Drivers bored with the way their motor handles will one day be able to change it - and all at the touch of a button. Scientists at the German firm have created the ultimate real-life car simulator, and while the gadgetry behind it is some way off production, it gives a taste of what motoring might be like in the future. Taking a standard A8 limo, engineers have fitted hydraulic actuators, active steering and rear-steering capability to create the Handling Online Research and Simulation Tool (HORST).
An engineer with a laptop can alter every element of thesuspension, steering and brake set-up - pointing the way to the fully adjustable, personalised car. Auto Express was the first magazine in Britain to drive the ultra-secret motor, which is worth at least 10 times the £50,000 price of the standard A8 on which it's based.
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