Tagged: 'Goodwood'

As Goodwood 2008 finished last Sunday, I thought it was only right to do a round-up of the weekends events. Many of our communities members visited the three day event, but overall Friday seemed to be most popular, with almost every member getting in there early to see the motoring spectacle. The top timed run [...]

By suprise Jaguar showed off their brand new Jaguar XF-R model at the Goodwood hillclimb today. Not many people seemed to have noticed it but it’s clearly the new R model with Jaguar’s supercharged 5.0-liter V8 under the bonnet. The 500 hp XF-R has had adjustments to the suspension and brakes to match the increased [...]

At the first day of the Goodwood Festival of Speed a number of race, street and concept cars raced up the famous Goodwood hill. Most interesting for us was the ‘Supercar’ class, that as usual had an amazing lineup for the public. As every year supercar manufacturers and coachbuilders show off their latest builds during [...]

This Lamborghini LP560-4 pushes his car to the limits at the 2008 Goodwood Hillclimb at the first day of the Festival of Speed. The Lamborghini LP560 participated in the Goodwood Supercar class among other (rare) supercars like the Jaguar XF-R, Farbio GTS, Bugatti Veyron, Caparo T1, Aston Martin DBS and many others.

Porsche celebrates 60 years at the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend with a high speed demonstration of the latest generation 911. The facelifted 997 Carrera and 911 GT2 will be participating in the ‘Sunday Times’ Supercar Run up the hillclimb course.
Various other Porsche’s representing all decades of Porsche history will make their [...]

Beginning on Friday, The Goodwood Festival of speed is one of the premier British motorshows. It’s spread over three days and pays homeage to many different style of automotive related speed, this years show focuses on the theme of ‘Hawthorn to Hamilton – Britain’s Love Affair with World Motor Sport’ with the former actually making [...]

1st June saw the June edition of Goodwoods breakfast club. The meeting is held on the first Sunday of each month at the historic East Sussex venue. This months theme was ‘ultimate performance machines’ aiming to attract ‘every form of mouth-watering, high-powered performance exotica – cars and superbikes’. Present where over 100 of the most [...]