Chris Evans and the ‘Magnificent Seven’ Ferraris – raising money for BBC Children in Need – arrived at Goodwood Festival of Speed and ran the hillclimb. Every year the Ginger Ferrarista, otherwise known as DJ Chris Evans, relieves a number of comfortably-off people of ludicrous sums of money to drive a selection of glorious Ferraris. It’s all […]
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011 roundup & HUGE photo gallery
A look at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011, celebrating 50 years of the E-Type, with a huge PHOTO gallery of the weekend. It’s really quite hard to convey just how enjoyable the Goodwood Festival of Speed is to those who’ve never been. John waxed lyrical over the weekend (someone has to do the weekend […]
2010 Ferrari F1 Goodwood hillcimb (video)
We have video of Marc Gene driving last year’s Ferrari F1 (F10) car up the hillclimb at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Goodwood is Disneyland for petrolheads, with the world’s greatest cars and greatest drivers wallowing in three days of high-octane worship at the alter of the internal combustion engine. Everything from classic road cars […]
Koenigsegg Agera at Goodwood: Up close and personal
The only Koenigsegg Agera in the UK was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and we got an opportunity to have a good look round. We have to confess that we have a huge soft spot for the creations of Christian von Koenigsegg. So when we knew that friend of Cars UK Tommy Wareham, purveyor […]
BMW 1M Coupe – up the Goodwood hillclimb we go
Thanks to BMW, we were able to send Claire off to Goodwood to drive the BMW 1M Coupe up the hillclimb. Although the Goodwood Festival of Speed doesn’t actually start until tomorrow, today saw the second year of the Goodwood Moving Motor Show kicking off a long weekend of petrolhead joy. The USP of the Goodwood […]
Salon Privé 2011: Wet & Wonderful
Salon Prive 2011 moved to Syon Park – and brought the rain with it – but it was still a hugely enjoyable event with a plethora of the world’s greatest cars. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Salon Privé is one of our favourite ways to meet cars. Up there with Villa d’Este […]
Citroen DS4, DS3 R3 and Survolt UK debut at Goodwood FoS
Citroen are taking the DS4, DS3 R3, Survolt, Hypnos and DS3 WRC to Goodwood FoS, with the DS4 and DS3 Racing available to drive at the MMS. We’ve already had a wave of Goodwood Festival of Speed announcements on cars getting their UK debut, from the Jaguar XKR-S to the Mugen Honda CR-Z. And now it’s Citroen’s turn […]
Ferrari FF: UK debut at Goodwood FoS
Ferrari are taking the Ferrari FF to the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed for its UK debut, together with a Ferrari F1, 458, California and classic Ferraris. There has probably not been a car in Ferrari’s history that has polarised opinion in quite the same way as the Ferrari FF. Launched at Geneva in the […]
2012 BMW M5: Now BMW make the M5 official
BMW has officially revealed the 2012 BMW M5 with details, a HUGE photo gallery and a price – £73,040 The launch of the 2012 BMW M5 was planned for next week at the M Festival at the Nurburgring. But the best laid plans… This morning we reported on a leak of official photos of the […]
Volkswagen Beetle R: Frankfurt debut planned?
It’s reported that Volkswagen are planning on building a 2012 Beetle R with a detuned version of the Golf R engine. Due to debut at Frankfurt 2011. However hard they tried – and they did for a while – Volkswagen never managed to make the reborn VW Beetle anything more than a novelty; a girly car with a […]