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Whoever wrote that the Audi 50 was produced at Wolfsburg had a good source for the information. However, someone else pointed out that it was built at Neckarsulm, because his mother worked at the plant at the time. I strongly suspect it was built (maybe at at different times) in both locations.
I never worked for Audi, but I did as a tourist get a factory tour of the Neckarsulm plant in September 1972. (Tourists were not permitted to tour the Ro80 plant even though my father was driving a Ro80 at that time.) They were certainly assembling Audi 80s (B1) at Neckarsulm in September 1972. BUT I remember reading in the press that they ALSO built the Audi 80 at Wolfsburg, as a device for accustoming the plant to Passat production (the two cars being very similar, just like the Audi 50 / VW Polo). There is also a picture in German wikipedia which is stated to be of Audi 80s being assembled at Wolfsburg.
SO for BOTH models, the evidence (sourced for Wolfsburg, but based on reliable memory for Neckarsulm) is that they were built at Neckarsulm AND at Wolfsburg (which was suddenly finding itself short of Kaefer Kunden).
Any thoughts / agreement / disagreement before I change the text again?
Regards/MfG Charles01 ( talk) 17:09, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
The sidebar says 0.9, 1.1 and 1.3L ... the body text says just a 1.1 with two different states of tune. Furthermore the VW Polo Mk1 article suggests it had a 1.05 as later found on the Polo itself... 193.63.174.211 ( talk) 13:34, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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Whoever wrote that the Audi 50 was produced at Wolfsburg had a good source for the information. However, someone else pointed out that it was built at Neckarsulm, because his mother worked at the plant at the time. I strongly suspect it was built (maybe at at different times) in both locations.
I never worked for Audi, but I did as a tourist get a factory tour of the Neckarsulm plant in September 1972. (Tourists were not permitted to tour the Ro80 plant even though my father was driving a Ro80 at that time.) They were certainly assembling Audi 80s (B1) at Neckarsulm in September 1972. BUT I remember reading in the press that they ALSO built the Audi 80 at Wolfsburg, as a device for accustoming the plant to Passat production (the two cars being very similar, just like the Audi 50 / VW Polo). There is also a picture in German wikipedia which is stated to be of Audi 80s being assembled at Wolfsburg.
SO for BOTH models, the evidence (sourced for Wolfsburg, but based on reliable memory for Neckarsulm) is that they were built at Neckarsulm AND at Wolfsburg (which was suddenly finding itself short of Kaefer Kunden).
Any thoughts / agreement / disagreement before I change the text again?
Regards/MfG Charles01 ( talk) 17:09, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
The sidebar says 0.9, 1.1 and 1.3L ... the body text says just a 1.1 with two different states of tune. Furthermore the VW Polo Mk1 article suggests it had a 1.05 as later found on the Polo itself... 193.63.174.211 ( talk) 13:34, 27 February 2013 (UTC)