Dacia has won the Dakar Rally. Now there’s a sentence few would ever have expected to read just a few years ago. But under Renault ownership, the Romanian budget car brand has gained an entirely new a

The Dakar Rally bivouac is a vast, sprawling, transient community, a ragtag collection of vans, trucks and tents sprouting from the hardscrabble Arabian Desert. Walking through the camp is like steppi

Twin-turbo V8 comes in very handy at times ...

The three Defenders that tackled this year’s Dakar Rally (p48) represented the first works entry on the gruelling rally raid from JLR or its predecessors. But it wasn’t the first time a manufacturer-o

The World Rally Championship has a new young hero – and just in the nick of time. At 24, Oliver Solberg can now boast two wins from his first two starts in a Toyota GR Yaris Rally1, following a histor

BRAKES! BRAAAKES!!THE LAST SHOUTED FROM THE WHOLE CHEST, FINGERNAILS CLEAVING INTO THE JESUS HANDLE ON THE LAND CRUISER'S CENTRE CONSOLE. HE STIG HAS LITERALLY NO SELF-CONTROL. Or sense of self-preser