The only Toyota I would drive

Jstas
Jstas Posts: 14,807
edited April 2010 in The Clubhouse
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You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    edited April 2010
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited April 2010
    I'd like to see the torque numbers on that car as those rear tires could barely keep themselves on the road!
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  • gelinas
    gelinas Posts: 226
    edited April 2010
    i drive a tacoma, glad that so far it's stayed out of the headlines.
    Needless to say, my 4x4 doesn't look aything like this one..,.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited April 2010
    zingo wrote: »
    I'd like to see the torque numbers on that car as those rear tires could barely keep themselves on the road!

    Yeah, that car is an accident waiting to happen....
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited April 2010
    Either that car suspension wasn't set up right, or the driver sucked. He was all over the place when he was braking as well.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited April 2010
    Are you sure you were NOT driving that toyota John? Looked like a total newb was driving it:p
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,807
    edited April 2010
    TNRabbit wrote: »
    Either that car suspension wasn't set up right, or the driver sucked. He was all over the place when he was braking as well.

    ???
    The Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak can hit 60 MPH in 1.6 seconds but it's only geared to do 132 MPH. The "truck" was built and driven by New Zealander Rod Millen (Rhys's dad) for the 1998 Pikes Peak Hillclimb. The vehicle has nothing in common with the Tacoma and is, in fact, built on a chrome-molly tubular space frame chassis covered in a carbon fiber body. Power is generated by a 2.1-liter, four-cylinder, turbocharged and intercooled engine pumping out something in the neighborhood of 1,000 HP. It can hit 125 MPH in 4.9 seconds. With this "truck" Millen won the Pikes Peak Unlimited class in both 1998 and 1999. This video shows Millen driving the vehicle at the 2007 Goodwood Festival of speed, a non-competitive rolling showcase of rare racecars, not a full-on hillclimb. Keep that in mind as Millen tries furiously to keep the thing on the track, which he manages, we're guessing, for 75% of the climb.

    I highly doubt that Rod Millen "sucks" as a driver. I also highly doubt that the car's suspension was improperly set up. I do believe that the truck is feather light tipping the scales around 1900 pounds with all-wheel drive and 1,000 horsepower. I think the fact that it didn't rocket off in to the woods is testament to skill and equipment rather than a detriment.
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  • mhmacw
    mhmacw Posts: 832
    edited April 2010
    yea total wrong set up for that track but i bet it was as close as they could get. ever try flying an f-16 around your block? that truck was so glued it was like basketball shoes on a gym floor. squeeky squeeky lol
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited April 2010
    Mmmmmmmm delicious 503e motor.
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • Vette C6.r
    Vette C6.r Posts: 1,560
    edited April 2010
    That is one serious turbo. Haven't heard a turbo that strong since the old IMSA GTP days.
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