Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 - A desert racer and Price is less. This is VW’s Race Touareg 3 concept, based on the endurance monster that took the top three places in this year’s Dakar rally - the two-week race that’s now run across Argentina and Chile’s roughest landscapes. And as you’ve probably guessed, this isn’t some regular showroom-spec Touareg with the body of a real Dakar winner. This is a real Dakar winner, albeit a slightly cosier one, reformatted for us regular civvies.
The 2012 Volkswagen Touareg is a mid-size crossover SUV produced by German automaker Volkswagen since 2002. It was the third sport utility vehicle from the automaker, after the much older Volkswagen 181 "Kurierwagen", and the Iltis (later produced by Bombardier). One even holds the world record for the heaviest load towed by a passenger car, pulling a Boeing 747 as part of an advertising campaign.
Some concept cars merely glisten in the pinpoint spotlights, others could handle serious business if only some auto exec would get drunk enough to let it loose. Volkswagen's Race Touareg 3 Qatar concept is the latter, minus the drunk exec.
VW calls the Race Touareg 3 Qatar concept a genuine rally motorsport vehicle, much like its entry in the Dakar Rally earlier this month. It's street legal and can get from 0-62 in under six seconds. It's clad in 18" BBS wheels and painted in a goldish white "Magic Morning," which as far as we know is not a euphemism.
It accelerates to 62 mph in 6.1 seconds before reaching a top speed of 117 mph.
The 2011 Dakar-winning Race Touareg is powered by a 2.5-liter TDI producing 296 hp and 442 lb.-ft, sent through three limited-slip diffs via a 5-speed sequential gearbox and a ZF-Sachs three-plate ceramic clutch. Presumably, the concept has that going on as well.
Some concept cars merely glisten in the pinpoint spotlights, others could handle serious business if only some auto exec would get drunk enough to let it loose. Volkswagen's Race Touareg 3 Qatar concept is the latter, minus the drunk exec.
VW calls the Race Touareg 3 Qatar concept a genuine rally motorsport vehicle, much like its entry in the Dakar Rally earlier this month. It's street legal and can get from 0-62 in under six seconds. It's clad in 18" BBS wheels and painted in a goldish white "Magic Morning," which as far as we know is not a euphemism.
It accelerates to 62 mph in 6.1 seconds before reaching a top speed of 117 mph.
The 2011 Dakar-winning Race Touareg is powered by a 2.5-liter TDI producing 296 hp and 442 lb.-ft, sent through three limited-slip diffs via a 5-speed sequential gearbox and a ZF-Sachs three-plate ceramic clutch. Presumably, the concept has that going on as well.
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