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Where is this fancy car elevator? - space-time - 09-21-2015
BBC article shows a Getty image of a car elevator. Anyone know where this is?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34320147
Re: Where is this fancy car elevator? - cbelt3 - 09-21-2015
VW HQ , Wolfsburgh
Re: Where is this fancy car elevator? - Black - 09-21-2015
At the VW factory, presumably in Wolfsburg.
Re: Where is this fancy car elevator? - Fritz - 09-21-2015
Seinfelds Manhattan apartment
Re: Where is this fancy car elevator? - Mr Downtown - 09-22-2015
Can't see any video, but if it's this one it's at the factory in downtown Dresden. When we toured it in 2003, they were building Phaetons there, and bringing in some of the parts on a special streetcar called Cargotram.
Re: Where is this fancy car elevator? - space-time - 09-22-2015
BBC may have changed the image, or perhaps the mobile site has a different image than the desktop site, but yes, it looked like the one Mr. Downtown posted.
so why do they have this elevator? do they use that as a parking garage? just as a showroom? it seems to bo about 20+ stories tall.
EDIT: here is a larger image
VIDEO here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0-b-D6TCpY
Re: Where is this fancy car elevator? - OWC Jamie - 09-22-2015
iirc, the auto silos allow VW to deliver a car to a factory direct customer with zero miles on the odometer
they hold several hundred cars in a small confined space (discounting the vertical rise)
Re: Where is this fancy car elevator? - Don C - 09-22-2015
Kind of looks like the the room with access to bedroom doors in Monsters, Inc.
Re: Where is this fancy car elevator? - Bimwad - 09-22-2015
VW Autostadt, their visitor attraction, in Wolfsburg.
Re: Where is this fancy car elevator? - Black - 09-22-2015
Was Mr D thinking of this?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Autom-Parkhaus.JPG