Das Auto: The Germans, Their Cars and Us is a fantastic and brilliantly scripted documentary by the BBC – it takes a long, honest look at the German automobile industry and the conclusions drawn are hard to deny.
As a person with double-barrelled British heritage it’s sometimes difficult to admit just how much better the Germans have managed their four-wheeled efforts – text books are now written on it and entire semesters of MBA syllabuses are dedicated to just how the Germans took up the shards of their economy in the post-WWII era and built what is now the world’s most powerful automobile industry.
The documentary’s running time is a just a smidge under an hour, it’s a fast-paced and engaging look at the rise of the modern day German behemoth – and it’s well worth a watch.
