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While VW doesn’t want you to forget the Beetle, it definitely wants you to associate the large round VW logo with Teutonic high-tech and diesel power. Last June, this quest brought VW and its Dakar-spec Touareg 2 to Mexico to bump and grind on the same track with the Trophy Trucks in the Baja 500.

VW’s Race Touareg 2s would not officially go head-to-head with SCORE’s highly specialized desert Funny Cars. Instead, the off-road racing sanctioning body created a special class (International Truck), acknowledging that the racing VWs have been optimized for the wide-open North African terrain   …  More

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