If you have been reading my recent post you will already know that I love a good car museum! It will be no surprise that I planned a trip with a couple of friends to head over to Germany to visit a few of them at the start of the year before I get too busy with the motorsport season. We headed off on a Thursday evening as soon as my friends finished work and crossing into France just before midnight. From there it was a drive through the night down to Stuttgart, enjoying the unrestricted speed limits of the autobahn to cut down the driving time, arriving at the Porsche Museum as it opened.
This was my second visit to the museum but many of the exhibitions had changed so I enjoyed this automotive art museum just as much as the first visit!
It’s a good start to the day when you get to see three Porsche 911 GT1’s sat together, one of the 1997 and 1998 race cars and a straßenversion.
I’m sure I will find time to visit again in the near future and you should too if you are near Stuttgart!
The afternoon was spent at Motorworld on the outskirts of Stuttgart which features car storage pods, a few car dealerships and motorsport memorabilia stores, a bit of an automotive heaven.
The Lamborghini Service Centre certainly had some colourful cars to capture and this paint to sample Revuelto next to what I assume is the owners Diablo.
The dealership wasn’t bad either with this Huracan STO on display.
In the storage pods there were a few stand out cars including two Mercedes-AMG ONE’s next to each other under covers.
Luckily not much was under covers in the rest of the pods, giving us a good look around this Flying Lizard Motorsport Porsche 997 GT3-RSR that raced at Le Mans in 2011, finishing 12th in class.
Here are a few other photos from around the site.
The next morning we had a flying visit to the Mazda Classic Automobile Museum Frey, this was a surprising museum for me! I found it whilst looking at google maps to see what was in Augsburg town as our hotel was on the outskirts of the town. This museum popped up and I knew from their website that we had to visit it while we were nearby. We actually ended up with the place to ourselves for about 15 minutes as the kind lady in the reception let us in early!
It was first museum outside Japan to house classic Mazda cars and its all from one of the world’s largest private collections of Mazda cars, there is everything here from obscure models you didn’t know existed to the more well known models. All of them look like they have been used at some point but that is part of the charm of this collection.
The Group B RX7 rally car was impressive sat alongside a 1979 IMSA raced RX7.
As far as rare Mazda’s go it’s hard to beat the Parkway 26, a rotary powered minibus with only 44 made.
I would love to own one of the Autozam AZ-1, a kei car build by Mazda, featuring gullwing doors and a Suzuki-sourced 657 cc turbocharged engine.
Enjoy a few more images from this collection before we move onto the next stop on the trip.
Up next was the BMW Museum in Munich, a good look through the history of the brand but with not enough of the iconic cars on display in my opinion although there was still plenty to look around.
The motorsport room featured a 2016 BMW M4 DTM car driven by Marco Wittman, a 1970s BMW 3.0 CSL “Batmobile”, a BMW E30 Group A touring car, a BMW 320 Turbo Group 5 DRM car and a 2015 BMW Z4 GTE car from Marc VDS that was used in the European Le Mans Series.
Away from that there were a few other interesting cars to see around the displays.
Motorworld Munich was the next stop, not quite as good as the previous Motorworld visits but it was a Saturday evening with most of it closing shortly after we arrived. There were still a few things to see around the storage pods and on display in stores though.
The next morning we headed over to Ingolstadt to the Audi Museum, a brilliant collection of their history and iconic race cars awaited us.
One of the features of the museum is the paternoster lift, which displays 14 cars in constant motion. It could be seen from every floor of the building which gave me plenty of angles to explore ways to capture the cars.
More iconic race cars were on display later through the exhibitions including an Audi 90 Quattro IMSA GTO, the 2011 R18 E-Tron Quattro Le Mans Prototype along with a few NSU streamliners that set speed records in the 50s and 60s.
So that brings this trip to an end, I’m sure there will be another one soon!
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