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Here it is.

Piece of precision German engineering.

My Volkswagen T-Rock.

Can you believe the going the car rental place tried to palm me off with a Vauxhall Astra?

Not in Germany.

I have just landed in very snowy Berlin and I'm about to embark on a four-day road trip around a country that I know and love.

Okay, I need some tunes.

Radio power.

I was the Guardian's Berlin correspondent during the Euro crisis 14 years ago.

A very different time when Germany was the undisputed king of Europe with an economy that was the envy of the world.

Not anymore.

Exports are down.

Growth is sluggish.

And even German trains are less punctual now than ours in Britain.

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