Topic: any Mongol Rally spec vehicles in US?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Rally
up to 1200 cc & less than 10 years old.
Smart? What else?
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Re: any Mongol Rally spec vehicles in US?
I think a 1st Gen Honda Insight is the only other 4-wheel USDM vehicle that fits the specs, and there's no way I'd want to take one of those on the Mongol Rally. Nor would I want to take the Smart, actually, with its oddball automated manual transmission.
From what I've seen, every team from North America has purchased a car over in Europe.
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Re: any Mongol Rally spec vehicles in US?
Just saw this....
I ran the Rickshaw Run across India with those guys a few years ago, Awesome time!!
Almost everyone buys something over there, it's easier and cheaper than shipping it across the pond. And theres lots of small crappy cars in Europe. I bet the organizers can set you up with a ride before you even arrive, they're cool that way.
You can run bigger motors, you just gotta pay more.
I was thinking of doing it on a 125cc motorbike. Thats adventure!!
If you guys want to do this and need another idiot, let me know, it's my speciality....
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Re: any Mongol Rally spec vehicles in US?
I love/hate wikipedia. I go to look at the Mongol Rally page, next thing you know I've learned about:
the Budapest to Bamako rally,
the Plymouth-Banjul Challenge
the Cape Town Challenge
then I go to maps.google.com and find out that
1. Google maps works for Africa!
2 it is 14319 Km from Tangier Morocco to Cape Town South Africa.
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