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Introducing Wolfsburg
All is not well in the ‘capital of Volkswagen’, but from the outside you wouldn’t realise it. In a scene that could have come from Fritz Lang’s classic film Metropolis, a huge VW emblem still adorns the company’s nation-sized global headquarters – and the same insignia is repeated in solidarity on almost every vehicle.
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Behind the scenes, the company wants to scale down operations in high-wage ‘Golfsburg’ (as Wolfsburg is nicknamed after one of VW’s most successful models). Conversely, however, more visitors want in. Besides the increasingly successful theme park of Auto-stadt, the town now boasts the Phaeno science centre, a sleek piece of futuristic architecture by celebrity architect Zaha Hadid.
Last updated: Sep 22, 2008
