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Volvos get a facelift: V70, XC70 & S80 get tweaked

2011 Volvo S80 Facelift - tweaks to cosmetics and diesels Well, if you’re going to have a fiddle with one car, you may as well have a fiddle with three. That seems to be Volvo’s point of view as it performs a bit of plastic surgery on the Volvo V70, Volvo XC70 and Volvo S80, and fettles the oily bits in to the bargain. Under the skin, it’s tweaks to the diesel lumps that dominate, with both the D3 (2.0 litre) and D5 (2.4 litre) getting some work.

Audi RS7 & Audi RS Q3 SUV: UK Prices

The Audi RS7 Sportback & Audi RS Q3 (pictured) get priced. We’ve had the reveal of two new Audi RS cars in 2013, with the Audi RS7 Sportback bowing in at the Detroit Motor Show and the Audi RS Q3 arriving at Geneva. That will take the total number of RS Audis available in the UK to eight when the two new RS models arrive in early 2014, and now Audi has decided how much you’re going to have to pay.

Traffic Booster honks at drivers as soon as the light turns green

The Traffic Booster is a simple little device: a few resistors, some switches, a box with a cheap car horn in it. The schematics are here for easy home replication, dog-eared copy of "The Anarchist Cookbook" not required. But the apocalyptic infuriation it causes is priceless, and if deployed across a city center, the ensuing riots will cause untold millions in damages.