Stuttgart is home to the Mercedes Benz Museum and Porsche Museum, a must for car enthusiasts.
I booked my ticket for Mercedes first, then looked at the Porsche website, and whilst reading the rhetoric, saw a reference to “Porsche Drive” Yep, you can rent a Porsche for an hour, a few hours, a day or longer.
This is one of those instances where being spontaneous did not work. If I knew I could rent a Porsche, I would have made the time to have one for a day, but with little notice, all the 911’s were already booked. A Cayman GTS had an availability for the Saturday late morning, and I locked that in. As a bucket list item, to drive a sports car on the autobahn, an hour in a Porsche was better than never having the experience. More about that here.
So next day I get to the Mercedes Benz Museum, in time for an English guided Tour with an entertaining and cheeky fellow. This museum surpassed my expectations. A futuristic architecture was the backdrop to a collection of over 180 vehicles, beautifully displayed. The guide also highlighted that the Atrium of the Museum has it’s own man made Tornado, which can be viewed here.
After the guided tour, I took the lift to the top and did it again at my own pace. About 4 hours later, I headed home. Here are some highlights of the Mercedes Benz Museum, and the Porsche Museum.
The Porsche Drive experience provided me one of my Bucket List pursuits, Driving a sports car on the Autobahn, which you can read about here.
The balance of Stuttgart was the usual enjoyable wander through Christmas Markets.
And by the way, if you are going to get around in Stuttgart, Tourist information (just opposite the HBF station) offered a 3 day transport pass for only 13 euro, which included getting out to the 2 car museums. Nice one Stuttgart. The other german cities I visited did not offer as attractive a package.
