4x4 Events
New touareg takes on key role in the dakar rally
The new Volkswagen Touareg is set to face its toughest test yet as it prepares to act as a support vehicle to the bespoke Race Touareg 2 on the Dakar Rally. The event has run since 1979 and, for 2007, totals 4,309 km of stages taking in the most inhospitable terrain to push the tolerances of the vehicles, drivers and the teams.
4x4 Events
Panda 4x4s contest dakar 2007
Two factory-built Fiat Panda 4x4s have been prepared to contest the gruelling Dakar 2007 rally raid, which starts in Lisbon this Saturday (6 January).
Dakar 2007, with its thrilling succession of timed stages and special trials, finishes on 21 January in the Senegalese capital. It covers 8,696 kilometres, 5,100 of them in the form of special stages, after traversing Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal. It is always an extraordinary adventure, and this year Fiat will be in the thick of it
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