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Porsche put more effort into its heritage than any other manufacturer. You’ll find no shortage of its past highlighted at the events it holds, the museums it curates, and the cars it produces. But Porsche doesn’t just look back at its past accomplishments. It strives to create new milestones too.
The Porsche 911 sports car has reset the record for the highest altitude reached by a driven vehicle by ascending the world’s tallest volcano – surpassing the marker set by one of the most iconic off-roaders of all time.
It's so cool to see that there are still physical, flag-planting frontiers being conquered on planet Earth. Just this week, a team of mountaineers, engineers, and drivers got a heavily modded Porsche 911—even more extreme than the 911 Dakar—to the top of a volcano in Chile. They claimed a new world record for the highest elevation ever achieved with a car.
A modified Porsche 911 driven by three-times Le Mans champion Romain Dumas set a new world record at the Ojos del Salado volcano in Chile, ascending to a higher altitude that any earthbound vehicle had climbed previously.
The Porsche 911 has set a new altitude world record by reaching the peak of a volcano in Chile while running on synthetic fuel from HIF Global.
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When Ford went up the 2023 Pikes Peak Hill Climb with the SuperVan 4.2, many were surprised by the impressive result given the brand's peculiar vehicle type choice. Now, the Blue Oval company is recounting the run with a new, well-executed cinematic video, pretty much explaining why the team went for a van instead.