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Thanks to Wallenius Wilhelmsen's excellent tracking website, I was able to see exactly how (and when) my Golf MkV GTI travelled across the world from Germany to Australia. To perform the query all I needed was my GTI's VIN number. I've included a picture of the results below (VIN number and some other details have been removed! :)
I thought it would be interesting to go on a virtual-tour by visualising the trip using Google Maps. My 2007 3-door GTI was manufactured at Volkswagen's sprawling Wolfsburg factory in Jan 07.
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It was then transported across Germany from Wolfsburg to Bremerhaven
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In mid-Feb at Bremerhaven it was loaded aboard Wallenius Wilhelmsen's ship MIGNON
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And was then transported to Sydney Australia, arriving at the end of March
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In mid-Feb at Bremerhaven it was loaded aboard Wallenius Wilhelmsen's ship MIGNON
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And was then transported to Sydney Australia, arriving at the end of March
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Finally, the GTI was transported 300km from Sydney to Canberra.
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...where it remains today. All pretty fascinating, don't you think?
1 comment:
That's very cool. Nice work on finding the locations via Google maps.
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