Wheelies: The Supersonic Bloodhound Edition Rolls-Royce has stepped into the land speed record game, announcing this week that it will provide a jet engine for the Bloodhound SSC supersonic car. Rolls-Royce says it will contribute an EJ200 jet engine - the same engine used in the Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft - in the jet-shaped car. In its military guise, the EJ200 produces 20,000 pounds of thrust. The Bloodhound project aims to pilot the car at speeds in excess of 1,000 miles per hour, or Mach 1.4. Not long after most of Fisker Automotive's workforce was laid off, a new (albeit not direct) problem has emerged for the beleaguered automaker. The Fisker Karma, its luxury plug-in hybrid, sold for more than $100,000 new. But the cars are fetching roughly half that amount on the used car market. Bill Michlin, a dealer in the Chicago suburbs, told NBC News that a year-old EcoChic version of the Karma he'd put up for sale on an eBay auction got a top bid of just over $45,000. His dealership didn't end up selling the car because the bid didn't meet the set reserve price, although they did sell a different Karma for a bit less than $60,000. The fate of Fisker, which appears to be on the verge of bankruptcy, most likely rests on whether or not the company can get backing from a major investor. In the world of automotive journalism, nobody wants to be the one who wrecks a review car, particularly an expensive one. But since many of these cars have insane amounts of power, it inevitably happens from time to time. According to a report from Car News China, a 552-horsepower Lamborghini and wet pavement got the best of one automotive journalist as he tried to pass a slower car. After losing control of a Gallardo, the car slammed into a barrier, bouncing back and hitting another barrier. Both ends of the car were destroyed and the car, which Yahoo Autos said costs about $500,000 in China, was totaled. In the automotive version of cutting off your nose to spite your face, a Maserati owner in China ordered his Quattroporte sedan smashed to bits with sledgehammers in protest of poor dealership service. Accusing Maserati of "poor decision making," the man said he had been charged a new part price when the dealership had replaced a part with a used one. The whole scene, which unfolded in front of China's Qingdao International Convention Center on day one of the International Auto Show, was caught on video. The New York Daily News The Cadillacs of today have come a long way since the days of their anemic early-"80s brethren. Pushing the marque's sporty image ever further, the luxury automaker announced that it will be offering an optional 420-horsepower, twin-turbo 3.6-liter V-6 engine on the 2014 XTS sedan. According to a report from Autoweek, the all-aluminum, direct injection gasoline engine is the highest output V-6 General Motors has ever produced. It's peak horsepower comes at 5,750 r.p.m. and it boasts an impressive 430 pound-feet of torque at 3,500 r.p.m. Although other Cadillac models make use of an 8-speed automatic transmission, the twin-turbo six will be mated to a 6-speed automatic. Pricing for the twin-turbo-equipped XTS has not yet been released. LED lighting is all the rage in automotive design, but most cars still make at least some use of old-fashioned light bulbs. Mercedes-Benz this week introduced what it says is the first car without light bulbs (although if one considers early 20th century production models, some of those may have been fitted with small fuel-burning lamps). The new S-Class, unveiled Wednesday, features 56 LEDs in each headlight, 25 in each tail light, and 300 LEDs to light the vehicle's interior. But nary an incandescent bulb will be used, said the automaker. USA Today As cars and trucks become more connected via Web-based technology, federal regulators are moving toward protecting vehicular computers from hacking. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it will open a new office dedicated to researching the risks involved in vehicles with increasingly autonomous features being plugged into the Internet. Bloomberg News