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Written by Tom Harrison
A year after the insane ID R became the first car to run the 12.4-mile, 156-corner Pikes Peak Hillclimb in under eight minutes, VW has announced it"s taking the 670bhp, 1,100kg all-electric, all-wheel drive race car to China. This coming September Romain Dumas will drive the ID R up the Tianmen Shan Big Gate Road - a 99-corner, 6.8-mile mountain pass used mainly by tourist buses that climbs 1,100m up the side of the 1,519m-high Tianmen Mountain. It"s very narrow, very twisty and very, very dangerous indeed. Just one thing - there isn"t yet a record for Dumas to beat. Nobody else is brave enough, plainly. Beforehand VW will instead run a competition, where people will use a video game to post virtual times behind the wheel of a virtual ID R. It"s the fastest of these times that Dumas will try and beat when he arrives in China in a few month"s time.
Date written: 28 Mar 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
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A year after the insane ID R became the first car to run the 12.4-mile, 156-corner Pikes Peak Hillclimb in under eight minutes, VW has announced it"s taking the 670bhp, 1,100kg all-electric, all-wheel drive race car to China. This coming September Romain Dumas will drive the ID R up the Tianmen Shan Big Gate Road - a 99-corner, 6.8-mile mountain pass used mainly by tourist buses that climbs 1,100m up the side of the 1,519m-high Tianmen Mountain. It"s very narrow, very twisty and very, very dangerous indeed. Just one thing - there isn"t yet a record for Dumas to beat. Nobody else is brave enough, plainly. Beforehand VW will instead run a competition, where people will use a video game to post virtual times behind the wheel of a virtual ID R. It"s the fastest of these times that Dumas will try and beat when he arrives in China in a few month"s time.
Date written: 28 Mar 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15271
