After booking everything, Dan was researching things to do that one day in Frankfurt to decide how long we should stay in Munich before heading up to Frankfurt. He found out that one of the largest car show's in Europe, IAA, was taking place literally next door to our hotel and asked if we could go. Sure why not?
Now to be fair, I've been to one, count it, one, car show in my days (that I'm old enough to recall) and it was in San Francisco. I found it interesting and it was cool to get to sit in the cars and compare different brands in the same room. Yeah... Frankfurt's was HUGE. It was at a convention center with 11 different exhibit halls, not including two massive structures in the middle of the center: one housing Mercedes-Benz and the other housing Audi. (Side Note: BMW had all of Hall 11 which wasn't small either but didn't get the front row treatment that the other two garnered).
Certainly the focus was on the German cars but there were other European cars for sure. Also, a small selection of Japanese cars and one section for Ford (haha, snub the US...). They had plenty of food stands and lots of Beck's draft tents, because, Germany. We roamed all the halls and sat in a few vehicles. We marveled at the crazy concept cars by Porsche and the beautiful McLaren and Honda NSX.
Ferrari/Mercedes Formula 1 Vehicle
Porsche Concept Car/Showroom inside Audi Building
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