The $267,000 Bentley makes 621 HP on E85, will hit 60 MPH in 3.7 seconds, continuing on to a top speed of 204 MPH. Of course it's also six and a half feet wide and weighs 5,258 Lbs, which makes Bell's pace on Lord March's driveway all the more impressive, he hits speeds in excess of 100 MPH on multiple occasions.

The Bentley Continental Supersports, the fastest and most powerful car in the company's 90-year history, received the ultimate examination of its supercar handling and performance credentials when Le Mans racing legend and honorary ‘Bentley Boy' Derek Bell spent the weekend driving the 621bhp Bentley at pace during the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

The muscular two-seater, which delivers a 0-60mph sprint time of just 3.7 seconds and a maximum top speed of 204mph, produced a series of searing runs up the Goodwood Hill with Bell regularly pushing the car well-over the 100mph mark on a highly challenging course renowned for its narrow road and succession of tight corners and bends.

Designed and built at Bentley's Crewe headquarters, the Continental Supersports combines extreme performance with the pioneering use of FlexFuel technology in the luxury sector. The 6-litre W12 twin-turbocharged engine is capable of running on either petrol, E85 biofuel or any combination of these fuel sources.

A classic equestrian statue—albeit with neither Archduke Charles of Austria nor Tamerlane riding it—was the first massive automotive installation at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, created in 1997 to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Ferrari. The practice has since become a major visual hallmark of the festival along with the endless bales of hay and the scores of racing drivers in attendance.

I had already heard of this year’s colossal outcrop of Aluminum und Shteel before emerging from behind a copse to arrive at the entrance of Goodwood House but that did not diminish at all its power to awe. A 40-ton loop of steel played heavenly tarmac to two pinnacles of Vorsprung durch Technik. On one end was parked Audi’s latest and greatest, the V10-powered Audi R8. Opposite the R8 was a seventy-year-old race car with 1.6× the cylinders.

Quite a car, that. A contemporary of Art Deco marvels like the Chrysler Airflow and the Cadillac Sixteen, it is a streamlined version of the V16 monster that Bernd Rosemeyer drove to win the 1936 European Grand Prix Championship with. During the Rekordwoche—Record Week—of October 1937, Rosemeyer drove this car to 406 km/h (252 MPH) on the public road. That’s within rounding error of the Bugatti Veyron’s top speed and is officially the second fastest anyone has ever gone on a public highway. The record was set three months later on a cold January morning, when Rosemeyer’s nemesis Rudolf Caracciola drove his Mercedes-Benz W125 Streamliner at 268 MPH. Rosemeyer followed ninety minutes later in the Auto Union’s successor, which accidentally developed ground effects that broke the car apart at a speed very close to Caracciola’s, killing the ethereal German.

The man who makes these leviathans of car geekery is a rather unlikely candidate for the job. Gerry Judah is a Baghdadi Jew from Calcutta living in London since 1961.

He is a classically trained artist with diplomas from Goldsmith College and the Slade School of Fine Art. Like a fellow Baghdadi Jew—Sir Victor Sassoon, builder of the gorgeous Peace Hotel in Shanghai—Judah is drawn to making large things. He has worked with many institutions and artists in creating oversized sculptures, displayed outside of museums. Like at the Festival of Speed.

A most interesting aspect of Judah’s work for the Earl of March is its remarkable variety. From Land Rovers climbing a wireframe mountain to a line of Toyota racecars strung up in line, he rarely does the same thing twice. Or, as he was quoted by Wallpaper* magazine in a grammatically correct play on the classic Apple tagline: “You've got to think differently every year.”

Photo Credit: Wallpaper* (second from top), Bruno Postle/Flickr (second from bottom), Mark Thompson/Getty Images (bottom) and the author

The Red Arrows use BAE Hawk T1A jet trainers to display their aerial moves in their incredibly busy schedule. The unit was set up in 1964 and has flown over 4000 shows since.

Forming an excellent and even redder backdrop to their acrobatics was a line of Ferraris you can see in the video. Not a shabby selection, with the rosso corsa on one of the world’s 39 250 GTO’s, a 1969 312P Le Mans prototype and a 1950 166 MM Barchetta wreaking havoc with MPEG compression algorithms. But the real star of the lineup is the second from right: Scuderia Serenissima’s mad Breadvan. It’s the racing car with perhaps the most insane, comical, revengeful and inspiring story ever.

