A car themed theme park, but without any rides. Filled with car showrooms that don't have salesmen…read more All very spread out. Lots of missed opportunities for advertising and merchandise. The only food & drink options are in the huge entrance building.
However, all of this is a deviation from the main star of the show which is a tour of the Volkswagen car factory next door. Included in the very reasonable €15 price tag is an escorted tour of the VW factory which bizarrely starts aboard a boat for the ride of a few hundred meters to the other side of the canal where you board a mini train for the factory tour.
Built originally under nationalist pre war Germany, this factory was built to make the original VW Beetle, to provide every German citizen with a car. Once, the biggest factory in the world, the place is still mind-blowing. Featuring its own power station, the factory is the size of the state of Gibraltar! Current production levels are an output of 4800 cars every single day!! The tour took in part of the factory which was producing the Touran and the Toureg.
I actually came to visit the factory back in 1988, which was a lot less formal than nowadays, back then there were lots of workers on the production line. Nowadays almost everything is done by an army of Japanese robots which cost €500,000 each.
