Touareg/Cayenne fiasco Round 2 (Dakar)

[Brady Moffatt]

Hi All,

Happy Healthy New Year!

After that wonderful thread about the Cayenne and Touareg (and Pikes Peak,
if Porsche hadn't nixed it, or so said rumour), someone came up with the
logical statement that all Porsche would have to do would be to build a
competition pedigree for the Cayenne. Great idea! All potential marketing
issues solved, right?

Buuuut, guess what's been entered in this year's Dakar rally? Yup, works
Touaregs! In today's coverage, I also noticed a turbodiesel BMW X5. No
mention of a Cayenne. Porsche better hope that those works Touaregs don't do
well!

http://www.touareg-dakar.com/index.0.html

Right now, they're running 3rd and 6th out of a class of 44 entrants, and
15th and 27th out of 137 cars overall.

Oh, it's using a 2.3L 5 cylinder TDI engine! Hmm, I wonder.... Nah.

Cheers,
Brady
Urq, 4kq, Z