The Goodwood Revival is likely one of the best gatherings of classic race automobiles on the planet, however this 12 months it’s going to rejoice a decidedly un-sporty automobile.
A gap parade for the 2025 Goodwood Revival will characteristic “essentially the most diversified assortment” of Volkswagen Kind 2 Cut up Display screen vans and pickups on the planet, organizers boasted. It comes after final 12 months’s Meyers Manx dune buggy parade, and a bike parade in 2023.
Volkswagen Kind 2 Microbus to be featured at 2025 Goodwood Revival
The VW Kind 2—higher identified, in van kind, because the Microbus—isn’t any race automotive, nevertheless it celebrates its seventy fifth anniversary in 2025 and matches proper in with the Goodwood Revival’s classic theme. Along with the racing, the Revival usually options different interval automobiles as shows, with attendees wearing classic clothes for max authenticity.
Cut up Display screen variations of the Kind 2 have been comprised of the mannequin’s 1950 launch till 1967, which is interval acceptable provided that Goodwood served as an lively observe for skilled racing from 1948 to 1966. It is potential that a few of these iconic automobiles served as race-team assist automobiles again within the day.
This 1950 Volkswagen Kind 2 is the world’s oldest Microbus
This 12 months, the Goodwood Revival will run sustainable gas in all race automobiles to scale back emissions, following a 2023 trial, though the high quality print reads that gas will need to have a minimal of 70% “sustainable parts.” That is based mostly on FIA guidelines that the Goodwood Revival adheres to. Organizers declare the gas will not require any modifications.
The 2025 Goodwood Revival is scheduled for Sept. 12-14. Its companion occasion, the Goodwood Pageant of Pace, will happen Jul. 10-13. The Pageant of Pace options a mixture of new and outdated equipment, this 12 months centered across the theme of “Horseless to Hybrid—Revolutions in Energy.”
