Museum
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It’s now possible to take a stroll through Lamborghini’s official museum in Sant’Agata Bolognese from the comfort of your own home, thanks to the magic of Google Maps. Using the same technology as the Google Maps street view function, you can simply click your way through the two floors of the Lamborghini museum and even peer inside many of the cars. That’s right, the virtual experience includes a feature that allows users to access an interior view of a select few models. Highlights include the Reventon, Sesto Elemento and Estoque concept car. Spread across 1,500...
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South Africa's Franschhoek Motor Museum: The Best Cars Of A Century
It’s less than 10 years old, but the Franschhoek Motor Museum in South Africa contains a remarkable collection of classic cars that ought to be better known than it is. The highlight of our last day on a three-day tour of the Garden Route through South Africa’s southwestern Cape region...
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New Rolls-Royce Exhibition Opens At BMW Museum
While Rolls-Royce can trace its roots back more than a century, Rolls-Royce’s automotive unit in its current form has only been building cars for the past decade. Yes, it was only ten years ago that the first of the latest-generation Rolls-Royce Phantom sedans was delivered to its owner...
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LaFerrari Headlines New Exhibition At The Ferrari Museum
Fresh from its debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, the LaFerrari supercar, Ferrari’s newest flagship, is now on display at the sports car manufacturer’s official museum located in Maranello, Italy. The Ferrari Museum just wrapped up its stellar exhibition honoring Italian designer...
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Ferrari Extends Dates For Sergio Pininfarina Exhibition Due To Record Crowds
Since late October Ferrari has been running an exhibition at its official museum in Maranello, Italy dedicated to the late Sergio Pininfarina, a legendary designer responsible for the look of many of the automaker’s most significant cars of the past six decades. Though originally scheduled to...
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Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Heads Home Following Its Restoration
In terms of design, the early 1930s were a time of promise, when people weren’t afraid to dream big. Buckminster Fuller is a perfect example, and his “Dymaxion” brand promised Americans a better (and more stylish) quality of life. Though applied to everything from the Marshall...
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If you’ve never been to the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, the only word we can think of to sum it up is “impressive.” Regardless of where your automotive passion lies, there’s something at the Petersen to get you salivating like one of Pavlov’s dogs at a dinner bell. As overwhelming as the museum may be for first time visitors, its displayed exhibits only scratch the surface of the cars in its collection. Under the museum lies a vault full of the good stuff - cars or memorabilia that aren’t currently on display for one reason or another, yet...
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Sergio Pininfarina Exhibition Draws Record Crowds: Video
To celebrate the lifelong contribution of Sergio Pininfarina, who passed away earlier this year at age 85, Ferrari is running an exhibition dedicated to the late designer at its museum in Maranello, Italy. The exhibition features examples of most of Pininfarina’s creations for the Prancing...
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Ferrari To Honor Sergio Pininfarina With Late Designer’s Greatest Works
In July of this year, one of the greatest designers of all time, the legendary Sergio Pininfarina, son of Pininfarina founder Battista Farina, passed away at age 85. During his lifetime, he penned some of most famed cars ever to see the light of the day, many of which were designed for Ferrari. In...
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Porsche Shows Us More 'Secret Collection' Cars: Video
The mission of the Porsche Museum is to preserve the models under its care for future generations. Some are exhibited at the automaker’s museum in Zuffenhausen, Germany, while others are exhibited at automotive events worldwide, such as this weekend’s Pebble Beach Concours...
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Mullin Automotive Museum To Unveil 1939 Bugatti Type 64 Coupe At The Quail
Automotive designer Jean Bugatti was the man behind the styling of such classic Bugatti automobiles as the Type 41 Royale and the Type 57. Despite his artistic gift, Bugatti was an engineer who also helped develop designs for twin-cam engines and independent suspensions for the French automaker...
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Porsche Shows Off Cars From Its 'Secret' Collection: Video
Porsche’s original factory museum, opened in 1976, was modest in both location and scope. Situated on a side street in Stuttgart, the facility was only large enough to display some 20 cars at any given time. In 2009, Porsche opened a new museum in Zuffenhausen, adjacent to its corporate...
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Divide 3,500 by seven and you get 500. Simple math, but Harold and Nancy LeMay realized it would be slightly more complicated in the context of willing their immense car collection between their kids as inheritance. To the relief of enthusiasts (and presumably their children), the couple’s back-porch conversation several years ago has culminated in the opening of LeMay - America’s Car Museum in Tacoma, Washington. Covering nine acres along Interstate 5, the campus includes an education center for younger visitors, indoor and outdoor space for car clubs and shows plus interactive...
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Road, Inc. Offers Free Edition Of Its iPad Car Museum App
We’ll admit it: we’re suckers for car museums, and frequently plan vacations around hitting up collections we haven’t visited, trying to find cars we’ve never seen. Admission is rarely free, and when you factor in the cost of travel, seeing a 1934 Avions Voisin C 25...
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Enzo Ferrari Museum In Modena, Italy Is Now Open
A new museum, dedicated to the life of Enzo Ferrari, has opened in Modena, Italy, adding to the list of reasons why you should visit Northern Italy.
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Jaguar Closing Its Heritage Museum To The Public
As part of Jaguar's closure of its Brown's Lane, Coventry operation, the automaker will close the doors to its Heritage Museum in September.
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British Auto Museum Showcasing James Bond's Rides
To honor the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond film, Britain's National Motor Museum is running an exhibit titled "Bond In Motion."
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Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Mission Impossible: Video
Ever wondered how car companies present whole cars inside buildings, sometimes in rooms that appear to have no doors a car could ever fit through? Well here’s a video released by Lamborghini that reveals a few tricks of the trade using the brand new Aventador LP700-4 supercar, which was...
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Over the years he's driven a Lotus Esprit underwater, a Russian T55 tank through the streets of St. Petersburg and even managed to flip an Aston Martin DBS not too long ago - we are of course talking about savior of the world and all-round good guy, James Bond. The eponymous James Bond films over the years have featured cars as some of their most important characters - who could forget that stunning Aston Martin DB5 driven by Sean Connery in Goldfinger? Now a fan of the flicks has opened up a Bond museum, with an array of cars and gadgets that were used in filming the series. To amass the...
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Porsche’s new €100 million museum opens to the public this weekend
Porsche announced today it will be opening its new €100 million museum near its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany to the public this weekend, on Saturday, January 31. One of the greatest and most spectacular building projects in the history of the sports car manufacturer, the new museum...
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Porsche's new museum chooses its first exhibits
A museum of Porsche's greatest vehicles quietly launched its first twelve choices for its exhibits yesterday, with a total of 80 to be on display by the end of the week. Among the first dozen displays are the legendary 356 Cabriolet and the first prototype of the Porsche 924. The museum is not yet...
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New Porsche Museum Taking Shape
Not content with letting the recent BMW and Mercedes museums take all the glory, Porsche is constructing a shrine to itself in its home city of Stuttgart. Construction is well underway and is expected to be completed in 2008. The exhibition will be dedicated to the era of Professor Ferdinand...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran