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Volkswagen and BYD get cosy

VW and BYD have signed an agreement to work together on developing battery technology (BYD F3DM plug-in Hybrid pictured). Volkswagen has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Chinese car maker and EV specialist BYD to work together “in the area of electric mobility”. Seems sensible.

2013 Land Rover Discovery 4 gets tweaks & Black Design Pack

Land Rover has revealed the 2013 Discovery 4 with a few tweaks, more colours and Black design Pack & Extended Leather Pack. You can now have your Discovery 4 in five new colours -  Havana, Barolo Black, Barossa, Mariana Black and Causeway Grey – and the HSE gets a nice set of shiny 19″ 7-spoke alloys for a bit more bling. Inside the 2013 Discovery gets some new choices too with Arabica seats with Nutmeg stitching and Ivory seats with Ivory stitching on offer and a new Grand Ivory Lacquer and new gloss black finishers for the switches with Cosmic Grey and option.

Next Volvo infotainment system will look like an iPhone

After more than a decade of disparate and clunky systems that have tried to force their ways of doing things upon our already-overloaded brains, it appears that smartphones and cars are finally going to be friends, after all. And by that, we don't mean that it's suddenly OK to text and drive. Rather, the infotainment systems in cars are finally going to have operating systems that mirror those of smartphones as they interact with your own phone.