All are based on the MINI John Cooper Works Countryman, modified by the factory-supported X-raid Team to meet the high demands of the Dakar Rally which is today's pinnacle of off-road motorsports.

Make no mistake: Mini is the force to be reckoned with in the Dakar Rally. Former champion Nasser Al-Attiyah has just taken his second win in the famously grueling trans-continental rally ...

The German off-road X-raid Team has just announced it will run the new MINI All4 Racing car in the annual Dakar Rally, which now runs in South America, rather than on the traditional continent of ...

Up close, the Mini ... Dakar was a serious navigational challenge – Mark Thatcher, then the son of the prime minister, and two team-mates went missing for six days after getting lost on the 1982 ...

The 46th edition of the Dakar Rally will see a field of 778 competitors ... he’ll have won the Dakar in a Volkswagen Race Touareg (2011), a Mini (2015) and a Toyota HiLux T1+ (2019, ’22 ...

The 2025 Dakar Rally is set to begin shortly, and KTM has announced its three-man team for the rally. It will consist of brothers Kevin Benavides and Luciano Benavides, along with Australian ...

Volkswagen Race Touareg (2010), Peugeot 3008 DKR Maxi (2018), Mini John Cooper Works Buggey (2020) and the Audi RS Q e-tron in 2024. “I’m very excited by this new Dakar Rally project ...