#LAAS08 We’ve added a few more images to the gallery from the reveal yesterday at the LA Auto Show. Take a look now because the race kicks in tomorrow and it won’t look like this!
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and here it is! MEAN MEAN MEAN! 5.5 liter V-12 clean diesel engine that produces 550 horsepower and 625 lbs.-ft. of torque
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The countdown to what is arguably the world’s most unusual rally is running: On 21 November 2008, Volkswagen will start to the Baja 1000 in Mexico with a specially designed Touareg TDI for the first time. Today, Dr Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Board for Technical Development of Volkswagen, unveiled the spectacular prototype for the race at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles. Continue reading ‘Volkswagen unveils Touareg TDI for Baja 1000′
50 days till the 2009 Dakar Rally in Argentina and Chile
Innumerable maps, sketches and so-called road books from seven Dakar Rally starts pile up in Volkswagen co-driver Michel Périn’s study at his home in Epernay.
Year for year the Frenchman, since 2004 contracted to the Wolfsburg based automobile manufacturer, prepared for the world famous long-distance rally with these valuable documents and his enormous experience. However, all these meticulously archived documents suddenly lost their value, because instead of going through North Africa the Dakar Rally crosses South America for the first time from 3 to 13 January 2009. Argentina and Chile instead of Morocco, Mauretania and Senegal – for Michel Périn, co-driver of two-time Rally World Champion and Volkswagen factory driver Carlos Sainz (Spain), the hunt for any possible form of information a new challenge. Continue reading ‘Volkswagen Co-Pilot Michel Perin and the lost “Dakar” treasure’
Baja 1000 from 21–23 November 2008
If the Dakar Rally is the world’s toughest rally, the Baja 1000 in Mexico must be the most unusual rally, covering more than 1,000 kilometres non-stop against the clock, on the toughest of surfaces and with no time check, and therefore with no “visible” opponents. Continue reading ‘Baja 1000: Volkswagen in the most unusual rally in the world’
We have the first set of images from Volkswagen Motorsport showing the chassis design on the new Volkswagen-Red Bull Baja Race Touareg TDI Trophy Truck.
First turbo-diesel Trophy Truck in historic SCORE series
Volkswagen of America, Inc. has announced the all new Volkswagen-Red Bull Baja Race Touareg TDI, powered by a clean diesel TDI engine, will enter this year’s 41st Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 desert race in the SCORE Trophy Truck class. Volkswagen will unveil its purpose-built Race Touareg TDI Trophy Truck during its news conference at this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show. The news conference is scheduled for 10:45 to 11:10 a.m., Wednesday, November 19, 2008. Continue reading ‘SCORE BAJA 1000: Volkswagen enters new Clean Diesel TDI Trophy Truck’
66 days until the 2009 Dakar Rally in Argentina and Chile
The last check before the big task: At a seven-day final test in Morocco to prepare for the 2009 Dakar Rally the Volkswagen Race Touareg covered a 2,500-kilometre distance through varied terrain by delivering promising performance without the slightest problems. Continue reading ‘Dakar: Race Touareg completes final test in Morocco’
“Dakar” tests with Volkswagen Race Touareg 2 in Morocco - Volkswagen Motorsport: “The Volkswagen team is preparing for the upcoming Dakar Rally in Argentina and Chile at the beginning of January with further tests.
From 18 to 26 October suspension set-ups and long runs of the Race Touareg 2 around Erfoud, Morocco, are on the agenda.
The tests are run with two of the 280-hp ‘Dakar’ prototypes and the driver pairings Carlos Sainz/Michel Périn (E/F), Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz (ZA/D) and Mark Miller/Ralph Pitchford (USA/ZA).
Rally drivers as mountaineers: the Volkswagen squad prepared for the Dakar Rally from 3 to 18 January 2009 with a five-day fitness training camp in the Swiss Alps.
For the first time, the motorsport marathon on its route through Argentina and Chile will lead across the huge mountain ranges of the Andes – at the “Dakar” this represents a new and extreme challenge for man and material, for which the four Race Touareg pairings, Carlos Sainz/Michel Périn (E/F), Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz (RSA/D), Mark Miller and Ralph Pitchford (USA/RSA) as well as Dieter Depping/Timo Gottschalk (D/D), intensively train. Continue reading ‘Dakar: From the Alps to the Andes: altitude training of the Volkswagen drivers’
A new continent, the same challenge: on 03 January 2009 – after 29 rounds in Africa – the legendary Dakar Rally 2009 will start in South America for the first time in its history.
Among the vehicles moving across the starting ramp in Buenos Aires will be four Volkswagen Race Touareg 2 cars. The countdown for the desert classic has long begun: exactly 100 days from now the “Dakar” will start. It will cover 15 legs through Argentina and Chile from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back, crossing landscapes that make extreme demands on man and material. The Volkswagen team is tackling the hot phase before the start to this new era backed by the self-confidence of successfully completed rallies and the awareness of facing a big task. Continue reading ‘The new “Dakar”: four Race Touareg cars to start in South America’
