How the Largest Car Factory in the World Transports Its Vehicles | Richard Hammond's Big
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2020
- The VW plant in Wolfsburg is so large that it has the biggest private train station in Europe. Richard Hammond learns what other technological innovations the company uses to ensure its cars are delivered to customers quickly and efficiently.
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I like how it is discovery Australia with a British guy in Germany
mr worldwide
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And they don't use miles. It's perfect!
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😂😂
1:23 “So how much does that weigh?” - “It’s nearly 25 to 30 tonnes here” - “You don’t want that on your foot” - “OHNONONONO thatsnotgood!!” 😂
Germany 😂
@@leesh342 DEUTCHE QUALITAT
It’s probably because he’s seen somebody get a foot crushed or injured in the factory because of something like that
@@user-de4cq6uk6l Prophet?
It would not have anything left. They would need a spade to scrape it off lol.
That's actually a small factory. It looks huge because of Hammond
@@ibond4539 r/woooosh
@@ibond4539 I think he was just making a joke 😅😅
@@ibond4539 r/wooosh
@bojo perez And you are now one of us... 😂
@@florianj6490 i will visit you in your dreams tonight!!
A british guy was late in Germany.
You're right
Apparently at the Railway playground.
he probably arrived by train :-D
Yes very right
Well said 😂
The Germans are kinda of nervous "we have an Englishman in ze factory, one can't be too careful".
They're worried he will make their cars as unreliable as a Range Rover
The brits were actually the ones to jumpstart production right after the end of WWII at the Volkswagenwerk. If it wasn't for the british military, Volkswagen wouldn't exist. So, the proper comment would've been -"Thanks for coming back. We owe you our own existence"
@@alobosk
its funny how ppl tend to forget that west germany was the wests prestige pet country.
@@alobosk you're talking some BS m8😅
@@simpleinverso8628 ooooooooo
Drove next to the factory like three weeks ago per train on my way to berlin. It took like 5 mins to pass the whole thing. Its incredible!
I love that track because while you pass the whole factory, you also pass the entire town of Wolfsburg. The city is just VW, nothing else.
Pretty cool that there was nothing there before VW established their factory, now it's the 5th largest city in Germany
@@joebloggs6351 Not the 5th largest in Germany, it is the 5th largest in Lower Saxony.
Factory is larger than the state of Monaco.
If a car gets stuck in in one of the car storage towers, they just shake the tower till it comes loose.
Like a bag of chips
So its like a huge vending machine. A vending machine for cars. Its brilliant!
Put a quarter in a out comes a gumball, just lift the carousel door to pick up your item.
if you get lucky it takes anothe car with it, so that you get two cars
"it's so simple, I really cant mess this up!" messes up instantly...
Story of my life
I love watching Hammond get his engineering rocks off. What a happy man
Mind you, despite acting like a big child when he's around gadgets, Hammond is actually 50 years old
That's the age when some people realize how futile it is to keep a responsable/; grown up facade and gradually revert to childhood. Natural.
That's what I am aspiring to
@@simpleinverso8628 must of those who get to old age will experience some sort of regression, phisically manifested in control loss of bowels, dribbling etc ( like toddlers) and mentally by different levels of senility.
@@arelortal6580 Perfect!
I can't wait to go back to diapers!
Ahh a man of culture watching engineering and logistic decisions. Nep Nep
I love how the joke is that Germans don’t get humour and Hammond makes a joke and gets a serious reply
They have their own version of humor...
@@mitchellspanheimer1803 And it is the most efficient humor on the market.
To be fair a lot of older Germans aren't great at speaking and understanding English, so i'd guess the joke was just lost in translation
@@quasarone3083 It was staged for the stereotype.
Standard in germany
I've been there with my father many years ago when he fetched his new car. You can go on a guided tour which we did and it was super interesting 😀
Its Crazy that this Factory is the half of the City Wolfsburg
This guy's inner child just came to life throughout this episode
Elon Musk taking notes
VW taking notes
The new Tesla Gigafactory is build just outside of Berlin
@@Sanginius23 But its smaller than Golfsburg.
