dakar news

Two Volkswagen Race Touareg fighting for victory are keeping the 2010 Dakar Rally exciting and the result open up until the last minute: On the desert classic’s thirteenth and penultimate stage Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) took 2 minutes 32 seconds from their team mates Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz (E/E).

Celebrity visit for Volkswagen Commercial vehicles at the Dakar Rally in Antofagasta (Chile): German musician Rudolf Schenker, founder of the hard rock band “The Scorpions” arrived in South America today to testdrive the brand-new Volkswagen Amarok, Volkswagens pickup.

Eight months before it arrives in the UK this September, the new Volkswagen pick-up, the Amarok, is demonstrating its power, durability and off-road performance by following the Volkswagen Motorsport team currently taking part in the gruelling Dakar rally across some of the toughest terrain in South America.

After a starting ceremony attended by more than 800,000 people in Buenos Aires, the competitors in the Dakar left Buenos Aires and headed to the first bivouac. This is where the first special stage will start tomorrow morning.

ust days until the start of the highly anticipated 2010 Dakar Rally, Robby Gordon and Team HUMMER are preparing to head south to Argentina. The HUMMERS are flying like always, except they are soaring above the clouds at 40,000 feet.

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.

60 tons of material, 17 support vehicles – Volkswagen’s "Dakar" crew embarked on its voyage across the Atlantic ocean to South America.

Project title defence : Volkswagen will again contest the famous Dakar Rally in January.

It is durable, robust and can tackle any road, no matter how tricky: the Volkswagen Amarok will have to prove those claims from January 2010 during the world’s toughest rally.

Volkswagen will again participate in the legendary Dakar Rally in 2010. After the one-two victory and the historic first "Dakar” triumph of a diesel-powered car this year, the automobile manufacturer from Wolfsburg will yet again take on one of the major challenges of international motorsport.