Quarkus P3: The 600kg French Supercar That DNF’d at Pikes Peak Before Selling a Single Car They didn’t finish. On June 23rd, 2024, a car that had never been sold to anyone, built by a company most people had never heard of, entered the most punishing hillclimb on the planet and did not cross the … Read more
Kimera K39: 1,000 Koenigsegg Horsepower, a Manual Gearbox, and the Question Nobody Dared Ask Christian von Koenigsegg doesn’t hand out the beating heart of his company to just anyone. He’s spent decades building a reputation on engineering so uncompromising that owning a Koenigsegg feels less like buying a car and more like receiving a handshake … Read more
Hoonicorn: a 1965 Mustang doing donuts on 1,400 horsepower of methanol Take a 1965 Ford Mustang Notchback. Steel body. The kind your dad watched go past the diner with fenders so wide they looked hand-drawn. Strip everything inside. Drop in a NASCAR-spec tubular chassis fabricated in Charlotte. Bolt up a 410 cubic-inch Roush Yates V8. … Read more
Ken Block: the man who invented a genre and gave it away January 2, 2023. Mill Hollow, Wasatch County, Utah. A snowmobile flips backward on a steep slope and lands on top of the man riding it. He’s alone at that moment. By the time search and rescue reach him, there’s nothing to be done. … Read more
Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak: Nearly 1,000 CV, Two Engines and the Most Famous Car That Never Won The Fastest Car in Gran Turismo 2. The Most Intimidating Nickname in Motorsport. And a Victory That Hides a Twist. If you ask any gamer born between 1985 and 1995 what’s the most brutal car they’ve ever driven … Read more
Peugeot 405 T16: The Monster That Turned Pikes Peak Into a World Legend There Are Races. There Are Records. And Then There Are Moments That Change the History of a Sport Forever. On July 4, 1988, on a Colorado mountain covered in gravel and dust, a Finn named Ari Vatanen steered a 600 CV Peugeot … Read more
Pikes Peak: The Race to the Clouds That Eats Cars and Spits Out Legends The Mountain No One Should Be Able to Climb… and That Everyone Wants to Conquer In November 1806, Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike looked up at the peak that would one day bear his name and declared something history has never forgotten: … Read more