Weg mit Tesla
@@Sanginius23 But there is one in China too?
Best Engineers in the World
@barefoot arizona your knowledge
@barefoot arizona nah
@@cliffwilkins9178 total fact
True. The English may have been a tad more innovative, but the Germans take everything to the next level.
7:32 “What can the best mechanic in LS do for you?”
"Here for the magic touch?"
😂😂
“If that car were a women I’d kiss her”
“What’s wrong with it now”
*Gets infinite loading screen*
Train says: "I'm a hybrid. I produce 50% less CO2 than my colleagues and pull up to 3,000 tons. Think Blue."
@[The] White Rabbit Well, just because we breathe oxygen that doesn't mean you want the atmosphere to be 100% oxygen. There always is a right amount.
@[The] White Rabbit youll need to plant more plants n trees to keep up at the rate we are going though
@[The] White Rabbit =🤡
@[The] White Rabbit thats just plain wrong, plants can "suffocate" with to much co2 in the air, the short term fertilizing effects that you speak off are outweighed by others factors that come with higher co2 levels like heat stress and drought. Its also noteworthy that in most cases nitrogen availability is the limiting factor of plant growth. so any positive effect created by more accesible co2 will be limited by the availability of nitrogen in the soil.
@[The] White Rabbit photosynthesis requires both CO2 and oxygen -_-
The first VW Touareg, Audi Q7 & Porsche Cayennes were built in a factory in Bratislava, the actual factory is half way up a mountain, so they built cable cars to output cars at the maximum speed
I'm so happy I'm paying for that in the sticker price.
The Germans sure make thinks hard just to be praised.
"Sorry I'm late"
"Well we expected it you're a british guy right"
"im standing on a trainset"
xD
Germans are awesome
You can find the Quality difference of the car if the car is assembled in Germany or some where else in the world
Exactly, you can immediately tell if it was built in Germany, by just shutting the door.
Not True anymore in my opinion, unless you compare ist to trash cars
@@venomkg9723 no it is true you can check it on the dimensions of the gaps in the body. The cars in America for example have problems with it.
@@piestein4610 i Was thinking of Japan and Korea, not the USA
Yes you can tell, they aren't as quality as Toyota 🤣
It's crazy to think the level of cost and infrastructure just to be able to make a car quickly and efficiently. Hard to see how they keep the cost so low sometimes haha
Germans, them and the Swedish are always coming up with cool new inventions
1914: 16 cars per day made by 12,000 people.
2020: 2,191 cars per day made by 63,000 people.
1914: 12000/16 = 750 People per car
2020: 63000/2191 = 28.75 People per car
@@-TJ- MAFS
That's robits for you.
Also consider advancement in technology
@@ezicarus8216 That's true, but I imagine 1914 Ford production lines also used outsourced components.
His energy is infectious. Love Hammond
This with the trains included reminds me of Factorio lol
I can remember getting a free ride in one of those towers as a child. They have one „car“ where you and other visitors can sit in and ride up to the top. Was very cool
Just visited the park, nice to see behind the scenes!
I'm so happy for Hammond.
Shout out to Jeremy and Richard!
🍻
Absolutely amazing!
So much respect for the process work
6:05 I know just change the millage back to 0 by putting it in reverse and hitting the gas
Germans scary efficient :D
That’s absolutely slow
To fix a pothole In New Zealand
There’s got to be 8 safety officers putting 200 safety cones and 8 speed signs that slow everyone down to 20kmh across multiple streets
And 2 workers that do nothing until a car passes by but most of the time they’re on there breaks
After 7 to 11 weeks they finally fix the pothole but there’s plenty of spray painted yellow lines everywhere
Its always funny watching Germans laugh at the english.
"Ohhhmy word I'm standing on a train set"! Sounds so exciting!
