question about factory tours
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No chance with the Ferrari factory, but there is the Museum around the corner. As for Zonda, just turn up because they are very friendly indeed. Although i rang ahead and said that i would like to come with my family. Mr Pagini gave us the tour personaly. But they are so cool they just might help ya, although a call dont cost much.
At the same time while in Maranello, i had booked a tour for my family and myself at the Lambo factory. There was a couple who were visiting the Lambo museum, and they talked there way into the same tour as us.
But it is strongly advised to ring Lambo first to try and guarantee a place if ya can. If not the Lambo museum is worth the visit.
At the same time while in Maranello, i had booked a tour for my family and myself at the Lambo factory. There was a couple who were visiting the Lambo museum, and they talked there way into the same tour as us.
But it is strongly advised to ring Lambo first to try and guarantee a place if ya can. If not the Lambo museum is worth the visit.
Edited by ferrarispider on Thursday 16th August 19:18
Other places of interest in the modena area, Panini museum (all Maser)just turn up, Maser factory (will have notify in advance), Ferrari Galleria just turn up. Offical ferrari shop (leave your wallet at the hotel), Montana resturant (for lunch), Lambo museum is on the front of the factory. Ducati factory, tour will have to notify in advance, museum just turn up, Unfortunately there are also some expensive shops for the between bits.
The curator of the museum at the Lamborghini factory is on holiday (it IS August!) and even if she was there, the only way to get in (without just standing there like a duck egg until someone lets you in - which could take all day) is to book in advance... that way you get better value from your time there - call the Lamborghini factory and see if you can get an appointment before you go!
As regards the Centro Studi e Ricerche Ferruccio Lamborghini at Dosso, near Ferrara, you must call ahead and give at least 24 hours notice. This is the museum established by Tonino Lamborghini in 1997 and is a great place to visit if you can find it and can find a regular contact number! Try googling the name of the place here, see what you can find - good luck!
(sorry, I'm not at liberty to give you the number that LCUK people have for that museum!)
As regards the Centro Studi e Ricerche Ferruccio Lamborghini at Dosso, near Ferrara, you must call ahead and give at least 24 hours notice. This is the museum established by Tonino Lamborghini in 1997 and is a great place to visit if you can find it and can find a regular contact number! Try googling the name of the place here, see what you can find - good luck!
(sorry, I'm not at liberty to give you the number that LCUK people have for that museum!)
I was in Bologna last year and visited Maranello and Sant Agata.
For the Ferrari factory tour you must book through a dealer. It is definitely worth going to Maranello though to soak up the atmosphere - the Galleria Ferrari is a great museum, and you must have a meal in Cavallino where Enzo used to eat. Also, walking down Via Gilles Villenuve is quite an experience with Fiorano at the end.
It's quite easy to get to Maranello, and the nearby Modena is definitely worth a visit too - a wonderful historic town.
(As an aside, wherever I go on holiday in the world there is always someone wearing a Glasgow Celtic top - and that's anywhere! However, when visiting Italy I refreshingly didn't see anyone. However, just as my girlfriend and I entered the Galleria Ferrari there on the wall was a framed Celtic strip donated by Rod Stewart - such a surreal moment!).
The Lamborghini factory tour is something else and definitely worth a visit - especially for those who are doubting Lamborghini's spirit since Audi took over.
It's quite hard to get to Sant Agata, a train and a taxi ride. We called ahead on the day and got a place on the tour, although it is probably worth calling more in advance. Christina the guide is lovely.
The factory is almost in the middle of nowhere, but you know when you are getting close when you hear the howls of the exhausts!
The museum is great, but the factory tour is something else. You actually get taken onto the factory floor, and you can chat with the workers whilst they are making the cars. If you are lucky you will see a new car being rolling roaded which is cool.
But the thing that really made it for me was speaking to the old ladies who were sewing the leather for the interior. There was something incredibly poignant and traditional about seeing these old Italian ladies (and there are only about 6 of them) sitting around with their old sewing machines, chatting in Italian, whilst sewing leather is lots of weird and wonderful colours to go into the fantastic futuristic machines coming off the line.
You should definitely go to both - it's a great trip.
