And as the museum has over 3000 exhibits on
display 365 days a year, the cars number close
to 2 000 and they are pretty much all amazing
About halfway between Frankfurt and Stuttgart on the A5 autobahn, you may be amazed
to see all manner of aircraft towering above
the highway barriers. You have just passed the
amazing Sinsheim Auto und Technik Museum,
which many punters agree is far more interesting than any other motor museum in Germany.
The aircraft are a type of side-line for the museum, at least for motor-heads, but few will
deny themselves the allure of a walk through
the cabin of a genuine Concorde aircraft,
mounted on stilts high above the museum roof
and reachable by a walkway. Here you can
take a trip through time and see what it must
have been like to fly supersonic from Europe
to New York in half the time of a conventional
airliner. The plane was donated to Sinsheim in
2003 by Air France, and the Russian equivalent, the Tupolev Tu-144, is also on display.
But it’s the cars that we go to Sinsheim
for. The museum has over 3000 exhibits on
display 365 days a year, the cars number
close to 2 000 and they are pretty much
all amazing.
Here you can see an example of a Bugatti
Royale, for instance, one of the most glamorous and expensive cars ever built. We use
the term “example” advisedly, because although the museum doesn’t mention it, this
Royale is in fact a recreation of one of the six
Royals ever built, also known as the Type 41.
It is a stupendous car, and exactly resembles
Ettore Bugatti’s personal Type 41 Royale, the
Coupe Napolean.
1953 Buick
1938 Mercedes-Benz 630K
There are many examples of Mercedes