It genuinely is twilight as I nose out of the parking garage at Frankfurt Airport in Germany. It’s a sunny evening in early May, and the last golden wisps of light are shading the sky to the west as I ...

The Autobahn is a high-speed road network that was initially planned in the 1920s when Germany recognised the need for it. The construction of the Autobahn began in 1913, making it the world's first ...

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The first iteration of Germany’s autobahn, in 1932, was modest—a roughly 20-mile stretch that ran between Cologne and Bonn. Within six years, it had expanded to 1,860 miles and, by 2016, over 8,000.