Anyone who reads messages currently in Germany sees or hears, the one issue most frequently encountered: the financial crisis. Is most affected in Germany is currently the automotive industry. Victor from Mexico has asked me to talk about it.

In Germany, around 800,000 people working in the automotive industry. They manufacture cars. There are many well-known car brands that are from Germany. Who even looks at the cars in Germany, which sees mainly Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz (Daimler so), Opel, BMW and Audi. Well, there are a couple of Porsches, of course, also, and many other car brands that do not originate from Germany. The most successful are Daimler and Volkswagen. In Germany there are approximately 41 million cars, which stands for passenger cars, so normal cars. The larger trucks are called truck to truck. This means that approximately every second German has a car.

The automotive industry has a long tradition in Germany, and it's no wonder. Because the car was invented in 1885 - Carl Benz, a German.

There are many terms that you might not know yet. You know, for example, as we call an open car? That's a convertible. A car in which two people have the space, we call a two-seater. The best-known German car sitting in the only two people can probably be smart, a great little car!

A very popular car of the Germans is the VW Golf. If you want to buy a car, you can either buy a new car or a used one. When you sell you get the papers - the vehicle registration and ownership documents. Who are these two papers has officially owned the car.

A car should not immediately on the road: First it must be admitted. This one goes to a special authority, the licensing authority. Where do you register the car, and then you get marks, ie license plates. These are two elongated metal plates which are mounted front and rear of the car. Because it can be detected. In Germany, the flag always starts with one, two or three letters. These letters stand for a city or a region. The fewer the letters, the greater the city. M stands for Munich, Berlin B, S for Stuttgart, Cologne K.

On the license plate under this subsection is a small stroke - and above and below are two colorful stickers to see so-called plaques. These badges you get from TUV. The TÜV is an institution that controls whether the car is fine. Whether it is safe and works. Every two years you have to bring the car to control and gets a new badge.

Then the car is finally approved, you can ride it. There are two types of cars: cars with automatic transmissions and cars with manual transmission. When I was a child, had all the cars in Germany a manual transmission. Today this has changed: more and more German cars automatic buy. I can understand that it is more convenient. My little car but still a manual transmission.

Before you're allowed to get behind the wheel of a car, you have to make a driver's license. This one goes to the driving school. Here you pay money for it, so that a driving instructor teaches you to drive a car. You learn how the gear works, where is the flasher how to einparkt and so on. And of course you also have to consider the traffic rules. Therefore, instruction in the driving school in a theoretical and a practical part is divided. At the end you have a theoretical and a practical test to make. If they are both there, get a driver's license, which looks like a credit card made of plastic.

By the way, cars must be insured in Germany! This is mandatory. If one has an accident, where one is not to blame, you can rest assured that you will be supported.

Especially if you have an old car, it can happen that you have a car accident. The car is broken and does not drive anymore. I then call the ADAC, which is a club where you can become a member. There are of course other clubs such as ADAC, I take it only as an example. In any case, the ADAC is then one of his yellow car to me and tried to repair my car on the spot, if it is only a trifle. If it's worse, the car must be towed. Then it draws a tow truck to the next workshop. Me is the last year happened, it was very exciting!

I notice you I could tell a lot about cars - it is a very important issue in Germany! Currently there are for example a so-called scrappage scheme - who scrapped his old car, so to make garbage that gets money from the state, if he choose to buy a new car. So shall the automotive industry are boosted, boosted in this case, they should be supported.

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Anyone who reads messages currently in Germany sees or hears, the one issue most frequently encountered: the financial crisis. Hardest hit in Germany is currently the automotive industry. Victor from Mexico has asked me to talk about it. In Germany, around 800,000 people working in the automotive industry. They manufacture cars. There are many well-known car brands from ...