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A couple of months ago, we mentioned that Volvo had paid for product placement arranged to have its products placed in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Now that the movie is prepping for a November release, Volvo has upped its marketing game by launching WhatDrivesEdward.com. The microsite highlights the Volvo/Twilight alliance and gives visitors a chance to win tickets to the film's Los Angeles premiere as well as a brand-new Volvo XC60.

And that's great. As the second film based on the absurdly popular Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer, we're sure that New Moon will do well at the box office, so if it's exposure that Volvo wants, they're on...

Cars appear in most movies, but movies about cars often don't do well. Tucker: The Man and His Dream, for instance, Francis Ford Coppola's well-reviewed 1988 biography of Preston Tucker and his effort to start a car company, flopped at the box office.

Nonetheless, Time Inc Studios is pressing on with its plans for a movie on the "later life" of former General Motors executive and car company founder John DeLorean, father of the 1964 Pontiac GTO as well as the brushed stainless-steel sports car with gull-wing doors that bears his name.

DeLorean's life certainly has movie qualities to it. The executive, who posed shirtless and lifting weights...

If you're a fan of the 2007 Transformers movie, you might be interested to know that the 2005 Saleen Mustang "Barricade" featured in the film was recently put up for auction. (You might have been even more interested if you'd known about this before the auction took place, but sometimes we're slow on the draw.) The 4.6-liter V8 went for a very reasonable $30,000 and is one of only three in existence. If we weren't so bummed out over Transformers ROTF, we might've even put in our own bid. [iCollector]