- It takes 4 days to make a Mercedes S class.
- The factory has 5200 robots.
- There are 10,000 employees in the Mercedes research and development division, all located at the factory.
- The complex has it's own power plant, 4 restaurants, its own fire department with 80 firefighters, a medical clinic with 14 doctors, and it runs 24 hours a day 5 days a week.
first horseless carriage
Charlotte working the iPad overview of the factory
bus ride on the factory tour
Charlotte picked out a ride
James playing the race simulator
girls can race too!
The traffic driving into Stuttgart was horrible and it took much longer that it should have to get to the Porsche Museum. We ended up grabbing a quick bit to each at the restaurant at Porsche before our scheduled tour started. The food was very good though - Brannon enjoyed a curried sausage (he hates curry but wanted to try another regional dish).
Our tour guide at Porsche was very good at engaging the kids and making the history of Porsche fun for them. A few things we learned:
- Ferdinand Porsche invented the first hybrid car in the early 1900s.
- Aluminum is much lighter than steel and carbon fiber is much lighter than aluminum (the kids got to hold pieces of each).
- Porsche had a brief stint in F1 racing, but abandoned it since it was too removed from it's production car. Instead, Porsche focused its racing development on LeMans.
- Porsche does not intend to build a 7 seat SUV in the near future (I asked).
first hybrid car by Ferdinand Porsche
"Sasha" race car - first small car by Porsche
fire truck by Porsche
first 356
getting our hands on some of the materials that cars are made of
feeling the difference between steel and ceramic brakes
Sally Carrera from the movie "Cars"
the kids playing with the huge media display
Porsche 918
James having fun on another race simulator
outside the museum
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