List of Volkswagen Group factories

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Overview of current locations of Volkswagen Group factories around the world

This list of Volkswagen Group factories details some of the current^[1] and former Volkswagen Group (VWAG) automotive engineering manufacturing facilities operated by the automotive industry holding company and its subsidiaries. These include VWAGs mainstream marques of Volkswagen Passenger Cars,^[2] Audi,^[3][4] SEAT,^[5] Škoda^[6] and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, along with their premium marques of Lamborghini, Bentley, and Bugatti, and also includes plants of their major controlling interest in the Swedish truck-maker Scania.^[7]

The German Volkswagen Group is the third largest automaker in the world,^[8] and the largest in Europe. As of November 2009^[ref], it has 61 production plants^[1] and factories in fifteen European countries,^[1] along with six countries in the Americas, Asia, and Africa.^[1] The Group employs nearly 370,000 people around the world,^[1] who produce a daily output of over 26,600 motor vehicles,^[1] and related major components,^[1] for sale in over 150 countries across the globe.^[1]

Panorama of the Volkswagen Mosel-Zwickau factory

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Notes: In the second column of the table:- the 'factory VIN ID code',^[9] this is indicated in the 11th digit of the vehicles' 17 digit Vehicle Identification Number, and this factory code is only assigned to plants which produce actual completed vehicles. Component factories which do not produce complete vehicles do not have this factory ID code.

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The magnesium fire at the Baunatal plant in May 2006

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v • d • e Bentley Motors company ownership and road car timeline, 1920s–present — a marque of the Volkswagen Group
type / class	1920s		1930s				1940s		1950s		1960s		1970s		1980s		1990s				2000s				2010s
	independent (1919–1931)			Rolls-Royce (1931–1998)																Volkswagen Group (1998–>)
sports car	3 L	4½ L					WWII
saloon		6½ / Six	4L / 3½ 4¼L / V					VI	R	S1 / S2 / S3		T1		T2	Mulsanne								CFS
large saloon		8 L												Camargue						Arnage					Mulsanne
coupé													Corniche			Continental & C Turbo		Continental R/S/T				C GT
convertible																			Azure				C GTC
founder: Walter Owen Bentley • Bentley Motors corporate website • A marque of the Volkswagen Group • Bentley Boys

v • d • e Bugatti road car timeline, 1910–present — a marque of the Volkswagen Group since 1998
type / class	1910s										1920s										1930s										1940s										1950s										1960s			1963–86	1980s			1990s										2000s										2010s
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2		7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
owner	Ettore Bugatti / Roland Bugatti																																																						Romano Artioli											Volkswagen Group
company name	Bugatti																																																						Bugatti Automobili S.p.A											Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S.
touring car													Type 30 / Type 49													Type 57
																				Type 46
limousine																		Type 41 Royale
roadster											Type 13 / Brescia Tourer												Type 55
coupé																																										Type 101
sports car	Type 13		Type 18 Garros																																													Type 252											EB110														Veyron EB16.4
founder: Ettore Bugatti • Bugatti corporate website • A marque of the Volkswagen Group • Molsheim