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Audi's 1,001-PS Supercar Hits Goodwood. Yes, Really.
The Nuvolari is here: 800hp V8 biturbo, three axial-flux motors, 499 units — and Audi hasn't looked this serious since the R8 V10 made Ferrari nervous.
1,001 PS system output, 0–100 km/h in 2.6 sec, 350+ km/h top speed, 499 units, deliveries H1 2027, price just north of £500k — build slots not yet assigned. Reddit r/cars thread split between 'Lamborghini Temerario in a suit' and genuine jaw-drop at the 10,000-rpm V8 ceiling; Pistonheads called it 'the R8 successor nobody knew they were allowed to want.'
Named after Tazio Nuvolari — the Italian ace who terrorised pre-war circuits in Auto Union monsters — the Audi Nuvolari pairs a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 (800 hp, peaking at 10,000 rpm, with titanium con-rods to survive it) with three axial-flux electric motors sourced from YASA, now under Mercedes ownership but apparently sharing nicely. System output: 1,001 PS. Zero-drama 0–62 mph: 2.6 seconds. Top speed: beyond 217 mph. The carbon-ASF body is all-new, mid-engined, monolithic in its surfacing — fewer scoops and blades than a Lambo, more surgical. Mechanically it shares DNA with the Temerario but is recalibrated for torque-rich delivery rather than peak theatrics, and uses passive dampers rather than adaptive, which Audi's CTO Rouven Mohr claims gives more consistent body control at speed. The Nuvolari had to be homologated before EU7 emissions rules cut in — which explains the skunkworks pace: fewer than 30 engineers, F1 involvement in dynamics sign-off. 499 units. First deliveries H1 2027. Price: just over half a million pounds. It will be at Goodwood Festival of Speed July 9–12, where the build slots open for serious customers.
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GMA's S1 LM: Five Cars. One Customer. Goodwood.
Gordon Murray builds five McLaren F1 spiritual successors, hands all of them to a single buyer, and calls it a public premiere at Goodwood — calm down.
The S1 LM is limited to 5 units — all sold to one customer — featuring a 4.0-litre Cosworth V12 revving to 12,100 rpm producing over 700 hp, manual gearbox, and a direct homage to the McLaren F1 ethos; first public dynamic showing is Goodwood FoS July 9–12. Pistonheads reacted with reverent quiet before the obvious question arrived: 'One customer for all five — is this legal in any moral sense?'
Gordon Murray Automotive's Special Vehicles division has been quietly assembling one of the most extraordinary lot-sales in recent memory: five S1 LMs — each a road-going homage to the McLaren F1, with the Cosworth-built 4.0-litre naturally aspirated V12 screaming to 12,100 rpm, over 700 hp, manual gearbox, and sub-1,000-kg construction philosophy — destined for a single patron. The car was auctioned last November for £16.3 million as a singular commission; what that means in practice is that one individual owns the entire production run. At Goodwood this week, it makes its first proper dynamic appearance on the hill, running alongside the T.50s Niki Lauda track car and an early Le Mans GTR prototype, giving GMA arguably the most layered stand at the festival. The S1 LM sits deliberately outside the hypercar mainstream: no aero theatre, no hybrid torque fill, no active suspension. Just Gordon Murray's obsessive weight discipline, Cosworth's finest naturally aspirated engineering, and a gearbox that requires actual skill. For the community that debates whether the McLaren F1 was the last truly pure road car, this is either the most important car of 2026 or an exercise in extreme private wealth — probably both.
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Goodwood Opens Thursday. The List Is Ridiculous.
FoS 2026 is five days away and the car list reads like someone gave a petrolhead unlimited editorial budget: Toyota GR GT production reveal, Alpine EV A110 mule, Ferrari Amalfi, Ariel 4RR hillclimb — and Singer gets the throne.
July 9–12, Goodwood House, West Sussex; Thursday Saturday and four-day passes sold out; Thursday still available. Toyota GR GT twin-turbo V8 road and GT3 race variants get full production reveal; Ferrari shows the 296 Speciale A and the Amalfi; Bentley Continental Supersports makes its UK dynamic debut; BMW brings its Vision M Concept next-gen M3 preview; Lexus shows a next-gen LFA EV concept. CarThrottle called it 'one of the strongest FoS line-ups in recent memory'; r/cars Reddit thread trending under 'I need to call in sick Thursday through Sunday.'
