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Selling a set of 4 20" Pikes Peak wheels from my 2014 Touareg Executive. Comes with VW center caps (no TPMS, no tires). No bends, cracks or corrosion. I had a separate winter set, so no winters/salt. Only selling because I found a set of Cayenne wheels. 2 wheels have some curb rash, and 1 has a...

It perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise that one of the biggest companies on earth could set some records when it decided that it wanted to. But the accomplishments of Volkswagen Motorsport and the ID.R shouldn’t be downplayed. It’s easy to forget just how fast the ID.R really is and just...

The Volkswagen Group of America is planning something intriguing, as they’ve applies to trademark the name “Peak Edition” with the US patent office . The name is being registered for automobiles and trim pieces, which suggests that Volkswagen is planning a special trim for one of its vehicles...

Audi fans rejoice! The next pair of Lego Speed Champions Sets will be a Ferrari F8 Tribute and—more relevantly—an Audi Sport Quattro S1 from 1985. The sets will each cost $20 and the Audi set comes with 250 bricks while the Ferrari set is made up of 275 bricks. The Sport Quattro S1 wears...

Bentley is looking to get up the hill in a shorter time than its ever managed before. Sending a Continental to crush the continental divide. Aiming for a production car record at the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb at the end of this month. It's not the first time that Bentley has aimed to...

The ID.R officially has a new livery. Following the grey on grey on grey that saw it to the top of Pikes Peak and Lord March’s driveway, Volkswagen Motorsport is adding a little color to the electric record-setter. Perhaps appropriately, given its R branding, the car feature blue on its front...

Bentley will attempt to break the production car record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this June with a specially prepared Continental GT W12 driven by Rhys Millen. This record attempt comes on the heels of Bentley's record-breaking run at Pikes Peak in 2018, which saw Millen break...

Volkswagen is doing the thing! The brand officially announced Saturday that the electric I.D. R will take on Germany’s fearsome Nurburgring. And while we’ve long expected this—it just makes sense—it will still be exciting to see what the I.D. R can do. Officially, they’re going after the...

We still don’t know where the I.D. R’s next mission will take it (the Nurburgring), but VW is set to announce that this weekend . Until then, though, they’re teasing us with these shots of a mystery track (the Nurburgring). Although we can’t say for sure (-.-) where Volkswagen will take the...

Volkswagen is taking the I.D. R to Austria’s famous Ice Race at Zell am See, but only as a showpiece. The car will be doing another hot lap in the near future, though, and VW plans to announce that record attempt at the January 19-20 event. Reports and common sense indicate that the car will...

The record-breaking Volkswagen I.D. R will not return to Pikes Peak for 2019, says Sven Smeets, VW's motorsport director. Instead, the brand is exploring other records that might help VW develop its electric performance vehicles. "We spoke to our marketing and communications [departments] and...

Volkswagen is going all in on electric cars and that means more than just retro models and more driving range. It also means performance, which Jost Capito, head of VW’s R department, promises will be worth waiting for. “If we do an R electric car, then it will be a proper R, or else it...

Nearly a month after its multiple-record breaking run up Pikes Peak in Colorado, Volkswagen is finally releasing the in-car footage of the run. Aaaaaaaand we're also finally getting a hint as to why it took them so long to release the footage. Volkswagen Motorsport: Excellent at making cars...

Romain Dumas has set an all-out record at Pikes Peak today, running the course in 7:57.148. He becomes the fastest driver ever to run the course in any car and the first driver to run a 7 minute time. Romain Dumas hugs Simone Faggioli, who set the second fastest time at Pikes Peak on Sunday...

Racing teams are constantly fighting unbelievable odds and insane competition to accomplish wildly impressive feats. And nowhere is that truer than at Pikes Peak. With the electric car record of 8:57.181 in its crosshairs, Volkswagen Motorsport has gone so far as to invent a new charging system...

Romain Dumas has accomplished his first mission, setting the fastest time in qualifying ahead of this weekend’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. With ambitions of setting the electric record on Sunday, the 3.16.083 qualifying time is a good start for Volkswagen and the I.D. R. “That was...

There are a lot of things about running an electric race car that a team has to contend with, but one of the big ones, at least at Pikes Peak, is charging time. It may seem like, since it’s just an 8-minute run that has to be completed but once, the team shouldn’t have to be in too big a rush...

Volkswagen took the wraps off the I.D. R back in April, but back then it was still raw carbon fiber. Now, VW has revealed what the car will look like when it makes its record attempt at the end of the month. The car bears an icy grey color scheme with R logos featured prominently along the...