Dakar Rally
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French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen might have been in the sales doldrums for the last few years, but its success in the field of motorsport is anything but disappointing. Peugeot hopes to continue that success with the 2008 DKR—a hardcore off-road racer based on the 2008 subcompact crossover that has been designed to do one thing: Win next year's grueling Dakar Rally. In the best tradition of Peugeot's previous Dakar challengers, the 2008 DKR carries the name of a much humbler production model. That's about where the similarities with Peugeot's Juke-sized production crossover ends...
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Peugeot Reveals Its Dakar Racer, The 2008 DKR
Peugeot and multiple World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb made headlines last year with their dominance of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. This year, two other rally champions will pilot the French marque's latest project: the 2008 DKR. Loosely based on Peugeot's Juke-sized compact...
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Peugeot To Make Dakar Rally Comeback In 2015
After its domination of Pikes Peak last year, Peugeot is set to return to another arena in which it once competed--the famed Dakar rally. The Pikes Peak partnership of Peugeot Sport, Red Bull and Total will join forces once again for the 2015 Dakar rally, hoping to replicate Peugeot's late 1980s...
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X-Raid’s Joan Roma Drives MINI ALL4 Racing To 2014 Dakar Rally Victory
A trio of MINI All4 Racing crossovers took the top three spots in the 2014 Dakar Rally, which saw Spanish driver Joan ‘Nani’ Roma come first. It was the first win for Roma in a car at the Dakar Rally (he won the event on a motorcycle back in 2004 when the rally was still held in...
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(Almost) Everything You Need To Know About The Dakar Rally In One Infographic
Learn about the world's toughest rally with this handy graphic.
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MINI And X-Raid Partner For Another Run At Dakar
MINI and the X-raid team look to take home a third Dakar win.
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This Corvette-powered race truck will contest the 2014 Dakar Rally.
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Ford To Enter 2014 Dakar Rally With Mustang-Powered Ranger Pickup
Ford confirmed it will enter the 2014 Dakar Rally using its latest Ranger pickup truck currently sold overseas. The rally, which once again will be taking place in South America instead of its traditional home in Africa will run from January 5-18 next year. Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] will enter...
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MINI Celebrates Dakar Win With Special Edition JCW Countryman
A MINI, albeit a highly-modified one, has been driven to victory in the arduous Dakar Rally for the past two years, with Frenchman Stéphane Peterhansel and his co-driver Jean-Paul Cottret pulling off the feat on both occasions. Their weapon of choice was the custom-built MINI ALL4 Racing...
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X-Raid Team Drives MINI Countryman To Second Consecutive Dakar Rally Win
Following their win at last year’s race, the duo made up of Frenchmen Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret have won the Dakar Rally once more, and in dominant style. They piloted their Monster Energy X-raid Team-sponsored MINI ALL4 Racing to victory in the arduous race in a time...
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Race2Recovery Team Ready For Start Of Dakar Rally
Eighteen months ago, a fledgling Dakar Rally team calling itself Race2Recovery consisted of a handful of team members, mostly combat-wounded British soldiers, and a single Land Rover Freelander (our LR2) race vehicle. At tomorrow’s Dakar Rally start, a much more dynamic Race2Recovery Team...
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Get Ready For The 2013 Dakar Rally: Video
In just two days the 2013 Dakar Rally will commence, with scores of drivers and riders set to take across the plains and hills of Argentina, Chile and Peru during the arduous race. South America has been home to the Dakar Rally since 2009 due to security threats in Western Africa where the rally...
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Last January, MINI surprised the racing world by taking first place honors in the grueling Dakar Rally. Even more surprising was the fact that 2012 represented MINI’s very first attempt at the event, a testament to the preparation and planning of the X-raid Team, as well as the durability of the MINI Cooper Countryman. In 2013, driver Stéphane Peterhansel and co-driver Jean-Paul Cottret will attempt to repeat last year’s win, again behind the wheel of an X-raid prepared MINI. Peterhansel is no stranger to the event: 2012 marked his 10th Dakar Rally win, and the French...
