Wolfsburg exists because of the Volkswagen (VW) car factory, and some say if VW sneezes, Wolfsburg is catching a cold. At the moment, VW's emerging crisis is talk of the town, as Europe's biggest ...

Building cars in Germany is expensive: the average salary of a VW employee in Wolfsburg is the equivalent of $80,000, compared with an average of $20,000 at VW's factory in Puebla, Mexico.

The Volkswagen complex in Wolfsburg [Photo ... is therefore particularly affected by the cutbacks. The electric car factory in Saxony is only supposed to build the Audi Q4 e-tron.