This I knew well before Goodwood. What I didn’t was that it eclipses pretty much everything in aural ferocity. You’ll hear it soon enough.

Photo Credit: ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images (Red Arrows) and the author

My last visit to the United States of America was in the early spring of 2004. I landed at JFK in a freezing wind, clattered in raw metal subway cars up to St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem and proceeded to spend the next few weeks getting hooked on Krispy Kreme donuts, Macintosh computers and a Cadillac Seville with no ass.

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The apartment was on the first floor of an old house by St. Nicholas Park, bathed in regular clouds of marijuana smoke wafting up from the street below, visited by the occasional cockroach and heated by a silver-painted contraption seemingly from the early days of the Industrial Revolution.

They say it was a radiator. Perhaps, but it was certainly an awful radiator. You couldn’t trust it at all. During the cold winter of 2003-2004, it let down the apartment’s two permanent inhabitants—Bertalan pictured above, Lili behind the camera—so many times that it became a sad running joke. There were reports of entire days spent shivering in winter clothes and under blankets. Watching exhaled air form clouds as the ambient temperature approached the bottom edge of water in the liquid state.

But all that was forgotten when the radiator came to life. It snorted and hawked and gurgled and hissed, it was a machine from Victorian England living a second lease on life. You never felt safe in its immediate vicinity as a violent steam explosion with shrapnels of red-hot metal flying through the air often seemed imminent. And it gave off ample heat. It dried towels, warmed up St. Nicholas Avenue, it lifted the spirits.

The Bugatti Veyron sounds exactly like that radiator. That, of course, is no great surprise, as Jeremy Clarkson has already described the car in very similar terms in his December 2005 review for The Sunday Times, writing that “the engine sounds like Victorian plumbing — it looks like Victorian plumbing as well, to be honest.”

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The Veyron is at 03:07

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But it’s one thing to read that in the paper and quite another to stand three and a half years later behind bales of hay in the south of England and hear this modern-day Turbopanzer for the first time. You get used to supercars screaming on the upper edge of the human hearing spectrum and nothing really prepares you for the ultimate of their breed—at least in numbers—to gurgle by as a Victorian battleship, barely exercising the depths of its quirky 8-liter W16 engine. Sounding not like a car at all.

I wonder what Ettore Bugatti would make of this. That the latest incarnation of his lithe French racers is built by Germans to sound like the war machines of the British Empire.

Incidentally, the blue car pictured here is the T-top Veyron, also known as Officially The Fastest Road Legal Production Convertible. It was among the few cars cordoned off from the swirling masses at the Festival of Speed. You could, of course, lean in and poke its polished aluminum wheels, if you had long enough fingers.

I had long enough fingers but restrained myself. But I did lean in to bring you this picture of the Stig's head, which apparently comes on the side of your $2,000,000 purchase:

Photo of apartment with radiator by Lili Mesterhazy.

The W25 was created by a resurgent Mercedes-Benz to rule the world, which it did after some teething pains. It was designed in 1933 to race in the 750 kg formula, which stipulated that a car’s weight cannot exceed 750 kilos (1650 lb). Unfortunately, upon closer inspection the W25 did exceed that weight.

Driver Manfred von Brauchitsch recalls in his autobiography the decision to scrap all the German racing white paint off the aluminum bodywork during the night before the car’s first race, the 1934 Eifelrennen at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The jettisoned paint dipped the car’s weight below the threshold and in his legal and lightweight car von Brauchitsch proceeded to win the race.

The car was a brilliant, dominating achievement for Mercedes, which had been struggling at this point against Scuderia Ferrari’s Alfa Romeo P3’s. The shriek you hear in the video is the supercharger blowing through the carburators of the 3.3-liter straight eight engine, giving it 354 HP at 5800 RPM, incredible numbers for its day.

On the morning of the Festival of Speed’s closing day, Brawn GP’s championship-leading driver Jenson Button took it for a ride at Goodwood. He rather liked it.

