Just short of 11,000 kilometres as the crow flies separate Asunción, the capital of Paraguay in South America, and a remote wooded area near the North German town of Sulingen. Miguel Carrizosa, President and Managing Director of Diesa S.A., local Volkswagen importer in Paraguay, made the long journey: “This occasion is worth travelling any distance.”
Two minutes later, Carrizosa sits on the passenger seat of the Polo GTI R5. A quick handshake with Volkswagen test and development driver Dieter Depping and Volkswagen Motorsport’s latest rally car roars off into the labyrinth of asphalt roads that wind their way through the former ammunition depot.