Audi Museum - Page 3

quattrokid · 25-03-09, 09:27 PM

[quote=Coxy;45602]here's a few pics from our trip just to whet your appetite!

There's a huge conveyor belt in there with about 10 cars all (all concept cars IIRC).

I have one of these in 1/43 scale

whats that with the 4 ringed exhaust?

Mike1410 · 31-03-09, 11:52 AM

If you are driving not flying, and fancy overdosing on German car culture, in addition to the Porsche and Mercedes-Benz museums in Stuttgart might I suggest you consider the following alternatives/additions?.

At Ingolstadt, don't just do the Forum and the shops. Get yourself booked onto a factory tour and make a full day of it. A mate and I went for my 38th birthday in 2003, and as we were the only people to have booked an english language tour that day we got a personal guide and got to see areas of the factory that larger groups didn't. I was even sung Happy Birthday to in Portugeese (once I had shown the guide my birthdate in my passport to show her I was not joking as she thought I was mad to be touring a car factory on my birthday. She was actually Brazilian not German - hence the Portugeese singing - and had previously worked for VW Brazil).

There is also a smaller and less publicised Audi Forum with a small shop and nice cafe at the factory in Neckarsulm. Lovely car collection including the last NSU Ro80 built and one of each generation of Audi 100 from the 1960's to 1990's. Neckarsulm being home to the production of the R8, there is of course one of those on display for you to play with.

For Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm info see www.audiforen.de

Of course the REAL Audi museum is in Zwickau. The August Horch museum is housed in the original Audi factory buildings on Audi Strasse and opened in 2004. It's a great hands on old fashioned museum which superbly documents the pre-war history of Audi, DKW, Horch, Wanderer and Auto-Union with some stunning restored cars and commercial vehicles in period display settings, with archive film footage and video. In post war years, after Audi moved to Ingolstadt, the factory produced Trabant cars so an area of the museum is dedicated to the history of the Trabbi. A lot of the (very friendly) museum staff actually worked at the factory and are very proud of their museum and it's history and rightly so. I have been twice and still don't feel I have done it justice! For info see www.horch-museum.de

If you have a VW affinity, in addition to the huge Autostadt at Wolfsburg (www. autostadt.de) where you can now go inside the car storage towers, and the smaller original VW museum further along on Diesel Strasse (www.automuseum.volkswagen.de) you may be lucky enough to get to view the collection at the Karmann museum at Osnabruck, which is the private collection of the Karmann family and is therefore only open on certain days and by prior arrangement (www.karmann.com). Stunning collection of coachbuilt one-offs and prototypes for several manufacturers not just VW/Audi. Mk2 Scirocco Targa and a Corrado Cabriolet anyone?.

Then there is the "Transparent Factory" at Dresden where the VW Phaeton and lhd Bentley GT's are built (www.glaesernmanufaktur.de). Again, factory tour by arrangement together with shop & cafe.

If you are down Zwickau way at the Horch museum, since you are very close to the border with the Czech Republic why not hop along towards Prague and head off to the town of Mlada Boleslav to the Skoda factory museum?. Info at www.skoda-auto.com. I was in holidaying in Prague when I heard about this place and so got the local service bus out there (takes about an hour) and had a very enjoyable day in this small typically Czech non touristy town and it's museum.

I have been lucky enough to have been able to visit all of these museums in the past five years or so, some more than once, but my absolute favourites are the Horch museum and the Karmann collection. Happy travels!

Mike1410 · 31-03-09, 12:04 PM

typo correction................

Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm info should be www.audi-foren.de

missed out the all important hyphen!

Oh, and for hotels see www.ehotel.de, a german based booking sevice with some good discount rates available at all types of hotels worldwide from B&B to 5*luxury. Unlike the likes of lastminute etc etc with this one you don't pay the booking people up front, you pay the hotel directly when you checkin/out. Handy when you are booking a long time in advance of travel.

Twin beds is "2 getrennte betten" if I remember rightly, and a double bed is "doppelbett". Mind you at 99.9% of the hotels I've stayed at in Germany, the receptionists English was flawless (just don't mention the war, as a certain Mr Fawlty would say).

poopcoupe · 31-03-09, 12:44 PM

Thanks Mike1410, thats that then, overdose on German car porn for 3 days, thanks M8!!