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The RaBe Desert Warrior, Britain's Dakar Rally Hope
In January of 2013, Britain’s first professional Dakar Rally team will contest for an T1 Class win driving an all-new desert racer. Loosely based on the Range Rover Evoque, the RaBe Desert Warrior is a purpose-built, all-terrain terror that should be capable of enduring all the storied race...
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Honda Announces Its Return To The Dakar Rally
Honda ran a factory-backed motorcycle team in the legendary Paris-Dakar Rally from 1981 thorough 1989. In this nine-year period, Honda won the event five times on three different motorcycles (the XR550, the NXR750 and the NXR800). It’s been 23 years since Honda last ran the event in an...
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Bentley Dakar Entry Edges Closer To Reality
Bentley is likely to execute a proven Volkswagen Group formula for the promotion of its upcoming SUV by entering a racing version in the arduous Dakar rally. Just like the Porsche Cayenne and the multiple-winning Volkswagen Touareg that came before it, Bentley’s new SUV, well, the EXP 9 F...
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X-Raid Team Drives MINI Countryman ALL4 To 2012 Dakar Rally Victory
Stéphane Peterhansel and his co-driver Jean-Paul Cottret have taken out top honors at the 2012 Dakar Rally for the X-Raid Team and MINI. At the end of the last of 14 demanding stages, the two Frenchmen and their green MINI Cooper Countryman ALL4 Racing was confirmed as the winner of the...
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First An SUV And Now Dakar? Bentley Jumping In With Both Feet
Bentley may be committing more to its SUV than we thought with a run at Dakar.
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With three-time Dakar Rally winner Volkswagen pulling out of the event from next year onwards, there are a number of new players keen on entering the grueling off-road rally in the coming years. One of these is Britain’s Excite Rallye Raid Team, which has announced that it will be running three vehicles specially commissioned from race car manufacturer RaBe Race Cars and driven by Martin Rowe, John Hardy, and Andrew Coley. The three vehicles will be based around a Range Rover Evoque chassis but will get their power from BMW-sourced 3.0-liter turbodiesel engines rated at 275 horsepower...
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McRae Electric Dakar Buggy In The Rain: Video
McRae Buggy and Tim Coronel are working on the first electric buggy for the 2012 Dakar Rally, and it finally got the chance to test in some real race conditions at the 2011 Spanish Baja, running as the opening car for the Super Special stage. With a base weight of just 1,440 pounds for the McRae...
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Volkswagen Wins 2011 Dakar Rally, Achieves Hat Trick
Volkswagen has managed to win the Dakar Rally for the third time in succession, with drivers Nasser AlAttiyah and Timo Gottschalk taking the top honors. They were joined by two other Volkswagen teams in second and third place, with all three teams competing with latest Race Touareg 3. The 2011...
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Video: MINI Dakar All4 Rips Up French Test
What's not to love about the MINI Dakar All4 prepped by BMW and X Raid? A ride height in the clouds with a turbodiesel six-cylinder mounted in the basement give the MINI Dakar the base it needs to thrash relentlessly in the alien landscapes it will call home. The factory-backed MINI racer will see...
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MINI All4 Dakar Rally Car Unveiled By X-Raid Team
We're still waiting on the official debut of the MINI Countryman-based World Rally Championship entrant, but the German-based X-Raid team today gives us a look at what a beefier, brawnier Dakar-worthy version of the MINI looks like with the MINI All4 Racing. The Dakar Rally, if you haven't been...
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New Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 SUV To Tackle Dakar Rally In 2011
With the all-new 2011 Volkswagen Touareg recently making its debut, Volkswagen's motorsports division is now updating its off-roading Race Touareg in preparation for next year’s grueling Dakar Rally. With two Dakar Rally titles already under its belt, the Volkswagen Race Touareg is now moving...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran