ON MY visit to the Porsche headquarters for a tour of its assembly plant and museum in Stuttgart, Germany, I extended the trip to cover Vienna and Salzburg in Austria. The beautiful architecture of restored war-torn buildings there was telling of the nation’s sad but rich history. What I saw left a deep and lasting impression.
For starters, I was fortunate enough to visit the Schonbrunn Palace, which means “beautiful spring” in the local language. It is one of the most important cultural monuments in the country and, since the 1960s, has been one of the major tourist attractions in Vienna.