The awesome VUHL 05RR gets it's first ever reveal at this years Goodwood Festival of Speed.

The VUHL 05, which is now on sale in the UK, is about to meet its lighter, faster, track-focused younger brother at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2016.

Part of the new category, Race Cars for the Road, within the Michelin Supercar Paddock at the Festival of Speed, the new VUHL 05RR will be revealed for the first time and driven up the famed Goodwood Hillclimb by UK rising star GP2 driver and Formula 1 test driver, Jordan King.

Iker Echeverria, VUHL Technical Director, said: “I am so looking forward to returning to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year, with our new 05RR car. We have upgraded all the car’s systems to make it faster, more engaging and even more track focused. We feel very close to the UK market, as around 50% of our componentry is developed and produced in Britain, and it is the place we debuted our first car.”

The new 05RR is the result of extensive track development of the 05, combined with aggressive mass reduction and aero programmes and the sourcing of top quality components specified in collaboration with partner suppliers’ engineering teams.

The 05RR will be positioned above the standard VUHL 05 as the choice of the true track and performance enthusiast.  Still road legal, the 05RR retains a number of comfort options to ensure enjoyable and useable on-road performance.

More information will be released from the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which takes place from 23-26 June 2016.

VUHL cars are sold in the UK through Bespoke Performance (www.bespokeperformance.co.uk) based in Ware, Hertfordshire – who will be supporting VUHL and welcoming visitors across the four days of the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2016.

Maserati has chosen this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed & Moving Motor Show launch the Levante in the UK.

Maserati has chosen this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed and Moving Motor Show weekend to showcase the dynamic debut of its first ever SUV, the Levante.

The Levante, launched last month at a star-studded event in London, is Maserati’s first luxury SUV and encompasses the design, performance and exclusivity that has been central to all the brand’s models since its inception in 1914.

The Moving Motor Show, part of Goodwood’s Press & Preview day, has opened the legendary Festival of Speed since 2010 and is a unique opportunity for visitors to get a sneak preview of all Festival content, as well as a chance to get behind the wheel of some of the newest metal to arrive in the UK.

The Levante will be on display in the Moving Motor Show pavilion and will make its first dynamic runs up Goodwood’s famous 1.16-mile hillclimb in the ‘First Glance’ Class during the Festival of Speed on Friday-Sunday.

Meanwhile, Maserati’s flagship Quattroporte will also be on display at the Moving Motor Show while the popular Ghibli will be available to experience first-hand in passenger rides on Thursday.

Goodwood’s Moving Motor Show is now the event of choice for manufacturers to unveil their newest cars to the UK market. The event, held on the Thursday of the Festival of Speed weekend, is expected to attract some 35,000 visitors this year, with more than 200,000 expected over the weekend as a whole.

The Levante, which completes a model line-up that allows Maserati to cover every element of the global luxury market, will be one of many brand new cars that will make their debut at this year’s Goodwood event, making it a must-see for enthusiasts and prospective buyers alike.

The main Festival of Speed weekend is a must in every petrolhead’s diary, gathering together the world’s most exciting cars – from supercars for the road to Formula 1 – as well as a vast array of off-track entertainment, all housed in the grounds of Lord March’s Goodwood Estate.

Cups of Tea, Visit number, cars and overall BHP, we have some of the numbers for Goodwood 2015.

With the opening today of the Goodwood Moving Motor Show, the most eagerly-anticipated motoring event of the year – the Festival of Speed – is underway.

Lord March opened the Moving Motor Show this morning by driving the new Mazda MX-5 up the Goodwood Estate’s famous, 1.16-mile Hillclimb course. Mazda is being honoured with the iconic Central Feature situated outside Goodwood House and has chosen the Moving Motor Show to give the new MX-5 its UK debut.

But, while the Festival of Speed is already one of the most famous and respected motoring events in the world, the legendary four-day event still holds a few of its own secrets.

Ahead of the annual celebration of all things motorised and motor sport, in quintessentially British fashion, Goodwood has revealed the top 10 things you might not know about the Goodwood Moving Motor Show and Festival of Speed.

• Goodwood’s Moving Motor Show (Thursday, June 25) covers 5500m² of the Goodwood Estate – enough space to park 1200 classic Minis bumper-to-bumper
• Over 10,000 cups of tea will be served in Goodwood House over the Festival of Speed weekend
• 70,000 cars will be at the event (including competition and Moving Motor Show cars, display cars and those in the public car parks)
• 4,200 miles will be covered on the famous 1.16-mile hillclimb over the weekend – that’s the same as driving from Goodwood to New York
• This year’s Central Feature, which honours Mazda, is 37m high and weighs approximately 133 tonnes
• The collective horse power of all of the cars running on the hill across the weekend is approximately 120,000bhp
• 3,800 bales of hay will be used as crash barriers at the event
• 300 marshals will work across the weekend to keep the drivers and spectators safe
• Around 6,000 visitors will camp on the Goodwood Estate over the weekend
• The loudest car at the event will be Don Garlits’ Swamp Rat 1-B – an astonishing 1959 drag-racing machine
• Four active Formula 1 race winners, with 67 grand prix victories between them, will drive during the Festival of Speed; Kimi Raikkonen, Felipe Massa, Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button.

