New car news

31 January 2011 - 15:00

Desert Warrior

Qatari native Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah may have won the 9500km Dakar Rally last month, but now his countrymen have the (admittedly slim) chance to buy a road-legal version of his VW Race Touareg 3.

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And when we say a version of it, we actually mean it. About the only thing separating the race car and the road car is the leather-and-carbon cabin treatment; everything else, including the potent five-cylinder turbo motor, the twin spare wheels, mid-mounted - and Australia-made! - radiators and roll cage, is per the real deal.

VW says it's just a concept at the moment, but seeing as how the natural gas-rich nation of Qatar has the second highest per-capita income figures in the world, its arm could probably be twisted to make a couple.