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May 12th, 2006, 11:40 AM
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| Lazy Head Dude  Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Age: 24 Posts: 20,964
Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 233   |  VW Car Storage in Germany When you don't have the space to build giant parking lots like they do there, you just go upwards!  Guess you don't want the parking brake to fail, huh? Quote:
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__________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005 | |
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May 12th, 2006, 11:48 AM
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Rep Power: 17 | I saw a section of a travel show on this. They have a whole hotel/resort and themepark kind of thing at the factory. Apparently something like 85% of customers in Germany and surrounding countries come to pick their cars up to stay at the hotel and watch their car get pulled out of the silo.
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May 12th, 2006, 11:49 AM
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| Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Age: 24 Posts: 20,964
Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 233 | Woah, weird, they don't just go to the dealership like a normal person? 
__________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005 |
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May 12th, 2006, 11:50 AM
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 Joined: Dec 13th, 2005 Last Online: December 21st, 2007 Location: Espoo, Finland Age: 22 Posts: 61
Car: '93 Opel Astra 1.4i Sedan Rep Power: 0   | Yeh, I read about Volkswagen's Autostadt a few years ago. They've really invested money for their customers.
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May 12th, 2006, 12:31 PM
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Rep Power: 18 | Dont the japanese have car vending machines?
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May 12th, 2006, 01:00 PM
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| NOT the owner of this place!  Joined: Jul 12th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 18 Posts: 9,097
Car: 1998 Subaru Legacy 2.5L Rep Power: 39 | Then Germans are obsessed with efficiancy in this case But if that mechine breaks, they're all fucked  |
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May 12th, 2006, 01:12 PM
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Rep Power: 23 | Well, since it's German, it won't break.
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May 12th, 2006, 01:17 PM
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| NOT the owner of this place! Joined: Jul 12th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 18 Posts: 9,097
Car: 1998 Subaru Legacy 2.5L Rep Power: 39 | Quote:
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May 12th, 2006, 01:26 PM
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Rep Power: 0 | makes me proud to be a VW owner! 
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May 12th, 2006, 01:27 PM
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| Mantastic!  Joined: Jan 8th, 2005 Last Online: 07:02 AM Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 33 Posts: 10,240
Car: 2006 MY07 Astra SRi Turbo Rep Power: 74 | I really like it - have done so since I read about it a couple of years ago. It's a great piece of customer relationship building - it'd be cool picking up your car and seeing it being retrieved - much better than just getting it from the dealership.
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May 12th, 2006, 01:30 PM
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Rep Power: 0 | I agree very cool, id like to go to the VW "theme park" one day, would be very cool. Saying that id also like to work for them  but the engineering would probably speak german.. and i cant talk german.. 
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May 12th, 2006, 02:48 PM
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| Neener, neener, I banned your title!  Joined: Oct 8th, 2005 Last Online: 05:02 AM Location: 'mericuh, someday the UK. Age: 23 Posts: 6,614
Car: 2005 Volvo S60 R Rep Power: 68 | Am I the only one thinking repost?? /Deutschland Uber Alles.
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May 12th, 2006, 05:26 PM
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May 12th, 2006, 05:38 PM
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| Global Moderator  Joined: May 19th, 2004 Last Online: 08:03 AM Location: Hamburg, Germany Age: 26 Posts: 4,331
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May 12th, 2006, 06:48 PM
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Car: '98 Civic Si LFS Status:  Rep Power: 20  | Wow, that's awesome. RESPECT.
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May 12th, 2006, 07:05 PM
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Car: Toyota MR2 Mk1, Toyota MR2 Mk1 SC, Peugeot 309 Rep Power: 19 | That is very cool! Not quite the same but when I was in Lyon (France) my friend pointed out to me that there they do their inner city parking in multistories under the ground. There was a periscope kind of thing where you could look down into one. There's a small movie & Piccy of what I saw here: http://www.lyon-parc-auto.com/en/sen...ble_edito.html No automated machinery to drop off/pick up the cars, but still very cool.
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May 12th, 2006, 11:30 PM
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Rep Power: 0 | I glad my money went to something useful. |
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May 12th, 2006, 11:53 PM
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| Joined: Sep 23rd, 2005 Last Online: 12:41 AM Location: Glasgow, Scotland. Bah. Age: 21 Posts: 2,147
Rep Power: 49 | I'm just envisioning buying an entire silo like that and having it built on top of my garage. Then, filling it with supercars. "Hmm...Am I in an Enzo mood? Or more an Elise? Oh, what the hell, I'll have the Carrera GT. Oh, no, it's right at the top, and out of petrol. The Koenigsegg it is!"
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May 13th, 2006, 11:36 AM
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Car: Toyota Corolla. Rawrr. LFS Status:  Rep Power: 21 | I think i'm right in remembering Clarkson showing something similar in Japan in his motorworld series. You park in the bay, and it folds back and lifts up and disappears somewhere into a cube of cars parked in movable bays, then when you get back it slides it along and back down for you. Sort of like those crates of beer where you take one and another one falls into place.
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May 13th, 2006, 05:21 PM
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| Resident Kart Racer  Joined: Apr 30th, 2005 Last Online: October 12th, 2008 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 839
Car: SEAT Arosa Sport LFS Status:  Rep Power: 15 | I went there about 3 years ago and it's a great place for any petrol head. You can go on a factory tour (not the best car factory tour in the world, but still interesting) and then they have themed 'pavillions' for each brand under the VAG group (so SEAT, Audi, Skoda, Lambourghini, Bugatti (didn't have it when I went), Bentley and VW). A lot of it is PR mumbo jumbo, but it's pretty cool to go and look at some of the more expensive cars. There's also a big car collection and museum there too which has all the prototypes and limited run dubs and audis etc in there including a couple of the Bentley and Audi race cars. Well worth a trip if you're near Wolfsburg. There's even a VW hotel in the town centre, but it's really expensive, and you don't get any dicount for being a dub owner  Incidently, the 'car park' is one of two huge towers where customer cars are stored prior to factory collection. They come straight off the production line and that robotic lift stacks and collects the cars. You can arrange to pick up your car there and they will go through all the normal delivery checks with you and send you on your way if you have a car to collect
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