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BMW Museum München

What better way to celebrate my birthday on a trip to Europe than a visit to the BMW World and BMW Museum in Munich. And because it was my birthday the admission was complimentary. Thank you so much BMW AG! Sadly the week-long trip exploring automotive museums in Germany was coming to an end but […]

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Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim

This place was not even on my radar when planning a trip to Europe. I would like to thank my friend Florian from the bottom of my heart for the warm hospitality he offered me on my visit to Stuttgart and the surprise he gifted me including this visit to Sinsheim and Hockenheimring where he […]

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Porsche Museum Stuttgart

Porsche Museum in Stuttgart is the best auto-manufacturer museum in Germany… it made a Porsche admirer out of me. Of the three that I visited on my trip to Germany in the fall of 2019 I liked Porsche over Mercedes-Benz and BMW. As a brand, I always preferred BMW and Mercedes but this museum evolved […]

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Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart

Every tour guide for Stuttgart, Germany highly recommends two museums: Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. My goal was to visit both. I had booked a week-long stay in Stuttgart and Munich before flying home to the US and wanted to work out the logistics behind which one to visit first and how much time to allocate to […]

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Mercedes-Benz Factory Tour Sindelfingen

Visiting a Mercedes-Benz factory has been on my to-do list since high school… maybe even before. Well, definitely before. I remember wanting to learn German language so I can work in the automotive industry while I was growing up in Ukraine long before my family moved to the US. More recently I remember seeing a […]

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MotorWorld Böblingen

If you are visiting Stuttgart in Germany a trip to MotorWorld is an absolute must! I decided to visit Stuttgart for the first time and pencilled this place in on my itinerary, time permitting, while on my way to visit the Mercedes-Benz factory tour in nearby Sindelfingen… boy am I glad I did. This place […]

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Euro Trip 2019

Hard to write about a trip almost five months after it happened but better late than never! I love my Euro Trips… even though I was born in Europe the first time I visited Western Europe was long after I had moved to the United States, and I actually flew there from Australia. I had […]

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Hey Russ! How are Ya?

Greeting to anyone reading this… and to my future self! As cliche as it sounds, I blog for an audience of one: Me! And then I get a comment or an e-mail/text message out of the blue about something I wrote and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside… Hmm! someone’s actually reading […]

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Canepa Scotts Valley

This post was originally published on October 18, 2017 on Grand Prix Road Trip blog at MyRoadTrip.net // under the title: VISIT TO CANEPA CLASSIC CARS & MOTORSPORT MUSEUM IN SCOTTS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA What to do in Northern California between two fantastic events at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca? Visit the Bruce Canepa Classic Cars & […]