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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

VW: Carlos Sainz will drive the Paris-Dakar rallye

VW Race Touareg
According to German's top car magazine "Auto Motor und Sport" the Spanish race legend Carlos Sainz will drive this year's Paris-Dakar rallye for Volkswagen in a VW Race Touareg.
Carlos Sainz was rallye world champion of 1990 and 1992. His navigator is supposed to be Andreas Schulz, who is respected as an expert for this job also.

VW will start with at least 4 Race Touareg this year. The Race Touareg will get a facelift and also two turbochargers for the 5 cylinder diesel engine.

Source: Auto Motor und Sport (only in German)

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