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Feature: Summer drives: I'll take the slow road

By: John Mahoney

27 May 08

Road trips used to be a great way to ease the stresses and strains of modern life - life on the open road an' all that.

Then the Germans invented the motorway.

Driving became a means to an end - something to endure rather than savour - so when we faced the prospect of journeying the length of mainland Britain we thought we'd rewind to the 1950s and pretend miserable motorways had never been invented.

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To spice things up even further we thought we'd test a car that people still have yet to fathom - the BMW X6. Is it a 4x4? Is it a coupe? Answers on a postcard please.

Road test editor John Mahoney took up the challenge with photographer Phil Moore. We gave them some rubbish music to listen to, a list of overnight stopovers to choose from and outbound tickets to Wick airport.

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