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Tachoblog can report that the fleet of 35 new Volkswagen Amarok pick-ups successfully fulfilled their role as support vehicles to the winning Volkswagen motorsport team and the official organisers, ASO, in the gruelling long-distance Dakar Rally enduring extreme temperatures, altitudes and terrains with no problems at all.

Volkswagen has won the legendary Dakar Rally for the second time in succession.

The Caddy TDI racing van will be competing in the Volkswagen Racing Cup in 2010 sporting bright orange livery thanks to a new sponsorship deal with the RAC, and it will also have a new driver with Simon Elliott, Director of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles taking his seat behind the wheel.

The new Volkswagen pick-up, the Amarok, is demonstrating its power, durability and off-road performance by following the Volkswagen Motorsport team currently taking part in the gruelling Dakar rally across some of the toughest terrain in South America.

The men and women from Wolfsburg have been busy, in the last couple of days we’ve had theFirst Official Pictures Of The Volkswagen Amarok and news of someUnique Volkswagens For Sale. Now we learn that 60 tonnes of material and 17 support vehicles – Volkswagen’s 2010 ‘Dakar’ Rally crew – has embarked on its voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to South America.

Tachoblog can reveal that the Volkswagen Van Centre (Lancashire) in the Millennium City Retail Park, Preston has two unique vehicles for sale – a Volkswagen California campervan and seven-seater Caravelle.

Tachoblog can (almost) exclusively present the first official pictures of Volkswagen’s new pick-up the Amarok.

According to the press blurb, ‘it is durable, robust and can tackle any road, no matter how tricky’ but from January 2010, the Volkswagen Amarok will have to prove those claims from January 2010 during the world’s toughest rally.

Volkswagen will field five Race Touaregs as the team bids to defend one of the most challenging international motorsport events, the Dakar Rally.

A Volkswagen Caddy Maxi has set a new world record by travelling 9,630 miles non-stop across the Transeurasia route from the Atlantic coast in Portugal to the Pacific coast in Russia in eight days, 13 hours and 30 minutes.