Exploring In The Key Of X

Travelling through the tame and not-so-tame parts of South Africa with the new BMW X3.

- Daryl Lee

To say that my time in South Africa exposed me to a host of rather special experiences would be selling the country short. Of course, a good deal of those experiences came courtesy of BMW. Well, not directly, but since I was a guest of the carmaker driving its made-in-country X3 mid-sized SUV, it would be churlish not to give it due credit. I’ve never experienced the joys of suffering a punctured tyre while out on the road. While in South Africa, I picked up a pair of them… at the same time.

In all fairness, it was largely my fault.

Apparently, roadgoing 20-inch rubber doesn’t like it very much when you’re doing your best rally driver impression charging hard along gravel roads.