Many car factories around the world offer the public tours of their facilities. These tours typically highlight the company’s advanced manufacturing processes and technology. However, at this time when there is the coronavirus pandemic, production at most factories has stopped, so there’s no point in having tours.
At Audi, however, the tour of its Ingolstadt factory in Germany is still on – in virtual form. Visitors are invited to explore the high-tech production of Audi vehicles with the online AudiStream Tour Experience. This is obviously a much cheaper option to visit a factory since you do not need to fly to Germany, and you can do it from the comfort of your home. The livestream service is available until October 25, 2020.
Click here to go to the AudiStream page
Guides to answer questions
This online alternative with AudiStream brings visitors into the huge factory with experienced guides to provide information and explain the state-of-the-art production processes. With the use of video sequences, participants learn how an Audi is made, from the first production steps in the press shop to the final manual operations along the final assembly line.
Among other things, the processes in the body shop of the A3 model and videos from the A4 assembly line can be seen. In addition, the tour guides present technical highlights from the Audi world and answer questions in dialogue with participants.
With their knowledge acquired from numerous tours at the Audi plant in Ingolstadt, the tour guides determine the route for the roughly 20-minute livestream according to the individual interests of the international participants. Users select the desired stream and a suitable time slot in German or English online. Unlike the physical tour which costs 7 euros (about RM33), there is no charge for the Audistream tour other than what you have to pay for your own internet service.
About the Ingolstadt factory
Audi’s main factory for more than 70 years is at its home base in Ingolstadt, Germany. It is one of ten factories around the world (some shared with other brands of the Volkswagen Group) where the brand makes its vehicles. The second largest factory in the Volkswagen Group with over 40,000 employees, its total output in 2019 was 441,608 vehicles. These consisted of the Q2/SQ2, A3/RS 3 A4/RS4 and A5/RS5 models and related variants.
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