New Classics is a brand new showcase at the 2025 Festival of Speed

Positioned prominently in the central area of the Festival of Speed site, the New Classics Paddock is a brand-new feature which will bring together several of the world’s most stunning automotive restorations, reimaginings and recreations.

A collection of 12 cars will be featured as part of New Classics, taking to the Hill each day of the event as part of Batch 5, giving us a chance to see and hear these beautifully engineered cars in action.

For the rest of the weekend they’ll be on display in the New Classics Paddock, where attendees will have plenty of opportunity to take an even closer look at these modern representations of historic automotive gems.

Whatever your opinion on these cars, they’re absolutely brilliant to look at, and we’ve had hands-on experience with several of the cars set to feature so can attest to their brilliance.

Some of these we’ve seen before at the Festival of Speed, but there are also some that are coming to Goodwood for the first time.

British company Lunaz has been busy remastering classic icons from the likes of Jaguar, Bentley and Aston Martin, and converting them into electric cars. It is showcasing two of its creations in New Classics, the Rolls-Royce Phantom V and the Range Rover Classic. The quiet progress of an electric motor is arguably as its most suitable in a car such as the Phantom, As well as electrifying their drivetrains, Lunaz updates their equipment to ensure they meet the expectations of modern luxury car. 

Analogue Automotive meanwhile is busy bringing the power back to the driver with its first ‘performance driven’ restoration of the Series 1 Lotus Elise – the SuperSport. It takes the basis of the Lotus and turns everything up to 11. There's a fully restored chassis, reworked suspension, a full interior update and upgrades to the engine and gearbox.

With Lotus having vacated the the Elise class when the Emira was introduced in 2021, Analogue's offering is a way of refreshing that original formula while taking advantage of the advances made in the past 30 years.

Then we have CALLUM, the company founded by Ian Callum, who designed some of the most famous cars from Ford, Aston Martin and Jaguar. Since stepping down from his full-time role at Jag in 2019, he’s been busy developing several bespoke projects, including the Mk5 Mini that’ll be part of New Classics at the Festival of Speed.

Enthusists have been modifying Minis since the 1960s, and some established themes are evident in the CALLUM's interpretation. But he has certainly brought his own eye to the project, and incorporated technology that would have been unimaginable when Alec Issigonis penned the original car.

Meanwhile, it would take some bravery to take a Lamborghini Diablo and start tweaking things, but that’s what Eccentrica has been up to with its restomod project. While maintaining the car’s extraordinary personality, Eccentrica has been busy trying to improve performance, and we’ll get a chance to see how the company has got on when the V12 engine is unleashed on the Hill.

As well as upgrading the mechanicals, Eccentrica has also set to work on the Diablo's distinctive cab-forward silhouette. Not all restomods take a scalpal to the stying, but this one has a notably updated appearance.

We very recently got to experience the Porsche 930 TAG Turbo by Lanzante on the Goodwood Motor Circuit, and we were very impressed. If you don’t know, the shell of a 930 has been reshaped to accommodate a Formula 1 turbo engine TAG once raced by the McLaren team. Each engine has its own story to tell, one powered Alain Prost to victory at the 1987 Belgian Grand Prix, another was used by Stefan Johansson at the Austrian Grand Prix, but no matter the history you can rest assured they all sound absolutely astonishing. Make sure to take a look at this one in the New Classics paddock.

It’s not all specialist companies engaging in the art of restomods, however; Alpine has also been busy rekindling its own history with the A110 R Ultime. It’s the final iteration of the new-generation A110 that pays homage to the original car from the 1960s and ’70s.

Power is upped to 350PS (257kW) while torque has also been boosted to 430Nm (310lb ft). Only 110 exmaples will be built, and the price for such exclusivity starts from £265,000. It’s the most extreme Alpine of them all and it’ll be in prime position for a nose around at the Festival of Speed.

Next is the TWR Supercat, which is perhaps the most extreme of all these reincarnations. It’s based on the Jaguar XJS, but pretty much everything on it is entirely new. It’s said to incorporate the perfect mix of analogue and digital, giving the driver the ultimate experience of control while also supplementing that sensation with modern flare and quality.

The evocative TWR badge of course gives the Supercat an extra dose of gravitas, but the ultimate verdict will be delivered once we’ve seen it in action on the Hill.

Finally, we have the collective genius of the team at Kimera, who have been busy rekindling the memory of Lancia’s most potent era. The Lancia 037 was developed for the Group B regulations introduced in 1982, and became an icon practically overnight thanks to its successful combination of scintillating performance and incredible looks.

Kimera has sought to bring the legend back to life with a series of cars inspired by the 037. The intention of these cars is obvious, made all the more so by the fact Kimera’s first creation was named the EVO37. That initial car has since been joined by the EVO38, which asks the question: what if Lancia had continued developing the 037? Then there’s the third iteration, the K39, which revives the 037’s heritage as a rally car with an outrageous carbon fibre body resplendent in a stunning Martini livery.

All of these cars are going to look absolutely sensational, whether they’re sitting quietly in the New Classics paddock, or absolutely sending it up the Hill during the 2025 Festival of Speed. We’re certain that this new area within the Goodwood site is going to prove immensely popular, without doubt one of the highlights of the year.

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Photography by Joe Harding