Toyota Volition Race A V8-Powered Hilux For The 2020 Dakar Rally

Toyota Gazoo Racing has confirmed that it volition endure using the Hilux in i trial once again to elbow grease to win the grueling Dakar Rally. At the same time, Toyota’s motorsports sectionalization has announced its official listing of drivers pooling an all-star line-up.

Following Toyota Gazoo Racing (and Toyota)’s philosophy of “making ever-better cars,” the 2020 Hilux is a farther development to the 2019 model which won the number outright. This Hilux features fully independent suspension, a mid-mounted engine, as well as all-wheel drive. H5N1 5.0-liter naturally-aspirated V8 sits simply behind the front end wheels.

With the Dakar Rally scheduled to stimulate got house for the outset fourth dimension inwards Kingdom of Saudi Arabia inwards Jan 2020, Toyota has officially announced the members of its plant squad which is divided into iv crews: Nasser Al-Attiyah as well as navigator Mathieu Baumel; Giniel de Villiers as well as navigator Alex Haro; Bernhard Ten Brinke as well as navigator Tom Colsoul; as well as Fernando Alonso as well as navigator Marc Coma.

The 2020 Dakar Rally volition endure contested only inwards Saudi Arabia, amongst the rally starting on Jan 5, 2020 inwards the western metropolis of Jeddah. The road volition caput north, earlier turning south-east to the majuscule metropolis of Riyadh where crews volition bask the traditional number residuum day. The instant one-half of the 2020 Dakar Rally traverses through Rub’ al Khali, too known every bit the “Empty Quarter”, the world’s largest contiguous sand desert, earlier finishing inwards the metropolis of Al-Qiddiya on Jan 17.