BMW X5 review (30/10/2013)

FOR petrolheads, the Goodwood Festival of Speed, every summer, is a magnet. It showcases the rarest and most exotic of racing cars and allows legendary drivers, old and young, to display their talents in driving these uber-machines up the famous hill-climb, up the driveway of Lord Charles March’s fantastic country pile.

In idle moments, one might dream of being let loose up that hill in an old Can-Am McLaren, or a Lotus turbine Indycar, or an old Ferrari Le Mans car (a 330 P4 would do nicely), or some otherworldly and outrageous piece of kit.

Most definitely not on the list was the 1956 Leyland PD2/12 Titan double-decker bus, in the livery of the local Southdown company, in which I found myself chugging up the famous hill, recently.