Volkswagen’s main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany has now built 44m vehicles since production started 72 years ago.
The milestone Golf GTE was built on 24 February 2017.
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The Golf, dating from the early 1970s, is Wolfsburg’s most-produced model with with about 18m assembled, and counting. The Beetle, developed before, and produced from soon after World War 2, when the plant initially was under Allied control, ran until 1975 with a tally of almost 12m units.
Plant manager Stefan Loth said: “The milestone is a fantastic achievement of our team. The 44m vehicles produced at our main plant not only represent a huge figure but also send out a strong signal for Volkswagen in Wolfsburg.”
Wolfsburg produces the Golf, Golf Sportsvan, Touran and Tiguan series, including electric versions. Since production started in 2014, almost 70,000 e-Golf2 and Golf GTE models have been made. Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg plant is therefore the company’s production facility with the highest production volume of electric vehicles.
The plant also produces plastics and chassis components and is an internal system supplier to the VW group.
Find information on plants like Wolfsburg in just-auto’s vehicle life cycle research database PLDB
