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2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed: A taste of the glorious noise
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkwVRwbPSZc&ab_channel=TheHooniverse[/youtube] This, friends, is merely a taste of the amazing machines and the tremendous noise you’ll find on Lord March’s estate. Taking in the Goodwood Festival of Speed needs to be added to your automotive bucket list.
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Goodwood 2016: Lamborghini, Art, Design and Popular Culture
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Lamborghini has never been a brand to conform to convention. There has never been a Raging Bull that followed the herd. Here, in a corner of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, we find a small assembly of some of Sant’Agata’s wildest creations. Can a car define its era, or does its era define IT? I…
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Goodwood 2016: BMW and Mini- the conceptual stretching of brands?
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There didn’t seem to be as many concept cars at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year as there usually are, but those which did appear are worth a bit of discussion. The two I present to you here are both from the fevered imagination of BMW, one being displayed in a courtyard of Goodwood…
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Goodwood: Jaguar Land Rover – Prototype dealership of the future?
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If you have a substantial quantity of money or a credit entitlement ring-fenced for purchase of a car, you trot down to your chosen car dealership and, well, a painfully mundane experience soon unfolds. You turn up, introduce yourself at the reception desk to find out whether a salesman can be roused from their slumber.…
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Goodwood: Ferrari- Age shall not wither them.
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The Ferrari 312P is one of the more unmistakable shapes that sports car racing ever saw, and has been appearing in magazines, historic racing almanacs and luxuriously produced history books in six decades. It’s a 48 year old shape, with technology under the surface of equal vintage. Yet it’s still more than capable of showing…
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Goodwood's Roaring Forties: An Orgy Of Ford GT40s.
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Anybody here like Ford GT40s? I know that not everybody is totally giddy with glee about the way Ford won its class at Le Mans this year, but that does nothing to undo anything that the near mythical sports-racer has achieved. Fittingly, this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed played host to more GT40s in a…
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Goodwood: The UK's premier auto shopping street
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The Goodwood Festival of Speed reminds me what it is I don’t like about motor-shows. Mostly they take place in massive indoor halls, great for protection from the weather, but terrible for natural lighting. Therefore, a zillion lightbulbs machinegun the whole place with lumens from every possible direction creating a constant, uncomfortable glare. Furthermore, there’s…
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Slip Slidin' Away: Wet and Wild at Goodwood
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When you’ve got a couple of hundred classic cars, many of which are historically significant, some of which are utterly priceless, you have to be careful. As we all note every time we read the reverse of our ticket, “Motorsport Can Be Dangerous”. Bad things can happen on even the best, tamest or driest racing…
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Automotive Nirvana: Welcome to Goodwood
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It’s the greatest show on Earth, probably. As I type this a gentleman has just lightly crashed a Porsche 917 Pan Am, causing very mild cosmetic damage to the venerable, vulnerable aluminium panelwork, probably causing more, altogether uglier, damage to his underpants in the process. Meanwhile, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd is powering a 1936…
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V12 XJ220: The Biggest of Big Cats
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This was a good test of a Hoon, one which 90% of the people milling around this participant of the Cartier Style Et Luxe at Goodwood this year, failed. Even those who took the time to read the accompanying datacard. “Hey, an XJ220!” they said. They paused, they looked, they appreciated, then they moved on.…
