Steve Davies

If it's been a while since you looked at Volvo's range of cars, then it may surprise you to know that the sensible Swedish car maker has recently begun engineering its cars to compete dynamically on a par with more recognisable sporting brands such as BMW and Mercedes.

Sometimes - on very rare occasions - our friends from across the pond produce better car ads than their European counterparts. Volkswagen comes to mind with their recent Super Bowl ads, or those hilarious off-beat VW Academy ads with Saturday Night Live comedian Bill Hader. Land Rover are another brand that have blurred the lines between the normally dull commercial and a genuine piece of entertainment.

Volkswagen stole a march on other car makers at this year's Super Bowl by launching its promotional ads 1 week early - the resulting void filled by their campaign resulted in more than 35 million online views, plus over 100 million TV views during the event.

It was the most gorgeous sunny day in London yesterday (8/4/2011), as we joined Ford at the Gymkhana Uncovered event for the launch of the new Codemasters rally game, DiRT3.

Yesterday Mitsubishi used its Lancer Evolution Facebook page to tease a new concept for the Evo – called the AF-J. Posing the question, "The next Evo?", they promised to reveal the full car on Facebook at 15:00 GMT today.

Well the hour has come and gone and you see before you the Evo in all its majesty... Well it is April 1st, so don't worry, it might never happen.

Autoglass® has today announced a scientific breakthrough by developing glass that repairs itself. Scientists at the company's headquarters in Bedford have been testing the technology on mobile and smartphones over the last 6 months and come up with a glass which when broken or cracked automatically fixes itself.

Following the BMW M3 Coupé, BMW M3 Convertible and BMW M3 Sedan, a fourth body variant of this globally successful high-performance sports car is about to cause a stir. Under the strictest secrecy, the world’s first high-performance pickup has been created at the BMW M GmbH development centre.

In a move that a Land Rover spokesperson describes as 'on a par' with other innovations such as Hill Descent Control (HDC), Active Cornering Enhancement (ACE) and its Stability Under Controlled Kinaesthetic Response System (SUCKRS), the company unveiled this morning a novel piece of technology in response to the recent change in tax disc legislation.