Dakar Rally

The Dakar rally may no longer kick off in Paris but in a way the French capital is linked with the 2017 rally. Peugeot will use the 2016 Paris auto show to present its 2017 3008 DKR, which will be competing in the 2017 Dakar rally. The 3008 DKR features a design derived from the latest 3008 SUV...

Toyota’s Hilux is the basis of a new racing truck the Japanese auto giant plans to enter in the 2017 Dakar rally. Called the Hilux Evo, the racing truck is being developed by Toyota of South Africa in partnership with Toyota Gazoo Racing. It adopts two-wheel drive rather than four-wheel drive...

He’s already been named champion nine times in the World Rally Championship, and in 2013 he obliterated the previous record for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb with his seemingly impossible time of 8:13.878, but soon Sébastien Loeb may be able to add yet another title to his growing list of...

This year’s Dakar Rally is now over, and the winners of the grueling event is none other than MINI, together with its performance partner X-Raid Team. This is the fourth-straight victory for MINI in the Dakar, which took place over the past two weeks in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. Nasser...

The 2015 Dakar Rally is coming up and in the lead up MINI has announced that eight of its custom-built ALL4 Racings will take part. MINI, together with its partner in the Dakar Rally, German motorsport and engineering firm X-raid, will be aiming to defend its title, which last year was won by...

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...

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...

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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MINI and the X-raid team look to take home a third Dakar win.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bentley may be committing more to its SUV than we thought with a run at Dakar.