Headline: HP Business Man Steals Formula 1 in Germany!

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Alright. Maybe not, but I was tempted. Saturday I returned from Germany. Along with colleagues from Hewlett-Packard, we were there to entice our hosts with a few ideas on how to make a better engine. It seems the Germans know something about building cars. In Stuttgart we visited a Mercedes Benz engine factory, more like a small city, where twenty thousand people worked. But that was nothing. Down the road in Sindelfingen over forty thousand labor daily to create some of the world’s finest cars. And are they fine – like the CLS 350 seen here - not sold yet in America.



One of the highlights of the trip was touring the Mecedes Benz Museum inside the company's engine campus. There's just something about "quality". Even though most of us will never own one of these beauties, one can still enjoy fine craftsmanship and precision engineering. I didn't know this, but the Mecedes Benz Star goes back a hundred years. Here's one of the first inline 6s.




Or how about some racers: one from the 1950s, the other some twenty years later.






Here's a classic - the Pope Mobile (John Paul).



With all the newer models coming, Daimler is wasting no time building a new museum. And like its cars, it too is looking to be a thing of beauty.



OK, so I didn't really drive the formula 1. But it does go pretty well with the suit.