The Wolfsburg plant is the Volkswagen Group’s main plant and one of the world’s biggest automobile manufacturing facilities. It currently produces the following Volkswagen models: Golf, Golf GTE, Golf GTI, Golf R, Golf Variant, Tiguan, Tiguan R, Tiguan eHybrid, Touran, SEAT Tarraco, SEAT Tarraco e-HYBRID It also makes components such as injection-molded parts or drive shafts. Immediately adjacent to the Volkswagen is the Autostadt. This experience and competence center provides information about the development of automobility as well as the history and value of the Group brands. More than 35 million people have visited the Autostadt since it opened in 2000.
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Volkswagen Passenger Cars readies plants for the future
The Volkswagen brand is preparing its Germany-based production network for the future. At a meeting today, the Group Board of Management informed the Supervisory Board of the Volkswagen Group about its vehicle allocation plans for the brand through 2028. In taking this step, the company has set its sites up for profitable capacity utilization and the economic perspective of the coming years. Efficient vehicle allocation and increased productivity are key aspects of the performance program ACCELERATE forward | Road to 6.5 initiated by the brand. -
New Tiguan generation: Volkswagen’s bestseller celebrates world premiere in front of 10,000 employees
Even before the official media unveiling, Volkswagen this morning presented the new Tiguan to some 10,000 employees at the works meeting in and around Hall 11 at the Wolfsburg plant. The Tiguan is one of the most successful Volkswagen models of the present day and is therefore of particular importance to the company: Since it went on sale in 2007, 7.6 million units have been produced – almost one million of them in the past two years. Since 2018, the Tiguan has been the bestselling model of not only Volkswagen Passenger Cars but also the Volkswagen Group. The new, third generation of the bestselling SUV will roll off the assembly line in Wolfsburg from fall 2023 and come onto the market in the first quarter of 2024. With its familiar compact dimensions, the Tiguan combines progressive technologies with charismatic design. -
Performance program: Volkswagen brand aims to become more efficient and more profitable
Volkswagen intends to drive up its performance and profitability in the long term with the “ACCELERATE FORWARD | Road to 6.5” global performance program. The goal is to sustainably achieve a return on sales of 6.5 percent to safeguard investments in future technologies and jobs. To this end, the brand plans to improve earnings by around 10 billion euros in 2026. At today’s works meeting held at the Wolfsburg headquarters, Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schäfer outlined important milestones of the program, such as streamlining and accelerating administrative processes, increasing efficiency in development and production, streamlining the model range, and at the same time reducing the number of equipment variants and further improving product quality. Volkswagen is setting up a Project Management Office (PMO) to develop and manage the program. Stephan Wöllenstein, top manager at VW, will take over its management. The program is to be implemented in close consultation with the employee representatives. All measures should be up and running by October 2023.
