Together with Polestar’s hanging Idea BST and the UK debut of the Hongqi marque, there have been loads of different main first appearances on the 2024 Goodwood Competition of Velocity. All of this factors to the annual Sussex occasion changing into increasingly vital as a spot for producers to convey their wares earlier than a geed-up public.
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Yangwang U9 electrical supercar
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Goodwood is a venue saturated with automotive environment, from the head of up to date traditional automotive tradition to raucous race machines, with the on a regular basis household transportation of tomorrow someplace within the center. We’ve rounded up 11 of one of the best on present, from ultra-extreme hypercars to next-generation EVs.
2024 Goodwood Competition of Velocity highlights
BMW M5
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The BMW M5 is without doubt one of the legends of the fashionable sports activities automotive world, the highest of the 5-Collection tree remodeled by the corporate’s M-division right into a refined, sensible but vastly spectacular efficiency machine. Over 40 years, the M5 has develop into increasingly excessive, and the newest iteration dropped at Goodwood final week.
The inside of the brand new BMW M5
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That includes a plug-in hybrid powertrain, the brand new M5 is considerably up on energy in comparison with its predecessor, but it surely’s additionally carrying a mighty weight penalty, because of the addition of sufficient batteries for a 46-mile EV-only vary. Will this twin turbo V8 be the final ICE engine in an M5?
BMW M5, from £111,405, BMW-M.com, @BMWM
MG HS SUV
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That is MG’s new HS SUV, an extensively reworked and up to date new model of the Chinese language producer’s best-selling massive electrical SUV. Overhauled in and out, with a notable enhance in dimension the HS now comes with a full sweep of dashboard screens, a 360-degree digicam system and wi-fi charging, in addition to loads of house.
Inside of the brand new MG HS
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The HS is just not fairly on the nostril by way of styling, with a hefty, angular grille and a sharp, barely unbalanced stance. It will not matter, as a result of MG’s USP is low, low value and the HS is an exceptionally nicely outfitted EV for the worth.
MG HS, from £24,995, MG.co.uk, @MGMotorUK
MG Cyber GTS Idea
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MG additionally stunned the present by revealed a coupé model of its new Cyberster Roadster. The brand new Cyber GTS is a full 2+2, not like its two-seater soft-topped sibling, but it retains the dramatic scissor doorways that give the Cyberster its distinctive type (fairly aside from being the primary open-topped EV in the marketplace).
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The result’s a sports activities automotive that guarantees a bit extra practicality, glorious vary and genuinely spectacular appears. Ought to the Cyber GTS will get the inexperienced gentle it is anticipated to return to market in 2025
MG Cyber GTS, idea just for now, MG.co.uk, @MGMotorUK
Purple Bull RB17
Purple Bull RB17 track-only hypercar
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On the higher, higher finish of the market, Goodwood marked the worldwide debut of the long-awaited Purple Bull RB17, a track-only hypercar from the present dominant pressure in Components One. The RB17 is the brainchild and profession apogee of Purple Bull’s in-house designer and aerodynamicist Adrian Newey. Along with serving to information the Austrian group to F1 victory after victory, Newey was additionally the driving pressure behind the Aston Martin Valkyrie.
Purple Bull RB17 track-only hypercar
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If something, the latter was hamstrung by the requirement for it to be street authorized. There aren’t any such restrictions on the RB17, which additionally exploits aero tips and energy choices that no F1 automotive is allowed to do. Weighing in underneath 900kg and powered by a Cosworth-built V10 engine, energy output is estimated at round 1,200bhp, all caught to the observe with Newey’s trademark understanding of aerodynamic perfection. Purple Bull say they’ll constructed 50 vehicles; count on a worth of between £5m and £6m.
Purple Bull RB17, extra info at RedBullRacing.com, @RedBullRacing
Genesis GV60 Magma Idea
Genesis GV60 Magma Idea
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Genesis is following within the footsteps of sister model Hyundai by making a high-performance badge for its vary of EVs. In Genesis’s world, that badge is Magma, and the very first automotive to bear it will likely be the GV60, which ought to seem a while subsequent yr.
