Astrid Kruppa has been in the business for quite a while now. She has worked at Volkswagen’s paintshop in Wolfsburg for 22 years. Of course she knew that the first body shells of the new Golf would be rolling past her and her colleagues on the painting line in spring 2008. She was trained and prepared – and yet, as the first new generation car approached, it was still an inspiring moment for the Volkswagen employee and her colleagues: “Even from a distance, we could see from the headlight recesses on the body shell that a new Golf was on its way”, said the 49-year-old, who is proud to be working on the sixth series. “It really is a great feeling to say that I am part of the new generation Golf.” Naturally she now drives the Golf VI herself – in mid-December 2008 she bagged one with a TDI engine and even returned the Golf V that she and her family had enjoyed so much in recent years. Astrid Kruppa has long been a loyal Golf driver because, as she says, “it’s a Wolfsburg car through and through”.