- My name is Craig Stanton
we are here to break the speed record for an SUV.
(engine accelerating)
We're jammin' now!
165.02 we got a pop-up on the intake somewhere
we just need to cool the car
and we'll go out and do it again.
- Hey, we got a bigger problem
we're pouring oil out the bottom.
- The World's Fastest SUV right now is at 211 miles an hour
that's extremely fast.
Toyota thought, why don't we make a really ultra-powerful
Land Cruiser, and let's see how fast we can make it go.
- We're gonna be challenged to make a Land Cruiser
that will beat that speed.
- We're trying to make it the opposite
of what it's traditionally been,
which is an off-road vehicle.
The biggest problem is trying to get it down to the ground
and getting it lowered, it's meant to have ground clearance.
- We are doing a shakedown run,
to see if we can get enough speed there
to be comfortable with the Land Speed Cruiser.
So right now we're just checking for vibration,
temperatures, looking at the overall vehicle,
and making sure we don't have any leaks.
(engine accelerating)
And we exceeded the speed that I wanted to go to.
I said that if we can get to 150 today I'd be happy.
We're at 163 and we're still at low boost.
Next step, we'll take it back to shop,
we'll do a really extensive search
and review everything,
we put the high speed tires on it
and we're gonna see what kind of speed we can attain
at a track that has a little more straight away.
- Good morning, welcome to Mojave Air and Space Port,
we're excited to have you out here.
This is an active airport,
you'll be crossing active runways
and active taxiways.
- We have a two and a half mile long paved runway
We'll use about a mile and a half of that for speed
and a mile just to make sure
we're safe for slowing down.
We got two drivers, Craig Stanton,
our normal test driver,
and we're expecting to see Carl Edwards
show up here just momentarily.
As of right now, we're pretty confident
we'll get up to some decent speed today.
- So something popped in the motor.
- Okay
- I just lifted just a little bit
and something popped like it did in Arizona.
- I told them I woke up about literally
at like two this morning.
I was like, what the Hell am I doing? (laughing)
Like Paul just sent me a text like hey you want to do this
I was like sure, I didn't ask a lot of questions.
(intense music)
Frickin' runs like a train.
So I think we can do just what we just did
and go ten miles an hour faster,
but you're gonna be hard braking I think.
You need another 1000 feet to go that,
the speed is--
- But if we pump the boost up
- Yeah, we just need more power.
(engine accelerating)
Awesome, I killed the rev chip,
but other than that we're good.
- 230
(laughing)
- I saw the number.
- I'm Carl Edwards, I'm here at the Mojave
Air and Space Port.
And we just did something pretty crazy:
Drove an SUV over 230 miles per hour.
But I'm tellin' ya, at 225 miles per hour,
the thing was wandering a little bit
and trying to keep my foot in it,
all I could think was Craig Stanton
who got it all warmed up today.
He just said no-matter what,
just keep your foot in it and we got 230 miles per hour.
So an awesome day.
Today we got at least an unofficial record
but safe to say, that's the fastest SUV on the planet.
- It's the fastest SUV I've ever driven.
- Definitely.
- Crazy.
(laughing)