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Monster Tajima is Pikes Peak's new "King of the Mountain"

Click image to enlarge Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima has accomplished what he set out to do at Pikes Peak. Today, the 57-year-old Japanese driver piloted his immensely powerful, spectacularly bewinged Suzuki XL7 Hill Climb Special up the mountain and completed the 156-turn course in 10 minutes, 1.408 seconds, eclipsing Rod Millen's 1994 mark of 10 minutes, 4.06 seconds. According to the Associated Press, Tajima was quoted as saying, "It's fantastic. I'm very happy. I want to try again and beat the 10-minute barrier." We've no doubt that he'll be ... Read more →

Suzuki Sport XL7 Hill Climb Special unveiled

Click image for hi-res gallery var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/motorsport/The_world_s_fastest_Suzuki_XL7'; Damn. If only the real Suzuki XL7 was this awesome. The car you see above is the machine ...

Monster Tajima is Pikes Peak's new "King of the Mountain" 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image to enlarge Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima has accomplished what he set out to do at Pikes Peak. Today, the 57-year-old Japanese driver piloted his immensely powerful, spectacularly bewinged Suzuki XL7 Hill Climb Special up the mountain and completed the 156-turn course in 10 minutes, 1.408 ...

Suzuki Sport XL7 Hill Climb Special unveiled 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image for hi-res gallery var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/motorsport/The_world_s_fastest_Suzuki_XL7'; Damn. If only the real Suzuki XL7 was this awesome. The car you see above is the machine that Monster Tajima hopes to break the current Pikes Peak Hill Climb record in. While the Suzuki ...








Autoblog Podcast #157: Mike Levine trucks along with us.

Mike Levine from PickupTrucks.com joins Chris, Sam, and Dan this week and gets a chance to talk about cars, too! 

 
 

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