RALLY DAKAR 2018

MINI COOPER




Here's the new X-Raid Mini Cooper John Cooper Works Buggy
The X-Raid goes to the next Dakar with three of the new X-Raid Mini Cooper John Cooper Works Buggy, plus four of the usual MINI JCW 4X4. If you have been treating "who has no dog, cat hunting", now go to the Dakar ... with both, read, a 4X2 Buggy and the usual and competitive four-wheel drive MINI.In this way, regardless of the type of route of the 40th Edition of the Dakar, the X-Raid will always have cars suitable for the course. According to Sven Quandt said recently in the presentation, the goal is the podium.Due to regulations that favored two-wheel drive buggies, Mini decided to supplement its offer with a Buggy. Carbon fiber bodywork, steel 'cage', the car is very aggressive and the suspension travels ... never ending.

Both the Mini Cooper Buggy with the MINI 4 × 4 will be equipped with the same 3.0-liter turbo-diesel engine in-line and 340 hp, and 800 Nm of torque. The three Mini X-Raid Buggies will be piloted by Yazeed Al-Rajhi, Mikko Hirvonen and Bryce Menzies and the four full-power MINI will be led by Boris Garafulic, Jakub Przygoński, Nani Rome and Orlando Terranova.This is the great news of the 40th edition of the Dakar and the 10th that will be held in South America after the cancellation of the Lisbon-Dakar 2008. Part of Lima, in Peru on January 6, continues through Bolivia and ends on 20 January in Cordoba, Argentina.

José Luis Abreu, direto de Portugal