The Korean firm showcased an idea, resplendent within the sub-brand’s Magma orange livery, that provides you an thought of what to anticipate: bodykit, lowered and widened, with a darker, brooding inside trim. The ‘commonplace’ Genesis GV60 isn’t any slouch, like most high-end EVs, so that you count on the efficiency boosts to concentrate on dynamics and experience moderately than outright velocity.
Genesis GV60 Magma, extra info at Genesis.com, @Genesis_Europe
Alpine A290
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One other all-electric sports activities automotive, solely this time in a moderately extra modest type. The brand new Alpine A290 is the uprated, performance-focused variant of the all-new Renault 5 E-tech. The Alpine model has its origins in tuning and fettling Renaults and the A290 retains that custom alive.
The dashboard of the Alpine A290
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With 220bhp on faucet, and a vivacious design language that brings to thoughts the mighty 80s-era Renault 5 Turbo2, the littlest Alpine might be the last word compact electrical sports activities automotive.
Alpine A290, extra info at Alpine-Vehicles.co.uk, @AlpineCars
Land Rover Defender Octa
The Land Rover Defender Octa within the wild
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On the different excessive is the brand new Land Rover Defender Octa, JLR’s reply to the relentless SUV energy wars. No hybrid programs, only a huge 4.4-litre twin-turbocharged V8 – intently associated to the BMW M5’s powerplant – and all the standard Defender off-road capacity. With 635bhp, the Octa is well probably the most highly effective Defender the manufacturing unit has ever made. Nonetheless, with nice energy comes nice duty, and a hefty worth as nicely.
Land Rover Defender Octa, from £143,500, extra info at LandRover.co.uk, @LandRover
Honda Prelude Idea
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Together with a truck-load of traditional racing machines, Honda introduced its latest Prelude Idea to Goodwood. This can be a fashionable iteration of a mannequin that discovered a lot favour within the UK till it was killed off on the flip of the century. The Prelude nameplate returns to grace a hybrid coupe design that ought to seem in manufacturing type in 2025, demonstrating a revived dedication to sensible sports activities vehicles within the hybrid and electrical age.
Honda Prelude, extra info at Honda.co.uk, @HondaUKcars
Yangwang U9
Yangwang U9 electrical supercar
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Yangwang is the high-end subsidiary of Chinese language model BYD. Along with the huge U8 SUV, the corporate additionally hopes to begin promoting its U9 supercar. With low, dramatic mid-engine appears (though it has an all-electric powertrain), the corporate hopes the U9 might be a reputable different to Ferrari and Lamborghini – it’ll profit from the shortage of gross sales tax added on to imported supercars.
Inside of the Yangwang U9 all-electric supercar
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The headline stat is a 0-62 time of underneath 2.5 seconds and the dramatic bodywork was overseen by World Director of BYD Design Wolfgang Egger, previously of Alfa Romeo.
Yangwang C9, extra info at YanwangAuto.com
Ford Capri
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Ford’s determination to revive the much-loved Capri model identify for its new electrical coupé SUV is a controversial one. The Capri (1968-1986) was a strict two-door coupé, an inexpensive sports activities automotive with a barely lairy, laddish picture however which nonetheless engendered big affection amongst its 1.9 million-strong proprietor base.
Inside of the brand new Ford Capri EV
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The Capri is now reborn as a high-riding four-door fastback, with not a variety of visible parity with the unique. As an alternative, the design shares a variety of type language and proportion with the Polestar 2, and the platform beneath is shared with Volkswagen’s ID.4. Time will inform if it’ll be as profitable as its Sixties forebear.
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Ford Capri, from £42,075, extra info at Ford.co.uk, @FordUK
INEOS Grenadier Detour
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Not content material with outdoing the unique Land Rover Defender’s rugged attraction, Jim Ratcliffe’s INEOS automotive firm has now given its core product the luxurious therapy. The Grenadier Detour is a particular restricted version of the old-fashioned off-roader, developed by the corporate’s in-house customisation service Arcane Works.
Inside of the INEOS Grenadier Detour
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Inside finishes embody Bridge of Weir leather-based, wool headliner, and loads of choices so as to add your individual distinctive stamp on the automobile.
INEOS Grenadier Detour, extra info at INEOSGrenadier.com, @INEOS_Grenadier
The 2025 Goodwood Competition of Velocity runs from 10-13 July 2025, extra info at Goodwood.com, @FoSGoodwood
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