Chapter 249: Ghost Chariot
I drank too much and didn't get up until noon the next day and finished my lunch. An hour's drive from Berlin to Magdeburg, people like to paraphrase Wolfsburg as Wolfsburg.
Across the river, you can see four large chimneys of red-brick factories with the Volkswagen logo, which is the headquarters of Volkswagen, and the famous Autostadt theme park next door.
The world's largest car factory, Autostadt car theme park, Mission: Impossible 4 locations, you can see the world's fastest and most expensive cars, go to the world's most dazzling automatic glass parking tower, and see the future of self-driving cars.
Men have little immunity to cars, and SC Johnson is no exception, once the biggest dream was to own a Passat of his own, but now there are a lot of luxury cars, but there is still curiosity.
When I bought a ticket and entered the door, I found that it covers an area of more than 250,000 square meters and has an investment of up to 900 million US dollars. Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati, Lamborghini, MAN, Neoplan, Porsche, Scania, Seat, ......
Of course, it is mainly the Volkswagen brand, so that tourists can understand these epoch-making cars, the reason why they can become the benchmark of the times, two million tourists come to visit every year.
When you come to the lobby more than a dozen stories high, the fully transparent glass curtain wall is said to be able to open and close automatically. A 4.5-ton, 12-meter-diameter aluminium globe hangs in the air, and beneath the transparent floor there are 80 smaller globes, each marked with one type of data from Volkswagen.
Next to it is written a sentence: Menschen, Autos und was sie bewegt, which translates as "people and cars together", which should be the motto.
The first is the Porsche Pavilion, a space designed as a huge stainless steel monocoque that forms a self-supporting structural system, where stainless steel surfaces are combined with dynamic and elegant lines to reflect the styling of a Porsche car.
Standing under the monocoque and speaking, there will be a huge echo. In front of me, the convoy of Porsche model cars from various eras is like a ray of light flowing into the hall, and the traffic is pouring down, which is very cool.
The 28 silver cars are made up in a 1:3 scale, ranging from the Porsche 356 series of dream cars produced in 1948 to the 911, Boxster, Cayman, Panamera, Cayenne, Macan and many others.
Sitting in a 1600 coupe soft-top convertible of the 356 series, the interior is so refined that you can't believe it's a classic car from the fifties and sixties. At that time, the price was less than 200,000 US dollars, and it is said that it is now speculated for 5 million yuan.
Thinking about it, I really don't have a Porsche, the main Wang Kuan, that kid always says crookedly that it's not a luxury car, in fact, it looks okay, go back and get one to play.
The boxy exhibition hall is the Volkswagen Pavilion, and the entrance door is actually a football table, in front of the two goals, each with a Volkswagen car, which seems to be able to play football with a remote control car, to see who can use the remote control car to drive the football into the goal.
As a sponsor of the UEFA2020 European Football Championship, and the fact that FC Wolfsburg is based in Wolfsburg, it is only natural that there will be such a stand.
One of the most fun things about the whole showroom is a multimedia experience where SC Johnson sits in a car with VR goggles and can simulate the operation and feel like you're driving the car down the street. The most interesting thing is that when I turned my head, the co-pilot was still sitting with a virtual beauty?
The most famous is the Car Towers parking garage, an all-glass galvanized steel frame structure, known as the world's coolest parking garage and the world's largest pick-up center, where even Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol was filmed.
Two 60-meter-high glass towers, which were originally storage warehouses for new Volkswagen cars, could accommodate 400 new cars on 20 floors each, and there was a tunnel between the two towers.
A 700-meter-long underground tunnel directly connects to the car factory next door, from which new cars are transported.
When the new car is transported to the glass tower, it can be stored for up to 24 hours, and when the owner comes to pick up the car, a middle beam in the center of the garage can wrap around the robotic arm that rotates 180 degrees, and transport it to the parking grid at a speed of 1.5 meters per second to shovel the new car out.
Finally, the marble house on a nearby hill has the entrance cut to the side of a grass-covered mound in the shape of a part of the Le Mans circuit, the legendary car hall that resembles a nondescript bunker.
Walking into the hall, everything is mirrored, and a mirrored Bugattilong Pur Sang 16 appears in front of you. The world's top supercar with a special chrome finish on the surface, known as a ceramic limited edition, is a work of art that will never be sold.
With a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour, it is equipped with a 16-cylinder engine and costs 30 million yuan in order to reach the ultimate speed. Johnson looked back and forth for a long time, but he couldn't tell what color it was?
At first, it was thought to be a dark mirror, spotless, like a mythical phantom chariot. Xia Long guessed that it was actually a silver mirror, because there was a black background all around, so it naturally felt black when it was displayed.
Next to it is the engine of this car, which has a power of more than a thousand horsepower and a breathtaking level of craftsmanship. All kinds of metal wires are like the legendary golden threaded clothes, and the silk threads are as seamless as the buttons.
It is said that only with this high-end cooling system and heat dissipation effect can this car be able to reach speeds of up to 400 kilometers per hour. Can you imagine what it would be like to consume more than 80 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers and rush out of more than 100 meters in one second?
SC Johnson picks up a small plastic ball, activates it by giving the name of the model and taking a photo on the wall-mounted touchscreen at the entrance to the Audi Pavilion. When the ball lights up in the same color as the car design, push the ball into a recessed semicircle hole in the wall, and the streamlined screen displays some technical information about the car.
The red Audi is particularly bright against a dark gray background, with bright lights coming down to cover the body. Audi is basically a household name for the Chinese people, and it was once the most satisfied car.
There are no cool displays, but a special exhibition of the future of urban mobility, and when you see a SEDRIC concept car, SC Johnson can't tell which side is the front and which side is the rear.
This is the first time to show the audience the autonomous driving scenarios of future cars, such as driverless trucks, shuttle buses and fully autonomous electric vehicles, which will be autonomous for all ages. With just a mobility solution, the car can drive automatically and intelligently through the Internet.
The legendary 5G is coming, and this dream may be just around the corner in two or three decades.
In fact, for a luxury car, the machine operation is all assembly line production, and the most expensive part is manual. An employee has to be trained for two or three years when he comes in, and he has a lifelong work qualification if he is formally qualified, and he will work for about 50 years.
Germans never pay lip service to patriotism, but deep down they have an innate sense of national pride. Even when they meet and greet each other every day, they ask: How is the order lately?