NIMAK - Auto Focus 2021

The city of Zwickau represents the eventful history of automobile manufacturing like no other city in Germany. It all began with the founding of the Horch-Werke plant in 1904 and the Audi-Werke plant in 1909. In the 1930s, Horch produced the very large eight-cylinder luxury cars. Because of the war, car production initially came to an end in 1940. From 1958, the Trabant – also known as the Trabbi – was built by Sachsenring in Zwickau, at the time as a modern small car with front-wheel drive. By 1991, more than 3,000,000 of the chugging two-stroke engine cars had rolled off the assembly line and shaped the street scene of East Germany. VW ZWICKAU PLANT ©Kultour Z. From 1990, VW then produced the Polo II in the Zwickau suburb of Mosel. Since then the plant, which employs around 8,000 people, has stopped producing combustion engines and is concentrating on modern electric vehicles, such as the VW ID3 and the Audi Q4 e-tron. Together with the Chemnitz engine plant and the Transparent Factory in Dresden, the site forms Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH. Noble cars, such as the Lamborghini Urus and the Bentley Bentayga, are also being manufactured here once again. Video: Trabant Qualitätskontrolle | https://bit.ly/3qIvQDd