The key dates to remember for this year's event are September 10 and 11 for the press when we will shift into high gear for the debuts, and September 12 through 22 for the public when you can visit the show.

Besides the fact that the site has gone offline, now prompting a suspicious download, [edit, it's back online again] we received an email message from Kevin Smith, Lotus Cars USA Marketing and PR Communications Executive, in which he eloquently places the project on its deathbed even before its birth…

Since most of its exterior facade is covered in glass, its shape very unfortunately focuses light down right in front of it, and this was noticed recently by a man who found his new-gen Jaguar XJ in a...curious state after parked outside for around two hours.

We're sure many of you can answer that question in a lot of different ways (agreeing or disagreeing), and while Land Rover itself has opted to start from a clean sheet of paper for the Defender's replacement, German tuning firm Startech is proposing a luxury upgrade for the current three-door 90 model, which it will present in a world premiere at next week's Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA).

A video sourced from a bicycle-mounted camera recently surfaced on YouTube showing a pack of cyclists riding along Ocean Boulevard in Rye, New Hampshire, just before they raced past Rye Police Chief Kevin Walsh who was standing in the middle of the lane trying to make them stop.

Like Ghia, Vignale was a Turin-based coachbuilder that ended up in Ford's collection of brands. Whereas Ghia was belittled by being transformed into a trim level for Ford's European models, Vignale most recently appeared in 2004, when Ford revealed the Focus Vignale study that previewed the Focus Coupe Cabriolet. It also appeared on the 1993 Aston Martin Lagonda Vignale concept, during Ford's ownership of the company.

Back to reality, the new Adam models are called the Black Link and White Link, and they'll both be making their international premieres at the Frankfurt Motor Show next week.

Now, LR has done it again, facelifting the Discovery for the 2014 model-year, and while it is only skin-deep, it brings the big Disco' in line with the rest of the range, from a visual standpoint.