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    Image of Ted St Clair Ted St Clair
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    Poor truck, you know, some auto badges just don't belong on certain vehicles, case and point. I saw this picture and first reaction is whaaaaaa? Then it morphs into this crappy "ahhh,uurgh, I think I'm gonna blow chunks."
    VW, stick to those herbies and euro compacts your so good at, hell, bring the microbus back. But this is just....wrong.
    Its like some bastard retard from VW getting together with the toyota tundra thinking they can make something better than a F-150 truck. Just stop while your ahead, spare this poor autistic truck.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    @Ted St Clair: ::pats you on the head::


    Of course, all VW knows is little euro compacts. Because, you know, it's not like they also own Scania, MAN or Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. That's right, keep telling yourself that.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    VW's Department of Naming Products Division needs a reshuffle. They've gone from simple, fun names like "Golf" (ok, that makes no sense, bad example) to "Jetta" (very cool)-- even "Westfalia"-- but then we get "Toe-Rag"--and even though their own ads made fun of it, people still refrained from saying it. Toe-Rag. Tour-Egg. Tor-egg. Turrr-ig.

    And so now we get Amarok. Which is clearly trying to copy "Tundra" -- which is another stupid vehicle name (giant, open, frozen wasteland?).

    Ja, Ja. Inuit.
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    Image of Big Stig Big Stig
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    Amarok, I am an island!
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/04/09

    @Big Stig loves imitation American cheese!: Amarok feels no pain.
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    Image of Skullbussa Skullbussa
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    You have got to be kidding me. How on Earth did VW think that there was a market for VW pickup? Especially in today's economy and rising gas prices. Trucks are passe, especially luxury trucks.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    @Skullbussa: You did notice the "Europe and South America" part, where there is virtually no market for a big truck like the Super Doodie or Silverado HD, and in fact they need something smaller and more mobile, more fuel efficient. I suspect there is a market for this.


    And, uh, if you think "trucks are passe, especially luxury trucks", can I invite you to visit pretty much any part of Western Canada, where, for example, the Lincoln Mark LT is still selling like hotcakes?

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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    If you can put an engine block in the back and not destroy it, and it comes as a diesel, it may be a replacement for my Tacoma when the time comes. Of course, it is really really hard to get to the end of the useful life of a Toyota truck, so that may be a while...
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    Image of combat chuck combat chuck
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    Will it have this playing your tunes in the dashboard media console thingy?
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    Amarok? Wasn't that the name of the dude with the big-ass hammer in the RUNE computer game? Damn, I loved that game.


    They should call this one Das Hoot.

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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/04/09

    @Graverobber: That was a pretty good game.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    Also: Ray, the term "Eskimo" is considered racist, just as an FYI. It would be equivalent to using the n-word when referring to African culture.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/04/09

    @Deartháir wishes engineerd a Happy Birthday!: nah, it's more like calling someone "Indian" instead of "Native American".


    The Inuit language is Inuktitut.

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: While you know I love you, Mr. Wagon, I have to disagree, having lived in the North for the last 10 years: Prince George was the furthest south I lived before now. Prince George and Prince Rupert had a fair-sized Inuit population, and UNBC has a lot of Inuit students. "Eskimo" was apparently a derogatory term for the Inuit, used by the Dene First Nations. They took quite a bit of offense to the term "Eskimo", and I was told that the n-word would be the equivalent in their mind.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/04/09

    @Deartháir wishes engineerd a Happy Birthday!: I stand corrected. Funnily enough, I hear it's mostly used by other First Nations to be offensive to Inuit.
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    Image of Pete Gaines Pete Gaines
    06/04/09

    @Deartháir wishes engineerd a Happy Birthday!: It's not considered an offensive term in Alaska, among other places.


    [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/04/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: PS: My parents moved directly from Belfast to Prince Rupert in '69 and lived there for many years. I've spent a lot of time in Kitimat, Terrace, PG and Fort St John.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    @Pete Gaines: Pete, that's Alaska. Palin territory? That's kinda like saying, "There's nothing wrong with marrying your cousin, they do it all the time in Alabama."
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/04/09

    @Pete Gaines: Oh please.


    Alaskan: "Ah don't unnerstand what yore problem is there Shaft. Yew rap guys call each uther that awl the tahme!"

