[Rick Lee]

The BMW Museum in Munich is called BMW Welt and factory tours need to be booked in advance. You can walk around the museum and showrooms anytime and they have a great indoor motorcycle stunt demo every few hours. That's at Olympia Park, but BMW has a large underground parking garage. Parking in Munich is hell on Earth, but the garages are way more reasonably priced than anything in the US. For one person a train might make sense, but for three, definitely do the car thing. You will see lots of great places along the roads to stop and visit. And lots of major tourist attractions are advertised on large brown road signs along the highways, sort of like the signs we have around national parks. Those places can be difficult or impossible to reach by train. If you're anywhere near the former inner-German border, I can't stress enough how awesome those rural Grenzland museums are. I don't think any are reachable by public transportation other than the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin.