We traveled to Volkswagen headquarters in Wolfsburg Germany last week to receive our Service Quality Award. This is a really prestigious award and is awarded to the top 100 dealers from 29 countries in Europe from Ireland to Russia to the Canary Islands. This award is even more important as it is based on what our customers say about us. This customer information is compiled monthly by VW Germany from direct interviews of our customers. We are delighted to receive this award and would like to thank our customers for rating us in the top 100 dealers in 29 countries in Europe.

The award was presented at Volkswagens headquarters in Wolfsburg which is about 1.5 hours south east of Berlin by train. Volkswagen's main factory is located in Wolfsburg and employs 48,000 people. It's a really impressive place and is well worth a visit if your are ever in Germany. It's like a theme park for car enthusiasts. Volkswagen have developed the "Autostadt" there which includes a delivery service for new cars, a car museum, presentations of new technologies being developed especially green technologies, pavilions for all the Volkswagen brands including Bugatti (you can see the Bugatti Veron up close), a factory tour (really impressive), shops, restaurants etc. The autostadt is open to the public and is worth a visit. The picture below will give you an idea of what its like.

Volkswagen also own the Wolfsburg football team who won the German league in 2008/2009 and who will play Manchester United in the Champions league next week. Volkswagen have recently completed a new football stadium for the team which is also located in the factory grounds.

Check the Autostadt out for yourself at

http://www.volkswagen.com/vwcms/master_public/virtualmaster/en2/experience/autostadt.html