After the Galleria Ferrari visit we went along to visit another great Italian car manufacturer, which has its headquarters nearby: Lamborghini. After visiting the official site we already knew that we had to book a visit 30 days prior to the visit, if we would like to do a factory visit, too. Because of this I have had a couple of e-mails with a Lamborghini official to make the booking to the factory visit also.
When we arrived to the Lamborghini factory, however, they were expecting us with an unpleasant surprise: the factory was closed that week, so we could only visit the museum. They told us that they have sent me an e-mail about this, but I know I did not receive anything… so much for Audi’s professionalism… I knew from another blog review that there is a small window from where you can see inside the factory, but that has been gone too 🙁 .
After this unhappy moment, we went on to at least visit the two floor Lamborghini museum. Most of our sadness has gone when we saw the cars. The old cars on the ground floor were nice (ex. the first 1963 350 GT of Feruccio Lamborghini and the #0001 Countach), but for me, as a car enthusiast, the real surprise was upstairs. As I climbed up, I saw a real, functioning Reventon 😀 , a 1 million euro super-jewel of the current model-range. The other cars were nice, too. There were some concept cars and some tuned-up Diablos. The Diablo stuck on the wall, that I read about in the above mentioned blog, was replaced by a Murcielago of the same color.
We took some pictures, admired the cars, and went to see what is in the gift-shop (They have very kindly notified us, that there is one and they gave us indications where it is… ). Among the pricey clothes and leather accessories present at the gift-shop there were some coffee-mugs that seemed interesting, but at the 24 euro price the did not look so nice as the 18 euro coffee mugs at Ferrari’s gift-shop.
Not taking into consideration, that the main attraction of the day, an actual visit inside the factory was so simply blown away, it was a nice experience. I have uploaded some photos to my Picasa web account.