Volkswagen OWNS Pike Peak International Hill Climb Record By Over 16 Seconds

The Volkswagen Motorsport team was targeting the electric record for the event, but Dumas’s time of 7min 57.148secs on the 12.42-mill course eclipsed the overall mark of 8min 13.878secs, set by Sébastien Loeb in the Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak in 2013.

Dumas averaged 90.538mph on the 156-turn course in the ID R Pikes Peak, which produces around 671bhp from two electric motors. The machine had been built for the project in just seven months.

MDarringer - 6/25/2018 5:48:42 PM

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What does this have to do in any way with anything that VW puts or will put into its dealers?

GeorgeD - 6/25/2018 6:38:42 PM

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It was an engineering exercise. I read somewhere else, where the car can fully recharge in 20 minutes without overheating the battery system. It didn't go into range capabilities with Pikes Peak being only a little over 12 mile run. But, I'm sure they'll learn from this to put the technology into the road cars.

Don't be a sour puss because they raced a car.

TomM - 6/25/2018 7:13:09 PM

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IT doesn't any more than Nascar wins for those "cars" represent any real manufactured car as well. And they never put that technology into street cars either.

THere is an Advertising value of such events - however - that cannot be easily bought otherwise - and this is one of them.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 6/25/2018 9:35:00 PM

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@TomM - What tech is in Nascar? Back in the day when real production cars were modified for Nascar, Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday was a real thing. The cars they race today are really from another era, 40-50 years ago as far as technology goes.