Mandie August’s new MK2 is slowly but surely taking shape! The first rollout as part of a test run on the Bautzen airfield, ran virtually error-free and equally impressive with its enormous potential. It sounds awesome too! Check out the video after the jump!Continue reading ‘ALL-INKL Skoda Fabia MK2 Rollout’
Published January 7, 2010 in IRC and Rally. Closed
Skoda Auto’s factory team Skoda Motorsport is going to appear with three crews at the Monte Carlo Rally in January, the first event of the 2010 season of Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC).
The team’s two long-standing crews, Hänninen – Markkula and Kopecký – Starý, are going to be joined by Frenchman Nicolas Vouilloz, the 2008 IRC champion. Vouilloz is going to choose his co-driver within a few days. (continue reading…)
With 22 days left until the start of the 2010 Dakar Rally, Volkswagen launches yes another iPhone app. Currently it provides videos, in-depth bio’s and Race Touareg technology insights. Download here (iTunes link)
From high-tech nomads for high-tech nomads: Volkswagen has launched a new iPhone application about the Dakar Rally in Apple’s online store today.
Under the name of ‘Volkswagen Rally mobile – 2010 Dakar’ the application is now available free of charge. Before and during the ‘Dakar’ it sends news, results, videos and background information directly to the user’s display. iPhone users will be kept up to speed about the ‘Dakar’ programme of the five factory-prepared and factory-fielded Race Touareg vehicles from Volkswagen, receiving exciting insights into the rally world of Volkswagen Motorsport. The Wolfsburg-based automobile manufacturer will contest the off-road classic that leads through Argentina and Chile – running twice across the Andes as well as through the gruelling Atacama desert and the legendary pampas – from 02 to 16 January 2010 as the title defender. Continue reading ‘Volkswagen puts the Dakar Rally on the iPhone’