The Goodwood Revival is likely one of the biggest gatherings of classic race automobiles on the planet, however this 12 months it’s going to have a good time a decidedly un-sporty automobile.
A gap parade for the 2025 Goodwood Revival will characteristic “probably the most various assortment” of Volkswagen Sort 2 Cut up Display vans and pickups on this planet, organizers boasted. It comes after final 12 months’s Meyers Manx dune buggy parade, and a motorbike parade in 2023.
Volkswagen Sort 2 Microbus to be featured at 2025 Goodwood Revival
The VW Sort 2—higher identified, in van kind, because the Microbus—is not any race automobile, 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 sometimes options different interval autos as shows, with attendees wearing classic clothes for optimum authenticity.
Cut up Display variations of the Sort 2 had been created from the mannequin’s 1950 launch till 1967, which is interval applicable on condition that Goodwood served as an lively observe for skilled racing from 1948 to 1966. It is doable that a few of these iconic autos served as race-team help autos again within the day.
This 1950 Volkswagen Sort 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 advantageous print reads that gas should 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 Velocity, will happen Jul. 10-13. The Pageant of Velocity options a mixture of new and previous equipment, this 12 months centered across the theme of “Horseless to Hybrid—Revolutions in Energy.”
