Automotive

Fords first purpose built factory, a plain three storey Detroit brick plant where the Model T was designed and first assembled in ...

Birthplace of the moving assembly line, 1913, where chassis assembly time collapsed from over 12 hours to about 93 minutes. Albert...

Fords colossal vertically integrated complex where lake freighters delivered ore that became steel, glass, tires, and finally cars...

Built on Thames marshland east of London and once employing tens of thousands. The 1968 strike by women sewing machinists over pay...

Home plant where Taiichi Ohnos Toyota Production System matured: kanban pull signals, just in time flow, andon cords, and relentle...

Japans first major European car transplant, built on a former airfield in northeast England. It became one of Europes most product...

The largest automobile factory complex in the world: five independent plants with millions of units of capacity, its own port, fir...

Europes largest car plant, built beside the planned Stadt des KdF-Wagens before the war and rescued afterward by the Beetle. Volks...

Daimlers flagship plant near Stuttgart, building the S-Class and other top models since the early 1950s. Tens of thousands work in...

A five storey concrete car factory with a famous rooftop test track, the largest in Europe when completed. Le Corbusier admired it...

Louis Renault built his first car in a garden shed on the family property, growing into the Ile Seguin works, Frances largest car ...

Founded as Laurin and Klement, a bicycle workshop that grew into cars. Under Volkswagen Group ownership since 1991 it expanded int...

Built with Fiat 124 technology on the Volga and named for Italian communist Palmiro Togliatti. The Zhiguli, sold as the Lada, moto...

The joint venture that put India on wheels. The first Maruti 800 rolled out in 1983, a small car that created a middle class marke...

Built as a General Motors plant and later run as NUMMI, the GM and Toyota joint venture that taught lean production in America. Te...

A battery megafactory with Panasonic in the Nevada desert, planned as one of the largest buildings on earth. It mass produces 2170...

Teslas first plant outside the United States and Chinas first wholly foreign owned car factory, built at astonishing speed: ground...

The vast Turin plant that succeeded Lingotto as the heart of Fiat, employing tens of thousands of workers at its postwar peak. Mir...

The South Carolina factory that builds BMW X series sport utility vehicles for the world. Opened in 1994 as BMW first full product...

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the first wholly owned Toyota car plant in the United States and its largest vehicle factory ...

Built on Pyms Lane as a Rolls-Royce shadow factory to make Merlin aero engines for the Spitfire and Hurricane. After the war it tu...

The main Volvo Cars factory on the island of Hisingen in Gothenburg, opened in 1964 to replace the original Lundby works. It has b...