Volkswagen is a mainstream automaker founded by the German Labour Front in 1937 as the "people's car" company. Famous for the Volkswagen Beetle, Type 2 Bus, and modern classics like the Golf and ...

For a few years now, New Atlas has picked some of its favorite pictures from the grueling, multi-thousand-mile desert race ...

It was a historic day for Saudi Arabia motor racing. Saudi Arabian racer Yazeed Al-Rajhi won the 2025 Dakar Rally on Friday, capping off the two-week event in style. Al-Rajhi became the first ...

If the Qatari is successful, he’ll have won the Dakar in a Volkswagen Race Touareg (2011), a Mini (2015) and a Toyota HiLux T1+ (2019, ’22 and ’23).

Your browser does not support the audio element. Harith Noah’s Dakar 2025 journey has come to a premature end after the Indian fractured his wrist in the prologue ...

For the first time since 1994, the overall Dakar winner won on home soil as Yazeed Al Rajhi became the first Saudi Arabian to win the desert rally. The only other competitor to win at home was ...

The Dakar Rally will begin today for the sixth consecutive year on the sands of Saudi Arabia, where the Stars and Stripes could leave their biggest mark on the 47th edition of the off-road ...

Ford has scored a podium finish on its Dakar Rally debut. Mattias Ekstrom finished third in the M-Sport-run, V8-powered Ford Raptor, just 20 minutes behind the winner in one of the closest ...