Goodwood FoS: 2014 Audi TT, Audi E-Tron and the rarest and most precious car of all – the Mercedes 1935 500K

As you will know if you have been reading my updates, I recently attended the Goodwood Festival of Speed, as I do every year. I took my son – who is also a bit of a car nut like me – and we had a fantastic day.

I thought that it would be rather rude to my website visitors not to share some of the lovely automobile pictures from our visit and of course, give a little bit of a lowdown on them, too.
First up was the New 2014 Audi TT

 

There are a lot of people who have said to me that the new TT looks the same as the old one. Well in one respect, I can confirm that from seeing it at its first public showing, it is very similar. But then when you look at its predecessor it is also quite different. 

 

In my view, Audi have very successfully managed to retain the design features that have made the TT the iconic best-seller that it is, and still at the same time, they have bought it bang up to date. One of the main features that I was very impressed with was the New 2014 Audi TT interior. The dashboard is amazing, with a very functional central screen that heralds a new direction for Audi. 

 

All in all – although sadly I didn’t get to drive one (nobody did, in fact) – on the face of it, I would certainly give it the thumbs up.

Next up was another Audi, the Audi e-tron.

We even had the chance to look under the bonnet on this one; Audi’s new hybrid plug-in is sure to be a success.

   

Any vehicle of this calibre that is priced under the £30k mark will sell well, in my mind, especially given the current government grant of £5k. Regarding the design of the vehicle I have to say that personally, I like the fact that Audi have done the understated route. I’d buy one, anyway. 

 

Finally, we have the car of my dreams. And I don’t say this lightly, either but trust me when I say this: if I had one car in the world, this would be it. This would be the car that I would take my children to the church in on their wedding day.

Mercedes-Benz 1935 500K cc

 

There isn’t much to say about this apart from the fact that this is, quite simply, the most lovely car I have ever seen in my entire life. This full size cabriolet has coachwork by Erdmann and Rossi and is one of the rarest cars in the world – the last one, in fact, sold back in 2011 for a whopping $4.75m. I was told that this particular car was work $5m but I think that it would go for more like $10m in a real-world auction situation. Shame really; my budget can’t stretch to that quite at this moment. Still we can all dream – at least I got to see it “in the metal” at the 2014 Goodwood FoS. I can’t wait for next year’s event, that’s for sure. Tweet me and let me know what you think – like the website name suggests, I always love to talk cars!