A street-legal concept version of Volkswagen’s Dakar Rally Touareg could make it into limited production, company officials have revealed to Autocar at the Qatar motor show.
The Race Touareg 3 Qatar show car is only lightly modified from the Race Touareg 3 rally car that won the Dakar Rally earlier this month. Power for what VW calls “the world’s most  … Pictures & More
The dust – both figurative and lung cloggingly real – have now settled on the 2011 Dakar Rally.
407 teams of bikers and drivers set off from Buenos Aires and almost exactly half – 204 – of them returned to the Argentine capital last weekend after 9,000km and 13 stages of racing on some of the most challenging terrain the planet can offer. Along the way the event had thrown up just as many shocks and stories as ever, with racing for position continuing all the way to Buenos Aires. After The Checkered Flag covered the event with stage reports, now is the time to look back on the 2011 Dakar Rally.
This is the first ice race of the 2011 season, these races will be held every Sunday as long as the ice holds up.There are many divisions and anyone with a motorcycle or a quad can race with us
Volkswagen’s Nasser Al-Attiyah locked up his first Dakar Rally victory with the second-fastest time on the final stage, which was won by his teammate Carlos Sainz.
Al-Attiyah hit the front of the legendary event when long-time leader Sainz lost a lot of ground in sand dunes on stage eight earlier this week. Sainz tried to fight back only to suffer even worse delays with  … More