BMW Welt

[jamoor]

Seeing as how this is practically a BMW forum, and BMWs biggest fanboy resides on here, I thought this may be of interest to you guys.

I went to BMW Welt (World) in Munich last month, it was fairly interesting, essentially just a big showroom. They have a museum accross the street, which was fairly expensive to get into (€6), but it had some nice exhibits etc.

The main thing I was looking forward to however was the factory tour! Unfortunatley we weren't allowed any photography for obvious reasons, although one of my friends managed to get a photo of the press room where they press the body panels out of sheets of steel. This was probbably the best value tour I have ever been on €3 (I have a fake student card ) and it lasted around 2 hours and you got to see the car being built step by step and had a chap answering any question that you had. Bargain.

Anyway, here are some snaps in a disorganised fashion.

Strange badge exhibit.

There is a joke here, I think "mercedes brings you driving pleasure" or something like that.

One of the development stages

Some car that's special in some way.

What were they thinking...

Z4 inspiration.

1 Series inspiration

Car that changes shape because it's made of fabric.

 

[jamoor]

V10 Engine

Main atrium of BMW Welt

It's essentially a showroom

Showing off their latest technology, in this case Hydrogen car (behind was twin turbo diesels and the X6)

Directors car park probbably (HQ is the tall building on the left, I think all the development goes on in there too)

Take your pick

I also have some photos of Mercedes Stuttgart if anyone wants to see them?

All in all, well worth a visit if you're nearby, you must go on the factory tour though, you do have to book well in advance though, in my case it was 3 months or something like that.

 

[[TW]Fox]

 

[aproctor]

6 euros, so a fiver, its hardly expensive.

 

[jamoor]

6 euros, so a fiver, its hardly expensive.

Oh, that was for "students" for regular people it's €12 which I would never pay in a million years.

 

[aproctor]

Oh, that was for "students" for regular people it's €12 which I would never pay in a million years.

I don't think
a tenner is that bad if its your thing.

 

[Viper²]

Looks like hell on Earth to me.

 

[jamoor]

Looks like hell on Earth to me.

To be fair it's all pretty boring apart from the factory tour.

 

[[TW]Fox]

To be fair it's all pretty boring apart from the factory tour.

I'm beginning to wonder how much of a car enthusiast you are, how is looking around something like that 'pretty boring' unless you are more interested in say ballet than cars

 

[jamoor]

I'm beginning to wonder how much of a car enthusiast you are, how is looking around something like that 'pretty boring' unless you are more interested in say ballet than cars

I guess I was expecting more, or I was disappointed after the Mercedes museum, which is like bmwx10.

You don't have to spend all your time in museums to be a car enthusiast

 

[Sgt_Pepper]

Must say I really like that badge exhibit

 

[Griffo]

That looks great. I'd like to go on the tour!

I wish I could stop myself liking bimmers more and more!

 

[[TW]Fox]

I guess I was expecting more, or I was disappointed after the Mercedes museum, which is like bmwx10.

You don't have to spend all your time in museums to be a car enthusiast

Average or dissapointing then not boring. Boring is waiting for a bus. Boring is driving a Vauxhall. I went to the Motorshow - it did not meet my expectations and was a dissapointing day out but it wasn't boring

 

[Blu-ray]

Average or dissapointing then not boring. Boring is waiting for a bus. Boring is driving a Vauxhall. I went to the Motorshow - it did not meet my expectations and was a dissapointing day out but it wasn't boring

I found it boring

When I was like 11 12 I remember the NEC ones, they were so cooooooool. Excel one dissapointed a lot, ended up getting bored towards the end. Espicially with all the people taking pictures 50 m away from *** car and expecting 40 people to stop for them to take a pic.