{"id":500,"date":"2012-07-15T23:11:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/europe2012\/?p=500"},"modified":"2012-07-23T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T17:11:39","slug":"munich-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/trip\/europe2012\/munich-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Munich – Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Sunday drive through Munich seems like a great way to see the city, and we had booked exactly that with BMW City Tours<\/a>. This three hour adventure is hosted by BMW and uses classic cars from their collection.<\/p>\n

We began the morning with a quick taxi ride to BMW Welt<\/a> – the company’s showcase building across from the factory and museum.<\/p>\n

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BMW Welt (World) as seen from the BMW Museum.<\/p><\/div>\n

If you take delivery of your BMW in Munich direct from the factory you can sip champagne in an upstairs bar and watch your car come up a glass elevator to be parked on a turntable in the central display area. New owners have been known to cry when this happens. You will need to know this in another two or three paragraphs.<\/p>\n

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BMW Welt is part showroom part BMW themepark.<\/p><\/div>\n

After visiting BMW Welt we crossed the street and checked in at the museum for our tour. Still a bit early, we took a quick lap through the museum – more about that in the other post page about the BMW museums. Our tour cars showed up outside to a gathering crowd. We met the other six guests and our three drivers, and they introduced us to the three cars: a 1952 502 with a V8, a 1937 335 “Model Autobahn” and a 1936 326, all convertibles.<\/p>\n

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Our tour cars outside the BMW Museum.<\/p><\/div>\n

We’d get a chance to ride in all three but opted to begin in the 1952 502. The first leg was through BMW Welt. We drove across the street, entered through the delivery gate underneath, and drove over to the elevator.<\/p>\n

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Waiting our turn for the car elevator to the center of BMW Welt.<\/p><\/div>\n

Then this happened:<\/p>\n