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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by lazyjones on Saturday March 02, 2019 @04:40AM (#19288469)
> afaik the most important technological breakthroughs when it came to cars in Europe were made by the Italians

Carl Benz - invented and patented the first "motorcar"

Gottfried Daimler - also independently built an automobile the same year as Benz.

Siegfried Marcus - 131 patents, first petrol-powered vehicle.

etc.

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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by expertentipp on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:27AM (#19289149)
Many early automotive technological breakthroughs attributed to Germans are Czech or Austrian actually. It's the enormous power of German automotive industry which absorbs all relevant innovation, and washes off any bad flaws.
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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by AnonymousPlanet on Saturday March 02, 2019 @12:01PM (#19289968)
Which of the names listed are Czech or Austrian?
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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by paganel on Saturday March 02, 2019 @12:54PM (#19290211)
The Tatra case and VW copying their design is pretty well known, and when you’ve literally got Hitler pulling out strings for you then you cannot hide behind late-19 century inventions anymore.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_97#Resemblance_to_Volk...

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