Originally known as the Paris-Dakar, the Dakar Rally had been staged in North Africa since 1978. Last year’s event however was cancelled on the eve of the start after terrorists killed seven people in the area and made direct threats to the rally organizers. For 2009, sensibly you’d reckon, the Dakar was moved to South [...]

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The 2009 Dakar rally (which, ironically, no longer finishes in the West African city of Dakar, but on a different continent altogether) is set to begin January 3, and rally teams across the world are busy working away on this year’s field of contenders.

Volkswagen has had a long involvement in past Dakar Rallies, and there’s [...]

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We have previously introduced the Škoda Fabia Super 2000 which was reported to have begun testing earlier this year. Škoda Auto have just officially announced that testing continues with a recent Austrian test session being conducted by a team that included world rally champion Carlos Sainz.

The test was not Sainz’s first experience of driving a [...]

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