Hi

Following many years of deliberating on whether to go to Wolfsburg to see the VW factory, my mate Rich and I decided that this year would be the one. We would combine it with a trip to watch football, Wolfsburg v Schalke in the Bundesliga.

We drove from Mansfield to Dover at 4am on Saturday morning and took the ferry to Calais arriving at 11am. We then drove through France, Belgium and Holland on a road trip, passing places such as Dunkerque, Bruges, Gent, Antwerp and Eindhoven, before passing through the industrial north of Dusseldorf, Essen, Hannover and Schalke before reaching Wolfbsurg at about 7pm Saturday night. In total 717 miles. It is quite unnerving when the satnav says "continue straight on for 197 miles" which is what happened on the A2 autobahn.

For those who do not know, Wolfsburg has a complete park dedicated to VAG cars, housed in a place called the AUTOSTADT. Here are a few pictures of the 'Pavillions', museum pieces etc. I will add the Skoda images I took later, but my mate did most of the photography and do not yet have the images

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These are images of a LTD edition Fabia MK3 - custom specification wheels and paint and roof. I will try and get some more images later. 

Edited 23 April, 201511 yr by Tricky Red

Went last year with work ,amazing place I thought the chrome Veyron was the best exhibit but the museum was prity good w had a factory visite and a trip round the van factory, did you go up the car tower ?

Id like to visit there someday, ive been to the Mercedes and Porsche museums when I was in Stuttgart 18 months ago and the Ferrari Museum in 2011.....

Went last year with work ,amazing place I thought the chrome Veyron was the best exhibit but the museum was prity good w had a factory visite and a trip round the van factory, did you go up the car tower ?

Unfortunately not, as I missed the last one of the day. Did the factory tour though and a couple of test drives

Great pics of the experience - many thanks for sharing!

I went there on a uni trip (product design masters) back in 2008. What an amazing place it is too. Good pics!

I will try to dig out some more Skoda ones but to be honest their pavilion was a little sparse. 

 

A basic Yeti, a Octavia Greenline base spec for Germany and a nice Rapid Sportsback.  

 

I was hoping on a new Superb being there but no luck. 

Edited 27 April, 201511 yr by Tricky Red

It's changed a bit since I did the factory tour in 1992.