We did it! On Sunday evening, 20.42 p.m. we - Marius Biela, Matthias Prillwitz and Rainer Zietlow - reached the final goal, Cape Agulhas, the most southern tip of Africa with our Touareg. Police officer Julia Anne de Brain stopped the time inside the...

The last night belonged to Zimbabwe, the second but last country on our Touareg CapetoCape Tour. The complete darkness of the night made our journey difficult. The small streets, often with high plateaus and brittle edges needed full concentration....

Yesterday, at 8.42 p.m. it was happening again: after 13 anxious days in the workshop, Mr Kinderu Gharama Saidi, city counselor of Iringa sent us on the last part of our Touareg CapetoCape adventure. Besides the official time keeping, we signed the...

Just as we promised, we said goodbye to Dar Es Salaam before the sun was rising this morning, to get to Iringa, where we wanted to launch our re-start. Just across the city border, we noticed two minor problems with the car, which made us turn around...

The wedding - that´s at least what Germans say when engine and chassis come together. And this is what the CapetoCape team and the mechanics Johannes and Benjamin who especially came from Germany to help us here, could celebrate last night at CFAO...

All parts are there, now manpower and teamwork are challenged.

In the midmorning, Rainer and Marius could finally pick up the parts from the customs, grace to great support by Kühne+Nagel. All parts were well packaged and complete - great work in...

In Germany, October 3rd, the Day of German Unity was of course celebrated traditionally yesterday and of course many people would not have to work. Here in Tanzania, 10.000 km away from our home country, the workshop lights would not go out although...

After a stressful journey of 500 km from Iringa to Dar Es Salam, we took up our "crisis-office". Team leader Rainer Zietlow has to organize everything now and can really count on the team of CFAO, the national Volkswagen importer here in Tanzania. ...

In the name of the Touareg CapetoCape team, our partners and sponsors we want to apologize for the break in our reporting of our Touareg CapetoCape world record drive from Nordkapp to Cape Agulhas. During the last two days, we have not been capable...

Kenya was clement on us - even if the corrugated ground of the Road of Hell gave us and our equipment a good shake. The result was an evening blog which came far too late and a foglight which dismantled itself. An unseen speed bumper had to disturb...

We are on schedule again. This good day started with our entry into Kenya and now, at sunset, we are leaving Marsabit behind. The border crossing between Ethiopia and Kenya went quicker than we´ve had expected. On the Ethiopian side we did just...

Just after publishing our evening news, Marius had a solution for our tablet-problem. Our Navigation could work again and we had a calm night, although the road ahead was difficult to drive. Until now, Africa has not shown it´s gentle side to us. ...

For entering Ethiopia, it took some more documents, although our visas were already inside our passports. However, we had to visit three offices at the border village to get our permission to enter Ethiopia. It took a little longer, but altogether it...

We left Egypt in the night via an unofficial military checkpoint on a road, which was only opened for us. Our entry into Sudan was other than expected: instead of watchtowers and barb wired fences, a small welcoming committee waited for us, just 5 m...

Apart from the stuck tailgate, our entry into Egypt was trouble-free - also grace to our friends from Volkswagen Egypt. They waited for us at the airport and accompanied us with two VW Tiguans. They also gave us the chance to shoot some car to car...

The third day was quite hard and we had to push ourselves to the limit. After 70 hours of non-stop driving towards Cape Agulhas, we know what a marathon-drive is. But besides the usual things we have to do, finding sleep and doing our job at the...

We spend our third day in the CapetoCape Touareg in Turkey. After a quick wash, Rainer approached the border crossing procedure. The border officials watched everything critically. In the meantime, we remembered the wish we had at Nordkapp ("just...

Good Morning from the CapetoCape Touareg! Of course we did not go to bed after dinner yesterday. Via Brno we went directly to Bratislava, the city where our Touareg was built. And also here Volkswagen Slovakia had prepared a surprise for us. On the...

The detour around Lübeck´s rush hour was the right thing to do, as we could see when we arrived in Puttgarden - quickly we saw the favorite traffic sign of all German drivers. Just before 9 a.m. we reached the fuel station in Berlin. We were happy...

Heavy rain around Stockholm made the last stage of our journey through Scandinavia a little harder. We want to thank Volkswagen Sweden for the nice welcome and the support at our last fuel stop in Stockholm. We missed the scheduled ferry from Røgby...

We´ve had a very good start into the world record drive. The Touareg goes like a Swiss watch. We left Norway in dense snowfall. The snowy and icy vehicles, which passed by when we drove the first 300 km caused astonishment. When we reached Finland,...

The Touareg CapetoCape Team is on it´s way. Shortly after 3 am, mayor Ms. Hansen send us on our World Record Drive. To mark the occasion, she brought her chain of office, which shows that our project is highly appreciated up here at the most...