Originally posted by rossi-foci:
They are making the Astra VXR in germany somewhere...
I was on a course at vauxhall recently and got the factory tour and was obviously asking where the vxr's where etc...but they said theyre being made in antwerp or somewhere. They only make the standard bodies on cars on the lines then they go into the bodyshop to have styling parts fitted if they are SRIs etc.
I fell in love with the robots who fitted the windscreens.....!
Yeah, in europe there are 5 Vauxhall plants of which only 3 will be building the new astra.. when i was working there, they were in 3rd position, there'll never get 2nd or 1st coz them other plants are much cheaper to run and the wage is very very low compared to the £10p/h i was gettin while in E.port.
yeah they are cool, i used to work right next to the windscreens machine, there at the top of LEG 3 were as i used to work at the top of LEG 1(Hood release, side Airbags, rear lights) and also in the middle of LEG 4 (rear window wiper motor, rear wiper, interior on the insde boot,ABS brackets)