLOOMBERG:  Ford Motor Co. (F), the second-largest U.S. automaker, raised prices by $117, or 0.4 percent, per vehicle because of higher costs for raw materials such as steel.

The increase isn’t related to supply disruptions from the March 11 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, said Todd Nissen, a company spokesman.

“This was in the works for months,” [...]

“Immerse yourself in the first race of the 2011 ALMS season at Sebring, where the GT fight begins.”

FROM THE BBC:  Toyota Motors, the word’s biggest carmaker, will slow production at some of its factories in North America due to a shortage of parts.

The company said it was not sure how many factories would be affected and how long the slowdown would last.

Toyota has already halted production at all of its 12 [...]

FROM REUTERS:  Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it would delay the launch in Japan of two new additions to the Prius line-up, a wagon and a minivan, from the originally planned end-April due to production disruptions from this month’s devastating earthquake.

The world’s biggest automaker has suspended production at all of its 12 domestic assembly [...]

 FROM BLOOMBERG:  General Motors Co.’s Cadillac sold more cars and SUVs in the U.S. than Toyota Motor Corp.’s Lexus and Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz in February when it was surpassed only by Bayerische Motoren Werke AG’s namesake brand.

 Cadillac’s U.S. sales rose 70 percent from a year ago to 15,768, as it topped Lexus and Mercedes for [...]

 FROM BLOOMBERG:  Ferrari SpA, Fiat SpA’s most profitable unit, will target wealthy families and golf bag- toting sports-car enthusiasts when it introduces the four-seat FF, the first Ferrari with four-wheel drive.

Ferrari aims to build 800 of the FF annually, with the first year of production already sold out, Ferrari Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said [...]