Are the Ferrari and Lamborghini museums any good?
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Hi, I did the tour last summer and its a great trip.
Ferrari Museum - slightly commercial but quite alot to see. You can only get on the factory tour if you have a fezza and pre-arrange through a dealer. however its also worth wondering up the road and looking through the fence of the Fiorano test track. We saw a P1 in disguise and an F12.
Lambo Museum - not much there and I found it dissappointing. mostly failed prototypes! I love lambos so still enjoyed it but its not great.
Pagani was great, no museum but we got on the factory tour. It has to be pre-arranged and they were part way through moving to a larger factory when we went. Its an amazingly small outfit but worth a visit. Pre-book your tour before you go.
Maserati Tour was pretty good - again pre-arranged by a friend with a mazza. Not much in their museum though.
Ducati also quite good, factory tour and good museum.
In addition we also toured the German car makers in Munich (BMW World), Ingolstadt (Audi) and Stuttgart (Porsche and Mercedes). If you are driving down then a trip through the alps into Southern Germany is fantastic and then you can take in the ring on your way home!
Ferrari Museum - slightly commercial but quite alot to see. You can only get on the factory tour if you have a fezza and pre-arrange through a dealer. however its also worth wondering up the road and looking through the fence of the Fiorano test track. We saw a P1 in disguise and an F12.
Lambo Museum - not much there and I found it dissappointing. mostly failed prototypes! I love lambos so still enjoyed it but its not great.
Pagani was great, no museum but we got on the factory tour. It has to be pre-arranged and they were part way through moving to a larger factory when we went. Its an amazingly small outfit but worth a visit. Pre-book your tour before you go.
Maserati Tour was pretty good - again pre-arranged by a friend with a mazza. Not much in their museum though.
Ducati also quite good, factory tour and good museum.
In addition we also toured the German car makers in Munich (BMW World), Ingolstadt (Audi) and Stuttgart (Porsche and Mercedes). If you are driving down then a trip through the alps into Southern Germany is fantastic and then you can take in the ring on your way home!
You may as well preview the Lambo museum to see if it floats your boat:
http://www.wired.com/2013/10/lamborghini-museum-st...
http://www.wired.com/2013/10/lamborghini-museum-st...
F40GT346 said:
Lambo Museum - not much there and I found it dissappointing. mostly failed prototypes! I love lambos so still enjoyed it but its not great.
I think you are on about the Ferruccio Lamborghini Museum, ran by Fabio, his cousin. I think this has relocated from Dosso now i believe ??The factory museum is very good, and for I think €25 you get the factory tour too. You need to pre-book this.
Personally I think the Lambo Museum is far better than the Ferrari Factory museum in Maranello.
Think the Enzo Ferrari Museum has now been taken over by the factory, so this may be worth a visit too.
I've visited Pagani in the past and that was also very good.
Thanks for the comments. We have just come back from our trip.
The Ferrari museum in Maranello was good. They seem to change what they show there perodically so there is an element of luck as to what you see. Currently the theme is Ferrari in America which misses out some good cars but the flipside is that you see some more quirky cars.
The Lamborghini museum at St Agata was also good. As pointed out above, you can look round it all on line to save a trip, or to help you decide whether a trip is worthwhile. Also saw a Huracan outside.
We went to the Pagani factory which was very hard to find so we arrived half way through the tour. It is in an industrial estate in the middle of nowhere! Still worth going to though to see Huayra's being built and Zondas being worked on. (My wife isn't into cars but she loved the Huayra. Shame it is slightly out of our budget.)
I'm not into bikes but I still found the Ducati factory and museum interesting.
The one let down was the Ferrari museum in Modena. There was an F40 and an Enzo but you can see those at a Sunday Service! (Perhaps I've become spoilt.) There wasn't much explanation of the history behind them either.
We stayed at the Planet hotel in Maranello which I would recommend. From our balcony, we could watch the Ferraris go by, including several La Ferraris. The Duke was good for dinner, and there are several pizza places nearby.
If you want a break from cars, Bologna was great to explore.
Tomorrow I'm off to Marbella so looking forward to more car spotting around Puerto Banus and the drive up to Ronda.
The Ferrari museum in Maranello was good. They seem to change what they show there perodically so there is an element of luck as to what you see. Currently the theme is Ferrari in America which misses out some good cars but the flipside is that you see some more quirky cars.
The Lamborghini museum at St Agata was also good. As pointed out above, you can look round it all on line to save a trip, or to help you decide whether a trip is worthwhile. Also saw a Huracan outside.
We went to the Pagani factory which was very hard to find so we arrived half way through the tour. It is in an industrial estate in the middle of nowhere! Still worth going to though to see Huayra's being built and Zondas being worked on. (My wife isn't into cars but she loved the Huayra. Shame it is slightly out of our budget.)
I'm not into bikes but I still found the Ducati factory and museum interesting.
The one let down was the Ferrari museum in Modena. There was an F40 and an Enzo but you can see those at a Sunday Service! (Perhaps I've become spoilt.) There wasn't much explanation of the history behind them either.
We stayed at the Planet hotel in Maranello which I would recommend. From our balcony, we could watch the Ferraris go by, including several La Ferraris. The Duke was good for dinner, and there are several pizza places nearby.
If you want a break from cars, Bologna was great to explore.
Tomorrow I'm off to Marbella so looking forward to more car spotting around Puerto Banus and the drive up to Ronda.
Edited by pauloroberto on Thursday 17th April 14:18
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