Volkswagen

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At the old Volkswagen dealership in Detroit, a regular customer complained to the salesman one day: 'Why do you always park that one car right outside my window?' The salesman smiled and replied, ‘That’s our lucky car. It brings us good business!’ The next morning, the same customer found a brand-new set of tires on his porch—apparently, the lucky car had decided he deserved some luck too.

2. In a small town in Texas, a delivery driver pulled up to the Volkswagen dealership one morning. ‘Excuse me,’ he asked the receptionist. ‘Why does every third car here seem to be driving itself?’ The receptionist smiled and replied, 'Ah, you must be thinking of our self-driving parking feature.' The delivery driver nodded, impressed but skeptical until his own car started following him home that afternoon. Back at the dealership, everyone just shrugged and said, 'Welcome to Volkswagen, where technology meets fun!'

3. In the quiet suburbs of Chicago, an early morning mist clung to the streets when a delivery driver pulled up to the Volkswagen dealership. The only sound was the soft hum of the engine until, from inside the showroom, came the eerie echo of laughter. Curious, the driver approached the showroom door and peered inside. There sat a regular customer, head tilted back in mirth, holding a test drive brochure aloft like it was a comedy script. ‘Did you know,’ he said between giggles, ‘that these cars are named after winds? Like, the Golf is supposed to be fun and breezy!’

4. In a sleepy neighborhood outside Philadelphia, every night around dusk, neighbors’ dogs would start barking uncontrollably near the Volkswagen repair shop. Noises inside seemed normal, but passersby noticed that whenever the mechanic worked on a particular VW Beetle, the dog next door howled along as if it understood every word. One day, a delivery driver arrived with a crate of howlingly loud sirens. The mechanic smiled knowingly and said, 'Finally, some parts for my special project!' Neighbors started calling him ‘Mr. Canine Comedian,’ and soon enough, everyone in town knew exactly what song their dogs were singing when they heard his shop’s late-night tunes.