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0Report: Carlos Sainz and VW lead Dakar through two stages 1294174680
The 2011 Dakar Rally is only two stages old, but there's already a big-time force at the top of the leader board. CNN reports that defending Dakar champion and Volkswagen driver Carlos Sainz has put the pedal to the metal to win the first two events and is leading BMW driver Stephane Peterhansel ...
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First photos of X-Raid Mini Countryman Dakar rally machine emerge 1292257560
X-Raid Mini Countryman All4 Racing – Click above for high-res imagesSome vehicles take longer to develop than others, but this has got to be one of the quickest turn-arounds we've seen yet. When we reported just last week that the X-Raid rally team was preparing a version of the Mini ... -
X-Raid previews Mini All4 for Dakar 1291766460
X-Raid Mini All4 Racing – Click above for full-size imageMini is going to Dakar, or at least the 2011 Dakar Argentina-Chile race. Monster Energy has partnered up with the X-Raid Team to bring a diesel-powered Mini Countryman to the sands of South America in just 90 days. The team started ... -
KTM 990 Adventure Dakar set to bow at EICMA 1288270860
KTM 990 Adventure Dakar – Click above to enlargeKTM has decided to commemorate the company's outright domination of the infamous Paris-Dakar race with a new special edition bike. Called the Adventure 990 Dakar, the moto looks to be little more than a paint and graphics package. Along with ... -
Volkswagen unveils Race Touareg 3 for 2011 Dakar Rally duty 1282658340
Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 – Click above for high-res image galleryVolkswagen has had great success with its diesel-powered Race Touareg 2, earning wins in both the 2009 and 2010 Dakar Rally. For the 2011 event, however, a brand new race truck will be entered, mimicking the changes made to ... -
Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 teased, confirmed and under development 1278509460
Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 teaser – Click above for high-res imageWhile the latter years of the Dakar rally (when it was actually held in Dakar) may have belonged to the Mitsubishi Pajero, in the past two years since the premiere rally-raid event was moved from its namesake in North Africa ... -
Yes, that's a dirt bike flying over an airborne Dakar truck 1276990260
One jump to rule them all – Click above for high-res image galleryHaving one cool ride jump an (arguably) even cooler one while the latter is also midair seems like a righteous idea to us. Fortunately, Red Bull teamed up with a couple of insane Russians to make it happen. FMX rider Alexey ... -
Eco Unfriendly: Dakar 2010 caused 570K of damage in Chile 1274131920
Despite the best efforts of racing organizations the world over to clean up their image, it's pretty tough to consider any kind of motorsport squeaky clean. Apparently, that's especially true of the recent Dakar rally in South America. Besides the expected burning of fossil fuels and the ...
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Report: Dakar imposters busted with 800+ kilos of cocaine in faux rally truck 1271338260
Smugglers are, by nature, a crafty bunch. Slaves to the market forces of supply and demand, drug runners risk liberty and limb to pedal their life-ruining wares around the world. Doing so requires a healthy helping of creativity, so it should come as no surprise that an Ibiza-based drug ring ...
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Carlos Sainz victorious as Volkswagen fills the podium at Dakar 1263925740
Carlos Sainz wins the 2010 Dakar Rally for VW – Click above for high-res image galleryWhen we joined Volkswagen on its first run in the Baja 500 back in 2008, the diesel-powered Race Touareg 2 suffered two lengthy breakdowns before the first hundred miles had passed. Just a few months, ...