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We'll let louiebaby (on Jay's left) tell you how it happened.

Please find the attached pic of Jay. We feel a bit guilty actually since he's such a legend. I'm on Jay's left, my friend is called Thom, on Jay's right.

We wore the t shirts to humiliate my brother, (the photographer,) for his birthday, which worked a treat. The guy stood infront of Jay was interviewing him with a small video camera, but I don't know whether he got us in his shot.

That still doesn't explain why Jay is wearing Justin Hart's race suit, but since he doesn't take himself too seriously, we're sure Jay would see the humor. In fact, since these two probably giggle everytime someone says "Goodwood," they might be perfect interviewees for Jaywalking.

When you look at vintage photography of motor racing, you may be led to believe that back when racing wasn’t a global media spectacle, the stars constantly hobnobbed with their fans. This is probably not true. But what certainly is true is that modern motorsports events guard their principal actors behind security systems the Secret Service would approve of. At a Formula One race, or at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, you can barely see the pits, let alone the drivers, who speed by behind Armco and barbed wire at 200+ MPH in full-faced helmets.

The Festival of Speed is supposed to be different. For one thing, there are an incredible number of famous people present from all walks of motoring. Racing drivers past and present, rich petrolheads, carmakers: they are all there. Add to that the remarkable access you have to the cars themselves: Porsche 917’s and Silver Arrows race full throttle behind a 1950s-style hay barrier and you can walk up to multimillion-dollar racing cars, pat them on their Gurney flaps and no one will chide you.

Let’s see the few notables who have walked or driven in front of my camera.

Jay Leno

Weird news: Leno is no shorter and no taller than on screen. I ran into him at 10:02 AM as he was giving an interview to a TV crew in front of Goodwood House. He was very nice, posing with kids and giving them autographs. Later in the day, he drove a Harrods-liveried McLaren F1 GTR up the hill.

Emanuele Pirro

The great Italian Le Mans winner—his five titles at Le Sarthe are equalled or topped by only four men—was in the Audi area, driving an R15 back to the pits.

Sir Stirling Moss

Britain’s “all-around hero”–as the official program called the 80-year-old racing driver—was very active all day, not only for an octagenarian but for anyone out in the wind and the sun all day. He drove his 1955 Mercedes-Benz W196 and also the outgoing special edition of the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, pictured here, which bears his name. I didn’t actually see him out of his many cars, but he came on the screens dotting the are several times during the day.

Sir Jackie Stewart

The hilarious Scot had many of his brilliant blue Matras and Tyrrells on display and on the track. He also spoke on a panel with Alan Jones about modern Formula One, which you’ll be able to read about shortly. He is seen here around noon, signing autographs.

Alan Jones

The Australian is the man who gave Sir Frank Williams the first of his seven Drivers’ Championships in 1980 with the ground effects FW07. He was on a panel with Sir Jackie and proceeded to sign autographs.

Al Unser

The four-time Indy 500 winner was one of many American racing heroes on the scene, seen here driving up the hill in the 1978 Lola T500 car which gave him his third win at the Brickyard.

David Piper

You may not know this pipe-smoking Englishman but he is one of the coolest privateers in the sports car community. He has driven his privately entered Ferrari 250 GTO’s and Porsche 917’s over decades, all painted in Piper’s trademark cornfield green. He was a stunt driver for the movie Le Mans and crashed badly during filming, losing one of his legs. This, of course, has not stopped him driving his 917.

Damon Hill

In spite of his F1 world title a 13-year-old memory now, Hill still has an incredible cult in Britain. Out of nowhere, he walked past me by the Formula One area, followed by a rooster tail of fans screaming DAMOOOOON at the tops of their lungs. Hill escaped into a VIP area and proceeded to sign a few more autographs before he escaped inside, followed by frustrated cries of more DAMOOOOOOOOON. He is seen here at the moment of escape.

For almost two decades, the fastest Jaguar ever was the XJ220, that troubled turbocharged cruise missile riding on the tails of Jaguar’s very successful late 80s endurance racing program. After racing driver Martin Brundle took one for a ride around Nardò at 217 MPH, it became not only the fastest Jag, but the fastest production car ever, eclipsed only by the McLaren F1.

