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Family drama

Schaeffler gets second time unlucky with markets

Bayer beware

Bayer weakens itself via mistimed plastics IPO

Dirty money

VW's dodgy diesel gains: a measly 4.3 billion euros

Wrong driver

Volkswagen bungles restart with new CEO from old guard

FrankenWagen

VW needs a chairman from Frankenstein's lab

Plastic drag

Bayer's $11 billion plastic IPO looks far from fantastic

Crumple zone

Frankfurt shows carmakers in the squeezed middle

Off the grid

ABB's $4-bn grid sale is key to reinvigoration

Post-Piech paradigms

VW steers towards needed boardroom harmony

Divide and rule

Metro cashback would spice up slow-mo turnaround

The here and tomorrow

Auto rivals carpool in $2.8 bn bid for map assets

Too much weight

Only pilots can end Air France's flight to nowhere

Union dues

German labour relations now worse but not bad

The right balance

German labour costs rise at just the right pace

Shock and thaw

Germany's Greek bullying can be a one-off

Minimum pain

German job miracle keeps defying gloom-mongers

Missing the train

Alstom's growth train has Chinese twist

Motoring ahead

Well-oiled performance shows VW on right track

Dividend tuning

Roaring Daimler can rival BMW in investor rewards

Just a stopgap

Truce gives VW time to prepare for post-Piech era