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Spent yesterday morning at the second staging of the Moving Motor Show, a pre-cursor to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. I didn’t go last year when it debuted, so this was my first chance to take a look.
Run as a one-day event featuring manufacturer stands with cars that can actually be driven off them, it’s held on the famous Goodwood estate in West Sussex. This year’s automotive statue taking pride of place in front of the main house paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Jaguar E-Type, and is as striking a piece of modern art as you will ever see (pictured left). At 28 metres high it was not easy to miss!
The Moving Motor Show is a great idea and, unlike the British Motor Show, has the backing of the mainstream manufacturers. The public seem to like it, as it gives them a chance to do what their motorsport idols do at the Festival of Speed and drive quickly up the famous Goodwood Hill.
So it was with a sense of wonder and disappointment that I stood there and watched the execution of it, which seemed to me to be fundamentally flawed. The problem is simple; too many cars and too little space. Based in a rectangular covered marquee, it’s got a one-way ‘road’ going through the middle of it. The cars come off the stands, either side of the road, and drive out of one end and onto the Hill route. But by 9.30am yesterday it was pretty chaotic with too many cars trying to move down the too-narrow road. There were queues of vehicles waiting to come back in, which couldn’t because of the traffic.
It’s a great idea, but if the Moving Motor Show is to succeed it needs to be completely rethought.
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