How America invented the road trip

We were on a short road trip, just an hour hike from Detroit to Port Huron, MI, and my German friend Mathias was giddy. He turned on a country station and said this was how he always imagined America. He came for the techno and urban decay, but he what he wanted to see was the open road.Germany may have the Autobahn, but America grew up around the car. The large expanses of countryside carved up by highways and freeways are just as iconic as any...

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VW factory employees will receive bonuses after all

Author: Antti Kautonen Earlier this spring, doubts were voiced whether Volkswagen AG would pay bonuses to its workers this year. Those fears were premature. The automaker announced it will pay the employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement a profit share of €3,950 or $4,470 for the fiscal year 2015. "Despite the difficult situation", said Dr. Karlheinz Blessing of VW's human resources department, "Volkswagen's employees produced...

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