Focussed mainly on the VW Golf. Covered all the bases ---- unions, investment management, branding etc but I found it superficial journalism, badly presented by some talking heads with a charisma bypass which told us nothing new. Far to much boring stock footage of cars driving along roads/autobahns A programme about the German car industry for people not interested in cars. 
Nothing about the recent titanic power struggle between VW and Porsche for example. That ownership profile of BMW and its brief relationship with BL. The recent spread of VAG and others into manufacturing in the former communist block. The huge post war investment of Nato countries into Germany to stem a European communist take over post war. The fact Germany was not allow to rearm and spend money on their armed forces. The role of Gastarbeiter in the German economic miracle. Germany's post war investment regulation. The list goes on and on------- as I write this I am beginning to realise how poor it was and how much was missed out. Humdrum and Disappointing. :fail
Meanwhile back in Britain perhaps buoyed up by victory we were busy pouring millions into developing weaponry which didn't work and defending Germany and Japan while they developed their manufacturing industries which were later to shaft us. 
That's not to decry the effort both the German's and Japanese put in post war to recover their devastated economies--- they did it of their own bat 
---but we afforded them the resources to do it and spent billions defending them while they did! While there are sensitivities associated with the past there is scant acknowledgement of these economic realities from Germany or Japan today. When will we see a VAG advert like Das beste oder der nichts which says " British Army officer Major Ivan Hirst REME at your service. Let's get this sorry show on the road what!" Don't hold your breath! What was only touched on was the irony that the countries comprising that evil axis of power Japan and Germany -- despite their defeat by Britain, USA and France had vast resources poured into them post war to stem what was seen as the creeping menace of communism. At the same time--- as the "defeated parties" they were not permitted to re-arm and had only nominal defence forces. This meant their defence was mainly provided, at not inconsiderable cost, by the armed forces of Britain and the USA . Remember the British Army of the Rhine for years defending West Germany against the ravening hordes of "commies" just across the border in East Germany? The close proximity of a communist block East Germany may have also played a more subtle role in the thinking of the trade unions in West Germany post war. Nothing like some of your relatives in East Germany writing and hinting how **** it was living in a Communist state to colour your view on the " workers struggle"?
