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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ VW Phaeton Factory

Posted by: RobW Jun 26 2009, 11:56 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5WGLWNllA

This is really cool....

Posted by: Elliot Cannon Jun 27 2009, 12:13 AM

Luxury VW? That use to be an oxymoron.

Posted by: hcdmueller Jun 27 2009, 05:26 AM

I have been passed by one of those on the Autobahn. I was going over 100mph and it passed me like I was standing still. Sounded nice as it went by. I am pretty sure that I saw W10 on the back.

Posted by: 914Sixer Jun 27 2009, 07:29 AM

Haven't they already quit makeing these? It was a sales flop. People equated VW with good cheap transportation. If they were spending that kind of money, they wanted MB, BMW etc.

Posted by: grantsfo Jun 27 2009, 09:30 AM

Very cool. Perfect for high end manufacturing. Sure would be nice to see something like that in a major Metropolitain City in US. Have a show case of engineering and manufactuing excellence. VW is doing some very impressive work.

Makes Porsche look sort of old school: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgb8nbddDxM

Posted by: kwales Jun 27 2009, 10:42 AM

Had to laugh...

Some of that is old tech...

When I worked for a computer company in the 80's and we started building 286's, we put in a computer controlled cart system to deliver parts to the assembly line...

Inducted power works, but it's a big energy drop!

Were those assembly guys on drugs or a break? They would never make it in a U.S. manufacturing plant.....

Yup, marketing gimmick plant, not a real engineers plant (NAREP)

Posted by: aircooledtechguy Jun 27 2009, 10:52 AM

Anyone who has toured the Saturn plant in Tennessee see's a lot of the same things, wood floor that is a conveyor, automated magnet controlled carts that bring parts where they belong all by themselves etc, etc. That VW plant is definitely more visually pleasing to the eye, but the U.S. manufacturing have been using those same things for years.

Posted by: kwales Jun 27 2009, 10:56 AM

Hmmmmmmm...

Did Phaeton or Saturn make a profit??

Could that be a clue?