The new Mercedes-AMG CLA 45 4MATIC+ has gone fully electric, using three axial-flux motors, two rear, one front, for 680 hp of peak power and a 2.7-second 0-100 km/h sprint. On an 800-volt platform it charges at up to 330 kW (10-80 percent in 22 minutes) and offers up to 670 km of WLTP range in the saloon, or 640 km in the new Shooting Brake. It has fully variable all-wheel drive, active aero and an AMGFORCE S+ mode that simulates the sound and gearshifts of a combustion AMG.

Maserati has previewed Project GT4 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, a GranTurismo-based race car developed by Maserati Corse for the international GT4 category. It uses the 3.0-litre twin-turbo Nettuno V6 with F1-derived pre-chamber combustion, front-mounted and rear-driven, making over 700 hp in racing form, and it is around 400 kg lighter than the road car. Engineered in Modena, it wears a centennial livery marking 100 years of the Trident and targets a competitive debut in the 2028 season.

McLaren has revealed the 788HS, the most extreme and final car built on its long-running 720S platform, debuting at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. It uses a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 with 788 hp and 800 Nm, weighs just 1,265 kg dry for a class-leading 623 hp per tonne, and hits 0-100 km/h in 2.8 seconds with a 330 km/h top speed. It gets a carbon aero package with 10 percent more downforce than the 765LT and Senna-derived brakes. Just 200 will be built, 100 coupes and 100 Spiders.

British specialist Lanzante has created the world's first road-legal Bugatti Bolide, converting Bugatti's most extreme, previously track-only hypercar for use on public roads. It keeps the monstrous 8.0-litre quad-turbo W16 producing 1,825 hp, with 0-100 km/h in 2.2 seconds, but adds integrated headlights and softened suspension to cope with real roads and speed bumps. The first car debuted at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in exposed carbon with a reflective Klaussen livery.

The track-only Apollo EVO is finally production-ready, with its first customer car, named Caribbean Dragon, debuting at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. A development of the Apollo Intensa Emozione, it uses a Ferrari-built 6.3-litre naturally aspirated V12 producing 800 hp to the rear wheels via a six-speed sequential gearbox, in a car weighing just 1,300 kg. Only 10 will be built at more than 3 million pounds each, each an obsessive coachbuilding exercise.

Independent German engineering house RUF has revealed the B8, a bespoke twin-turbocharged 4.8-litre flat-eight, or boxer-eight, engine producing more than 1,000 hp and 1,000 Nm, mated to RUF's own six-speed manual. It is the first boxer-eight ever built in this form, a layout even Porsche only ever used in racing. It debuts at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in a lengthened, rear-mid-engined CTR3 prototype driven by Tanner Foust, and is set to shape a future RUF model.