Pikes Peak

Don’t ask Jeff Zwart for the $100 in his pocket right now. For a multitude of reasons, the racing driver, photographer, and pilot probably wouldn’t give it to you, but for one very important reason, he almost certainly won’t. The 61-year-old speed specialist slowly rolls a smile...

Be sure to follow this year’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb as there will be a very special car racing to the clouds. Acura has confirmed an NSX-based prototype powered by four electric motors will be entered in the event’s Electric Modified Class. The prototype will be driven by...

Electric cars have proven to be the weapon of choice for many tackling the Pikes Peak Hill Climb in recent years. In fact, last year’s overall winner was powered solely by a battery and electric motor. The air gets thinner the higher you go up and this has a detrimental effect on the...

The new Acura NSX has been tantalizing us with its clean lines and promised performance for the past couple of years, but soon we’ll finally be able to hop behind the wheel and tell you what it’s like to drive. Until then, sit back and enjoy this video showing a pre-production example...

Sunday saw the 2015 Pikes Peak Hill Climb get underway in nearly perfect conditions, and surprisingly this year the overall winner was an electric car, the eO PP03 from Latvian engineering firm Drive eO. Behind the wheel was rally driver and Pikes Peak regular Rhys Millen, and his time of 9:07.222...

For the past several years, Lexus has been competing in the annual Pikes Peak Hill Climb using a specially-developed IS F sedan called the CCS-R. For this year’s 'Race to the Clouds', Lexus has prepared a new car based on its RC F coupe. The new car is the RC F GT concept, and it may just...

Pikes Peak legend Nobuhiro ‘Monster’ Tajima has in recent years been tackling the famous race to the clouds in purpose-built electric cars, fielded by his own team Monster Sport. This year, he’s teaming up with Croatia’s Rimac, the company behind the 1,088-horsepower Concept...

You're probably not going to get a chance at Pikes Peak glory. It's expensive to build a car for the race. Expensive to get the car to the race. Expensive to get your crew to the race. That's all before we even get to the bit about whether you have the skills to keep the car on the road. You might...

Jeff Zwart takes a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup up Pikes Peak.

This 1987 BMW E30, fully prepped and boosted, is fierce little machine. The restrained fury with which it attacks Pikes Peak is even fiercer. Putting about 480 horsepower to the rear wheels and weighing in at just 2,340 pounds, Tim Hardy’s turbo E30 made the climb in just 10:44.650. The time...

Honda will bring an array of vehicles to the 2014 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.

Scion is turning to someone familiar with both the car and course as it mounts a challenge on this year's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, drift star Ken Gushi. MUST SEE: #GiveAShift: The 7 Best Manuals Transmissions You Can Drive Gushi won last year's Exhibition Auto Class at Pikes Peak...

Mitsubishi will tackle the Pikes Peak Hill Climb for the third time in a row using an electric race car packing similar technology to that found in its i-MiEV zero-emission minicar. The Japanese automaker will be bringing two third-generation electric racers, known as the MiEV Evolution III, and...

Killing the planet has never looked this awesome, except for every time a raced-out big rig does its physics-defying thing. Here, the big rig is a Banks Super Turbo race truck, and it's being piloted up Pikes Peak by Mike Ryan. ALSO SEE: Sébastien Loeb Obliterates Pikes Peak Record: Video...

Drifter and racer Ken Gushi has impressive skills behind the wheel, and this wasn't his first time up Pikes Peak in a Lexus IS F, so as you'd expect, the 2013 effort with the IS F CCS-R was a serious affair. The video shows the highlights from the team's week on the mountain, from car prep to...

Fresh from its dominating run at the recent Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, where it ran a time of just 8:13.878, totally obliterating the previous record of 9:46.181, Peugeot’s highly-modified 208 T16 rally car is now on its way to the grounds of Goodwood House in the U.K. for the...

Last year, it was Jeremy Foley's massive off at the Devil's Playground that overshadowed Rhys Millen's run up Pikes Peak, even though he set a new sub-10-minute record in what was nothing more than a lightly modified drift car. This year, it was Sébastien Loeb's stunning 8:13.878 run that...

Sébastien Loeb, driving a highly-modified Peugeot 208 rally car in yesterday’s 2013 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, completely obliterated the standing record, set last year by Rhys Millen. This was only the Frenchman’s first time at Pikes Peak but with the entire course now...

Jeff Zwart is a man who knows his way around the Pikes Peak Hillclimb. Zwart has won the event seven times, and he holds the street car record for making the run up the mountain. He has made the trip in both a Porsche 911 GT2 and a 911 GT3. Now, for the 2013 run taking place this weekend, he's...

The king of rally is about to take on the biggest hill climb in the world. We expect records to tumble, re-set at levels that will stand for years. What else should you expect, after all, when the eight-time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb brings an 850-horsepower Peugeot to Pikes Peak?...