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VW Touareg TDI Trophy Truck finishes Baja in 13th place

We took a pretty in-depth look at the first-ever turbocharged oil-burning machine to compete in the Trophy Truck class of the famed Baja 1000 race while we were at the LA Auto Show. The machine itself was a Touareg in name only and is an extremely impressive piece of kit in person. Still, while it had cutting-edge technology and a massive clean-diesel V12 engine putting out 550 horsepower and 625 lb-ft of torque, the truck was going up against a field of equally impressive (though likely much less efficient) entries, so it had its work cut ... Read more →

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