Ciao!

Today we were up early for breakfast and quickly on the road to 3 car manufacturers: Ducati, Lambourgoni, and Pagani. We started our day by driving roughly an hour and a half to the Ducati plant where we were guided through the facility, seeing the assembly line and the museum. The Ducati factory uses robots to guide heavy machinery across the facility and had multiple different assembly lines. We took a class picture with/on the four motorcycles in the museum.

We then traveled to the Bull Bar where we were provided lunch and the option to either see the Lambourgoni museum or test drive a Lamborghini or both. A couple of us test drove and were up to drive up to 185 km/h! We took another class picture with the two Lamborghinis we were able to test drive.

Finally, we visited the Pagani manufacturing plant where we were shown the assembly line, the museum, and a backstory of how the company was created. The base cost for a Pagani we learned was $2.2 million dollars! We learned that the difference between a Ducati and a Pagani is that fewer Pagani’s are made but are more personalized, but Ducati makes more of the same motorcycle. We took one last photo in front of the Pagani plant.

We then drove another hour and half back to our hotel in Florence. This day was different than the other days because the main focus was mechanical engineering. We were able to gain an insight in the process of building intricate vehicles. As small as seeing how the engine works with the pistons and gears to seeing the final product and quality checks. It was interesting to see the difference in manufacturing between Italy and the US. Overall, today was super fun and we had an amazing time! Tomorrow, we get a little bit of a later start, so we are all looking forward to some rest!

Ciao,

Matalin Mosiman