The ‘DE5’ has 355hp to help it get up the mountain really quickly
Romain Dumas will once again drive the American carmaker’s hillclimb racer
Ford will return to Pikes Peak soon with a familiar face-five-time winner Romain Dumas-but a shiny new ride. Welcome to the Ford Super Mustang Mach-E, an all-electric load lugger slammed down and cranked up to 11.The
Target: The EV record
Hyundai has announced its aim to break a few (admittedly rather niche) records at the 102nd running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in June, and these are the cars that will take on the challenge. You want wing? These Ioniq
by Greg Potts
There's an F-150 somewhere in there
This swan-neck rear wing fad really is getting out of hand, isn't it? Just look at the size of that thing up there. Though the giant appendage that looms over this F-150 Lightning SuperTruck is apparently entirely functional.Fold
by Greg Potts
It wants not just a trophy, but also an outright record
Hyundai has announced that it will send four Hyundai Ioniq 5 N cars to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in June, with the intention of snatching away a course record to (presumably) display back at its HQ.However, only two of
by Joe Holding
A fitting tribute
Tributes for Ken Block just keep pouring in. Following the premiere of the final Electrikhana video, there is yet another film that highlights the original Hoonigan's legacy. Not only that, it also puts the spotlight on his wife and daughter, Lucy
The wildest Transit yet
Ford talks at great length about the detailed technical adjustments it has made to the fully-electric 'SuperVan 4' in order for it to make its competition debut at the upcoming Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, but the simple fact remains: big, crazy
by Vijay Pattni
Ken Block had dreamed of competing ‘for an overall win’ at the hillclimb race
Lia Block has announced she will race at this year's Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in honor of her father Ken, who sadly passed away earlier this year in a snowmobile accident.And the 16-year old racer will do it in
by Vijay Pattni
Impressive
Lamborghini has set a new Pikes Peak record for production SUVs, taking a camouflaged "yet-to-be-revealed new Urus model" up the famous Colorado mountain in 10m 32.064s. Rapid.That time-set by hill climbing champion and Pirelli test driver
by Greg Potts
The livery pays homage to the Porsche 917/20 Pink Pig
Well, if you're going to puncture traditional motorsport norms, might as well do it properly and with something that'll likely puncture your shins, too, if you're not careful.Yup, Ken Block is back, and he's done it again.
by Vijay Pattni
This time with the Cross Turismo
Regular readers here will know just how capable the Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo is, but now its abilities have been verified with (yet another) bona fide world record.Yup, a team led by TV producer JF Musial has logged the greatest altitude
by Joe Holding
The French squad broke the previous record by over 90sec
The first six months of 2013 were not good for Peugeot: the announcement of the planned closure of its Aulnay factory, the resultant cull of 8,000 jobs, the termination of its prestigious endurance racing program. In terms of good-news stories
Yikes!
Sad news if you're rooting for the mightily fast Tesla Model 3 that qualified at the top of its class for Pikes Peak this year-it's had a massive off at the infamously perilous hill-climb course. Watch the video
And it's for sale
Do auction lots get any better than this? Currently for sale at RM Sotheby's online-only European Sale is this: the very first of only 16 widebody Ruf CTR2 Sports, and one of two that was built specifically for the Pikes
by Greg Potts
The WRC great had a fiery personality and an explosive driving style
No 'women in motorsports' list is complete without Michèle Mouton-in fact, quite a few people would rank her first on such a list. But the Frenchwoman can easily join the male-dominated roster of all-time World Rally Championship legends,
Only 15 units will be made
Is it even worth winning a motorsport event or breaking a record if you can't get a special-edition road car out of it? Pah! Of course it isn't, and luckily, Bentley set a new production car record at the
by Greg Potts
Three units will join the race
No fewer than three Honda NSXs will ping their way up the Pikes Peak hill climb next month. Well, we say Honda, but held as it is in Americaland, the NSXs will wear Acura badges for their journey to over 4,000m
It averaged over 100kph during its run
Volkswagen spent the weekend tearing up the Pikes Peak record books with a simply astonishing sub-eight minute run up the mountain. Bentley, too, had its own measure of success.The company's specially developed Bentayga Pikes Peak SUV managed to trim
by Vijay Pattni
Meet the VW I.D. R Pikes Peak
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb has a new record-holder, and it's electric. The Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak just did the climb in 7 minutes 57.148 seconds, setting not only a new record for electric vehicles, but
by Jason Tulio
Racing was in his blood
What a life Al Unser must've had as a kid. Father Jerry and uncles Louis and Joe were regulars at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and big brothers Jerry Jr., Louis and Bobby showed the same inclination for racing. Most
We're shookt
When we first heard about the 1,400hp, methanol-swigging Hoonicorn V2, we were frightened. When we saw early shots of it vaporizing tires on the infamous Pikes Peak Hill Climb, we were alarmed. And now, full petrified terror arrives in the
by Ollie Kew
