Tag: goodwood
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F1 aerodynamics mean no big wings on British sports car
The British company Elemental revealed its Rp1 sports car at last weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. The Rp1 is built around a carbon composite tub, and buyers have a choice of two Ford EcoBoost engines: a 180-horsepower 1.0-liter 3-cylinder or a 320-horse 2.0-liter 4-cylinder. What makes this car unique, however, is its use of Formula…
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Goodwood’s glorious Festival of Speed: photo galleries
Quick, name an event in which cars 110 years apart compete against each other to race up a hill. Stumped? Welcome to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, a unique, surreal, one-of-a-kind event in which cars of every size, type, and variety compete run up a 1.1-mile hill as fast as possible. And last weekend, we…
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2017 Porsche Panamera preview
Porsche has released information on the second-generation of its flagship sedan (it’s actually a hatchback), and the 2017 Porsche Panamera is a better looking car than the first generation. The new Panamera is an evolution of the last car, not a revolution, but the lumpy look of the roof–there to provide plenty of headroom–is smoothed…
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8 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Shelby Daytona Coupe: Video
Last fall’s Goodwood Revival served as the stage for Shelby American’s 50th anniversary celebrations of the monumental 1965 World Sportscar Championship, a championship in which Shelby finished ahead of Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] to secure a manufacturers’ title—a first for an American team in international motorsport. The car…
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2017 Honda Ridgeline Is New Truck To Love, Per Super Bowl 50 Spot: Video
Remember when you had to wait to watch the Super Bowl to see the ads? Those days, sadly, are now gone and there are little surprises left for the game itself. Still, that doesn’t mean the spots themselves aren’t entertaining. Honda has one all set for Super Bowl 50 on February 7, but it just…
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Bruce McLaren Latest Auto Icon To Get Big Screen Feature
It’s been more than four decades since New Zealander Bruce McLaren lost his life testing a Can-Am car at the Goodwood Circuit in Southern England. A hillclimb event began his racing career, which would see McLaren race and design cars at the sport’s highest levels, including Formula One and Can-Am, before his untimely death at…
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Escort Just Released A Radar Detector With Arrows, Your Move Valentine One
For anyone who takes radar and laser detectors seriously, there are only two brands to consider: Escort and Valentine One. For years Escort has added new technology to its detectors, from GPS lockout to minimize false alerts to its red light camera database. Meanwhile, Valentine One has quietly updated its software, and gotten slightly thinner…
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2015 Goodwood Revival: A Gallery Of Living History
Imagine a magical place where Ferrari 250 GTOs race against Jaguar E-Types, where legendary drivers pilot vintage cars they’ve never driven before, where cars that belong in museums swap paint with equally valuable rivals, and, for a touch of class, where the vast majority of spectators dress in period garb. That place is a gearhead’s…
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Chris Harris Goes To Goodwood And Good Things Happen: Video
Chris Harris has traveled to Goodwood and he’s brought his camera man with him, and that’s a very good thing. That’s because Harris isn’t just there to ogle the pretty machines in attendance. Instead, he’s there to drive and race a few of these classic bits of angry iron. This is the 73rd Goodwood Member’s…
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2016 Mercedes-Benz GLC Spy Video
Just as the Mercedes-Benz M-Class has been replaced by the new GLE, the smaller GLK-Class is set to be replaced by a new model called the “GLC”. The GLC is expected to make a world debut at the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show in September but it’s not hard to extrapolate the basic design and shape…