— Millen is in his awesome yellow Toyota Celica, Monster Tajima is in the Suzuki Escudo that you all remember from Gran Turismo. It's spellbinding stuff. But since this video is just shy of an hour we'll let you into a secret, the big stars arrive at about 47 minutes in. Fast forward to there if you want to see the two hillclimb legends on ...
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— Rod Millen is taking his monstrous 1000-horsepower 1998 Toyota Tacoma back up the Rocky Mountains in this year's Pikes Peak Hillclimb. This Tacoma truck that is really only a Tacoma by name wowed motorsport enthusiasts when it won outright honours in the famous Hillclimb in 1998 and '99. It boasts a wickedly fast mid-mounted 2.1-litre […]
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This year's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is quite special as it's the 100th running of what many consider to be one of the world's most extreme hill climbs. Rod seems super-excited with the prospect of returning to the globally famous event, as he won five editions of them in the 1990s. Some drivers found it difficul…
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— Few cars to compete in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb are as iconic as Rod Millen's Toyota Tacoma and for the 100th running of the event, it screamed up …
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Rod Millen, Toyota Tacoma, Pikes Peak Hill Climb, Pikes Peak, Colorado, June 14, 1998 Add to Set Contact us About this Share Summary. First held in 1915, Colorado's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is known as the "Race to the Clouds." Cars climb 4,270 feet over the 12.42-mile race course. Drivers negotiate 156 turns along the twisting ...
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— Ford Taps Pikes Peak Champion To Take Down His Own Record With An Electric Super Truck I'm getting big Rod Millen Toyota Tacoma vibes from the F-150 Lightning SuperTruck
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— The Pikes Peak Tacoma was successor to Millen's equally radical Pikes Peak Celica, with which he won the hillclimb with in 1994, 1996, and 1997. In its first outing the car set a record of 10:04:06, which remained unbroken until Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima came along with a Suzuki XL7, itself a successor to the Pikes Peak Escudo, in 2007.
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— A lot can happen in 28 years. A lot did happen between 1994 and 2022. Those two years are our reference here specifically because in 2022, Rod Millen returned to Pikes Peak with his insane Toyota Tacoma – that we've seen before also at the Goodwood Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard – some 28 years on from his 1994 debut.
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— Watching him from below was Rod Millen, who would go on to become one of the faces of the race in the 1990s in his turbo Toyota Tacoma race truck.His dominance would be interrupted by the rise of ...
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— Ever since February 2022, it is no secret that Rod Millen and his 1998 Toyota Tacoma race truck are coming back to Pikes Peak. The legendary racer, who has won twice at Pikes Peak in that Tacoma ...
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— The Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak at the hands of Rod Millen is one wild machine. Just listen to those #turbo... | machine, Toyota, Toyota Tacoma The Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak at the …
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— In 1994, Millen set a new record up the 12.4-mile course at the wheel of his iconic yellow Celica, back when the Pikes Peak course was entirely dirt from flag to flag. He also claimed the fastest ...
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— If you follow our social media channels closely enough, you'll know it too. You'll know it's heavily turbocharged, entirely unhinged and that it broadly resembles a Toyota Tacoma. It is of course the 1998 and 1999 Pikes Peak-winning hillclimb special of Rod Millen, and in this video, we see it return to the mountain.
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The Toyota Tacoma is a Hillclimb Unlimited car in Colin McRae DiRT, and a Classic Trailblazer car in DiRT 3. "Rod Millen follows the Celica with the Toyota Tacoma. It's got better weight distribution and drag coefficient, making it a mechanic's choice."— Travis Pastrana, Colin McRae DiRT Pennzoil Arai Toyota "The Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak …
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RM2G88EX0 – 1998 Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak of Rod Millen at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2013. Between 1997 and 2000, Millen raced this special race car. heart_plus. shopping_cart. 1998 Toyota Tacoma 'Pikes Peak' car with driver Rod Millen at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Sussex, UK.
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— Road and Track ran quarter-mile tests on several race cars several years ago, and Rod brought out the Tacoma, still with Pikes Peak gearing and used R-type tires, i.e. no attempt to install a drag setup, and IIRC (don't have the mag for reference anymore), it ran the quarter in the nines at over 150 mph, topped out before reaching the end of ...
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— While the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb layout is no longer covered in dirt, seeing Rod Millen going all out in the Tacoma will take you back to 1999.
