Volkswagen has a 99 percent market share in its hometown of Wolfsburg, Germany. Volkswagen-brand cars hold a 95.86 percent share, Audi a 2.28 percent slice, Skoda 0.66 percent, and Seat 0.21 percent. That adds up to a 99.01 percent market share for the Volkswagen Group. Just 0.99 percent of motorists drive a car from another automaker. If only Detroit was this way…
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06/30, 2:36 PM
posted by:
Jay
What’s the population of Wolfsburg?
06/30, 2:37 PM
posted by:
panda
thats a crazy amount of vw’s
06/30, 2:40 PM
posted by:
Madcapp
Obviously it wouldn’t be that hard to be origninal around Wolfsburg. I didn’t realise Germans were such sheep.
06/30, 2:43 PM
posted by:
Werner
@ jay; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsburg ( 121,829 people )
06/30, 2:46 PM
posted by:
Phil
hahahahaha Madcapp, I like that. That’s a great one
06/30, 2:51 PM
posted by:
The Stig
People around Wolfsburg may be sheep but at least the cars aren’t baaaaaad.
06/30, 3:10 PM
posted by:
Tany Manero
If you can get a Golf at discount you are going to do it
06/30, 3:14 PM
posted by:
Jay
I think an interesting question regarding this is that “Are European workers more loyal toward their companies?” Especially the union workers.
Or, is it simply that VW workers truly believe in the products that they build, unlike some of the Big3 workers?
06/30, 4:49 PM
posted by:
Anonymous
communist pig
06/30, 4:55 PM
posted by:
Bryan
I’m sure that 99.01% of the pop in Wolfsburg get huge discounts as VW employees.
06/30, 5:42 PM
posted by:
cool
I agree with #9
06/30, 6:03 PM
posted by:
Someone
More people in Detroit would drive american cars if they were’nt crap.
06/30, 7:16 PM
posted by:
xtreme
#1 the population is acording to wikipedia…
121,829 in 2005, that would mean 116,786 VW cars in that one city alone… did Ford even sell that many cars last year in the US alone?
06/30, 7:24 PM
posted by:
Skep Tical
how else should it be? Why do you think the Golf 5 is rated as the best-slling car in Germany,yet you rarely see any of them outside of Wolfsburg and area? (except for the Golf GTi and R32,which both cook rice faster than a hibachi can ever do^^)
06/30, 11:01 PM
posted by:
British_Rover
Uhh #13 ford sells 500,000 F-Series pick ups alone every year.
06/30, 11:44 PM
posted by:
Gogogodzilla
Well, heck… Who wouldn’t buy a GTI or R32?
Specially if it comes with a huge employee discount!
I mean, it’s not like VW employees have to consider a Cobalt or Ion or Aveo, now is it?
06/30, 11:52 PM
posted by:
dsmdriver84
#13 ford sold 160,000 mustangs alone last year more than all gm performance cars combined
07/03, 4:00 AM
posted by:
dendemann
I live in Wolfsburg, working for Audi though. It’s mental, at a red light you will only see VWs. And yes, you get huge discounts, this city basically exists because of the factory and if you see a map, the factory is nearly as big as the rest of the city only divided by a canal. There are two huge VW signs overlooking the city, kind of the evil eye Lord-of-the-Rings style, you can see them everywhere, thus you won’t show up late for work.
Everything is sponsored by VW, from the soccer team to the public pools, to even a local club, which only opens once a month, craziest party you can imagine. Weirdest city I ever lived in!
07/09, 1:17 PM
posted by:
Mental In A Good Way :^)
‘Weird’ is relative. Anecdote…my girlyfriend thought the symbol in my Rabbit was a fox. I said it is a wolf…for Wolfsburg. How kool is that?
07/09, 1:23 PM
posted by:
Mental in A Good Way :^)
Jay, I’ve worked with an ape-#&*% homophobe bigger hammer type American G.I. mechanic and his words while a summer training under him re-building American engines were “they(VW)takes pride in their workmanship”.