Volkswagen has teamed up with Rhys Millen Racing to enter one of the all-electric utility vehicles in the five-day Norra 1000 race in Baja, Mexico. It's not in it to win it, but to test the durability ...
VW has acknowledged the Baja Bug scene by building its own takes on the idea, such as the Rallycross Beetle, a turbocharged ...
Eric Solorzano’s garage is a working race shop that feels more like a church. Speed is worshipped here. So is cold beer, loud Santana, the love of friends and family, and the famously rough city of ...
Baja, it’s been said, is a million stories. Here’s another one. It has to do with manufacturers’ perception, hopes and fears of racing, in this case racing in Baja. Carmakers can be goofy about racing ...
Instead of asking, “Would you like to experience Baja 1000-style driving,” the guys at Wide Open Baja should have posed the question thusly; “How would you like to know what repeated piledrivers from ...
A Volkswagen Beetle was made to get down and dirty. Why else would the lovable little craft be used continuously for the last 50 years to blast across the Mexican desert. Well, blast might be a strong ...
Every year since 1967, Baja California hosts the Baja 1000, the single most dangerous race in North America, and one of the bloodiest in the world. Together with its still formidable warmup race, the ...
The influx of electric cars to the U.S. auto market has led manufacturers and buyers to start testing the capabilities of these vehicles in ever more elaborately extreme situations. Since introducing ...
We’re about a week away from the 47th Tecate SCORE International Baja 1000 (Nov. 12-16) and I can’t wait. This will be my first time racing in the No. 1031 Radar Tires Class 10 buggy, but not my first ...
Generally, I’m not terribly interested in really expensive, high-status cars. They’re just too inaccessible and beyond the scope and grasp of anything in my normal reality. It’s not just all that ...
Since its inception, the Baja 1000 has attracted Beetles by the dozen, and to celebrate 50 years of competition, Volkswagen of America is sponsoring the ProjectBaja.com Class 11 Beetle. In case you ...
VW of America has announced that it will be sponsoring the ProjectBaja.com Class 11 VW Beetle in the 50th BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 1000 race in mid-November. The race team is based in Denver, ...