For the Ferrari factory tour you must book through a dealer. It is definitely worth going to Maranello though to soak up the atmosphere - the Galleria Ferrari is a great museum, and you must have a meal in Cavallino where Enzo used to eat. Also, walking down Via Gilles Villenuve is quite an experience with Fiorano at the end.
It's quite easy to get to Maranello, and the nearby Modena is definitely worth a visit too - a wonderful historic town.
(As an aside, wherever I go on holiday in the world there is always someone wearing a Glasgow Celtic top - and that's anywhere! However, when visiting Italy I refreshingly didn't see anyone. However, just as my girlfriend and I entered the Galleria Ferrari there on the wall was a framed Celtic strip donated by Rod Stewart - such a surreal moment!).
The Lamborghini factory tour is something else and definitely worth a visit - especially for those who are doubting Lamborghini's spirit since Audi took over.
It's quite hard to get to Sant Agata, a train and a taxi ride. We called ahead on the day and got a place on the tour, although it is probably worth calling more in advance. Christina the guide is lovely.
The factory is almost in the middle of nowhere, but you know when you are getting close when you hear the howls of the exhausts!
The museum is great, but the factory tour is something else. You actually get taken onto the factory floor, and you can chat with the workers whilst they are making the cars. If you are lucky you will see a new car being rolling roaded which is cool.
But the thing that really made it for me was speaking to the old ladies who were sewing the leather for the interior. There was something incredibly poignant and traditional about seeing these old Italian ladies (and there are only about 6 of them) sitting around with their old sewing machines, chatting in Italian, whilst sewing leather is lots of weird and wonderful colours to go into the fantastic futuristic machines coming off the line.
You should definitely go to both - it's a great trip.
Following on from what Ecosse has said, the seat trimmers gave is all little squares of leather with the Lamborghini embossment on it. A cool keep sake.
BY the way the Lambo tour guide is called Cristina, and we had ur tour on her very last day befor the holidays. But go any ways because the museum is cool.
Its a shame you have not got a little longer in the area because the most coolest museum Ferrari wise is in a little country with in Italy and is no bigger than Monaco called San Marino. The museum is called maranello Rosso. Now that museum is full of ferrari racing history and has lots of rare ferraris in it like Maralin Monroes spider in which there was only two made with the optional hard top. San Marino is about an hour and a half away, but well worth the visit and IMO is the better Museum than the one in Maranello.
Note: I am not at liberty to give you the Maranello museums web site and phone number..........
only joking i am being a t
t Here is the link http://www.maranellorosso.com/
Here are couple of pictures of the Museum, bad quality i know but ya get the idea
BY the way the Lambo tour guide is called Cristina, and we had ur tour on her very last day befor the holidays. But go any ways because the museum is cool.
Its a shame you have not got a little longer in the area because the most coolest museum Ferrari wise is in a little country with in Italy and is no bigger than Monaco called San Marino. The museum is called maranello Rosso. Now that museum is full of ferrari racing history and has lots of rare ferraris in it like Maralin Monroes spider in which there was only two made with the optional hard top. San Marino is about an hour and a half away, but well worth the visit and IMO is the better Museum than the one in Maranello.
Note: I am not at liberty to give you the Maranello museums web site and phone number..........
only joking i am being a tt Here is the link http://www.maranellorosso.com/Here are couple of pictures of the Museum, bad quality i know but ya get the idea
Edited by ferrarispider on Friday 17th August 09:41
I'm planning on going to italy mid september for 4/5 days. I would love to go and view the factories. how much do they charge for a tour? in the case of pagani do you just turn up and ring the bell and say ''hi can I nose around please?''.
what's the best order to do ferrari, lambo and pagani in- will be driving from milan?
also can you be lucky enough to get valentino balboni to take you for a spin in a lambo? worth a try
what's the best order to do ferrari, lambo and pagani in- will be driving from milan?
also can you be lucky enough to get valentino balboni to take you for a spin in a lambo? worth a try
dubweiser said:
I'm planning on going to italy mid september for 4/5 days. I would love to go and view the factories. how much do they charge for a tour? in the case of pagani do you just turn up and ring the bell and say ''hi can I nose around please?''.
what's the best order to do ferrari, lambo and pagani in- will be driving from milan?
also can you be lucky enough to get valentino balboni to take you for a spin in a lambo? worth a try
But if you know that you are going on certain dates, then why would you not just ring Zonda and ask them for a guaranteed tour????what's the best order to do ferrari, lambo and pagani in- will be driving from milan?
also can you be lucky enough to get valentino balboni to take you for a spin in a lambo? worth a try
When i went, the people in the back ground of Mr Pagini with my sons,had just called in as they were from the US. They were allowed to join my family and my self. But it does not make sense not to ring if ya know dates.
