The restoration workshops
Real work underway on classic cars.
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Those two have the better claim without competition on a first visit: each is a curated exhibition with a historical narrative and a world-class permanent collection. Motorworld earns your time if you specifically like classic cars and want to see a real market and working workshops — and entry is free, so the only cost is the journey.
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Motorworld is not a museum in the usual sense but a classic car complex: showrooms of rare car dealers, working restoration workshops, and glass storage bays where owners keep their cars as though on display — and visitors walk among all of it free of charge. The site itself is historic: the complex occupies a vast airship hangar at the former Böblingen airport, which was Stuttgart's main airport until the 1930s. The long arched building with its steel frame is preserved and listed as an architectural monument. What you see changes constantly, because the cars are genuinely for sale: Porsches, Ferraris, classic Mercedes, racing cars and rare models. Entry is free, which is its essential advantage — but it is a different experience from the Porsche and Mercedes museums in Stuttgart itself, being a living market rather than a curated exhibition with a narrative.
Real work underway on classic cars.
A preserved, listed steel structure.
Graf-Zeppelin-Platz 1, 71034 Boblingen