Pictures from BMW Welt
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that looked soo awesome!! bet you were smiling like a kid in a candy store.. crazy the things that excite us...
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Cool! I've only seen pics of the Welt in BMW Magazine... nice to see a member's personal pics!! 
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Yeah, it was great. We even had a very nice lunch there at the resturaunt. It was a great weekend. It took about 3.5 hours to get there, it was 285 miles. I didn't want to have ot come back to work. 
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Originally Posted by wacopolumbo' post='659757' date='Sep 2 2008, 02:20 AM
Alright guys,
I took my e60 to BMW headquarters last weekend. I visited Welt and the Museum. The factory tour was "waiting list only" for Monday, it's not open for tours on the weekend.
I was able to get a couple pics of my ride with the towers and museum (salad bowl) in the back ground. Here is one:
And then, on the other side of the museum, there is Welt! A truly beautiful building that was designed by a former student of the guy who designed the towers and museum. The are connected by a neat foot bridge over the road.
Inside the North entrance, this "corner stone" sits under glass. It is also a time capsule, filled with items from BMW and Munich.
The BMW F1 Car. A beautiful design and great paint combination too!
The only e60 sedan on display inside, and it looks a little like mine!
There were a lot of diesels on display, very European!
Ahhhh, the delivery area. This was really cool. The cars are sitting on the second floor. New owners are treated to snacks and drinks on the third floor, overlooking the cars and then brought down the staircase to their cars. The shine a spotlight on their car, turn it on the turntable it is sitting on and take pictures. Then they stop turning the car and let the owners at it! Very cool. They bring the cars up from the basement on two glass-walled elevators. They do approximately 200 deliveries per day. Every 30 minutes a car hauler pulls into the basement with 8 cars. The car arrives the day before delivery. It gets washed, inspected, and put to bed overnight in a computer controlled set of car "shelves" in the basement. There are two machines that move the cars inside. They keep the O2 levels low in the room to reduce fire potential. On the tour we got to see inside the storage area through a window.
Here is the inside of the storage area. The yellow thing on the left is the automated vehicle mover. The top level is for SUVs because of the height.
M3 down to the left!
More pics to come soon and another post with pics of the museum later too!
What a fun trip! I left with a tiny remote controlled 5 series from the gift shop!
I took my e60 to BMW headquarters last weekend. I visited Welt and the Museum. The factory tour was "waiting list only" for Monday, it's not open for tours on the weekend.
I was able to get a couple pics of my ride with the towers and museum (salad bowl) in the back ground. Here is one:
And then, on the other side of the museum, there is Welt! A truly beautiful building that was designed by a former student of the guy who designed the towers and museum. The are connected by a neat foot bridge over the road.
Inside the North entrance, this "corner stone" sits under glass. It is also a time capsule, filled with items from BMW and Munich.
The BMW F1 Car. A beautiful design and great paint combination too!
The only e60 sedan on display inside, and it looks a little like mine!
There were a lot of diesels on display, very European!Ahhhh, the delivery area. This was really cool. The cars are sitting on the second floor. New owners are treated to snacks and drinks on the third floor, overlooking the cars and then brought down the staircase to their cars. The shine a spotlight on their car, turn it on the turntable it is sitting on and take pictures. Then they stop turning the car and let the owners at it! Very cool. They bring the cars up from the basement on two glass-walled elevators. They do approximately 200 deliveries per day. Every 30 minutes a car hauler pulls into the basement with 8 cars. The car arrives the day before delivery. It gets washed, inspected, and put to bed overnight in a computer controlled set of car "shelves" in the basement. There are two machines that move the cars inside. They keep the O2 levels low in the room to reduce fire potential. On the tour we got to see inside the storage area through a window.
Here is the inside of the storage area. The yellow thing on the left is the automated vehicle mover. The top level is for SUVs because of the height.
M3 down to the left!
More pics to come soon and another post with pics of the museum later too!
What a fun trip! I left with a tiny remote controlled 5 series from the gift shop!
What great pictures and fascinating subject matter too! Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed it immensely! 
09-02-2008, 11:27 AM
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Very cool! I have to make that trip. Back when I was driving an old Porsche, I made the trek to Stuttgart and went to the museum, factory tour, etc., but that was nothing this high tech! Thanks for sharing these cool pics and descriptions. -Calvin
