The Great 2013 E30 Touring European Roadtrip

[Eric]

When are you 2 hitting the UK.
Weather over here is bad atm with plenty of snow.

When you get into Munich, make sure you hit this place.

Located in the centre of Munich.

http://www.hofbraeuhaus.de/en/index_en.html

Hard Rock Cafe is right Opposite if you get homesick:D

I made the mistake of eating at that hard rock. Damn Oktoberfest messes with your mind...

Love the design edition seats James!

[glucklich21]

James stole my plan. Doing this in October with the GF. Who are you shipping it back with?

[James Crivellone]

Slow internet has slowed...get it... the progress of updating this thread as much as i need to.

We just made it into Italy and will be checking Ferrari tomorrow morning. I will post up more photos tonight, however, per my norm, here are a few teasers.



Note the background....



Fun on the Alps

[James Crivellone]

One more for good measure.. no car.. but you get the idea.

[xAZxE30x]

Did you take the tour? It's pretty rad! You can also hike up the mountain and there is a sweet bridge that over looks the castles edit: looks like that last pic is from there

[Van Westervelt]

Love.

[Eric]

One more for good measure.. no car.. but you get the idea.

I think I have a picture from that exact spot!

[5Toes]

Damn some nice e34s over there in that yard!

[James Crivellone]

Day 3 / 4

We started by heading away from the protective care of Mike and went down to Munich.

All loaded up and ready to go



GOOD NEWS EVERYONE, THE DACIA SANDERO IS FOR SALE IN THE GERMAN MARKET!



We got to Munich rather quickly...



Of course we had to drop by BMW while we were there.

In the BMW Welt Parking Garage



Inside BMW Welt, very nice BMW 1M Safety Car



New owners picking up Euro Delivery BMW's



The BMW Museum / Tower



Here are some items that caught my eye at the museum (too many to post everything)

BMW 328 MM



Turbo F1 anyone?



Steering wheel on the old BMW Sauber F1 car... FM Presets anyone?



S54's, LS1's, etc are cool and all, but how about a P84/5?



Alright, the F1 V10 was a bit out of reach, how about the P54B20? This engine actually seems somewhat simple to

replicate.



Perhaps the M13? IE M10 Turbo Engine?



I'd love to get a copy of this, the sales / design brochure for the 325i Touring E30



Being in the BMW collection of course this early model 1986 325i Cabrio was perfect in every way.



If I could trade my e30 Touring for ONE car it would be this one. Perfect in every way, 325iX



Perfect M50B25 NV



Flipping through the BMW design collection book I came across this photo. I would LOVE an original copy of this.

Back then BMW commisioned a few to build a touring out of an E30 Sedan, It was created in a garage outside of BMW

and was accepted as a production car. You can see the design did not have the hatch built yet.



Of course the E30 M3 Sport Evolution was still there



Interior of one of many BMW E30 M3 DTM Cars. Very clean, very simple



Front shot of said car



Back of said car



The always badass Bat Mobile



Interior of the Bat Mobile



Look at those rear tires!



The row of BMW ///M Engines, M88/3 to the S54B32 CSL Engine



Of course the Art Cars were out there as well



After we left it was time for a few glamour shots!



We may have snuck into the BMW Delivery Center outside parking lot...



View of the BMW 4 Cylinder Tower in the background



Photo from the OlympicPark parking lot



After that we drove to the border between Germany and Austria and grabbed a hotel.

The next day, pulling out of the hotel Garage.



Hopping onto the Autobahn



We then went Castle hunting, in this case at the base of King Ludwig II's fathers castle

My ugly mug in front of Neuschwanstein Castle



This castle was gigantic



and in front of Neuschwanstein Castle



After leaving the Castle we started heading up the Alps to get to Italy



The views were incredible



Entering the largest tunnel we have ever been through



Driving on the best mountain road I have ever driven in my life



Simply Amazing views, amazing roads



Including switchbacks....



Just awesome



Entering Italy



Castles were everywhere!



Very wet in Italy



Parked in the Garage at our hotel in Italy.



Tomorrow is Ferrari, and driving south to Portofino, and heading over to Monaco. More to come!

[agent]

Even though the museum pictures are great, I bet it's nothing like the buzz of seeing all that great stuff in person.

This is awesome James, thanks for sharing.

[deutschman]

Subscribed. Man I miss Germany a lot. See pictures like this makes me home sick. Also that picture of your wagon in front of the castle in the hills reminds me that almost that same shot was in The Great Escape, just instead of an e30 it had James Garner in a plane.

[amcink]

This is a dream vacation doing it TopGear style

[MR 325]

Fucking incredible!

Love the sticker on the rear window. ;)

[blksuperman2]

So jelly right now. Awesome pics. Thanks for sharing!!

[Nsquared97]

This is seriously incredible, thank you for taking the time to document and post everything.