Euro Trip - Looking for advice

[Cartographer]

Hi all,

3 friends and I are going to do a road trip in October.

The goal is to travel across Europe in 6 days and take in as many places and car related themes as possible.

We intend to fly into Munich and out of Paris as this works out to be the cheapest route for tickets and car hire.

I am on my own personal goal to see Ferrari's and my mate Dan wants Porsche.

So far it looks like this:

Day 1 - Arrive in Munich / Motorworld / Stay the night

Day 2 - Porsche / Mercedes / Motorworld / Stay the night

Day 3 - Nürburgring Museum / Michael Schumacher/Motorworld / Classic Remise / Stay the night

Day 4 - Metropole Druten / Louwman / Amsterdam / Stay the night

Day 5 - Musee Automobile / Paris / Stay the night

Day 6 - Le Mans Musee / Paris / Home

In that am I missing anything that I should go and see which may include roads, locations, restaurants, museums etc...

I have built it quite tight but still have space to do things. It can not be anymore than 6 days due to holidays and children.

[BananaFama]

Do you mean Cite de l'automobile in Mulhouse ? ..that's a long way from Amsterdam , there is Autoworld in Brussels which is very good too , it even has free parking .

Obvious answer too is that you are not going to see many Ferraris , there are some in Louwman and Mulhouse .
You will see a lot of Bugattis in Mulhouse museum ,formerly the Schlumpf collection .

Munich is the home of BMW ,museum is worth it .

[Cartographer]

BananaFama said:

Do you mean Cite de l'automobile in Mulhouse ? ..that's a long way from Amsterdam , there is Autoworld in Brussels which is very good too , it even has free parking .

Obvious answer too is that you are not going to see many Ferraris , there are some in Louwman and Mulhouse .
You will see a lot of Bugattis in Mulhouse museum ,formerly the Schlumpf collection .

Munich is the home of BMW ,museum is worth it .

Yeah, that is the one. Google maps recons it to be about a 4 hour ish drive hence the less active 5th day.

I did look at Autoworld but wasn't sure if it would be worth it? I can appreciate classics and engineering but none of us our really bothered about generic cars from the 60s-90s and that is what the images looked like?

I have been to BMW before but regrettably it isn't open on Mondays.

[BananaFama]

There are quite a few older pre war cars at Autoworld , some from Belgian marques that are long gone .

Also have a look at their website nearer the time ,they often have special displays for a marque anniversary or similar .

I've been 4 times ,for Italian passion ,Zagato , BMW M1s and another forgotten the name .

[RONV]

Look at Speyer Museum it is a great place and we took a day to look around but well worth a visit, we tour twice a year May and September 2 to 3 weeks at a time as our children are all grown up.

Edited by RONV on Monday 8th January 09:10

[ecsrobin]

Cartographer said:

Day 1 - Arrive in Munich / Motorworld / Stay the night

2hr 30min

Day 2 - Porsche / Mercedes / Motorworld / Stay the night

3hr 30min + 1hr 15min

Day 3 - Nürburgring Museum / Michael Schumacher/Motorworld / Classic Remise / Stay the night

3hr + 1hr

Day 4 - Metropole Druten / Louwman / Amsterdam / Stay the night

7hr 30min + 5hr 15min

Day 5 - Musee Automobile / Paris / Stay the night

2hr 15min + 2hr 15min

Day 6 - Le Mans Musee / Paris / Home

4hr 30min + flight home

I’ve chucked in some timings for travel if it was me I’d be binning off Amsterdam. If you must go into Holland Eindhoven has the DAF museum. As mentioned you won’t be seeing many Ferraris.

Ring Werk is closed Mondays in October so ensure you don’t head that way on that date.

Edited by ecsrobin on Saturday 13th January 09:59

[ecsrobin]

Cartographer said:

Yeah, that is the one. Google maps recons it to be about a 4 hour ish drive hence the less active 5th day.

I think you’re looking at the wrong one. There’s one at Reims which is about 4-5hrs from Amsterdam.

The one you’re suggesting is 7hr 30min from Amsterdam.

[Lockhouse]

This is not that well known but is a stunning collection west of Le Mans:

https://www.manoir-automobile.fr/home/