From Maranello both Lambo and Zonda are 40 mins away from the Ferrari factory. We also did the Maserati factory tour as well, which is bloody cool. And is on the way to the Lambo factory so we did two in one day.
While we were there Valentino was greeting people and also gave a few rides to visitors although i dont think this is the norm.
As a side note regarding Lambos involvment with Audi. Cristina was the first to harp on about Audi being Lamboghini's saviours. One guy and his wife on the tour worked for Audi, in fact that the guy in the car with Valintino
Edited by ferrarispider on Friday 17th August 11:33
If you plan to make an appointment to visit the Lambo factory, be sure to get there on time. When I went nearly 2 years ago, I underestimated the time the taxi would take from Bologna and got to Sant'Agata nearly an hour late. My contact person didn't show and instead I got a very perfunctory tour from a young guy who clearly wished he was elsewhere. The "tour" was over in no time at all and when I asked the receptionist to call me a taxi, the cabbie dropped me at a nearby but little used railway station where I waited for over an hour for a train. As an owner, I found the whole experience utterly disappointing.
I went to the Lamborghini museum last year.
1.) I was told to move my Diablo from outside the front of the museum and go and park it in the car park with all of the other regular non Lambo cars.
2.) I was told off for trying to go up a spiral staircase (I thought it was part of the museum.)
3.) Although I was at the factory they would not sell me a replacement petrol cap that I had lost in France on the way there and could not help me buy one locally. (I ended up buying one from Lamborghini, Manchester when I returned to the UK.) I found the reception staff at the museum flippant and not bothered.
The best car factory I have visited has got to be Koenigsegg for their friendly approach to people.
As for the best car museum in the world the Duesenberg, Auburn and Cord museum in the States is very impressive.
1.) I was told to move my Diablo from outside the front of the museum and go and park it in the car park with all of the other regular non Lambo cars.
2.) I was told off for trying to go up a spiral staircase (I thought it was part of the museum.)
3.) Although I was at the factory they would not sell me a replacement petrol cap that I had lost in France on the way there and could not help me buy one locally. (I ended up buying one from Lamborghini, Manchester when I returned to the UK.) I found the reception staff at the museum flippant and not bothered.
The best car factory I have visited has got to be Koenigsegg for their friendly approach to people.
As for the best car museum in the world the Duesenberg, Auburn and Cord museum in the States is very impressive.
Sorry to hear of your woes Jan, have to say that it doesn't sound very impressive from your viewpoint.
Have to say that we have tried on a number of occasions to park righ in front of reception, but have always been politely asked to park in the car park with everyone else.
Not sure which spiral staircase you are referring to, but if it's the one in the museum you shouldn't have had any problems as there are indeed more exhibits on the upper floor.
With respect to spare parts, I'm not sure what the official line is. When we asked to order some bits for the GT whilst we were there, they actually requested that we physically drive the car in to the workshop so that they could raise an 'official' work docket that would allow them to order the parts for us. Not sure how much stock they carry for the older cars, even for something as recent as yor Diablo. Even if they didn't have a fuel cap on site, it sounds as if they could have been a bit more helpful.
Have to say that we have tried on a number of occasions to park righ in front of reception, but have always been politely asked to park in the car park with everyone else.
Not sure which spiral staircase you are referring to, but if it's the one in the museum you shouldn't have had any problems as there are indeed more exhibits on the upper floor.
With respect to spare parts, I'm not sure what the official line is. When we asked to order some bits for the GT whilst we were there, they actually requested that we physically drive the car in to the workshop so that they could raise an 'official' work docket that would allow them to order the parts for us. Not sure how much stock they carry for the older cars, even for something as recent as yor Diablo. Even if they didn't have a fuel cap on site, it sounds as if they could have been a bit more helpful.
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