The 202-kW (275-PS) in-line, five-cylinder TDI engine drew parallels with the production Touareg. On its debut in 2004, France’s Bruno Saby finished sixth. One year later, Jutta Kleinschmidt, the only woman ever to win the Dakar Rally, came home third in Dakar. In 2006, Volkswagen Motorsport returned with the second generation of the Race Touareg (RT2), which now featured a fourvalve cylinder head and a modified chassis with shorter overhangs. South African Giniel de Villiers narrowly missed out on victory. The following year, American Mark Miller was the best-placed Race Touareg driver in fourth place. WINNING RUN IN SOUTH AMERICA Bruno Saby (2005) and two-time world rally champion Carlos Sainz (2007) did win the World Cup for Cross- Country Rallies with the Race Touareg. How ever, it was not until the “Dakar” moved to South America for security reasons that Volkswagen claimed its first win in what is the pinnacle of marathon rallying. And so, to South America.