German Parking Garage‏ Email is an Urban Legend

The email below that has been circulating is actually an Urban Legend. The Images actually depict a 20-storey “car tower” in Volkswagen’s Autostadt theme park in Wolfburg, Germany. Car buyers collect their chosen vehicles at the base of the tower via a robotic elevator.




Subject: German Parking Garage

This is incredible! Can you imagine how all this operates? How do they lock each car in its cubicle for safety.

WHO CARES. NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND COULD GET IN THERE.

Talk about German efficiency! The two photos below were taken at a new parking garage in Munich. The actual space that the facility occupies is approximately only 20% of a comparable facility with the traditional design that is used primarily in the US.


Not only is the German structure less expensive to build, but vehicles are also “retrieved” in less time and without the potential of being damaged by an attendant.


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