Kurt Ernst November 20, 2012 Comment Now! Last January, MINI surprised the racing world by taking first place honors in the grueling Dakar Rally. Even more surprising was the fact that 2012 ...

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The annual Dakar Rally has been casting some doubt on whether four-wheel drive is really the superior technology for serious off-road racing. Peugeot has exploited regulation incentives for 2WD ...

Last week, we were reporting the wonderful piece of news according to which the X-Raid BMW Dakar team was to field a newly-developed Countryman-based MINI All4 Racing for the 2011 Dakar Rally. At the ...

After confirming the largest car entry in the history of the Dakar Rally last week – no less than 7 crews in the car category – BMW has provided us with yet another (pleasant) surprise. One of those 7 ...

X-Raid's rally team worked up this Mini Countryman to fly over, as well as traverse, the blinding white dunes of Argentina's Fiambala, the vast Atacama Desert and the death-defying descent into ...

Mini shed light to its new long-distance cross-country rally car ahead of the 2017 Dakar Rally which is set to start on January 2. Based on the all-new Countryman, the new John Cooper Works Rally car ...

A new name dominated the Dakar Rally from start-to-finish this year - MINI. Though the race isn't over yet, the margins are such that MINI will finish with first, second and fourth place later today, ...

The X-raid team are seeking a fifth Dakar victory, and with further improvements made to the Mini JCW Buggy, they have a good chance of achieving it. Under the hood, Sainz’s X-raid Mini JCW Buggy ...

Mini has just unveiled its 2017 Mini John Cooper Works Rally, set to compete next year in a number of long-distance rallies starting with the famed Dakar. The vehicle is based around the Countryman ...

There are many tough races on the global motorsports calendar, but perhaps none more so than the Dakar rally. The rally started back in 1978 and was originally called the Paris-Dakar rally due to its ...