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  • This Dakar-Winning Toyota Hilux is the best tool for winning everything at Goodwood

    This Dakar-Winning Toyota Hilux is the best tool for winning everything at Goodwood

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    The Goodwood Festival of Speed has something for everyone. There are vintage speed machines, drifting, icons of rally racing, and so much more. But what if you wanted to battle it out across everything Goodwood has to offer, you’re going to need a special vehicle. This is where a multi-purpose tool like the Toyota Gazoo…


  • Here’s a 1985 Pajero Factory Dakar racer for sale and I want it badly

    Here’s a 1985 Pajero Factory Dakar racer for sale and I want it badly

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    I need to own this so badly it physically hurts me. What you’re looking at is an ex-factory Mitsubishi racer from 1985. This is a Pajero born to battle the Dakar rally. And it’s also for sale. The listing is short on details. If you want to know more you’re going to have to email…


  • Desk to Glory, Dakar Rally, Saudi Arabia – Off The Road Again Podcast: Episode 121

    Desk to Glory, Dakar Rally, Saudi Arabia – Off The Road Again Podcast: Episode 121

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    Welcome back to the Off the Road Again podcast! We’ve missed you. The focus is on the off-road adventure, but we also dabble in all things SUV, truck, van, and maybe even some rally cars. Ross and Chris welcome Ashley and Richard of Desk to Glory back to the show. These world travelers are back from a recent trip to follow the Dakar Rally and then…


  • Last Call: Dakar Classics have been off and running

    Last Call: Dakar Classics have been off and running

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    The Dakar rally is in Saudia Arabia running through the desert landscape right now. You have the usual suspects of bikes, quads, monsterous trucks, and all sorts of buggies. There are some new electrified vehicles competing as well. But you also have the classic rally that takes place now too, and it features some of…


  • Dakar 2022 Highlights from Stage 2 of the race

    Dakar 2022 Highlights from Stage 2 of the race

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    Dakar is underway in Saudia Arabia. Today’s racing unfolds over stage 2, which is a 338-kilometer section of grueling Dakar desert blasting. And as rider Skyler Howes notes it’s important to keep your head in the game with two weeks of racing ahead. In fact, this stage is on the shorter side compared to some…


  • Mitsubishi creates great livery for Rebelle Rally to honor Dakar history

    Mitsubishi creates great livery for Rebelle Rally to honor Dakar history

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    Mitsubishi will run its 2022 Outlander in the upcoming Rebelle Rally. The vehicle will be driven by military veterans and it’s wearing a livery that pays homage to its Dakar roots and one kick-ass driver. Jutta Kleinschmidt is a German racer who piloted a Mitsubishi Pajero Evolution in the 2001 Dakar Rally and won. She…


  • The 1988 Paris-Dakar Edition Pajero

    The 1988 Paris-Dakar Edition Pajero

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    [The good folks at 4x4ward reached out with an awesome look at a special-edition Pajero that we’d never heard about. Here’s what they know about the Paris-Dakar Edition Pajero. Check it out! -JG] If there’s one thing that Mitsubishi hates, it would be cupholders. For whatever reason, their animosity towards beverage containers lasted decades until…


  • The 1986 Paris-Dakar rally is the one to remember

    The 1986 Paris-Dakar rally is the one to remember

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    The poster of the number 189 Mitsubishi Pajero racer proudly hangs in my father’s study. Being a geography professor, he loved all off-road vehicles as those were the only kind of vehicles that would allow him to travel to the remote places he wanted to see. He would spend a lot of time with me…


  • Last Call: Dakar truck & helicopter touch

    Last Call: Dakar truck & helicopter touch

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    A Dakar race truck and a helicopter touch. While in the air! This incident happened on the last day of the race. Last Call indicates the end of Hooniverse’s broadcast day. It’s meant to be an open forum for anyone and anything. Thread jacking is not only accepted, it’s encouraged.


  • There is a classic Skoda 130 LR in the Dakar Rally!

    There is a classic Skoda 130 LR in the Dakar Rally!

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    Attention! Attention! There is a classic Skoda 130 LR in the Dakar Rally! And it looks amazing! Yes, usually decades-old race cars don’t participate in the Dakar Rally but this year things are different. This year there is a special class for classic racers from the 1980s and 1990s. And this Skoda is one of…