Goodwood

The UK really loves itself some high-performance Ford Transit vans. Ford started that particular ball rolling over 50 years via three generations of race-derived Supervan. Now it's pushing the bar higher with a 2,000-hp quad-motor electric Supervan.

Motorcycle-adjacent levels of performance and handling in a step-through electric scooter designed to put some fun back into your commute – that's the promise from UK startup Zapp and its high-powered i300, which is set to go up the hill at Goodwood.

British company McMurtry Automotive has shown off its new Spéirling at Goodwood. It's a miniature electric hypercar with a Gordon Murray-style fan system that generates more than 500 kg of downforce at a standstill – and 120 decibels.

​Every year, the Goodwood Festival of Speed sees classic race cars tackle a mile long hill climb in the grounds of Goodwood House in West Sussex, UK. This year, a fully autonomous electric race car will attempt the hill climb for the very first time.​

World champion drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr has teamed up with Ford to bring a special one-off edition Ford Mustang GT to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The Eagle Squadron Mustang GT is a tribute to the pilots of the Royal Air Force during WWII and will be auctioned off to raise money for charity.

The engines have been turned off after another Goodwood Festival of Speed, leaving just a faint fog of tire smoke around the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex. Check out our gallery for a closer look at the pick of the priceless cars on display.

Porsche and 700 hp ... no sports car fan in the world can deny how perfectly those two terms blend together. The all-new Porsche 911 GT2 RS doesn't just blend them, it smashes them together in a thunderous display of ferocious motoring.

At the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2015, Aston Martin demonstrated the new track-only 820 hp Aston Martin Vulcan V12 and wowed everyone with the performance. Later today we'll see another even more radical version of the Vulcan on track at the 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

What if you had to choose just five events to slot into your automotive bucket list? The question has been playing on our minds here at New Atlas, so we've put together five of our favorite celebrations of motoring passion.

From the Nürburgring, to Brooklands, and on to Goodwood, the Mercedes-AMG GT R debuts as a fully optimized weapon for tracks around the world. Mercedes promises that the 577-hp (430-kW) car is packed with more motorsport-inspired tech than any other production car in its history.

In an attempt to highlight the speed credentials of its new 2017 GT-R, Nissan has employed a vehicle of a different sort. It has custom built a drone it claims is one of the fastest accelerating FPV racing drones in the world specifically to keep apace with the powerful supercar.

​Ford has been working with Carbon Revolution to develop wheels for the GT and Shelby GT350R, but the Detroit giant isn’t the only one trying to reinvent the wheel. Boutique British brand BAC has joined Dymag to create carbon-hybrid wheels more than 20 percent lighter than the standard units.