It's the first Volvo to be penned under the direction of the Swedish brand's new design chief Thomas Ingenlath and also the first of a series of three concept cars that portray the design possibilities created by the automaker's new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) that frees it from the limitations of its Ford-sourced platforms.

The concept is both elegant and dynamic, but what really makes it stand out are the understated styling references to the P1800 (built from 1961 to 1973), which capture the essence of Volvo's classic coupe without falling into the retro trap.

As with previous videos in which two Ferrari F50s and a Rolls-Royce Phantom were hooned in the most unlikely surroundings, the XJ220 is not spared the "farm" treatment either. The video shows a young boy who finds an XJ220 in a barn near a tractor, with a tablet computer in front of it.

We now bring your attention to Google, one of the names thrown around in the NSA leaks scandal mentioned above, which would like, as per the proposition of top US safety official Deborah Hersman, to also have its self-driving cars record every little move that the owner makes. The argument for is that most new cars are already fitted with some kind of black box, while the argument against infers that not only is the latter completely wrong, but that data gathering has no place fitted to self-driving vehicles either.

The silver prototype offers us an even better look than before at the new 2015 C-Class' swoopy profile lines that are reminiscent of both the more serious and bigger S-Class and the smaller and funkier CLA.

The woman was behind the wheel with her friend (or husband, we don't know) filming the incident from the passenger seat. When the first officer comes over, he orders her to park her car in a designated area to which she replies, "No, are you detaining me? Am I free to go?"

"Ford is announcing the availability of custom bacon graphics that pork purists can have installed on their new Fiesta," said the Detroit automaker in a statement, with bacon specialist, Allan Benton, CEO of Benton's Country Hams, also chipping in.

The latest GM model to be baptized on the Nordschleife is the new 2014 Cadillac CTS Vsport featuring a newly-developed 3.6-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engine with 420hp and 430 lb-ft (582Nm) connected to an 8-speed automatic driving the rear-wheels.

Along with a new spy video of the Chevrolet Colorado, courtesy of KGP Photography, we came to learn via an Autonews report that both GM trucks will be offered with a diesel engine option about a year after their fall 2014 market launch.

Welcome to the petrifying world of Michael Stofflet, a Dirt Modified racer who experienced all of the above after a seemingly harmless accident at the Mahoning Valley Speedway in Pennsylvania, with the entire scene captured on film by his onboard camera.

The new S-Max Concept adopts the latest Ford global design language and includes elements like the high mounted grille, swept-back headlights and "a unique treatment of the vehicle's lower fascia that includes design elements that appear to float within the lower front aperture and above the spoiler."