The Goodwood Festival of Speed will return in 2023 from Thursday 13 July to Sunday 16 July – and it’s to be a big year for car unveilings and international public debuts.
This year’s theme, Goodwood 75, celebrates 75 years of the Goodwood estate and 30 years of the Festival of Speed.
Tribute will be paid to the estate itself and to remarkable feats in automotive engineering and famed drivers from the past and the present.
The famous Goodwood Hillclimb will also return, focusing on cars and bikes from historical racing years 1948 to 1966 and more modern cars from 1998 to 2023.
Porsche will be celebrated by the event’s central feature. It’s 75 years since the firm produced its first sports car, the Porsche 365, and it will hand a debut to several new cars at Goodwood.
Which new cars should you look out for at this year’s Festival of Speed? We’ve compiled a list of the biggest expected debuts…
Cars we’re expecting to see at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
AIM EV Sport 01
The designer of the Nissan GT-R has returned to the drawing board to create this shapely 483bhp electric sports car that weighs just 1425kg. It uses two liquid-cooled, high-performance electric motors (one on each of the rear wheels) with a maximum speed of 10,000rpm. They draw their reserves from an 81kWh battery split into four packs for a total torque figure of 582lb ft, helping it to achieve a sub-6.0sec 0-62mph time.
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Alpine A290
With its sights set on the mainstream market, Alpine is launching this Renault 5-based hot hatchback which will make its public debut at Goodwood. With an FIA-approved racing chassis and two motors mounted on the front axle, the production car promises to be a more usable accompaniment to the widely-acclaimed A110, without compromising its sporting character.
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BMW 5 Series and i5
The new BMW 5 Series is one of the most anticipated cars of 2023, and it will appear in the UK in public for the first time at the Festival of Speed. An all-electric i5 variant will also be present at the event, with both cars taking to the famous hill climb. This generation will be the final time the 5 Series is sold with an internal combustion engine, so make sure you visit the German brand’s stand to say your goodbyes.