Goodwood
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Goodwood Revival delivers an automotive experience unlike any other, combining a car show, racing, carnival, and pop-up shops in one place.
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Aston Martin's top engineer says coming DBX crossover will outperform Cayenne Turbo
But Aston Martin's engineering boss Matt Becker says the DBX won't outperform one high-dollar SUV.
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2018 Goodwood Revival: Polishing the past, preparing for the future
Color slowly fades from sunset at the Goodwood Motor Circuit like an aging photograph. The sun sets low on the southern England horizon like the high desert. Bright yellows edge toward a brassy orange, tip toward a sultry red, and effortlessly disappear from the day. The pits and paddock drip with...
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What to expect at the 20th Goodwood Revival
For the 20th consecutive year, a truly amazing automotive event is set to ring loud and proud around the Goodwood Motor Circuit. From Sept. 7 to 9, the Goodwood Revival revs up for another year of classic racing and general motoring celebration. Back in 1998, the Duke of Richmond brought auto...
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Next-generation Toyota Supra to debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed
After spy shots and even a race car concept, the next-generation Toyota Supra will make its debut in production form at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed. However, it's unclear if we'll see the production car in a special cloak, or if Toyota will completely pull the wraps off the production...
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Land Rover Defender SVX from "Spectre" to be auctioned at Goodwood
In 2015's motion picture "Spectre," James Bond and the baddies got to play with a bunch of seriously cool machines. Aston Martin created an entirely new car, the DB10, for James while Mr. Hinx piloted the impossibly gorgeous Jaguar CX-75. One of our favorite rides, however, was the customized Land...
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It's that special time of year again when cars and drivers blast up Lord March's driveway at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The hillclimb event begins June 29 and runs through July 2 with multiple batches of vehicles running over the course of those four days. Thanks to the power of technology, you can livestream the entire thing, right here, on the Internet, all the way from England. You're welcome. Even before getting underway, there's been plenty of excitement surrounding this year's gathering. Jaguar has used the occasion to announce the fire-breathing XE SV Project 8. Fitted with a...
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2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed opens with sculpture honoring Bernie Ecclestone
It's every British petrolhead's favorite time of the year. No, we're not talking about receiving car parts for the holidays. The 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed has opened its gates to let thousands of automotive enthusiasts and motorsport fans from around the world pour in to fulfill their need...
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Nick Heidfeld aims for Goodwood record with Mahindra Formula E car
Nick Heidfeld is no stranger to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and he's returning this year with one goal in mind: smash his current hill climb record. Currently, Heidfeld holds the hill climb course record with an incredibly quick 41.6 seconds. However, that was set over 10 years ago in 1999 in a...
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Watch a Ferrari F40 LM run flat out at Goodwood
They say meeting your heroes in person usually ends in disappointment. We'd say that can't happen if said hero is the Ferrari F40. Chris Wilson, the driver of this Ferrari F40 LM—a racing variant—proves the F40 is all it was ever cracked up to be. That is, raw, exhilarating, and a...
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Goodwood's glorious Festival of Speed: photo galleries
Quick, name an event in which cars 110 years apart compete against each other to race up a hill. Stumped? Welcome to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, a unique, surreal, one-of-a-kind event in which cars of every size, type, and variety compete run up a 1.1-mile hill as fast as possible. And...
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Goodwood Tests The Corvette Stingray Against A Jaguar F-Type, Aston V12 Vantage S: Video
America's sports car takes on the best of Britain in a hill-climb challenge.
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There are few people with a driveway as cool as that of Lord March, or, as he's officially styled, Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara--otherwise known as the owner of Goodwood estate. Every year he gathers some of the best cars from racing history for show and go activities at the Festival of Speed and the Revival. Central to both is the Hill Climb, a 1.16-mile run past Goodwood House. Though short, the narrow course is famously challenging. Here, we see the master of the facility himself wheeling the 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish up the road while narrating the route. If...
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Jaguar F-Type Goes Public At Goodwood, GT3 Race Car Rumor Ignites
The Jaguar F-Type has been making camouflaged rounds of the web since its announcement at the New York Auto Show this April, but today it finally made its public debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The car, still wearing its camouflage covering, took to the famous Goodwill hill climb with its...
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Mugen Euro Reveals High-Performance Honda CR-Z Hybrid
Exactly two months ago Honda’s tuning arm, Mugen (more specifically Mugen Euro), announced plans for the development of a high-performance Honda CR-Z hybrid hatch and released a couple of teaser sketches. Today, Mugen Euro has revealed its latest creation, the CR-Z Mugen, which will be making...
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MINI To Use Goodwood Label For Bespoke Range Of Models: Report
Most readers would recognize the Goodwood name as either being the home of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, an annual event in the UK that draws the latest in supercars and British motorsport personalities, or the home of luxury automaker Rolls-Royce. Soon the Goodwood name may be recognized for...
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Video: Watch The Goodwood Festival Of Speed Live
You don't have to buy a ticket to Goodwood to enjoy the show.
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Jaguar Marks 75th Anniversary With Special Edition XKR 75
The Jaguar XKR Goodwood Special was a special one-off build created last year to explore the harder side of the XKR's character and allow engineers to explore some performance boundaries. While the Goodwood Special never eventuated into the long-rumored XKR-R, the special edition model itself has...
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Touching the tiny car with a dash of Rolls-Royce hyperluxury is the next project at Mini.
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Ferrari Scuderia Spider 16M completes Goodwood Hillclimb in 59 seconds
Ferrari showcased three of its latest supercars in the Sunday Times Supercar Runs at this past weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed (FoS), with cars like the new California, 599 GTB Fiorano HGTE and the limited edition Scuderia Spider 16M all making an appearance. To the appreciation of packed...
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New images of Jaguar’s lime green XKR ‘Goodwood Special’
The UK's historic Goodwood Festival of Speed has just completed another running of its famous show and hillclimb events, and today Jaguar has released new images of its unique XKR 'Goodwood Special' that made a showing at the event. The car, finished in a custom lime green paint scheme, is...
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Audi celebrating 100th anniversary with huge sculpture at Goodwood
Centennial celebrations have been a common occurrence of late as the industry as a whole begins to push past the 100-year mark. This year marks Audi's 100th, and it's celebrating at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, in part with the 115ft (35m) 2009 Festival of Speed Central Feature (pictured). This...
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Alfa Romeo will celebrate 99th birthday with Goodwood spectacular
A year shy of the Italian sporting marque’s 100th birthday, Alfa Romeo will be preparing for next year’s centenary with a historic hill climb by the 8C Spider convertible at this weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK. Also on show will be the 1924 P2 Gran Premio, which...
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Formula 1's Sir Frank Williams marks 40 years in motorsport at Goodwood
For 40 years now, Frank Williams has been involved in owning and building some of the fastest cars on earth - Formula 1 racers. From his brief partnership with Alessandro de Tomaso in 1970 through today's Williams F1, Williams' teams have fielded more than 600 race entries in the world's premier...
Kenneth Hall