Volkswagen is very serious about taking the electric car record at Pikes Peak this year with the I.D. R Pikes Peak race car.And any racing team knows that to do well, you need a car that can stick ...

Volkswagen hasn't been back to Pikes Peak since 1987 when it was running a bonkers twin-engine Golf. Defending Pikes Peak champion Romain Dumas will helm the new car. The race takes place on June 24.

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The Frenchman’s achievement and that of Volkswagen Motorsport comes off the back of seven months of intense work to build and test the I.D R Pikes Peak car. While electric powered cars don’t ...

Volkswagen driver Romain Dumas set the fastest time ever at the 2018 edition of Pikes Peak to win the famous hill climb event with the company's I.D. R electric race car. Here's how it went down.

the Volkswagen/Porsche skunkworks team produced a car with plenty of power without compromising drivability. While the performance benefits of EVs at Pikes Peak are apparent, we’d be remiss not ...

Volkswagen has taken somewhat of a different approach, however, creating an all-electric racer to destroy lap records around the globe. First on its list was the famous Pikes Peak hill climb ...

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Dubbed the ‘Pikes Peak Special’, the single-seat, one-off racer started life as a GT3-R spec car that had been adapted for time attack racing by Derbyshire-based FastR. With them, it won the ...

Ford had a successful year at Pikes Peak last year ... The fast time remains 7:57.48 with the VW ID.R electric car in 2018. The best time by Ford and Dumas was 8:47.682 with the SuperVan 4.2 ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Whipping wind gusts across Colorado Springs left dozens of parked cars at the Pikes Peak State College Centennial Campus with blown-out windows following major ...