That was 17 years ago. These days, Jaguar no longer makes slippery supercars but has become quite a player in sports coupés and sports sedans for people who wouldn’t want to be seen in a Bimmer. And while the top speed for production cars has since crept up by 40 MPH or so, it’s still quite a surprise that succeeding the XJ220 in the fastest Jag department is a souped-up family sedan.

The XFR Prototype taken to 225 MPH at Bonneville by 24 Hours of Daytona-winning Paul Gentilozzi is not a limited-edition techie supercar but is almost American in its wonderfully brute method of going about its business. Said business is nothing but speed, achieved with a 500 HP, 5-liter V8, located behind an expanse of chicken wire. The car Gentilozzi assaulted the lakebed with differs only slightly from this production version: all it had in extra was a chin spoiler, a rear wing, a roll cage and a reprogrammed ECU nudging an extra hundred HP out of that supercharged V8.

The XFR Prototype was one of many Jags at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and it wasn’t even the most remarkable when it comes to producing noise in copious quantities. Consider that a warning. Footage of 1950s Le Mans racers will soon follow.

Ferrari Breadvan

I had suspected it, but seeing it in motion proved once and for all that the Breadvan is perhaps the coolest racing car ever. More on this later.

Very Old Bugatti

It was a great moment in car design when they decided to place controls on the inside.

1928 Morgan Super Aero

Engine out in front, a single driven wheel in the rear. Not very exciting, it is?

Bugatti hood

A Bugatti not blue enough gets a helpful bouquet.

1938 Hispano-Suiza H6C Saoutchik Xenia Coupé

The ultimate in the style also known as Art Deco Pimped.

Al Unser

Earlier on the course, he had to negotiate a right turn. Several right turns, in fact.

John Player Special Cigarettes

God I hate the Brits. Even their trash is stylish and appropriate.

Porsche 917/30

It’s the Turbopanzer! This is the ultimate, 1500 HP version of the 40-year-old 917, as driven by Mark Donohue in CanAm. It’s a huge, garish monster.

Brawn GP BGP-001

This is where Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello work.

Motor Sport Can Be Dangerous

Straw? Magnesium? Racing fuel? I see the point.

Dodge Ram SRT-10

Overused it may be, there is simply no way to avoid the caption “America, Fuck Yeah” with this gargantuan SRT-10 lurking on the Earl of March’s fields.

Red Bull Body Panel

What would motorsport be without duct tape?

Alfa Romeo P2

For added authenticity, this late 1920s Alfa Romeo race car does what Alfa Romeos are supposed to do: it leaks its oil.

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport

For your one gazillion dollars, you lose the roof but gain the Stig’s head.

Sir Jackie Stewart

Yes, he is super funny.

Damon Hill

He’s just about finished with signing autographs.

Man Fixing Car

I was wearing red trousers as well but didn’t at any point find myself under a Talbot Lago. How peculiar.

Dirty Slicks

This is how sticky slick tires are. They pick up pretty much everything from the track surface.

Maserati 250F

Like every old racing car, remarkably small. And very beautiful.

Jay Leno

Another first-timer at Goodwood. Seemed to enjoy himself. Drove a racing McLaren F1 up the hill. As I did not, I suppose it’s not the best way whether you’re a first-timer at Goodwood or not.

Abarth 205 Monza

Kids just adore ultra-tiny racecars.

1966 Ferrari F1 Car

They were inferior to the Loti of the time but have you seen a prettier exhaust system this side of the Gurney Eagle’s?

#3

Very much not a typical part of the Essex countryside.

Mercedes-Benz W196

Why is it cooler than the Breadvan? Because it won races in a massive way. And because Stirling Moss drove one.

David Piper’s Porsche 917

What a wonderful man. Forty years after losing his leg while filming Le Mans, he’s still driving his own 917.

1937 Auto Union Type C Streamliner

Bernd Rosemeyer drove this thing at 250 MPH. In late 1937. On the public road. Its successor would kill him.

Tesla Roadster

Have you ever wondered what all the batteries look like? Wonder no more!

Caparo T1 Exhaust

It’s very hard to get bored by the way titanium pick up rainbow hues when used as an exhaust pipe.

