Praga Brings Its Hyper-Engineering Philosophy — and Two Bohema Supercars — to Goodwood

The Czech manufacturer is bringing the Praga Bohema — its 700 bhp, sub-1,000-kilogram road-legal supercar — to the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed, alongside dynamic hill runs from ambassador and test driver Ben Collins and a five-exhibit engineering display that goes deeper into the car’s construction than most manufacturer showcases bother to. The Praga Bohema has already set multiple production car lap records at circuits near the company’s Czech manufacturing base, and Goodwood arrives one year ahead of Praga’s 120th anniversary in 2027.

Two Bohemas, One Engineering Philosophy

Two all-carbon Praga Bohema cars anchor the Goodwood stand: a purple carbon customer car handed over to its new owner right before the Festival, and a black carbon version finished with orange detailing and a lion motif drawn from the Czech coat of arms. Praga calls its approach “hyper-engineering” — test, revise, refine, perfect, applied to every component until it’s lighter, stronger, and more effective. “The Praga Bohema is the result of thousands of incremental improvements, countless hours of testing,” said Technical Director Jan Martinek.

Inside the Five Exhibits: How the Bohema Is Actually Built

Inside the Praga Bohema, the steering wheel is the clearest expression of that philosophy. F1-inspired and removable, the figure-eight-shaped, Alcantara-trimmed carbon wheel was refined over three years of testing to fit naturally across different hand sizes and grip styles. It integrates precision-shift paddles, an electronic clutch lever, motorsport LED shift lights, and an LCD display for driving data — all without requiring the driver’s hands to leave the wheel. The overhead “Enterprise” control panel runs the same logic in aerospace form: anodized aluminum machined with carbon-fiber controls, three finger-spaced zones putting ignition, start/stop, and mechanical door releases within immediate reach around a central display showing tire data and fuel range.

The engine decklid is the exhibit built for spectacle as much as function. Five-axis-machined and weighing just 2.5 kilograms, its hinge mechanism guides the cover around the Bohema’s fixed rear wing to reveal the powertrain — engineered to make the act of opening the car as satisfying as the mechanism that makes it possible. The pedal box, machined from aerospace-grade EN AW 7075-T6 aluminum, adjusts fore-and-aft with a heel-pushed quick release locked by two independent safety mechanisms, while the Bohema’s intelligent electronic clutch allows a clean two-pedal cockpit layout. Even the headlamps get the treatment: exposed, CNC-machined housings with material carved away pocket by pocket for rigidity at minimum mass — a normally hidden layer of engineering made deliberately visible.

Most manufacturers show up to Goodwood with a car and a paddock spot. The Praga Bohema showed up with a teardown of exactly how the Bohema thinks — five components, five philosophies, one continuous commitment to making every part lighter, stronger, and more deliberate than it needed to be. That’s the kind of engineering story worth walking the stand for.

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