Click above for high-res image gallery of shots from the 2008 Baja 1000 Autoblog got its feet muddy – and did its best to avoid the cow pies – at the Baja 1000 a few weeks ago with Volkswagen.

The VW Tourareg TDI Trophy truck that was unveiled at the LA Auto Show last week made its competition debut on Saturday in the Baja 1000. The 550-hp diesel-powered off-road racer finished the ...

Their reign lasted until that final, overall Baja 1000 win by VW power in 1985. Early proponents of heavy, powerful, but (initially) slower four-wheel-drive vehicles, such as Jeeps and Ford ...

VW of America has announced that it will be sponsoring the ProjectBaja.com Class 11 VW Beetle in the 50th BFGoodrich Tires SCORE Baja 1000 race in mid-November.

Volkswagen announced at the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show that next year it’ll return to the one race that its cars helped make great—and extremely popular: the Baja 1000. And it will do so with ...

To compete in an event as punishing and exhausting as the SCORE Baja 1000, you need a vehicle that’s as rugged and robust as it is powerful and capable. Something like… a 1970 VW Beetle?

McGuckin and his team first entered the Baja 1000 in 2014 but failed to finish. This year, with VW’s backing for the 50th anniversary of Bruce Meyers’ entry, the team hopes to complete the ...

This VW has been specially decked out for the race. Graham explained that he called Eric Solorzano, a nine-time Baja 1000 Class 11 winner, in search of advice on how to put the car together and ...

Similar to the Baja 1000, the Mexican 1000 takes racers through ... battery capacity and temperatures. VW doesn't yet offer an all-wheel-drive ID 4, so car No. 134 put its power down through ...

The new Manxter 2+2 is an evolution of the original, built on a stock Volkswagen chassis and featuring a highly tuned version of the VW flat four ... This year’s Baja 1000 is scheduled for ...

Only 1,000 units were made to celebrate the Baja ... Under the trunk, the 1972 VW Baja SE came with a 4-cylinder 1,600 cc typ. 113 (1302 Super Beetle) engine powering the rear wheels.