Volkswagen factory

Volkswagen Factory Wolfsburg, Germany--picked up first NEW car and toured Europe for a month.

In conjunction with its announcement last week that it would invest $900 million to expand its Tennessee factory to accommodate a mid-sized cross-over tailored to the U.S. market, VW also mapped out plans for a new vehicle r&d center at its Chattanooga site, deviating from a tradition of central planning from Wolfsburg.

VW believes better robots and industrial machines that can be updated will make factories much more efficient.

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Historic pictures about the Volkswagen company and their aircooled cars but also older photos showing everyday life with VWs...

Visitors to the Autostadt are now able to experience the CarTowers from the inside! A special glass, panorama lift takes six guests through the same procedure as one of the 800 cars stored in the CarTowers. Until recently the glass-encased steel construction of the CarTowers was closed to the public, now the inside of the Autostadt’s most well-known landmark can be explored from top to bottom. Visitors are taken up 48 metres to the 20th storey by the car shuttle as if they were a regular car…

Robot kills worker at Volkswagen factory in Germany! #robots Robots work on vehicles on the production line during assembly at Volkswagen AG's Seat automobile plant in Martorell, Spain, earlier this year. [Reuters]