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Goodwood FoS 2015: The Best Kind Of Wood
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If this car on the Peugeot stand is property of Peugeot UK then somebody there has an excellent sense of humour. This is the kind of thing I like to see. Moreover, the fact that this car is on the Peugeot stand at all is a mighty reassuring sign. This is a 309 GTI, a…
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Goodwood FoS 2015: The Size Of His Toys- New NSX
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The theme of Honda’s 2015 Goodwood stand was extremely cleverly conceived. Or I might be reading far too much into it. Having their 2015 offerings all packaged up as 1:1 scale models -should I have posted this as a Diecast Delight?- they have created a playful, fun-to-look-at display. Big toys. Excellent. But the subtext, which…
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Goodwood FoS 2015: Ford GT- A Glass Case Of Emotion
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Talk about forbidden fruits. Look, don’t touch. Mitts OFF. Leave it! Not happy. I want to gaze longingly at it with unimpeded vision. I want to follow every undulating contour with my eye until it waters. I want to place a palm on one of its curves, then run it gently but assertively along until…
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Goodwood FoS 2015: The Art Of Noise
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Ladies and Gentlemen…. The Napier Railton. It is machinery like this which forms the very bedrock on which our total commitment to The Car is based. It’s only because of the work of clever chaps in oily overalls decades of years ago that Motorsport- and consequently fast cars- ever became a thing. We thank them.…
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Goodwood FoS 2015: The Bird Is The Word
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Bird has always been the word. T’bird, Superbird, Blackbird, My Bird, Doing Bird, giving the bird; In every single one of these applications it’s equally life-changing. And we didn’t even really need The Trashmen to tell us. The Plymouth Superbird is probably my favourite of them all. So, when I walked around a corner in…
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Goodwood FoS 2015: Mustang. Feeling A Little Horse
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The UK has been gripped by Mustang Fever for a little while now. So much so that, well, it’s almost become a little bit boring. When I’m wandering down a cobbled street and I hear the thunderous reverbulations of a stateside V8, I get all anticipative. Whassat? Roadrunner? GTO? Cobra? Nope. It’s always some guy…
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Goodwood FoS 2015: Why Jaguar Taking Us For A Ride is a Good Thing.
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Jaguar used to be a very stiff-upper-lip kind of company. Rightly proud of their past, their heritage, but quite often a bit backwards in moving forwards. They would do things a certain way. The Jaguar way. And it was fine. Jaguars sold pretty well, because they were pretty good. And the “R” models were pretty…
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Goodwood FOS 2015: March Of The Supercars
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For a lot of people, including me, the Goodwood Festival of Speed is about escapism. It’s about leaving the hideous, stressful, jammed and potholed roads and watching people burn rubber. It’s also about coveting thy neighbours goods. And when the goods are this good, it’s difficult not to. The parade of cost-no-object exotica that we…
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Goodwood FOS 2015: I now TOTALLY GET the new MX5.
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Photographs are garbage. Sorry, photographers, you’re all wonderful people, but life happens in Three Dimensions. In an image you can see the language behind a design. You can decide whether, in principle, you like it. Just like skim-reading a book, you can get the gist of what’s going on with a single glance. Of course,…
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Goodwood FOS 2015: An Exhibition of British Muscle
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Well, since we’re here in ultra-rural Sussex which is about as British (more specifically English) as it gets, I thought we’d have a showcase of some of the plummier, more dentally challenged, limier racers to be seen at This Year’s Festival of Speed. Y’all keep having it shoved down your throat Some of you already…
