Goodwood Festival of Speed

  • 1908 Mercedes-Benz grand prix racer at Goodwood Festival of Speed

    Mercedes-Benz and racing driver Ben Collings brought a treat to the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed: a Mercedes-Benz grand prix racer from 1908. The time capsule of a car offers a pretty extraordinary look at motorsport in the early 20th century, and it offered Goodwood attendees a rare chance to see and hear an early grand prix racer. Making all of the noise is a whopping 17.3-liter four-cylinder generating around 150 horsepower. The massive powerplant is enough to take the car up to 109 mph. Mercedes' grand prix car actually pre-dates the Daimler and Benz merger, meaning the car is actually...

  • Rally cars at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed
    The 10 coolest rally cars of the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed

    Lord March's driveway wasn't the only place to burn rubber in Southeastern England on sunny Friday. Carved into a densely wooded hill near Goodwood House, the anchor of a 12,000-acre estate that caters to car enthusiasts with the Festival of Speed, sits a mini rally stage. It's a playground for...

  • 2018 Lotus Exige Type 79
    Lotus Exige Type 49 and 79 celebrate British marque's historic F1 victories

    Lotus used this week's Goodwood Festival of Speed in the United Kingdom to unveil two new special versions of its Exige sports car. They were built to mark this year's 70th anniversary of when Lotus founder Colin Chapman built his first race car, based upon his philosophy of “performance...

  • Robocar to race at Goodwood Festival of Speed Hill Climb
    Enjoy this 360-degree video of Roborace's autonomous run up Goodwood hill climb

    The Goodwood Festival of Speed is well known for courting some of the world's finest automobiles and high-performance machines. This year, something very different was in attendance. Roborace on Thursday tackled Goodwood's famous hill climb with its self-driving electric race car, known as the...

  • Noble M500
    Noble unveils M500 sports car at Goodwood Festival of Speed

    Noble used the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed as the launch pad for its new M500 sports car. This marks a new entry into the Noble family, and it's one that opens the door into Noble as a slightly more affordable vehicle. Still, entry level for Noble is still a six-figure machine with potent...

  • Toyota Supra dynamic debut at 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed
    New Toyota Supra makes dynamic debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed

    Toyota said it was coming, and we finally witnessed the next-generation Supra make its debut. Sort of. The 2020 Toyota Supra made its "dynamic debut" at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Thursday as chief engineer Tetsuya Tada and master driver Herwig Daenens sprinted the sports car up the famed...

  • McLaren P1 GT Longtail by Lanzante

    Having already built a modern successor to the McLaren F1 LM based on the P1 hypercar, the folks at British motorsport and engineering company Lanzante have turned their sights on another legendary F1: the F1 GT Longtail. Lanzante is the same company that fielded the F1 GTR that won overall at the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, and on Thursday it revealed the new P1 GT Longtail at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The car is based on a McLaren P1 GTR track car that has undergone Lanzante's road car conversion process, and it also wears a gorgeous coat of paint inspired by the XP Green used on...

  • Aston Martin V8 Cygnet
    Q by Aston Martin drops V-8 into Cygnet city car

    Earlier this decade, Aston Martin rebadged a Scion iQ and sold the car complete with a wheezy 1.3-liter engine as the Cygnet. It was a cost-effective way for Aston Martin to get its average emissions down but, for obvious reasons, the car was a dud and thankfully killed off a couple of years after...

  • BMW M2 M Performance Parts concept
    BMW brings the carbon fiber with M2 M Performance Parts concept

    BMW M already offers a host of upgrades for the M2 via its M Performance Parts line, however the official tuner to BMW has showcased the potential for even more goodies with the new M2 M Performance Parts concept unveiled on Thursday at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed. In particular, the parts...

  • 964 Porsche 911 lightweight restoration by Singer and Williams
    Singer and Williams go into detail on their lightweight 911

    California Porsche restorer Singer Vehicle Design last year teamed up with Williams Advanced Engineering, the technology offshoot of the Williams Formula 1 team, to use the latest engineering knowledge, including some F1 techniques, to transform an original air-cooled Porsche 911 into the ultimate...

  • 2019 McLaren 600LT
    McLaren drops full details on 2019 600LT

    Ahead of the car's debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, McLaren has provided full details on its latest weapon for the road and race course: the 2019 600LT. LT, of course, stands for "Long Tail," and the 600LT is only the third McLaren to wear the revered designation meant to signify the best...