Wow, just amazing!
Im living in Wolfsburg and I see the Faktory every day so funny That i See it here on this Chanel again
Since I am VW Gal, this video was fascinating! VW Forever!
"Its around 25 to 30 tons"
"You dont want that landing on your foot"
"Oh NoNoNoNo, Zats not Gut"
Absolutely awesome
Recommend visiting it. It's really fun
Totally a VW fanboy :D Love this..
This is astonishing!
Yeah. The VW Polo with the LIP on the Licence Plate drive in my Valley. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
proud VW polo owner ;)
The way he said "no no no no no no" was like some one saying "don't do that bro" like Hammond was actually considered setting it on his foot
I agree. The way he said it; I actually thought Hammond was about to do it for real.
Epic content 👌
This video is awesome
Informative
That looks so cool
This is really cool
Wow man nice factory
They should put a camera so the customer actually watches his car taken from the parking to the delivery point :-)
I can't really mess this up. Ha
- messes it up
Haha Great Video
Looks suspiciously like a droid factory, what are ze Germans up to?
I am afraid das ist classified.
Stop ze searching in ze sachen which are not of your belongings
Third time's a charm :)
Just building some tractors again 🤫
Where’s the part where they hide their emission tests?
I’ve been to that outlet center there
I see Richard, I click.
"Richard Hammond's Big"
That is debatable.
Insane!
amazing
Where’s the part where they hide their emission tests?
lol
They passed that secret over to Mercedes...😲
hidden, just like the documents showing who build the train tracks.
Richard hammond is the best🤣😁👏👏👏👌👌👌
Shout out to the crane operators/crew, they never get the credit they deserve. It's a dangerous and delicate job.
Is this the place where the final scene of Mission impossible ghost protocol was shot? the car park building
jup
I don't think so, BMW (as well as other car manufacturers, I assume) has these type of tower storage systems as well.
It was a set built in Canada, but was inspired by the Autostadt towers!
6:45 only thing I could think about when I saw it
Thats a big RC Train😀
The fast food of cars
Wolfsburg in Niedersachsen .. crazy place
🇩🇰 Det ser virkelig fedt ud 😲🥳
This is amazing. Wish we had a car tower like this, would help with the eye sores that are car dealerships here.
I legit thought this was click baot till i watched it sheeeeeesh thats sick
ok.. amazing
we expected you to be late, you're English 😂
🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪i Love my country 🖤❤️💛
I like this method, it’s like a vending machine.
just thinking this is where my car was most likely made wow so cool. my vw polo
This s where I work and live.
Very unique aesthetic, wonder who designed it.
nice
I love my new golf
wow !
"i can't mess this up" immediately proceeds to mess it up
anybody notice the gaming vortex music in the background?
Thanks for notifying me about the existence of the factory in Wolfsburg. Now I can watch a prober documentary on it, without a halfwit asking the silliest of questions nobody cares about :)
Geoff Marshall should visit the train station!
Golf will be the best car VW ever produced.
Hamster walking in with the neatest untidy hair on the planet
WOW.
Hammond putting the cars on the toy train 😂
That was totally outrageous. What a feat of techno to the extreme, The car parking tower is the ticket for sure. Wow.
the remote controlled train would be like having a model train set
Is this on amazon yet
I want that train set
I always loved to collect my new cars. Before the pandemic they always got these pepermints in the cars, I don't know if they still got these I weren't there quite a few years
I've been there 4 times - 3 times to get a new car and one time with my school. I still haven't seen everything lol.
This guy made me want to be an engineer
everytime i see such videos with the Hamster, i am awaiting a shoutout "who lost their son? please pick up your child"
He won his life undoubtedly
We have automated car park towers everywhere in major cities in Japan. Many hotels feature them, many private properties buildings too.
Japan is just different though. The everyday technology is insane. I hope the travel ban will be lifted in the near future so I can go there.
Extreme engineering for sure, because leaders of company put their money where their mouth is.