Salon Privé, the Luxury Super Car Show and Concours d’Elégance, will return to West London’s Syon Park from Wednesday 4th to Friday 6th September 2013, with exhibitor plots and visitor tickets already selling out fast.
Featuring a new format to include the world-renowned Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance on day 1 (opened by the Tour d’Elégance concours car parade), Boodles Ladies’ Day on day 2 and the Salon Privé Finalé Garden Party on day 3, 2013’s event will see numerous product debuts, many teased for the first time this year’s Geneva Motor Show, including:
Here Chris Harris reviews the Porsche 918, drives 3 laps in the car and as always gives us an insightful view of this hybrid hypercar.
Porsche says the Spyder will hit 62mph in 2.8 seconds, 124mph in 7.9 seconds and 186mph in 23 seconds dead. However, the Italians claim the Ferrari LaFerrari will cover the same zero to 186mph sprint in 15 seconds. Nuts!
Will there be 918 customers for this car? Probably, but on looks alone and for similar money I’d go for the McLaren. What about you?
Another beautiful collection of cars and a very beautiful garage to keep these cars in. This American collector has a very nice set up don’t you think? Now that’s what I call a special man’s room.
Further to our Postcard from Auto Italia 2013 I thought it would be cool to highlight the top 10 cars that caught our eye. Of course there were many more, after all it could have been our top 50, but that’s what a Facebook Album is for. So here goes:
We attend many Classic Car Shows, but attended Auto Italia for the very first time this year, having never really known of it until recently. We had also never been to Brooklands either. Yes I Know!
So we were very excited to head down to Brooklands at 7.30am (ish) to enjoy all the Italian exotica that we hoped would be on display, and boy did it deliver.
This is one of the biggest events of the year at Brooklands and celebrated the UK’s obsession with all things Italian. This was Auto Italia’s 28th Spring gathering.
We loved just wandering around and checking out all the cars, some unusual cars, fun cars, fun events, plenty to do with all the museums open at no extra cost. Some of the cars we loved were:
As part of the 50th anniversary celebrations, McLaren will showcase a selection of legendary models from the company’s heritage collection at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Alongside some of the most famous race- and championship-winning models from the brand’s illustrious past will be the latest model from McLaren GT which echoes a name with significant links to McLaren – the 12C GT Can-Am Edition – which will thrill crowds as it takes part in the run up the Goodwood Hill.
The McLaren name is synonymous with Can-Am racing throughout the 1960s and 1970s, with the McLaren Racing team claiming five back-to-back world championships between 1967 and 1971, making it the most successful team in the history of the championship.
Here is a short video in which a beautiful and loud De Tomaso Pantera GTS blasts up the Brooklands Hill at the 2013 Auto Italia. What do you think? Awesome or what!
The Goodwood Festival of Speed’s unique ability to attract the top works F1 teams is one of its key strengths, and already seven current teams have confirmed their intention to attend this year’s 20th anniversary Festival (11-14 July).
Nowhere else in the world can motor sport enthusiasts get so close to the latest and greatest cars and drivers. Seven current 2013-season F1 teams are now confirmed to appear at Goodwood this year; McLaren, Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes, Lotus, Caterham and Marussia.
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