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Skill Up! (8) All about cars: the car interior Illustration: Bernhard Förth

Cars: describing the car interior

The automotive industry is one of the most important sectors of Germany’s — and the world’s — economy. It's also the topic of our vocabulary guide Skill Up! (8) which comes with Business Spotlight 3/2011. In this online exercise, you can practise some of the language from All about cars.

Skill Up! (8) All about cars: the car exterior Illustration: Bernhard Förth

Cars: describing the car exterior

Skill Up! (8)

The automotive industry is one of the most important sectors of Germany’s — and the world’s — economy, despite the recent crisis. This year, Mercedes-Benz is celebrating 125 years of innovation, and we decided to mark this important anniversary by focusing on cars and driving in Skill Up!.

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This week, we look at media comment on Germany’s decision to buy data stolen from Swiss banks, at the victory of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine’s presidential election, and at Toyota’s faulty cars.

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The media are making use of the Toyota scandal for wordplays in their headlines, using vocabulary normally used to talk about cars and roads. Here are just a few of them.

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