At next week’s Goodwood Revival (14-16 September) many of the
most valuable cars in the world will gather to create the most
expensive vehicle display anywhere on the planet!
With a mouth-watering array of rarely-seen automobiles, the total
value of the cars being gathered together at Goodwood is almost beyond
comprehension. Just consider the following...
In the pantheon of desirable cars, one stands above all others. The
Ferrari 250 GTO
has everything – stunning looks, fantastic performance, and impeccable
heritage. Launched in 1962, the GTO reaches its half century this year,
and to celebrate the Revival will feature a display and daily track
parade of 15 GTOs, which is sure to be one of the most jaw-dropping (and
valuable) sights in Revival history. With an average value estimated
at £20 million each, the value of the 15 Ferrari GTOs displayed at the
Revival totals a cool
£300 million.
In addition to the 250 GTOs, this year’s Revival will offer visitors a
truly unique opportunity to see a large gathering of mythical pre-war
Silver Arrows being demonstrated on track together at speed for the
first time in more than 70 years. The sensational Auto Unions and
Mercedes-Benz will appear alongside examples of the ERAs, Maseratis,
Rileys and MGs they trounced on their first appearance on British soil,
75 years ago at the 1937 Donington Grand Prix.
Goodwood estimates that the Revival will see the largest ever
gathering of Silver Arrows racers brought together in the same place at
the same time, with at least ten examples. Although most are priceless,
and virtually impossible to estimate their true worth, a combined value
of the collection in the unlikely event they would ever be offered for
sales is comfortably in excess of £100 million.
The one-hour, two-driver
Royal Automobile Club TT Celebration
race for closed-cockpit GT cars remains the jewel in the Revival’s
crown. Nowhere else in the world can you see such a spectacular grid of
super-rare GT cars racing in anger, driven by great aces past and
present. The grid will once again feature a breathtaking
£100+ million
array of internationally-renowned historic cars, including Ferrari 250
GTO and GT SWB; Aston Martin DB4GT, Zagato and Project cars; plus Jaguar
E-types and E-Type Lightweights.
This year’s Saturday feature race will be very special indeed,
featuring a grid exclusively made up of AC Cobras and variants in the
Shelby Cup, in celebration of the model’s 50
th anniversary.
It will be a 45-minute two-driver race, with driver changes in the pits
between 15 and 30 minutes. With a mixture of standard cars and
special-bodied coupés, it should make for an intriguing spectacle and a
fitting tribute to this iconic Anglo-American sports car. Racing Cobras
with known history can change hands for up to £2 million each at
present, so a mild average value estimate of £500,000 per car still adds
up to a £20 million grid of snarling V8s.
The total value of the other cars and motorcycles in the remaining Revival races add up to another
£80 million,
and that’s not including the stunning array of vehicles offered for
sales in the Bonhams auctioned at the event on Saturday 15 September,
nor any of the 2,000 tax exempt classic cars that park-up in the Revival
Car Show each day!
So, the combined value of the vehicles appearing at this year’s annual Goodwood Revival is conservatively estimated at
over £600 million.
That’s an awful lot of lottery wins needed to acquire that lot.
Revival-goers are certainly in for a very special treat next week!
Tickets and further information for the 2012 Goodwood Revival can be ordered by on the Goodwood website (
www.goodwood.com/motor sport/), or via the Ticket Hotline:
Telephone: +44 (0)1243 755055
On-line via the Ticket section of the website
www.goodwood.com/motor sport
