Want to give a brief mention to my holiday, because it involved a ridiculous amount of driving. Took the family skiing to the French Alps for the third time, but it was our first go at it in a car. Two and a half hours to Dover, a ferry crossing, and then another nine hours in a south-easterly direction. With two kids aged eight and five, I wasn’t completely sure how it was going to pan out, but nothing ventured nothing gained. If it was a disaster we wouldn’t be doing it again. Transport of choice was an X3, which BMW had rather optimistically supplied with snow chains in the boot. I’d seen the weather forecast so they stayed at home. Have to say the car performed faultlessly. The 2.0-litre diesel engine was a pleasure, and for the bulk of the trip the car sat at 83mph with the cruise control on (130km/h is a much more civilised motorway speed limit, don’t you think?). Credit too goes to BMW’s iPod connectivity, which made the hours pass by quicker. Plug the player in under the central arm rest and select everything through the iDrive controller next to the gearstick. You even get the album cover artwork displayed.
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