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Volkswagen's No. 1 ambition: How it plans to rule the world

When Ferdinand Piech celebrates his 74th birthday on April 17 in his villa in Salzburg, Austria, with his wife, Ursula, his youngest son, Gregor, and other close family members, he likely will look back at his career and break into a big, satisfied smile. The chairman of Volkswagen AG's supervisory board wants to turn Volkswagen Group into the world's largest automaker. And he loves it when a plan comes together.

Jaguar X-Type axed early

Jaguar is ending production of the Jaguar X-Type at the end of the year The X-Type recipe was a Ford inspired one. Take the basics of the Ford Mondeo – a much better car than it’s given credit for – and Jaguar-ify it to produce a smaller car to fit in to the Audi A4 / BMW 3 Series / Mercedes C-Class category. But it got saddled with the looks of the old Jaguar XJ (i.e.

Fisker Karma recalled over fire risk

The Fisker Karma range-extender EV is being recalled over a fire risk from a faulty cooling fan. We’re not sure how many Fisker Karmas there are in the UK (well, there should be at least one), but so far it appears that there are a surprising 1,900 in the wild. Now those 1,900 (or 2,400 if you count all the Karamas built and heading for customers) are to be recalled after fire destroyed two Karmas in the US.