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Volkswagen to buy 42 percent of Porsche, full merger planned

Volkswagen will buy 42 percent of Porsche's sports-car business en route to a full merger by the end of 2011, the companies announced Thursday. VW will pay $4.7 billion for its initial stake in Porsche. It positions the new company to have 10 brands and global sales of 6.4 million, and Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is likely to lead the entity.

Range Rover Autobiography Ultimate Edition revealed

The 2011 Range Rover Autobiography Ultimate Yes, it’s another ‘Limited Edition’ to help move some metal. But this one is in a slightly different league to most of the ‘More for Less’ variants we’ve had crop up recently. This is very much a case of ‘More for More‘, as Land Rover reveals the Range Rover with options overload – the Range Rover Autobiography Ultimate Edition.

Driven: Range Rover Evoque

As Sam Livingstone opines in his review of the latest Porsche 911, we are in a period of car design consolidation, with the new 911 the ultimate expression of a slightly suffocating trend. Yet every so often, a vehicle appears that breaks these rules and – through a combination of factors that can be difficult to quantify – captures the imagination, becoming a symbol of the times and an overnight market success. Such vehicles tend to emerge once a decade or so, yet the late 90s and early noughties were extraordinary for giving birth to three – the Ford Ka of '96, Audi TT of '98 and Mini of '01.