Goodwood Revival to celebrate 75 years of Volkswagen Split Screen
Every year, the Goodwood Revival’s track opening parade brings together an eclectic mix of vehicles which converge on the historic circuit at the start of each day to kick start proceedings. From the event’s largest motorcycle parade in 2023, to the brigade of beach buggies last year, it’s now the turn of the Volkswagen Type 2 Split Screen.
The 2025 Goodwood Revival’s congregation of campers is set to be the most varied collection of Volkswagen Type 2 Split Screens to be brought together. Over the years, the model has enjoyed huge popularity and been adapted for a wide range of uses including ambulances, fire engines, transporters and even ice cream vans. Visitors to the Revival are certainly in for a treat as vans of all varieties in a rainbow of colours take to the track each morning.
Introduced by Volkswagen in 1950, the Type 2 Split Screen was the marque’s second mass-produced light motor vehicle, manufactured in Wolfsburg for nearly twenty years up until 1967. While many remained as commercial vans, the vehicle’s use and image shifted in the 1960s to embrace holidaymaking with models including the Kombi, Microbus, Samba and Camper introduced. Thus, the Volkswagen ‘Splitties’ became a globally-recognised symbol of freedom and adventure, encouraging drivers to embrace the spirit of the open road.
75 years on, the VW Type 2 has created countless memories for generations of travellers and the Goodwood Revival’s track opening parade will venerate the vans that have been enjoyed by so many.
The Duke of Richmond CBE DL, founder of the Goodwood Revival said:
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