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What, you didn’t know that Amarok is Inuit for “Wolf”? Anyway, Forget Mahindra. Third-world compact diesel pickup fetishists can move their misplaced hopes for US-market salvation on Volkswagen’s Amarok. Not because VW is particularly likely to bring it to the United States, but because Auto Motor und Sport just posted a bunch of photos of the new single-cab version. Plus this sweet angle on the double-cab model. All this Eskimo wolf needs is a fire hydrant. And some magical way of passing EPA tests without an expensive diesel-scrubbing system. Not to mention a free pass on the Chicken Tax.
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Neat truck!
meh
Sure, it wouldn’t be as cool as a Diesel, but even with the chicken tax, a gas version shouldn’t be too outrageously priced.
Looks like a Chevy Colorado rebadged as a VW pickup. WHOOO HOOO….whoo…hooo.. wh…. what? I assume they made a deal with Isuzu. Cheers
No, they didn’t. It’s a VW platform
It’s disappointing that this isn’t coming to America. This should have been a forceful and certain decision on the part of VW, a company that has serious full-line ambitions in the US and is building a factory in Chattanooga. They should offer a gas version of this in the US, with an optional BlueMotion diesel (or whatever they’re calling it now). They should build it here to avoid the Chicken Tax and keep costs down. There is precident for a VW pickup. DaimlerChrysler and Ford have shown that Euro-style commercial vehicles can find success here. One just has to have the cajones to bring it here.
I thought it was a Colorado too. And ugly like one too.
I would buy a Frontier over this any day.
Come on, VW! Bring it here!
I can see a brisk business in aftermarket rims and tires already. The build on this unibody truck looks to be step downward from the current Tacoma – which to me looks cheap enough.
I don’t think we’ll ever see this here. Compact trucks, above all, need to be cheap and durable and I highly doubt VW will hit the former target, never mind the latter.
And then there’s how cheap full-size trucks are over here. When the Ranger has value-proposition problems versus the F-150, you know things are tight. There’s just no way to make the numbers work, not without resorting to a federalized powerplant and producing it somewhere other than Thailand, China or India.
We’re more likely to see the Piaggio Ape here.
I wish they would just bring back a modern double-cab and be done with it.
The “chicken tax” is easy to get around. Final assembly in Tennessee.
You mean Mexico as it is cheaper and chicken tax free.
The only VW truck I’d be interested is would be one built on a Golf chassis.
Isn’t it basically a rebadged Hilux?
Nope. That was the Taro 20 years ago.
how is this not the spokesmodel for the CleanDieselInjection campaign ?
The chicken tax part is easy to fix: Build it in Mexico.
Cool-looking little truck. The last pickup VW sold in the US, though, had a cab for short people only.
Is that really a live axle and leaf springs back there? Sheesh. My 1994 Suzuki Sidekick has a more sophisticated (and damned durable) rear suspension design.
Turbo diesel six speed manual please…
Leaf springs in a pickup? The horror!!! GRIN!
I want a small 4-door truck but I’m not willing to put up with full size truck mileage.
The small CUVs and p/u’s are getting 35+ mpg in Europe with turbo dieels these days.
A small four door truck is the only way I can fit a truck into my lifestye. Hauling our kids too often to be without a backseat and I don’t want to drive a freight train (see my coworker’s F250 4WD crewcab that does taxi and grocery fetching duty).