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That’s a Hyundai? Red Bull Racing and Hyundai Reveal PM580 Pikes Peak Race Car – Car News – Car and Driver
October 2, 2011 | 
Author Rhys Millen wants to break the Pikes Peak hill-climb record, and he’s partnering with Hyundai to build the unique weapon you see here. The current record holder, Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima, set his time of 10:01.408 in a purpose-built Suzuki Sport “XL7” that had about as much to do with a real Suzuki as Millen’s does with any Genesis.
While Hyundai doesn’t specify, we guess this would technically be a Genesis Coupe. It will be entered into the Unlimited class which, just as it sounds, puts no limits on weight, power, or tires. The body—similar to Tajima’s Suzuki in profile—is rendered in carbon fiber, helping the team meet its target weight of 1850 pounds. An active rear wing reduces drag on the straights and goes into action during cornering and braking, while diffusers front and rear channel air under the car.
The RMR PM580 Genesis, as it’s officially known, is powered by a 3.8-liter Hyundai V-6 that has been stroked to 4.1 liters. It’s turbocharged and intercooled and now makes 750 hp, or nearly 2.5 times the engine’s output in the
. The turbocharger will help keep the power levels up while this one-off makes its way up to the thin air at the 14,110-foot summit. An all-wheel-drive system with an active center diff is able to send anywhere from 10 to 100 percent of the power to the front wheels. The 12.42-mile road up the mountain has recently and gradually been paved in several sections, making the course slightly different each year, and Millen says the car has been designed to cope with the varying road surfaces.
Millen that actually looked like a Genesis Coupe at last year’s Pikes Peak hill climb. He used that car to set the record for the Time Attack 2WD class and aims to break the 10-minute barrier with the PM580, bringing the Pikes Peak record back to the Millen family—Rhys’s father, Rod, held the record for 13 years until Tajima broke it in 2007. The elder Millen’s time stands as the fastest before paving began on the mountain.
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Nissan 370Z vs. BMW 135i, Mazda RX-8 R3, and Pontiac Solstice GXP – Comparison Tests
Wait a minute, who called this meeting? Who
are these guys? We’ve got a couple of four-passenger cars, one of ’em with more than two doors. A couple of two-seaters, one with a targa top. There’s also turbocharging, natural aspiration, and an engine with no pistons at all. Besides prices in the low- to mid-$30,000s, what’s the common thread?
Sport. As in “sports coupes cum sports cars.” Granted, that’s an elastic category, but regardless of their differences, all have a little race car baked in. More than a little, usually. They also share a visual swagger. Some may cease being useful when the occupant count exceeds two, but they’re all loaded with style and bad-boy lovability, plus a touch of luxury. These cars make you good-looking—or at least make you
feel that you’re good-looking, which is almost the same thing.
Body styles aside, attitude and agility color all the players in this foursome. To what degree—that’s what we went to Southern California to find out.
The starting point was the Mazda RX-8, the defending champ from the last shootout featuring cars of this type [“
,” June 2007] and the one before that as well [“
,” April 2003]. The world’s only rotary-engined production car also hummed its way to three 10Best Car awards (’04, ’05, and
) and fortifies its appeal for 2009 with a new R3 sport package designed to put an even finer edge on its gunfighter reflexes.
The 135i seems at a glance to be the least compatible member of this troupe, a formal coupe with only tenuous claim to the title “sports car.” But it has 300 horsepower under its hood, we haven’t found other suitable showdown opponents, and besides, it’s a BMW.
The two other challengers are easier to categorize. Both wear the sports-car mantle comfortably, as two-seaters that are updates on earlier designs. Nissan’s
represents an extensive makeover: updated chassis, new dimensions, new sheetmetal, and new engine. The Pontiac Solstice GXP has acquired a roof, fulfilling the promise of the coupe concept that debuted seven years ago.
We’d hoped to bring an updated Mustang GT, but Ford wasn’t eager to enter its pony in this derby, so we’ll try to herd one into a later starting gate.
After five days of tire abuse, g-load brownouts, and decreasing apexes, we emerged with these rankings:
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Auto News and Information from Car and Driver – December 2009 – Table of Contents
COMPARISON TESTS Hool-Agains: We renew the search for the king of cheap speed.
Rabids at Rest: A rare moment of inactivity finds the latest from Cadillac, Jaguar, and Mercedes-Benz rubbing fender wells to determine supremacy among 500-plus-hp luxury sedans.
ROAD TESTS Ford’s big-air Raptor lives for trail running and disaster outrunning.
24 Hours of Dayton: One filthy Porsche Panamera Turbo! 500 German Horsepower! Seven speeds and two clutches! One excellent waffle house! Four red-eyed drivers! 1078 miles of frightened Ohio motorists! Way too much Dayton! No one following any rules!
SHORT TAKE ROAD TEST Faster than it feels.
SECOND SHORT TAKE Dates back to George the First, but is a lot more fun.
QUICK TAKE New engine elevates an also-ran.
FIRST DRIVE REVIEW The $350,000 Lexus LFA is the richer man’s Ferrari 599GTB. It’s also a bargain.
SECOND DRIVE Looks like a chump, feels like a sneaker.
CAR NEWS Don’t expect a mid-size revolution.
FEATURES Lightly Used Car: An already great value gets even better, thanks to Ford’s CPO program.
The Hard Way To Hemingway: We drive a $120,000 Jeep EarthRoamer over two 8000-foot mountain passes, skirting a massacre site, a lost hiker, Hemingway’s grave, and someone’s misplaced underwear.
Dead-End Technology.
Ferrari’s new steering wheel inspires us.
Uncovering the coverage offered by extended-warranty companies.
Just the thing when al-Qaeda comes a-calling.
TECH DEPT.
Porsche’s first sedan flaps its wings at speed.
COLUMNS Starting with next month’s redesign, you won’t have to hide your
C/D under your mattress.
I’m Not Proud of This: More proof that I’m unqualified to offer car advice.
How many old cars will show up for cruise nights and concours d’lgance if Mr. Obama keeps pouring sodium silicate into their engines?
GEAR BOX We compare four categories of tires able to deal with winter and come up with some surprising results.
INTERVIEW A moment with the winningest NASCAR Cup series driver in history.
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