decars1-10, Exercise 1: Engineering pride and its tests

Model answer (check the details):

Chapter 2: pride in invention: Benz's patent of 1886, Daimler and Maybach, and the German claim to the first practical petrol car.
Chapters 5 and 6: the first big test: the Autobahn and the People's Car were presented as engineering triumphs, while forced labour and propaganda were part of the same history, so engineering was shown not to be neutral.
Chapter 7: postwar pride in export success and quality, and a test in the road-death toll and the BMW crisis.
Chapter 8: a different test in the GDR: the shortage economy and the Trabant, which was loved and mocked.
Chapter 10: the diesel scandal of 2015 and the electric transition, which test both the image and the business model.

Where the thread does not fit: Chapter 4 (the earlier motorway plans, a story of ideas and funding), Chapter 9 (the speed-limit debate, a question of politics and values more than pride), and the French contribution in Chapter 2, which complicates the national story.