Showing posts with label car museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label car museum. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Top 10 British Auto Museums


The United Kingdom auto industry is more than just double decker buses and Mini Coopers, you know!

Well… it’s that, too, but step into one of the automobile museums listed below and you may come away with a new appreciation of British automotive craftsmanship.

This is the land of the Daimler, the Rolls Royce, the BlueBird, the Aston Martin, the Morgan and an almost National Obsession with breaking the Land Speed record.

And yes, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Says it all, doesn't it? Top 10 British Auto Museums - View Full List

Saturday, 23 May 2009

Top Ten Italian Auto Museums


If you want to take a tour of the greatest automotive museums in the world, it's kind of a no-brainer that you're ideally going to start in Italy; home of Alfa Romeo, birthplace of the Ferrari, and stomping grounds of the Lamborghini. Simply put, no country has been responsible for more top-tier, beautifully built, adrenaline boosting, jealousy inspiring cars than Italy.

If Italy sounds a little out of the way, well, think of it this way; if you shop around for a good deal on airfare and a hotel room, you can take a weekend trip for less than a thousand bucks, and that's something like 1/100 the cost of actually buying a Ferrari Testarossa. If you’re a serious car collector, then you practically owe it to yourself to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land of automotive excellence.

I recently made a whistle-stop trip to Italy with my Dad to watch the Mille Miiglia and visit the Ferrari Museum. Well worth the money and I have many more planned, possibly doing a road trip to get there at some stage across Europe in my own beloved Alfa Romeo.Top Ten Italian Auto Museums - Read Full Story