The 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed runs July 9–12 and carries arguably the densest new-car roster in the event's 33-year history. Thursday the 9th is the key day: covers come off a Toyota GR GT (twin-turbo V8, Porsche 911 GT3 rival, road and race variants simultaneously), Audi Nuvolari on its first dynamic run, GMA S1 LM on the hill, Ferrari's 296 Speciale A and the new Amalfi GT model, Alpine's pre-production EV A110 successor in mule form, and a Lexus next-gen LFA electric concept. Bentley's Continental Supersports — 657 hp, RWD, hybrid-free — makes its UK hillclimb debut after its global reveal. BMW's Vision M Concept, previewing a quad-motor electric next-gen M3, rolls in fresh from Le Mans. The Central Feature sculpture honours Singer Vehicle Design: 17 years old, Californian, and now apparently important enough to anchor the world's greatest car show — a fact not lost on the Rennlist crowd, who've been posting Singer Goodwood countdowns since May. For Alpine region readers planning the trip: Thursday is the only single-day ticket still available as of today.
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Alpine's Next A110 Is Electric. The Mule Is at Goodwood.
The car that made French sports cars relevant again is being replaced by an EV — and Alpine's first move is showing a prototype mule up Goodwood's hill, which is either brave or exactly right.
Alpine will debut a pre-production development mule of its all-new, all-electric A110 successor at Goodwood FoS on July 9, running up the hill on its global public debut; the production car is expected to arrive in 2027, built on a new dedicated performance EV platform Alpine describes as making it the 'first true electric sportscar.' r/Porsche adjacent communities on Reddit remain sceptical ('they had the recipe, why change it'); CarThrottle noted the A110 R faithful are watching the weight figures like hawks.
The original Alpine A110 — particularly the A110 R in its most focused form — is one of those rare modern cars the DACH enthusiast community actually loves unreservedly: light, analogue-biased, genuinely playful on a pass. So the news that its successor will be fully electric lands with a thud in the right places. Alpine is using Goodwood's global stage to show, for the first time in public, a running pre-production mule of the new car on its dedicated EV performance platform. The company claims this architecture will make the new model 'the first true electric sportscar' — a bold assertion that will need more than a mule run up a 1.16-mile driveway to stick. What we know: new platform, EV only, 2027 production target, proportions similar to the current car. F1 drivers Pierre Gasly and Franco Colapinto will handle some of Alpine's driving duties at the event, and the current A110 range will accompany the mule in a parade format. For owners of A110 Rs currently parked in alpine garages: this is the moment the clock starts ticking on their car's future collectibility. Pistonheads have already opened the inevitable thread titled 'buy the last A110 R now?'
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Ariel Atom 4RR: 525hp. 657kg. £208k. Go.
Ariel's 25th birthday present to itself is the most focused, most extreme Atom ever built — 780 hp per tonne, road legal, and it will eat a 911 GT3 RS for breakfast on any circuit you care to name.
525 bhp, 550 Nm, 8,200 rpm from a hand-built 100-hour Honda K20C-derived four-cylinder; 0–62 mph in 2.4 sec; 175 mph top speed; sub-700 kg; three cockpit-adjustable engine maps (400/500/525 bhp); priced from £208,000; built to order at Crewkerne, Somerset; making its public dynamic debut at Goodwood FoS July 9. Pistonheads thread opened with 'this is what happens when you refuse to grow up' — meant entirely as a compliment; r/cars crowd is baffled by the price but unanimous that the power-to-weight maths are 'genuinely insane.'
Ariel Motor Company, operating out of Crewkerne in Somerset with a workforce you could fit in a decent-sized garage, has spent 25 years making the same argument: less weight, more honesty. The Atom 4RR is the sharpest version of that argument yet. The engine starts as Honda's K20C four-cylinder from the Civic Type R and ends somewhere else entirely — closed-deck sleeves, bespoke forged internals, ported head, custom camshafts, 1.7-bar turbo, race-spec oiling, hand-built over 100 hours, with an individual dyno sheet accompanying every unit. Output: 525 bhp and 550 Nm at 5,200 rpm, revving to 8,200. Chassis is a bronze-welded spaceframe with Öhlins adjustable dampers, AP Racing 310mm brakes, 12-stage adjustable ABS, and Yokohama A052 road-legal rubber. The sequential gearbox auto-blips on downshifts. Options include a full motorsport roll cage and onboard air jacks — for a road car. Production numbers initially capped at 25 (for the anniversary) but now described only as 'extremely limited.' The 4RR makes its hillclimb debut at Goodwood FoS this week, where it will be one of 21 Ariel Atoms spanning all four generations in a 25th anniversary parade. For Alpine pass regulars: 175 mph top speed, 2.4-second sprint, and it still fits on a standard road. The Stelvio just got complicated.
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