Race Touareg 3 (Germany, 2011)

Volkswagen's Race Touareg 3 was the winning car in 2011’s Dakar Rally in South America. The vehicle secured Volkswagen its third consecutive "Dakar” victory, driven by Nasser Al-Attiyah and Timo Gottschalk.

As indicated by its name, the Race Touareg 3 is the third model version of the Race Touareg. While developing the RT3 Volkswagen engineers focused on the improvement of the cooling system, the optimization gearbox tuning and the increase of power for driving at high altitudes. The engineers also worked to increase the performance capabilities of the RT2.

One of the main changes in the RT3 comes in terms of aeroynamics, with the prototype suffering the biggest changes since the model change from the original Race-Touareg to model version two. The most obvious change can be found in the roof area where the air flow towards the radiator, the damper cooling and the diesel fuel cooling systems has been completely modified. This change was made in orde...