Goodwood Festival of Speed

The Porsche 911 turns 50 in 2013, and the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed will factor heavily into the iconic sports car’s birthday celebration. All seven generations of Porsche 911 will be shown, alongside milestone 911 racers from Porsche’s lengthy motorsports history. The 1984...

Ford will drum up further excitement surrounding its FF1 track car by presenting it at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK this July, and taking it up the event’s famous hill climb. The street-legal trackster is powered by a tiny 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine, yet it can lap the...

In 2003, Bentley won its first overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans since 1930. Piloting a Bentley Speed 8 prototype, drivers Rinaldo Capello, Tom Kristensen and Guy Smith took the win, followed by a second Bentley Speed 8 driven by Mark Blundell, David Brabham and Johnny Herbert. Critics...

If you’ve attended the Goodwood Festival of Speed in recent years, you’ve probably seen the Gazoo Racing Lexus LFA work its way up the hill. It would be easy to assume that Lexus was behind the car’s appearance, but that would be incorrect. In fact, Lexus has never...

The automotive equivalent of a Picasso or Rembrandt, a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Formula One race car driven to victory by the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio in the 1954 German and Swiss Grands Prix, is actually up for sale. The car will be sold to the highest bidder by auctioneer Bonhams at the 2013...

We’re starting to lose count of all the automotive anniversaries taking place this year, but one of the most significant is the 50th anniversary of the Porsche 911 sports car. Clearly Porsche has a lot planned to mark the occasion but so do organizers of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, an...

Back in 2011, we heard that historic British automaker Bristol Cars was working on an electric supercar capable of reaching speeds close to 200 mph. The fact that the company had declared itself insolvent only a few months prior to the supercar rumors left us with some major doubts, however. Fast...

If you're not familiar with the Goodwood Festival of Speed, you should be. It's a pilgrimage of motorsports and car enthusiasts from around the world to the grounds of Goodwood to see and hear some of the most exciting, unique, and historic cars of the past and present. Next year will be its 20th...

Bentley chose to use this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed to unveil its fastest-ever production model, the new Continental GT Speed. Powered by a twin-turbo W-12 engine rated at 616 horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque, the all-wheel-drive coupe can sprint to a top speed of 205 mph...

Gumpert’s Apollo supercar is known to be both stunningly quick and utterly unforgiving of mistakes, as British Touring Car Championship driver Tony Gilham found out at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. During what was supposed to be an exhibition run up the Goodwood hill, with...

In this Ferrari-filled video two-pack, you can get a tiny taste of what it was like to be at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this past weekend. Ride along as Marc Gené pilots an F60 F1 race car through the tight and twisty Goodwood hill climb course, then watch the 458 Spider take to it as...

Formula 1 ace Sebastian Vettel takes the Infiniti FX he helped design for a spin at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

This year turned out to be a bumper one for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, with almost every modern supercar in existence making an appearance at the event. This is on top of the huge list of classic models, expensive concepts, original race cars and automotive celebrities that were also in...

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...

Building on its XJ Limo-Green project of 2009, Jaguar has unveiled today an updated XJ plug-in hybrid prototype at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in under 6.5 seconds and cruising to a top speed of 150 mph, the XJ prototype, dubbed the XJ_e, delivers...

The 2013 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 makes 662 horsepower and 631 pound-feet of torque from its supercharged 5.8-liter V-8 engine, making it the most powerful Mustang ever built. If you’re keeping score at home, Ford says the forced induction V-8 used in the Shelby GT500 is the most powerful...

The 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed officially kicks off today and on the eve of the event Porsche announced that its stunning 918 Spyder concept will be making an appearance. First unveiled at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, and almost immediately confirmed for production, the 918 Spyder concept will...

In 2010, McLaren showed off its MP4-12C supercar prototype to an appreciative crowd at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and last year used the event to debut its MP4-12C GT3 racer. It stands to reason, then, that McLaren will mark this year’s Festival of Speed with another product...

Horsepower and speed generally go hand-in-hand, so you’d expect a 4,000-horsepower engine to sit between the fenders of a particularly wild resto-mod show car. In the case of the 4,000-horsepower Cummins Hedgehog, however, we can name a single car large enough to accommodate the diesel...

Would you like to see a more powerful, sportier-looking, better-handling Mazda MX-5? Then sound off--Mazda wants to hear feedback on its MX-5 GT Concept it's showing at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year. With 205 horsepower at the crank from its normally-aspirated 2.0-liter four-cylinder (a...