Originally Posted by
DirtyB
How is that "forward thinking"? It's very cool looking. It certainly draws in the tourists. But that's not their standard manufacturing process. That factory was constructed to hand build 20,000 Phaeton's per year. The problem is that only about 6,000 people per year want to buy one. They were pulled from the US market after selling only 820 cars in 2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Phaeton
Some of the most innovate car plants are "foreign" manufacturer's plants in the US. Subaru's plant in Lafayette Indiana sends no garbage to landfills.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money...actories_N.htm
Hyundai's plant in Alabama has an automated chassis fabrication area with just a few dozen workers. That's not good for employment numbers, but I would call it "forward thinking".
great vid love this stuff
There are three major car producers in Slovakia: Volkswagen, PSA Peugeot-Citroën, and KIA. Volkswagen has been producing cars in Slovakia since 1991, and currently specializes in production of luxury SUVs (VW Touareg, Audi Q7, Porsche Cayenne, and recently also Škoda Octavia). PSA Peugeot-Citroën chose Trnava, Slovakia for its new plant in 2003, followed by KIA which decided to start producing cars near Žilina, Slovakia a year later in 2004. Models produced by KIA include the new Cee’d, and Sportage, Peugeot produces the popular model 207.
In 2006, more than 295,000 cars were produced in Slovakia. In 2007 this number doubled to more than 570,000, which accounts for 106 cars produced per 1,000 inhabitants, and makes Slovakia the largest car producer per capita in the world. This number should even increase by 2009 when Peugeot and KIA reach their maximum production capacity (300,000+ cars/year). In 2009 the number of cars produced per 1,000 inhabitants should that way increase to 160
in 2012 the projections have been blown up to almost double these numbers. clearly Slovakia is the number one car manufacture in the world and also the most advanced techniques easly better than anything that is done in the USA sory berry keep trying