If you'll remember, the Namir features a 0.8-liter rotary engine used to power four electric motors — one for each wheel. The combined motors will give the eco-supercar a top speed of 187 MPH, all-wheel drive, a 0-to-62 MPH time of 3.7 seconds and a 1,200-mile range (though probably not all at the same time). We've learned a bit more about the Namir in its current prototype form:

• For Goodwood, the car just used two motors out back powering the rear wheels.
• In EV-only mode the car can travel about 60 miles depending on driving conditions.
• Using the charger you can travel the full 60 electric miles without using the gas engine.
• All the hardware was developed in-house
• It's not purely vaporware as they intend to build and market a few of these vehicles, though the ultimate goal is to demonstrate the technology

The one-off performance model features a lowered suspension and a tweaked exhaust system for a louder and more intimidating sound and was purposely built for the event, painted in an extremely distinct lime-green color while the coupe also featured special exterior graphics in gray and orange.

Other styling tweaks that differentiate this model over the standard 2010 XKR facelift include the 21-inch alloys and the satin graphite detailing to the front grilles, door mirrors, rear signature blade, side window surrounds, headlights and bonnet louvres.

What's more is Jaguar's engineers fiddled around with the XKR's supercharged 5.0-liter V8 that in standard form makes 510 HP and 461 lb-ft of torque launching the sports coupe from 0-to-60 MPH in 4.6 seconds. In the XKR Goodwood Special, output is lifted to 530 HP and torque to 516.2 lb-ft. No word on what that'll do to the final 0-to-60 time. Gallery below.

The new 8C Spider is based on the 8C Competizione, sharing the coupe's Maserati-sourced 450 HP 4.7-liter V8 as well as its sexy good looks. Along with the first production 8C Spider, Alfa Romeo will roll out a couple of their classics including the 1924 P2 Gran Premio, 1931 8C 2300 Tipo Le Mans, 1975 33 TT 12, 1968 Carabo Concept and the 1978 Navajo Concept. With this gorgeous grouping of cars in attendance, Goodwood promises to be quite the place to be this weekend. [WCF]

2009 Alfa Romeo 8C Spider
1924 Alfa Romeo P2 Gran Premio
1931 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Tipo Le Mans
1975 Alfa Romeo 33 TT 12
1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo Concept
1976 Alfa Romeo Navajo Concept

It is not without a sense of unease to contemplate the meteoric rise of Audi these past few years. A company with a Gordian knot of a history best known for making slightly better Volkswagens has somehow replaced both BMW and Porsche at the bleeding edge of German design and technology. And being on top is, of course, uncool by default.

It may already be too late. Audi is perhaps already what Porsche was in the 80s and buying an R8 these days may now perhaps be akin to purchasing a yellow 911 convertible in Thatcherite Britain.

But none of this really matters for making up your mind whether to attend this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, where Audi will be the featured carmaker. What matters is that they will have on display the entire spectrum of Audi racing cars, including the prewar Auto Unions. With twelve and sixteen cylinders and as many straight pipes for exhausts which carried Bernd Rosemeyer to Grand Prix victories and, later on, to death.

Read more and plan your trip at the Festival of Speed site.

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Well, it wasn't all back-patting over 2007 sales of precisely 1010 members of the Phantom family (they've never cracked four figures before). Robertson announced that, thankfully, the new RR4—let's just call it the "Mini Rolls"—is a "truly authentic Rolls Royce." Maybe he thought we were expecting some kind of Lilliputian pastiche, ordered by parent BMW, and felt obliged to quash such errant musings.

The RR4 will also get a new engine, although Robertson declined to cough up details. They will be adding a second floor to their Goodwood plant, and they'll be bringing on extra "apprentices" to stretch the leather and rub the burl. Where can we sign up?