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— And you could hardly build a better case for this analog value than the legendary 1998 Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak winner (on two occasions!) returning to the event for 2022 with the racing titan that used to hoon it back in the day, Rod Millen, at the wheel. Part of a New Zealand family of prolific racing drivers (yep, Rhys is his son), …
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— The Pikes Peak has been the catalyst for some truly bonkers machines, and little can compete wth this. Rod Millen's Toyota Tacoma racing car! #gwflatout #FOS #Toyota #PikesPeak
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— A 2.1 liter, turbocharged, 1,000 horsepower 4-cylinder monster of a hill climb tube-chassis racecar truck. In the late 90's in the prime of the dirt track layout of The …
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— Perfect for letting 1,100PS (820kW) off the chain. Naturally, the clip is absolutely insane. That typical roar and chirp soundtrack that is just pure Tacoma Pikes Peak is almost unmistakable, as Millen threads …
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— The Tacoma took the overall victory in 1998 and '99, but just in case it wasn't impressive enough yet, Millen brought it back to Pikes Peak in 2022, driving it to eighth overall. At the age of 71.
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— Legendary Escudo Pikes Peak vs FOS-winning Toyota Celica... Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, aka 'The Race to the Clouds', is celebrating its 100th running this year so an appropriate excuse – as if one were needed – to take a look at some footage from a quarter of a century ago. Yes, sorry to break it to you, the mid-'90s really was that …
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— Driving the renowned Pikes Peak Celica, he almost broke the 10-minute barrier. He was just under 5 seconds short of achieving that performance, way before …
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— If you follow our social media channels closely enough, you'll know it too. You'll know it's heavily turbocharged, entirely unhinged and that it broadly resembles a Toyota Tacoma. It is of course the 1998 …
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The Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak is a purpose-built silhouette hill-climbing race truck built by Rod Millen Motorsport to participate in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, specifically in the Unlimited class. The Tacoma Pikes Peak essentially acted as a successor to the Celica Pikes Peak also built by Rod Millen Motorsport for the same race and class. Similar to …
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— A couple of months back we heard that Rod Millen was going back to Pikes Peak for the 100th race to the clouds in his legendary Toyota Tacoma race truck. Now, we're getting the chance to hear it ...
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— This year marks the hundredth running of the world's most extreme hill climb: Pikes Peak. Returning to celebrate the milestone at age 71 will be five-time race winner Rod Millen, who will...
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In 1998, the Rod Millen Motorsport team designed and built a new Toyota Tacoma racing truck to compete in the 76th Pikes Peak international hill climb, a machine which went on to claim the unlimited class honours in …
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— Millen aveva già guidato la Tacoma alla Pikes Peak nel 1998, 1999 e 2000 e quest'anno ha gareggiato nella categoria Exhibition. Toyota Tacoma 1.000 CV e Rod Millen: ...
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— Rod Millen and his 1994 Toyota Celica (or at least a tube chassis with a carbon fiber body resembling a Toyota Celica). More than thirty years ago Rod claimed the crown of King of the Mountain ...
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Rod Millen's (father of pro driver Rhys Millen) mid-engine, tube-frame Toyota Tacoma. The silhouette racer was one of the fastest machines to climb Pikes Peak in the '90s–back when the route was still comprised of dirt. [56k stay away: All the 2022 Pikes Peak Hill Climb photos, right from the side of the hill]
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— A 2.1 liter, turbocharged, 1,000 horsepower 4-cylinder monster of a hill climb tube-chassis racecar truck. In the late 90's in the prime of the dirt track layout of The Pikes Peak International Hillclimb this Tacoma was the …
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— Ever since February 2022, it is no secret that Rod Millen and his 1998 Toyota Tacoma race truck are coming back to Pikes Peak. The legendary racer, who has won twice at Pikes Peak...
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— Rod Millen is taking his monstrous 1000-horsepower 1998 Toyota Tacoma back up the Rocky Mountains in this year's Pikes Peak Hillclimb. This Tacoma truck that is really only a Tacoma by name …
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— In a motorsport career spanning 45 years, Rod Millen has written himself into the record books time and time again. His prowess on loose-surface rallies and hillclimbs is renowned, as five victories on the challenging Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado attest.. A long and fruitful collaboration with Toyota yielded the outright Pikes …
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