Goodwood Festival of Speed

Juan Manual Fangio is one of the original legends of F1, and perhaps the greatest. His W196 R 1954 F1 car is nearly as legendary, and now it belongs to a new owner. Fangio's Silver Arrow sold at a Bonhams auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed today for £19.6 million, or about $29,650,000...

A demo version of Gran Turismo 6 has just been launched and allows players to drive at the Silverstone circuit, but when the final version arrives at the end of the year players will also be able to select one other famous British driving course: the hill climb on the grounds of Goodwood House...

Bentley’s new Continental GT-based race car made its official world debut today at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed, where the big bruiser also made a dramatic run up the event’s famous hill climb. The new race car follows on from an original concept version unveiled at the 2012...

The 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed is officially underway and as in every year a massive sculpture has been unveiled on the grounds of Goodwood House. This year the sculpture has been designed to mark the 50th anniversary of the Porsche 911 and as such the iconic sports car has been incorporated...

Aston Martin’s forward-looking CC100 Speedster concept will headline the British automaker’s showcase at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed, which kicks off in the U.K. today and runs until Sunday. Aston Martin, of course, is celebrating its centenary this year and understandably most...

Anyone still sore from missing out on one of McLaren’s 12C GT Can-Am Edition track cars, of which just 30 were produced, now have reason to cheer. McLaren today announced a new track car that will see regular production but will still be limited to only 20 units per year. The new track car is...

French automaker Peugeot has taken the wraps off its most powerful road car to date, the 2013 RCZ R sports coupe, which makes its official debut this week at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the U.K. The stylish and somewhat quirky RCZ has been around since 2009 but the latest variant adopts...

The promised special concept based on the Jaguar F-Type is called Project 7. It will debut at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed--and it's not the F-Type coupe. Reduced to a single-seater with a D-Type-style fairing and carbon fiber aerodynamic work the Project 7 sprints to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds...

McLaren is planning an unprecedented showing of its rarest race cars and production models at this week’s 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the U.K. After all, McLaren turns 50 this year and where better to celebrate than at the company’s local automotive gathering, the annual event...

Though British track specialist Caterham is determined to branch out into the world of production cars, the company hasn’t forgotten its roots and is still developing models based on the legendary Lotus Seven chassis. Its latest is the 2013 620R, which replaces Caterham’s previous R500...

Fresh from its dominating run at the recent Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, where it ran a time of just 8:13.878, totally obliterating the previous record of 9:46.181, Peugeot’s highly-modified 208 T16 rally car is now on its way to the grounds of Goodwood House in the U.K. for the...

Track rats, rejoice. You have a new option in the area of dedicated track weapons, and this one bears the name VŪHL on its nose. We've been showing you teasers for a bit now, but the manufacturer has decided to show off all of the 05's goods. That's just what we're dealing with here too, all sorts...

We’re now just a week out from the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the U.K., and in the lead up to the event one of the show's presenters, Mexico’s VŪHL, has announced that Formula One rookie Esteban Gutiérrez will help launch its new 05 sports car. For those unfamiliar with...

A new track car with the performance and looks to match a Formula One car is in the works and set to make its debut in just a few days at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the U.K. That track car is the 2014 Innotech Aspiron, which has been developed by the same people behind 2008’s...

The car you see above is, wait scratch that--the wildly viscious, wonderfully intriguing, super star racing vehicle shown above is a Lancia 037. This was one of the infamous WRC Group B monsters that changed the sport of rallying, and was the last rear-wheel-drive car to win before the...

The French have long made beautiful, if quirky, cars. The latest addition to this fold is the production version of the 260-horsepower Peugeot RCZ R, a hot and sporty version of the standard RCZ. Introduced last year as a concept at the Paris Motor Show, the RCZ R gets its stout power output from a...

The world has already laid eyes on the sultry shape that is the Alfa Romeo 4C. Now, however, Alfa is taking it out to play and the car is ready to make its "dynamic debut". The stage for the affair is a good one too, as the 4C will make the run up the hill to the Goodwood House. We're talking about...

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is approaching, and the motorsports-themed fun is already started. For those hoping to attend this year's event, there's an added attraction: a chance to win a ride-along in the Peugeot Onyx supercar concept. The copper and black Onyx concept is strikingly designed...

If you managed to miss the last time John Lennon’s Ferrari was up for sale at auction, you’ve got one more chance, as it didn’t sell last time. The Ferrari 330GT that Lennon drove at what was perhaps the height of the Beatlemania era is back, and the car will go on the auction...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and it's beginning to look like the occasion will be quite the event. McLaren's already confirmed that both the new P1 supercar and 12C Can-Am race car will be on site, and Ford's street-legal 1.0-liter EcoBoost FF1 track car...