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VW sells 5 million cars in China

VW has hit 5 million car sales in China But some car makers saw the future long before the rest. Volkswagen has been making cars in China for 25 years in collaboration with Chinese partner SAIC. And 25 years ago China was a very different place to the country it is now, so it was a brave move and a big risk for VW at the time.

Vote in our greatest supercar of 2010 poll

It’s the year of the supercar. 2010 heralds first UK deliveries of spectacular supercars from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. Plus we’re counting down to Lexus’s first hypercar, Aston’s £1m rival to the Bugatti Veyron, and McLaren’s successor to arguably the greatest of all time, the F1.

Audi R8 e-tron – cruising in California video

We have video of the Audi R8 e-tron cruising the Pacific Coast Highway Audi first revealed its electric car project at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September last year with the R8 e-tron, an electric car based on the R8 and featuring four electric motors creating a quattro EV. Audi then went on to reveal their second e-tron at the Detroit Motor Show – the Audi R4 e-tron – which seems to preview a new R4 model from Audi and finally the latest – and most convincing e-tron – the Audi A1 e-tron at the Geneva Motor Show last week. But so far we’ve not seen any of the e-trons on the move.