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Alfred E. Neuman

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VW took an EV race car to Pikes Peak and demolished the old record by 15 seconds. If there's one place an EV race car should shine it's blasting up a mountain where acceleration out of corners, and the lack of being affected by changing Oxygen content of the air, clearly give it an edge on even a forced induction IC engine.
From the sounds of the video, it seems to only have 1 final drive gear. There's a couple of times it sounds like it's spun the electric motor as high as it will go, and a second ratio would give it a few more MPH.
VAG is on a roll with setting track records with the I.R. D EV and the Porsche 919 Evo
 
Been up that road 3 times, 40 years ago, twice in my CJ-7 and once in my Bronco! When did they pave it? It was gravel about a mile or two past the entrance to the top back then. A pickup and I touched mirrors when we passed each other, me going up, him coming down. Quite a fantastic view. Mt. Washington road was even narrower back then. Fun. PJ
 
They started paving it in sections quite a while ago. The last bit up to the top hasn't been done but a few years.
I went to a bicycle mechanic's school in Colorado Springs 6 years ago and took a rental car to the top.
 
I remember Mt Washingtons road, slightly more primitive years ago, as I'm sure it hasn't changed much today, it surly kept your attention! :highly_amused:

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I've been up 3 mountain roads. 1. Mt. Equinox, VT, 1951, in a 1940 Ford. It overheated.
2. Mt. Washington, NH, year ?? in ?? VW Dasher maybe. 3. Pike's Peak in rented something. At the summit, wife stayed in car not feeling well at 14,110 feet. Son and I got out, looked around, felt a bit woozy, got back in car and drove down. Stopped on the way down to get a look at the Coors Brewery and while we looked, a coyote came down a slope, looked us over, lifted his leg on a bush and....(I guess that's what he thought of us).
 
Rode up Pike's Peak in Dad's '53 Chevy. Yes he had to stop a couple of times to let it cool down. Next time I go it will be on the cog railway.
 
Bayless said:
Rode up Pike's Peak in Dad's '53 Chevy. Yes he had to stop a couple of times to let it cool down...
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Similar experience but in a 53 Plymouth. That was the trip where I (6 years old) decided I was going to move 'Out West'. And I did (eventually).

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Some fine looking cars in that shot.
 
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