Shortly now: What single phrase involves thoughts when the topic of Italian vehicle museums comes up at a cocktail get together? Ferrari. In fact. Or maybe Maserati. Or perhaps Lamborghini. However for the subsequent thousand phrases or so, put apart these knee-jerk responses. For now, let’s assume out of the auto museum field.

Throughout a latest go to to the Italian north, I shuttled between Milan and Turin searching for some automotive greatness past what’s often discovered on vacationers’ agendas. Discover it I did, on the “different” museums, one celebrating the historical past of Alfa Romeo and the second on the dwelling of Fiat within the true heartland of the Italian auto trade for greater than a century.