Volkswagen ID.4 sets unusual record, Amarok locked in for next attempt

Two Germans have travelled over 33,000km in Australia in a Volkswagen ID.4 GTX, setting a world report within the course of – and now considered one of them is embarking on one other report try in an Amarok.

“We’ll additionally show as soon as once more [the Amarok is Australian]… We gave the duty to the workforce to go, in an Australian method, to 10 deserts – to all key deserts in Australia – in a single shot,” Karsten Seifert, Volkswagen Group Australia’s managing director, informed CarExpert.

Whereas that might be inside an as-yet unspecified timeframe, Mr Seifert harassed street guidelines could be adopted – this gained’t be some Australian Cannonball Run.

Rainer Zietlow will use an Amarok Fashion V6 with equipment fitted by Volkswagen and sponsor ARB, using on chunky Kumho Highway Enterprise MT71 tyres.

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Mr Zietlow has simply spent 43 days driving across the nation with co-driver and photographer Marius Biela in an “epic torture take a look at” that noticed the duo spell out ’70 Years of VeeDub’ in his personal private, left-hand drive car.

This a part of their journey accounted for 23,901km of the entire 33,548km journey, with the electrical SUV circumnavigating the nation to “body” the message.

This earned them the Guinness World Report for the most important GPS drawing made by an electrical automotive.

The journey was sponsored by Volkswagen Monetary Providers, the Sydney Swans AFL workforce and Kumho Tyres.

The duo suffered only one puncture, with Volkswagen praising the Kumho tyres – and the ID.4 itself – for with the ability to sort out rutted outback roads, seashores, snow and water crossings.

The report try was additionally sponsored by Ampol, which is liable for the AmpCharge community of electrical car (EV) chargers.

The duo says the journey concerned 132 charging factors.

“The [charging] community is best as you could possibly say for this measurement of nation,” mentioned Mr Zietlow.

“You’ve gotten much less destroyed or much less out of order chargers than we’ve in Europe.

“I’m shocked how good that infrastructure is about up already.”

He did be aware that in components of Queensland the duo needed to look to farmers and roadhouses for ample charging functionality.

Mr Zietlow is a self-professed lover of the Volkswagen model, and isn’t any stranger to setting information – and that features in ID.4s.

With Derek Collins, he set a Guinness World Report for the longest distance pushed in an EV in a single nation again in 2021, travelling 58,000km within the US.

He and a workforce additionally set a report in 2022 for reaching the best peak above sea stage in an EV on the Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia.

Different information embrace a 2005 journey in a Touareg the place he reached a peak of 6081m at Ojos del Salado within the Atacama Desert in Chile.

Click on a picture to view the total gallery, and head to the Volkswagen Australia website for a breakdown of the journey.

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