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Germany: the homeland of exceptional cars
Germany is best explored as a pilgrimage between brand temples. Stuttgart alone holds two icons within a few kilometres: the spiralling Mercedes-Benz Museum and Porsche's stark white shrine in Zuffenhausen. Munich answers with the gleaming BMW Welt and adjacent museum, while Wolfsburg's Autostadt turns delivery of a new Volkswagen into a theme-park ritual. Many factories run guided tours where you can watch chassis come alive, and the legendary Nürburgring lets enthusiasts…
Cradle of premium motoring: Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Porsche and Volkswagen were all born here. Engineering, derestricted autobahns and «made in Germany» pride make it a global benchmark.
It was in Mannheim that Karl Benz patented the world's first petrol-powered automobile, back in 1886.
Must-see: the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, BMW Welt in Munich and the Autostadt in Wolfsburg. With a data eSIM, Google Maps guides you between plants and you book tours in a tap.
Visit weekdays to combine a museum with a working-plant tour, booked online in advance. Stuttgart and Munich are easy by train. A data eSIM keeps Google Maps routing you between sites and lets you reserve tour slots on the spot.
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