Volkswagen is turning its electric vehicle ambitions to another iconic event on the motoring calendar. The automaker has announced it will be taking its I.D. R Pikes Peak race car to the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed, with another record sitting firmly in the crosshairs.
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Volkswagen has released fully edited multi-camera footage, with commentary, of Romain Dumas smashing the all-time Pikes Peak hill climb record in the all-electric I.D. R Pikes Peak race car, showing just how maddeningly fast this thing is.
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The Bentley Bentayga has set a new production sport utility record at Pikes Peak. Helmed by world championship driver and Pikes Peak veteran Rhys Millen, the Bentayga completed the 156-turn course in only 10 minutes, 49.9 seconds. Bentley plans to issue a limited edition celebration model.
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After a superb performance in qualifying, we thought the battery-powered Volkswagen had a good chance at beating the electric record at Pikes Peak. Turns out Romain Dumas and the VW team had their sights set even higher.
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The power of electric motoring is on rude display at Pikes Peak again this year, with Volkswagen's 680-hp (507-kW) I.D. R setting a blistering qualifying time, 11 seconds clear of any other competitor, with reigning champion Romaine Dumas at the wheel.
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After teasing us with series of silhouettes and flashy renders, Volkswagen has finally whipped the covers of its first all-electric race car, the I.D. R Pikes Peak built to conquer the road race of the same name.
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Volkswagen has peeled back the curtain a little further on its forthcoming all-electric race car, offering a bigger glimpse and revealing that the prototype announced last year will become a member of its I.D family of zero-emission vehicles.
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The Pikes Peak International Hillclimb has become an important proving ground for electric cars, and it is here that Volkswagen will be looking to flex its EV muscles. It has just revealed an all-electric racer built with one goal in mind, to finish the world-famous mountain race in record time.
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The Pikes Peak International Hillclimb is a rare opportunity to compare a range of electric and internal combustion racers on the same course. Although battery-powered entrants have impressed in recent years, they were few and far between this time round, making 2017 a win for old-school technology.
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Fledgling electric vehicle maker Faraday Future will be running a Beta development FF 91 ("nine one") in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb as the first in a series of public tests designed to help bring the production version of its all-electric SUV to market in 2018.
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