Volkswagen Race Touareg 3

Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 Front Angle View

Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 Front Side View

Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 Front View

Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 Rear Side View

Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 Rear View

Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 Side View

Volkswagen is the Volkswagen Race Touareg presented yesterday evening 3 – Dakar their new fighters. The new VW Touareg Race 3 is a bi-turbo 2.5-liter TDI engine with 300 hp and 442 lbs ft of torque and is driven on the development of an improved five-speed sequential gearbox and ZF Sachs three plates connected ceramic clutch. The official figures of the performance of the Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 Say can be reached a top speed of 117 miles an hour and can accelerate 0-62 mph in 6.1 seconds.

The German automaker says that the VW Touareg Race 3 was a major step forward in aerodynamics. The roof of the VW Touareg Race 3 has been enhanced so that the air duct to the radiator, cooling valve and cooling systems of diesel redesigned. The effect of engineering
Searches the chimney effect that warm air from under the carbon fiber trim.

The intercooler on the VW Touareg Race 3 was completely by the company’s engineers built based on the production of automotive parts.

Racing in the desert means that you have a very good suspension. The VW Touareg is equipped Race 3
high-strength steel space frame chassis with a pair of springs and dampers. The VW Touareg Race 3 on 235/85 R16 BF Goodrich tires, developed specifically for the Dakar rally car.

Change the Race Touareg 2, twice a winner in 2009 and 2010, weakening of the Dakar Rally and the first diesel car ever to win the event promises to be the new Race Touareg 3 faster and more efficiently, while achieving high strength and sustainability of the outgoing car.

Wind tunnel testing has led to changes that the carbon fiber and Kevlar body with special attention to improving the chilling to the roof of the vehicle while minimizing the effect of the airflow at high speeds. While the changes mean that the Touareg a fresh new look with LED lighting, a new grille, window line, radially and has wheels.

In the body of the bi-turbo 2.5-liter TDI engine is optimized for a better economy, while another 300 hp and 442 lbs ft of torque production. It has also been revised to increase with the strong elevation changes on the Dakar deal made with the vehicle to a height of more than 15,000 feet above sea level. The Race Touareg 3 also can to those conditions, the performance is not affected will be modified by, despite the thinner air found at such heights.

The 2.5-liter engine channels its drive through three locking differentials through a new and improved five-speed sequential gearbox and ZF Sachs three plate ceramic clutches.

The result is the ability to accelerate to 62 mph in 6.1 seconds, before a top speed of 117 kilometers per hour in almost all circumstances.

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