Semi-autonomous driving system reduces accidents by 75% [w/video]

Scientists from MIT have developed a semi-autonomous driving system that is proven to reduce acccidents by 75 per cent. A front-mounted camera and laser range-finder identify the car's surroundings while making realtime updates to distances, mapping out the car's movement into 'safe zones'. The system also asseses the vehicle's limits, such as grip, and corrects the car.

VW Golf R Diesel on the way? VW R Division see Diesel & 4WD as the future

VW Golf R Diesel in the pipeline? The VW Golf R is the perfect, grown-up hot hatch. With its more parsimonious 4-pot engine (down from a V6 in the last top-end Golf), great performance and 4WD it’s the connoisseurs hot-hatch.

2012 Audi A6 Avant arrives

The new Audi A6 Avant arrives It’s a strange thing, but we find the Avant version of the Audi A6 somehow more appealing than the regular saloon. It shouldn’t be so; surely the Estate is the utilitarian option? But there’s something hugely appealing about a load lugger that can offer real saloon car levels of comfort and handling (and even barking mad performance in the RS6 Avant).