The action gets underway on Thursday, June 25 with the Moving Motor Show; billed as the ultimate test-drive experience, the Moving Motor Show will feature global, European and UK debuts from many of the 20 manufacturers exhibiting, meaning that visitors to the event will be among the first in the world to see the newest models from the likes of Aston Martin, Ford, Ferrari and Peugeot.

More than 34,000 visitors are expected to attend the Moving Motor Show, with the total crowd for the Festival weekend expected to top last year’s number of 202,000.

Goodwood debuts the aggressive Nissan Juke-R 2.0, with a dynamic debut on the Hillclimb too.

• New Nissan Juke-R 2.0 concept makes global dynamic debut
• NISMO athletes, Al Buncombe, Jann Mardenborough and Sir Chris Hoy in action on the hillclimb
• Live recruitment for the 2015 GT Academy on the Nissan stand

Nissan has announced its most thrilling Goodwood Festival of Speed line-up yet, headlined by the global dynamic debut of the brand new Juke-R 2.0.

Originally revealed in 2011, the pioneering Juke-R married Nissan’s genre-busting Juke with the engine and running gear from the GT-R, the brand’s flagship sportscar.

Now four years on, Juke-R has been given an exciting upgrade to reflect the latest model of the Juke, coupled with even more power and bolder styling – welcome the Juke-R 2.0.

The Juke-R 2.0 will be displayed on the Nissan stand on Thursday 25 June before being moved to the Supercar Paddock for the remainder of the weekend. Visitors will also witness the Juke-R 2.0 make its dynamic debut on Goodwood’s Hillclimb, driven by Nissan GT Academy graduate and Le Mans 24 Hours driver, Jann Mardenborough.

Nissan on the Hillclimb:

• World premiere of Juke-R 2.0 driven by Jann Mardenborough
• NISMO athlete Al Buncombe in the GT-R GT3 car, while Sir Chris Hoy will drive the LMP3-class European Le Mans Series race cars

As well as showcasing its performance models, crossover line-up and EV range on its stand, Nissan will be entertaining visitors with an array of interactive experiences and access to sports personalities.

Away from the Hillclimb and on the virtual race track,  Nissan will be giving away three ‘golden ticket’ entries to its pioneering GT Academy competition, which will endeavour to create yet more brand new racing drivers out of Gran Turismo 6 gamers when the Academy Race Camp kicks off in Abu Dhabi in October. Across the weekend, motorsport enthusiasts are invited to take part in a virtual race on Nissan’s circular PlayStation pods. The top racers will be invited to participate in a number of activities and interviews before one lucky gamer each day of the event (Friday – Sunday) will win a place in the Nissan GT Academy Race Camp in Abu Dhabi in October.

Nissan will also host a series of live Q&A sessions over the weekend; Nissan racing drivers Sir Chris Hoy, Jann Mardenborough and Al Buncombe, as well as London 2012 T-42 200m Paralympic Gold Medallist Richard Whitehead MBE, London 2012 Track cyclist Jess Varnish, 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Sprint Champion Becky James and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Gold medal gymnast, Max Whitlock.  

Thanks to Nissan’s partnerships with the British Olympic Association, British Paralympic Association and UEFA Champions League, visitors to Goodwood will be able to take part in a variety of interactive activities, from an opportunity to have a photo taken with the UEFA

Champions League Trophy on Saturday and Sunday to trying out wheelchair racing against 2012 Paralympic World Cup Gold Medal Wheelchair sprinter Richard Chiassaro.

New Lexus GS F gets its Dynamic Debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2015.

The new Lexus GS F will be driven in public for the first time at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (26 to 28 June). The latest Lexus to carry the marque’s F performance designation will give a first European demonstration of its speed and handling on Goodwood’s famous hillclimb course, with Toyota Gazoo Racing pilot Mike Conway at the wheel.

The V8-powered machine will be a poised performer, having been dynamically honed on the famous Nürburgring Nordschleife during its development programme. Although the confines of the Goodwood hill won’t permit a full-blooded drive, the car’s sound, turn of speed and sharp-edged styling promise to make a big impression.

The festival date follows the car’s world debut at the Detroit motor show earlier this year and first European appearance at the Geneva motor show in the spring.

In the best traditions of Lexus’s F models, such as the LFA and new RC F coupe, the GS F is designed and engineered for exceptional driver rewards. 

Although based on the GS saloon, it benefits from significant revisions to sharpen its performance and handling. The body shell is reinforced, the suspension is sports-tuned and Lexus’s Torque Vectoring Differential – first seen on the RC F coupe – is fitted as standard.

