Budapest to Frankfurt NOW need travel stop suggestions

[scoot]

I'm in Budapest for at least 3 more days.  I'm departing from Frankfurt in 6 days.  I have a car and am driving there.   I'm wondering if anyone has car-related or mercedes-related suggestions for places to stop along the way.  I'm also wondering what the parameters are for Stuttgart and a Mercedes museum there...    I have not done my homework for this vacation and perhaps I might get a few last-minute suggestions for how to spend the next 6 days.   thanks!  Scott

[66andBlue]

Scott,
should you drive on E60 from Salzburg to Munich then make a detour and visit the EFA Automobil & Modeltrain Museum in Amerang, it is quite nice.
http://www.efa-automuseum.de/home/
https://www.google.com/maps/place/EFA-Museum+f%C3%BCr+Deutsche+Automobilgeschichte/@47.99594,12.30692,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4776093fb74852c3:0x63f98eb128d61eb3

[scoot]

Thanks for the suggestion Alfred.  That might work if we go the southern route and stop there on the way to Stuttgart and spend 2 nights in Stuttgart...
Scott

[scoot]

this has been officially added to my itinerary along with the MB Stuttgart museum and optional Porsche museum.  thanks.   Scott
(although I doubt either will compare to the TATRA museum we visited in CZ!!!)
 

[Martijn]

The Porsche museum is well worth the stop. Fairly new building, as the old one was tucked in a pretty much a side thought.
That typed, no match for the MB museum though!

[Jonny B]

The EFA museum is a bit off the beaten path, but I recall it as being well worth the visit. Happy exploring!

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Just outside of Stuttgart you find the Factory Tour and Customer Pick up of new cars (see link below), I enjoyed the factory tour in 2009 and highley recommend it. Call ahead for the factory tour, I was luckey they added me to a group of people that picked up there new car.

----> daimler.com/Projects/c2c/channel/documents/2411764_Flyer_english.pdf

[WRe]

Hi Scott,
80 km south of Frankfurt along the A5 is the small Carl Benz museum, where he build his first cars.
http://www.automuseum-ladenburg.de
From there to Pforzheim goes the historic way (106 km) his wife Bertha took 1888 with one of his first cars (model 3) with their 2 boys and without Carl's knowledge. This was the real start for his success.
...WRe

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

WRe,

Great link ... thanks for sharing!

[gwuisman]

Hi Scoot,

When I was in Stuttgart, I visited also the MB factory in Sindelfingen nearby Stuttgart. A very impressive factory tour! In Fellbach - also nearby - is the restauration site of MB to be visited (see http://www.stuttgart-tourist.de/a-mercedes-benz-classic-center)

Gerard Wuisman, now for business on Curacao, where you even don't see any MB.

[scoot]

Thanks for the suggestions!  I'm in Salzburg right now (just got up) and plan to go to the EFA museum after breakfast.