Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A violent crash between a Lamborghini Murcielago and a Volkswagen on the Route de Lausanne at Genthod late Thursday 19 November sent the Volkswagen driver to hospital with a concussion. No one else was injured. An eyewitness to the accident told 20Minutes that several expensive sports cars seemed to be involved in a high-speed race along the stretch of the Route de Lausanne between the roundabout at Creux de Genthod and the entry to Versoix.

The Volkswagen was not participating, and turned over several times when hit by the Lamborghini, before coming to rest.

Three and a half years of talks have finally ended, with Porsche and VW agreeing to merge, but with the independence of all 10 brands maintained. Porsche had been trying to take over VW, a move resisted by Lower Saxony, which owns 20 percent of VW, and other shareholder groups. Financial Times

Adolf Merckle, called by the Financial Times one of Germany’s wealthiest people and owner of dozens of companies, apparently committed suicide when he was hit by a train near his Heidelberg area home Monday night. He had reportedly lost several hundred million euros “in trading related to Volkswagen shares” and was in difficult negotiations with banks to save his companies.