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Video: Listen to the whistling 405 Pikes Peak

07th July 2020
Laura Thomson

The Peugeot 405 Pikes Peak is one of the most famous cars in the Colorado hillclimb’s history, with Ari Vatanen recording a record-setting sprint in 1989, taking just 10m 47.77s to complete the 12.42-mile course.

Unique for its four-wheel-steering, which had never previously been seen in a rally or hillclimb car, the radical 405 Pikes Peak was based on the 1987 Peugeot 205 T16 Pikes Peak, featuring a carbon-kevlar body atop a new sheet and tubular steel chassis.

It’s success was immortalised in the of the 'Climb dance' video of 1989, which won a brace of awards at film festivals around the globe. And in 2013, we welcomed it to the Goodwood Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard, where it took on a slightly shorter hillclimb. Nonetheless, the huge-winged model still impressed, growling up the Hill, with flames spitting from its exhaust…

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