25-03-09, 09:27 PM	#21
quattrokid 4 ring whore! Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ayrshire Posts: 9,654	[quote=Coxy;45602]here's a few pics from our trip just to whet your appetite! There's a huge conveyor belt in there with about 10 cars all (all concept cars IIRC). I have one of these in 1/43 scale whats that with the 4 ringed exhaust? __________________ RS4 B5 (wife's / ours now ) S3 8L Imola Yellow S3 8L Nogaro blue UrWR SOLD UrS4 saloon (SOLD again) S4 Cabrio (SOLD) A4 cabrio 2.5 V6tdi (SOLD) 80 cabrio 2.6 V6 SOLD 90 quattro 10v SOLD 100 2.2e SOLD FOUNDING MEMBER the 200,000 Plus miles Club

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31-03-09, 11:52 AM	#22
Mike1410 Grown up member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: 60km south of Auckland, NZ Posts: 44	If you are driving not flying, and fancy overdosing on German car culture, in addition to the Porsche and Mercedes-Benz museums in Stuttgart might I suggest you consider the following alternatives/additions?. At Ingolstadt, don't just do the Forum and the shops. Get yourself booked onto a factory tour and make a full day of it. A mate and I went for my 38th birthday in 2003, and as we were the only people to have booked an english language tour that day we got a personal guide and got to see areas of the factory that larger groups didn't. I was even sung Happy Birthday to in Portugeese (once I had shown the guide my birthdate in my passport to show her I was not joking as she thought I was mad to be touring a car factory on my birthday. She was actually Brazilian not German - hence the Portugeese singing - and had previously worked for VW Brazil). There is also a smaller and less publicised Audi Forum with a small shop and nice cafe at the factory in Neckarsulm. Lovely car collection including the last NSU Ro80 built and one of each generation of Audi 100 from the 1960's to 1990's. Neckarsulm being home to the production of the R8, there is of course one of those on display for you to play with. For Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm info see www.audiforen.de Of course the REAL Audi museum is in Zwickau. The August Horch museum is housed in the original Audi factory buildings on Audi Strasse and opened in 2004. It's a great hands on old fashioned museum which superbly documents the pre-war history of Audi, DKW, Horch, Wanderer and Auto-Union with some stunning restored cars and commercial vehicles in period display settings, with archive film footage and video. In post war years, after Audi moved to Ingolstadt, the factory produced Trabant cars so an area of the museum is dedicated to the history of the Trabbi. A lot of the (very friendly) museum staff actually worked at the factory and are very proud of their museum and it's history and rightly so. I have been twice and still don't feel I have done it justice! For info see www.horch-museum.de If you have a VW affinity, in addition to the huge Autostadt at Wolfsburg (www. autostadt.de) where you can now go inside the car storage towers, and the smaller original VW museum further along on Diesel Strasse (www.automuseum.volkswagen.de) you may be lucky enough to get to view the collection at the Karmann museum at Osnabruck, which is the private collection of the Karmann family and is therefore only open on certain days and by prior arrangement (www.karmann.com). Stunning collection of coachbuilt one-offs and prototypes for several manufacturers not just VW/Audi. Mk2 Scirocco Targa and a Corrado Cabriolet anyone?. Then there is the "Transparent Factory" at Dresden where the VW Phaeton and lhd Bentley GT's are built (www.glaesernmanufaktur.de). Again, factory tour by arrangement together with shop & cafe. If you are down Zwickau way at the Horch museum, since you are very close to the border with the Czech Republic why not hop along towards Prague and head off to the town of Mlada Boleslav to the Skoda factory museum?. Info at www.skoda-auto.com. I was in holidaying in Prague when I heard about this place and so got the local service bus out there (takes about an hour) and had a very enjoyable day in this small typically Czech non touristy town and it's museum. I have been lucky enough to have been able to visit all of these museums in the past five years or so, some more than once, but my absolute favourites are the Horch museum and the Karmann collection. Happy travels!

31-03-09, 12:04 PM	#23
Mike1410 Grown up member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: 60km south of Auckland, NZ Posts: 44	typo correction................ Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm info should be www.audi-foren.de missed out the all important hyphen! Oh, and for hotels see www.ehotel.de, a german based booking sevice with some good discount rates available at all types of hotels worldwide from B&B to 5*luxury. Unlike the likes of lastminute etc etc with this one you don't pay the booking people up front, you pay the hotel directly when you checkin/out. Handy when you are booking a long time in advance of travel. Twin beds is "2 getrennte betten" if I remember rightly, and a double bed is "doppelbett". Mind you at 99.9% of the hotels I've stayed at in Germany, the receptionists English was flawless (just don't mention the war, as a certain Mr Fawlty would say).