DETROIT -- General Motors is acquiring a California technology company that sells an aftermarket, roof-mounted autonomous-driving kit, the latest in a string of investments by GM in startups involved in alternative modes of mobility.

It's not every day that you get to ride in a car with the guy who designed it. In fact, that'll probably never happen for the vast majority of us, and certainly not in a vehicle so noteworthy as the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe.

How could an automaker charge over three million euros for a single automobile, no matter how rare or extreme? That's what we wondered when Lamborghini took the wraps off the Veneno at the Geneva Motor Show, with a price tag working out to over $4 million US using exchange rates at the time.

This may look like a weird, cobbled-together Porsche, but insiders tell us we're actually looking at the forthcoming GT2. Maybe even a GT2 RS. Those schooled in the intricacies of Zuffenhausen nomenclature will be suitably excited by now.

BERLIN (Reuters) -- Robert Bosch GmbH is taking on U.S. technology rivals by launching its own "cloud" computing network to connect up anything from cars to dishwashers via the Internet.