We keep hearing that the Volkswagen Amarok, four-wheel-drive crew-cab V-dub pickup built in Brazil, will come to the United States if the German company can end up at least 100,000 units in the region. Well, the latest report by the folks at InsideLine says that the Amarok pickup won’t be coming to the stateside. First [...]
As the guys over at PickupTrucks.com point out, one of the reasons that sales of midsize and compact pickups are declining in the U.S. is that their starting price is only a few thousand dollars of entry-level full-size pickups, which offer buyers more utility. Volkswagen has just announced pricing on its new midsize Amarok pickup [...]
According to an executive, Volkswagen has abandoned plans to make an SUV based on the Amarok pickup, which goes on sale next year in key markets including South America, South Africa and Australia. Originally, Volkswagen had plans to build a Land Cruiser style 7-seater SUV based on the Amarok’s ladder-frame platform, but bosses are now [...]
Earlier this month, Volkswagen took the wraps off of its new 2011 Amarok pickup. The model goes on sale next year in key markets including South America, South Africa and Australia. Europe will also get the Amarok in the second half of 2010. But what about the United States? According to President and CEO of [...]
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has unveiled the new Volkswagen Amarok, the first 1-tonne class pickup to be produced in Germany. Volkswagen said that production of the Amarok pickups is about ready to begin at its “Pacheco” plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 2011 Volkswagen Amarok will launch with two fuel-efficient turbo-diesel engines including a 163-hp 2.0 TDI [...]
Volkswagen announced today that the production version of its pickup concept unveiled last year will be launched under the ‘Amarok’ name when it arrives in Europe in 2010. Amarok means wolf in Inuit language. Eskimo people, who live in northern Canada and Greenland, regard the wolf as king of the wilderness and a figure of robustness, endurance and [...]
