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Study finds customer satisfaction up slightly

U.S. customer satisfaction with vehicles industrywide has increased slightly, fueled by gains among Asian and European automakers, according to an annual report released by the American Customer Satisfaction Index on Tuesday. Overall satisfaction with the auto industry climbed 1.2 percent from 2010 to 83.

Porsche finally becomes a VW company

Volkswagen has announced it is to finalise its takeover of Porsche by buying the remaining 50.1 per cent of Porsche stock for €4.46 billion. The takeover of Porsche by VW has been a long and rocky road, but then family fallouts are always messy. It all started with Porsche attempting to consume VW, but some clever manoeuvring by Ferdinand Piech thwarted the efforts of his cousin, Wolfgang Porsche, to swallow up his business and the financial crisis saw Porsche rack up €10 billion in debt in the process.

Range Rover Sport Stealth Pack to debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed

The Range Rover Sport gets a Stealth Pack option If you really want to make extreme changes to your new Range Rover Sport, Jaguar Land Rover’s new Special Operations are the go to people. But for an off-the-shelf solution for titivating your new RRS, you can now add the Range Rover Sport Stealth Pack. The Range Rover Stealth Sport Pack is a new bolt-on option for your new Sport that adds exterior titivation for a more aggressive look, quite in keeping with the new Sport’s more sporty on-road dynamics.