Motorsports: Toyota converts all-electric 'Ring racer to Pikes Peak hill climber [w/video]

Toyota is amongst a rush of punters to be tackling Pikes Peak, the world’s toughest hill climb…being on the outer edge of insanity.  Also going electric will be Monster Tajima, the reigning champion (see the link below) will be there with a stonking Monster Sport Esport Runner.

It seems like electric cars are now big deal.  Don’t be surprised to see LMP and maybe even F1 to go all sparky.

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The number of electric race cars entered into this year's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb continues to grow with Toyota Motorsports GmbH announcing today that its TMG EV P002 race car will compete at the 90th annual climb to the clouds.
While this will be Toyota's first trip to the Peak with the TMG EV P002, this won't be the car's first motorsports outing. Last year it set the lap record for an electric car at the Nürburgring, a time that still stands today. Since then, Toyota has updated the electric powertrain, which now puts out 469 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque running through a single-speed gearbox.
Toyota will have its hands full with competition, though, as the reigning unlimited class champion Monster Tajima will also be bringing his Monster Sport Sport E_RUNNER to race in the electric division at Pikes Peak. Perhaps less potent although no less interesting will be Mitsubishi's i-MiEV Evolution and an electric 1995 BMW M3 built by EV West.
Scroll down for a video that accompanies Toyota's official announcement

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Motorsports: Toyota converts all-electric 'Ring racer to Pikes Peak hill climber [w/video]
Drew Phillips
Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:15:00 GMT

Hi Tech Car Windows

Toyota started the trend to interactive passenger windows with its Window on the World

Now the General’s Future Lab has a crack (no pun intended) at it too.

The Tough One for the Big Country

Toyota have just released a version of the the legendary Land Cruiser just for Australia.  The Big Country is harsh and unforgiving.  Only the strongest survive.  Range Rovers, Discoverys and Mercedes Benz G-Wagens wilt and die as the Outback pounds them into submission, breaking their suspensions and ruining their power trains.  90% of 4WDs in the Outback are Toyota Land Cruisers!  And for good reason….they are just about the toughest thing this side of an Abrams MBT.

The Land Cruiser GX is specially built for Oz.  This is not the Land Cruiser of Surrey and Bridge of Allan providing Young Mothers with the idiotic notion that their darling kiddies will be safer in a big vehicle on their half mile trip to school.

No this is a real Land Cruiser with vinyl mats, vertically hinged rear doors and a snorkel designed to go where none can go.  This is a tough mutha for a tough country

Toyota’s Window to the World

Is there no end to the ingenuity of Japanese engineers

VIDEO: Toyota FT-86 Concept finds its way into Gran Turismo 5

Bernd Pichestreider (or as Jezza calls him Burnt Fishtrousers) said:  "When Toyota discovers style we're all in trouble".  Well hang on to your hats because they are well on the way:


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Toyota FT-86 concept - Click above to watch video after the jump

That didn't take long. Hot on the heels of the Toyota FT-86 Concept's reveal, we've got videographic proof that ToMoCo's new boxer-powered 2+2 is bound for the virtual circuits of Gran Turismo 5.



Make the jump to see a darkened shot of the C-4S flat-four underhood, followed by the FT-86 romping through some European backroads, running a street circuit and then sliding sideways at Tsukuba with its predecessor and inspiration, the original Toyota AE86 Corolla.

Gallery: Toyota FT-86 Concept

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