At the heart of the performance package is Lexus’s naturally aspirated 5.0-litre V8 engine, producing 470bhp and 530Nm of torque.

The GS F’s Goodwood bow is an early preface to its appearance on the road; details of a production version for the UK will be announced later in the year.

Lexus will further add to the festival’s programme of rare and exclusive machines with appearance from the LFA supercar and the RC F GT3 competition car that is being campaigned this season by Frey Racing in the VLN endurance series in Germany.

Aston Martin’s Vantage GT12 – will make its world dynamic debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Aston Martin’s most performance-focused, road-going Vantage ever – the Vantage GT12 – will make its world dynamic debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

The extreme, lightweight special edition features a 6-litre V12 engine producing 600PS and bridges the gap between road and track driving in spectacular fashion, calling on Aston Martin’s rich heritage in motorsport.

Only 100 of the special editions will be built and all of them have already been snapped up in advance by eager buyers.

Visitors to Goodwood’s Moving Motor Show on Thursday, June 25, will get a sneak preview of the Vantage GT12 as it takes its place as a static display in the Supercar Paddock. 

The car will then tackle the famous 1.16-mile Goodwood Hill Climb course, with Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer at the wheel during the Festival weekend.

Comprehensively re-engineered, the Vantage GT12 is inspired by the marque’s V12 Vantage GT3 race car and is significantly restyled to reflect Aston Martins Motorsport pedigree. 

The car is packed with race-inspired features, from its lower and wider stance and track-focused aerodynamics package to the extensive use of carbon fibre throughout.

Aston Martin will also have several other vehicles at the Moving Motor Show; they will be:

• Vanquish Coupe V12 Vantage S Coupe
• V12 Vantage S Roadster
• Rapide S
• Vanquish Volante

The sixth annual Moving Motor Show is expected to attract record crowds, eclipsing last year’s 34,000 visitors.

Over the years, the show has hosted tens of thousands of people and up to 500 different models of car, which have completed an estimated 6,000 miles of driving on the famous Hillclimb.

Twenty car manufacturers will exhibit at this year’s event on June 25 and visitors to the Moving Motor Show also get an exclusive ‘sneak preview’ to the Festival of Speed.

This includes access to the Formula 1 Paddock presented by Sky Sports F1, Cartier ‘Style et Luxe’ Concours d’Elegance, Michelin Supercar Paddock and all of the automotive show stands.

Ferrari to have the biggest range of cars at Goodwood in it's history, including some UK Debuts.

FERRARI 488 GTB TO MAKE UK DEBUT, WITH CARS FROM THE CORSE CLIENTI XX PROGRAMME, INCLUDING THE NEW 1050 CV FXX-K

Ferrari is proud to announce the dynamic UK debut of its latest mid-rear-engined V8 supercar, the 488 GTB, as well as the FXX-K at this year’s Festival of Speed, with both cars tackling the challenging 1.6 mile Goodwood Hill Climb along with a full supporting cast of Ferrari cars in the greatest-ever display from the Prancing Horse at the event.

The 488 GTB is Ferrari’s first mid-engined twin-turbo V8 since the iconic 288 GTO and F40, with 650CV and a unique engine management system that delivers torque in a controlled and sustained manner with zero turbo lag and response times equivalent to a naturally-aspirated V8 engine. 

The track-only FXX-K exemplifies Ferrari’s leadership in innovation and technology, with a V12 engine and hybrid system that constantly delivers 1050CV, with the “K” in its moniker a reference to the “KERS” kinetic energy recovery system it adopts in maximising its track performance.

The 488 GTB will be taking part in the Michelin Supercar Run during the Festival of Speed, alongside four other Ferrari cars: the Ferrari California T, F12berlinetta, LaFerrari and the F12 TRS. 

Ferrari’s Corse Clienti division, which provides cars and support services for clients racing in the Challenge or international GT series, will also be bringing the 599 XX from the laboratory XX programme. A Ferrari 458 Challenge will also participate in the Hill Climb for GT race cars.

The Scuderia Ferrari team will also be on hand to field a 2010 Ferrari F10 Formula 1 car driven by ex-F1 driver, Marc Gené.

The Prancing Horse will also well represented with an outstanding entry of private client cars from several decades of Ferrari’s racing history, with current entries as follows:

YEAR	MODEL	CLASS
1953	Ferrari 250MM	Classic Endurance Racers
1969	Ferrari 312P	Sports Racers 1968-81
1969	Ferrari 712	Sports Racers 1968-81
1970	Ferrari 512M	Derek Bell Celebration
1975	Ferrari 312T	The Cosworth Years
1976	Ferrari 308 GTB	Forest Rally Stage
1979	Ferrari 512 BB/LM	Sports Racers 1968-81
1979	Ferrari 312 T4/5	The Cosworth Years
1984	Ferrari 126 C4/M2	The Turbo Era and Beyond
1990	Ferrari 641	The Turbo Era and Beyond