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Roads in Germany - (1968) The Germans' favorite child - ARD Alpha Car journey in 1968 in a Mercedes 280 convertible: It goes via Riem and Nuremberg to Frankfurt and then via Stuttgart back to Munich. The petrol costs 70 pfennigs per liter and a cutlet in the service station costs three marks. There are shots of the Olympic construction sites in Munich, of the Stachus, of the Feldherrnhalle etc. The journey goes via the Inntal motorway to Kiefersfelden. At the border, the narrator ponders whether they will ever be able to decide to simply do away with border controls? Driving was great anyway. Especially driving in a convertible on a sunny summer day. And if this car was also a Mercedes 280, the German driver's happiness was practically complete. All they had to do was put a cameraman in the back seat and the TV viewer's happiness was perfect: he gets to drive through the country in a dream car. The journey starts from Munich-Riem airport and takes the Munich-Nuremberg motorway and then continues to Würzburg and Frankfurt. It then goes back to Munich via Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. During the journey, the viewer is taught how to drive a car properly. When filling up, petrol costs 70 pfennigs per litre, and a pork chop at a service station costs three marks. In Munich, the journey passes the Olympic construction site to Stachus and the Feldherrnhalle. The journey continues on the Salzburg motorway to Rosenheim and then turns south onto the Inntal motorway. In Kiefersfelden, however, the motorway ends and the journey continues onto the country road. While waiting at the border to Austria, the narrator muses: "There are still customs barriers that, in the age of space travel, seem like relics from the stagecoach era. Will anyone ever decide to simply do away with them? Motorists from all over the world certainly wish that were the case." © ARD 1968