  • Self-driving Ford Mustang to tackle Goodwood hill climb
    Self-driving Ford Mustang will tackle Goodwood hill climb

    Not only will Roborace bring its self-driving race car to the Goodwood Festival of Speed to take on the hill climb event, but another self-driving car will also be present. And it's not a futuristic piece of machinery, either. The car is none other than a 1965 Ford Mustang, but a heavily outfitted...

  • Porsche 919 Evo at the Nürburgring

    The Porsche 919 Evo is on a world tour to say goodbye to fans. This trip includes a stop at many race tracks so that the unrestricted racing machine can set some records on its way out. One place it won't be doing that? The Goodwood Festival of Speed. Porsche has declined an opportunity to take its mighty 919 Evo up the hill in Chichester. While Porsche of the United Kingdom asked the folks at Porsche Motorsport if they were interested, the racing team decided against making a run. According to Motorsport.com, a Porsche Motorsport spokesperson has said that the car itself is "not about...

  • Toyota Supra teased for Goodwood Festival of Speed
    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...

  • 1968 Ford Mustang from the Steve McQueen movie "Bullitt"
    Original "Bullitt" 1968 Ford Mustang heading to Goodwood Festival of Speed

    After making a surprise appearance at the 2018 Detroit auto show, the original 1968 Ford Mustang from the 1968 film "Bullitt" will cross the pond and make its European debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in southern England. The 1968 Mustang was the hero car driven by Steve McQueen in the film...

  • 2019 McLaren 600LT
    2019 McLaren 600LT makes debut

    McLaren on Thursday unveiled a new member of its Sports Series. Called the 600LT, the car is a new hardcore variant plugging the gap between the 570S and the 720S from the Super Series. LT, which stands for Longtail in McLaren-speak, is the British automaker's designation for track-focused road...

  • Teaser for range-topping McLaren Sports Series model debuting on June 28
    Hardcore McLaren Sports Series member teased ahead of June 28 reveal

    McLaren breaks down its model range into three categories. You have the Sports Series, Super Series, and Ultimate Series, and there is a clear performance delineator between each group. Starting at the top you'll find the Senna and P1 in the Ultimate Series. The 720S resides as the Super Series...

  • Polestar 1
    Polestar 1 dynamic debut set for 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed

    The first model from high-performance Swedish electric car brand Polestar is almost ready for delivery. The 600-horsepower coupe made its debut last fall, and we've since learned what markets it will each and how much it will cost. Now the Polestar 1 is on the verge of making its first run in front...

  • A Ferrari F40 LM takes to the Goodwood hill climb at the Festival of Speed

    Just 1,311 Ferrari F40 examples were built between the years 1987 and 1992. Ferrari needed a successor to its monstrous 288 GTO, and this was that car. It turned out to be even more monstrous, and it was a car that adorned the bedroom walls of many young car fans in poster form. There's an even rarer version of the F40, and it bears the designation LM. The Ferrari F40 LM is a racing-prepped version of the road car, and it later became the Compeitizione. In a world of rare and special cars, the F40 LM sits proudly near the top of the list. It's not common to see one out and about at vintage...

  • A full-size McLaren 720S built from LEGO
    Watch a full-size McLaren 720S get built from Legos in one minute

    Lego has been churning out some great kits over the last few years. The Speed Champions series is chock full of excellent offerings that feature some of your favorite street and racing vehicles. One of the most recent kits in the series features a scaled-down McLaren 720S that comes complete with a...

  • 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS
    Is the 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS still a "widowmaker"?

    It’s so skilled at cutting fat, another name Porsche could have considered for its most powerful road-going 911 was “breaking knife.” Similar cars before the 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS have earned a slightly different nickname: “Widowmaker.” Porsche is keenly aware of its...

  • Subaru WRX STI RHD Goodwood Festival of Speed
    Tackling Goodwood Hill in a right-hand-drive Subaru WRX STI

    Automotive public relations is a funny profession. As a young writer, my editor told me ahead of my first media program to never say anything that could be construed as a request for something, even in passing, because PR people take it seriously. I apparently forgot that lesson, and ended up...

  • 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS at Goodwood Festival of Speed
    2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS puts on a show at Goodwood Festival of Speed

    Following a soft reveal at the E3 video game conference in Los Angeles, Porsche took to the 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed to unveil the 2018 911 GT2 RS. In the process, the 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS becomes the most powerful 911 street car ever built. With 700 horsepower and 553 pound-feet of...

  • 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed-Day 2
    Top 11 ways up Lord March's driveway at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

    More than 250 cars, trucks, and motorcycles made the 1.16-mile blast, past the Goodwood House, into Molecomb Corner, and continuing into history. By the books, Nick Heidfeld driving a McLaren MP4/13 is the quickest way, but we have a 11 other ideas for making the march up to Lord March's estate...

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