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Loeb’s Dacia Sandrider for 2025 Dakar Rally looks like a 4×4 competition concept made reality

Published 30 January 2024
By Matt Robinson
Dacia Sandrider is a tough, 355bhp rally-raider prototype that will compete in one of the world’s toughest motorsport events next year.
Audi Q8 e-tron edition Dakar

Dakar-inspired Audi Q8 e-tron EV revealed

The Q8 e-tron edition Dakar takes inspiration from Audi’s rally raid racer with real off-road ability.
Published 03 January 2024
Singer reveals All-Terrain Competition Study, a rally-ready 911

Singer reveals All-Terrain Competition Study

L.A. restomod outfit Singer has revealed its All-Terrain Competition Study (ACS), a Dakar-ready, high-stanced modification of a Porsche 911. 
Published 07 January 2021
Lewis Hamilton's Extreme E X44 team signs drivers Sebastien Loeb and Cristina Gutiérrez

Lewis Hamilton's electric off-road team gets Loeb

Rallying legend Sébastien Loeb will share driving duties with Dakar Rally pro Cristina Gutiérrez in Lewis Hamilton's Extreme E team next year.
Published 11 December 2020

Video: Ken Block takes on electric Extreme E car

The new Extreme E series' purpose-built electric racing car has endured its toughest test yet: the fearsome Dakar Rally cross country rally raid.
Published 21 January 2020
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To hell and back: the world’s toughest motor races

This week the Mille Miglia re-enactment has been taking place in Brescia, Italy, and over the weekend the forest surrounding the Nürburgring racetrack...
Published 15 May 2015
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News: Peugeot to race at the 2015 Dakar rally with...

Peugeot aims to kick sand in the face of competitors at the 2015 Dakar rally
Published 15 April 2014
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Jay Leno: Sand and deliver

Recently I was in Death Valley, California, strapped into the Mini that won this year’s Dakar Rally, blasting up the side of a sand dune the height...
Published 13 March 2014