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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 →

LA 2008: Volkswagen's imposing Touareg TDI Trophy Truck

Seriously, nobody in their right mind is going to suggest that racing across the Baja desert for about a thousand miles in any vehicle qualifies as green, but it takes place each and every year ...

VW Touareg TDI Trophy Truck finishes Baja in 13th place 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 ...

LA 2008: Volkswagen's imposing Touareg TDI Trophy Truck 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Seriously, nobody in their right mind is going to suggest that racing across the Baja desert for about a thousand miles in any vehicle qualifies as green, but it takes place each and every year in Southern California and Mexico anyway. This being the case, Volkswagen is planning to tackle this ...



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