A Volkswagen Day

It was a Volkswagen day today. We boarded a train to Wolfsburg early and then had (too much!) time to walk around the city before our guided tour of the main Volkswagen plant. We had an excellent guided tour of the factory while riding in a customized Volkswagen Golf with several customized trailers. We rode in this nice comfortable vehicle while our guide drove us and talked to us about the automobile making process. It was a great tour, however we couldn’t photograph anything, so no pictures of the new Volkswagens rolling off of the assembly line. I do have a picture of the factory below though. This plant is the largest sized automobile plant in the world.

We then had lunch in the city and after that we went to Autostadt (Automobile City) which is right next to the automobile factory. This huge complex is Volkswagen’s delivery point for their cars (you can pick up your customized car here to much fanfare), a car history museum, a driving and education training ground for kids and adults, and a showroom for Volkswagen brands like Lamborghini and Bentley among several others. You can see a Lamborghini Diablo GT below that is #1 of only 80 produced.

Also, here are the two large storage columns that have the cars ready for pickup by its owner. They are constantly loading these up and unloading them automatically using robotics.
After our car day we were able to move up our departure time on the train back to Hannover so we can have an early dinner and then pack-up to leave for our next stop after a day of visiting an elementary school tomorrow. We head to Frankfurt tomorrow evening.