Dakar VW Touaregs entered in the Baja 500!!

[Roddd]

I'm curious to see how they will do compared to the trophy trucks and class 1's. I don't know how I would feel if they started beating trophy trucks though, we might have to rethink what we know about desert racing.

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[geronimo5]

Can somebody post a pic of one of these?

If they're what I think they are I have a really hard time believing they'll keep up the pace in front of the unlimiteds...

Minus the rear caved in from 1 cars!

[klaus]

Can somebody post a pic of one of these?

If they're what I think they are I have a really hard time believing they'll keep up the pace in front of the unlimiteds...

there are tons here on rdc.....
rdc > pictures > 2007 > dakar

[djhspawn]

I feel bad for the rear end of those things if they dont beef up the back in anticipation of the Class 1s.

[bajafox]

I feel bad for the rear end of those things if they dont beef up the back in anticipation of the Class 1s.

You read my mind...



Im no expert by any means...but my guess is they're going to have about 30+ "love taps" from very fast moving unlimiteds

[Stonehouse]

weve seen the cars with the bodys on but i wanna c what they look like underneath. But its pretty cool that there comming across seas to come race.

[Woody]

Here are some Pictures of the old Touregs.

[NIKAL]

I think we will all be pretty surprized at how the VW's do. I'm thinking the 500 is probably the best race for them to try. Baja has a lot of graded road sections and tight twisty stuff. I think the worse situation for these cars is going to be the whoops. And if this 500 does not have a lot of them I think these cars will be fast. These cars a kinda like Rally cars on steriods. The 4 wheel drives will pull them hard through the turns. By watching Dakar on TV and seeing the way they went through the sand I dont think the silt will be that bad for them. Now if the 500 was taking us down to San Felipe then I would say the whoops down there would eat them up. Mark Miller knows Baja and I dont think he would be having VW attempting this if he thought that they would not have a chance to sucseed. These rally guy's might think this is like cheating by being able to use GPS and having the whole course marked, compaired to what there used to getting. This is just my thought and no matter what happends I think its great that VW is doing this and it should be exciting to see these cars that we have only seen on TV race by in person.

[chadrag2]

Not to say that these cars won't be able to keep pace, but are they going to beef up there rear cage for the nerfing? Pretty cool to see them start so high, but its gonna make the class 1 guys a little mad, since they tend to be faster then the TT's in the 500 anyways.
Pretty cool to see some factory interest from another foreign car manufacturer.

Best of luck to mark and the entire VW crew, hopefully they run good and some more cars come over next year, like the mitsu's and more, maybe a bowler . . .

I think your comments are silly. First of all, who won the Baja 500 overall the last 2 years? Trophy Trucks (2005 - Robby Gordon, 2006 - Ragland/Collins. And what makes you think they are going to get nerfed any more than they will be doing the nerfing?

[Ramsey_ElWardani]

As stated, this course is going to be the best course Baja can offer them; lots of fast roads and tight technical sections that they will have little trouble with. Mark Miller has all the experience and skill necessary - they could surprise us. Baja could also take its toll, but they will both finish. Nerffing will be an issue on both ends of the VW minivans. Seeing them off the Ojos jumps could be priceless.