[via NAGTROC]

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Goodwood Festival of Speed Flickr Pool [Flickr]

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The original "Formula 1 car for the street," the Caparo T1 will get a little more displacement under that tiny bonnet — and no silly intake tricks. When the street-ready T1 launches at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK this June, it'll be sporting a proprietary, naturally aspirated 3.5-liter V8 with an aluminum block and power of up to 200 horsepower per liter. That should propel the 1,100-lb car quite nicely indeed. That means the original goal of 1000 hp per ton has been met and exceeded. Of course, for all its sporting pretense and likely sale to the well-heeled track-day types, the T1 is a showcase car for Caparo's weight-saving technologies the company intends to translate into better mileage and reduced emissions for normal cars. Nonetheless, waaaahooo! – Mike Spinelli

Press Release:

CAPARO T1 GETS A BRAND NEW AND MORE POWERFUL ENGINE

After 12 months of highly secretive development, the Caparo T1, which looks and performs like a Formula One car, will be launched in the summer with a new and more powerful engine than previously mooted. The higher specification is reflected in a launch price for the T1 of 180,000 plus taxes.

The bespoke lightweight, all aluminium V8 has a higher capacity of 3.5 litres and is now normally aspirated. The engine has a mass of less than 100kgs and can produce power outputs of up to 200 bhp-per-litre. As the T1 will maintain its nominal 500kg kerb weight this means the potential for power-to-weight ratios far exceeding the 1,000bhp-per-tonne previously announced.

The Caparo V8 has been designed from scratch and is comparable to Formula One and Indy race car specifications. It will be built from parts sourced from within the Caparo group of companies and central to its concept is its ability to use alternative, sustainable fuels; a factor important to Caparo for future applications.

"This new engine allows us many exciting options for the future, both for the car and the company," said Richard Butler chief executive Caparo Vehicle Products. "It will further help us to implement the vehicle lightweight design philosophies necessary to reduce greenhouse gasses being sought by high volume carmakers."

Ben Scott-Geddes operations director at Caparo Vehicle Technologies and the car's co-designer added: "The new engine now delivers both the performance and reliability we're looking for in the T1, the two key factors vital to our customers when running this type of car."

Sean Butcher commercial director at Caparo Vehicle Technologies said: "Given the high engine output, increased power-to-weight ratio, advanced hybrid chassis design and ultra-efficient aerodynamics the T1 offers exceptional value for such an exclusive world class vehicle ... and quite extraordinary standards in performance, handling and safety."

The T1 car is designed and produced by Caparo Vehicle Technologies, a new engineering design company created by the rapidly expanding Caparo group to provide advanced technology, materials engineering and design services to automotive, motorsport and aerospace clients.

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Formula One for the Street: Caparo Builds First T1 Prototype [internal]

With no plans to bring a Marcos of any stripe to the US, we'll just stare from afar as the Brits re-invent 1977, three decades hence. The company's TSO is already one of the purest muscle coupes in the world, and now it's gotten T-Tops, which places the GTC R/T in the realm of the Screaming Chicken Trans Am. Might a UK-centric remake of "Smokey and the Bandit" be in order? Say, a mustacheoed lad in a Marcos GTC rides shotgun for a cockney-spoken lorry driver, as he hauls a load of cider from Norfolk to Eastbourne, pursued via traffic camera by an angry constable and his nitwit son, Nigel? We're in for ten bucks.

Marcos Launch Pics [Pistonheads]

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This past weekend, Rally champ Colin McRae may have revolutionized the rallying game, unveiling his R4 racer at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The car, which Mcrae once said he wanted to look like the Mk2 Escort (not that the finished product reflects it), was created with help from UK firms, DJM Race Preparations and Millington Engines. It's got a 340-hp, 2.5-liter bespoke four-cylinder engine, six-speed sequential gearbox and a choice of rear-wheel or four-wheel drive. According to Autocar, the principals expect the R4 to hit 60mph in five seconds, with subsequent models including a turbocharged mill for even more trecherous tree-dodging. Privateers should expect to shell out $240,000 this fall for the 'base' model.

Mcrae's Own Car Breaks Cover [Autocar]

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Ascari! Scag! Viper! Zonda! Veyron! Even a Z4 Coup ! All manner of fully-awesome hardware is hooning it up the hill at Goodwood and the kids over at Supercars.net have a bushel of photos of the machines on the line and headed up the course. We're praying for transporter technology to improve and come down in price, because we really wish we were there right now. Click over for a faceful of sheer radness.

2006 Goodwood Festival of Speed [Supercars.net]

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