If you haven't read about the Volvo S60 on the Volvo of Burlingame blog, you've likely heard about it elsewhere. It offers a lot of talking points; and for the 2013 model year - one more: an all -new S60 T5 AWD variant.

Expected to arrive this summer, the new Volvo S60 T5 AWD, will grow the entire S60 range to four different models. Currently this includes the Volvo S60 T5, Volvo S60 T6 AWD, and Volvo S60 R-Design.

As you can imagine drivers who crave the mod Scandinavian style and award-winning safety of the S60, but don't…

Volvo is taking their automotive and safety acumen to a new kind of transportation: road trains. "Trains?" you ask. Trains.

Sure, we may have largely done away with the strings of large, boxy cars here in the U.S., but rail continues to color the landscape in Europe, where this project takes place. Volvo is one of seven European companies collaborating on the effort to make ultra-safe, hyper-efficient, environmentally-friendly road trains - the only automotive partner.

Officially coined SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), the endeavor is slated to be finished by the end of 2012. In early testing, a…