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: No shit! So you're something of a Rupertite too? What an astonishingly beautiful part of the world, no?


    You know, in the two-and-a-bit years I lived in Rupert, I never once made it to Kitimat. I feel a little bad about that... but only a little.

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    Image of Zandr Zandr
    06/04/09

    @Deartháir wishes engineerd a Happy Birthday!: Been to Terrace and Rupert once. It's a stunningly beautiful area, as is much of BC, but I gotta tell you, Rupert has to be the *most* aromatic place I've ever been. (and I work next to a brewery)


    Seriously, it's a fishing town with a paper mill. Not a fragrance you'll ever forget.

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    @Zandr: Ahh, see the paper mill had been gone for years by the time I got there, and the fish processing plant was operating at such a low capacity, you maybe got that smell, what, once, twice a season? Now, all you get is that amazing smell of sea air, mixed with the musty smell of decay from the rainforests on the other side of the island.


    @mzs: Thanks for pointing that out. Clearly no offense was intended, and I'm not trying to raise a stink for that reason, just wanted to point that out so it was acknowledged, and we don't offend anyone.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/04/09

    @Deartháir wishes engineerd a Happy Birthday!: Names often come from name calling, alas.

    "Adirondacks" were named by enemies, it means "bark eater" meaning they couldn't hunt well enough to feed themselves. Cherokees never called themselves "Cherokee" etc etc.

    Strange, how that works.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/04/09

    @Deartháir wishes engineerd a Happy Birthday!: Is that politically-correct automotive forum for crybabies?


    I'm just trying to make sure I'm in the right place.


    Lighten up everybody.


    I've been offended by some posts as well- I just IGNORE them. I'm also fairly sure that I've offended some people just by posting (that's to you Pete)- let alone what I actually wrote.


    Some people are just ignorant, some people mean to be funny, but end up appearing mean-spirited.


    I far as I knew, this place was supposed to be like talking in a garage- amongst the men (no offense Leeeena and other female commenters). If we can't talk junk and make fun of each other for our differences- it will become very boring. It is this type of kidding and joking around that enables us all to enjoy each other's comments so much.


    In this case, someone was just informing Dearthair that Eskimo was a derogatory term, which he didn't know.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/04/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: "Is that" ---what the hell was I writing?


    I meant: is this the....

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: Actually it was myself who was pointing it out, but you're right -- and if you read it again, I think most of the thread is pretty light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek. I don't think any of us are offended, we're just discussing that the word is considered to be an offensive one, which fits in to your garage-chat analogy. "Hey, did y'all know that word is offensive to the Inuit?"


    Do I need to start handing out hugs again?

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/04/09

    @Deartháir wishes engineerd a Happy Birthday!: I know this post is light-hearted- and I was taken away from it in the middle of reading it- so I lost my train of thought, but didn't let that stop me- mea culpa


    I just think that we're becoming too sensitive. If something is mean-spirited or purposely offensive- it should be disemvoweled or whatever- but that most people are so quick-witted and most commenters knock each other around a little is the reason why a lot of people come here.


    And no, I don't need a hug-

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: I hear what you're saying, but at the same time I think it's healthy to take a mature look at things that DO offend people so we know our community's boundaries. Let's face it, Jalopnik tends to gain a lot of new commenters when something cool happens, and the last thing I want to see happen is to have a bunch of asshole n00bs come charging in, demanding to know why we're not being disemvoweled for saying the same things, and generally wrecking the awesome atmosphere we've built here. I'm attempting to have a discussion, not to raise a shit-storm about it.


    And I think you do. C'mere, big guy.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/04/09

    @Deartháir wishes engineerd a Happy Birthday!: Hahaaha. Alright I'll accept the hug.


    You have a valid point, and you make your case. I just like the atmosphere- and don't want it to change too much. I also don't want to see blatantly offensive comments.

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    Image of OldeEnglishD OldeEnglishD
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    What is Inuit for failure? That should be the name.
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    Image of Feds Feds
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    Amarok, I vas stronk as I coult be..


    Amarok, nosink ever got to me...


    Amarok...


    Ooooh ooooh Amarok


    Now all they need to do is buy advertising on sprokets.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/04/09

    @Feds: Very awesome! Heart clicky awesome!
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    Unless Jean Craighead George is selling, I'm not buying. I don't want to be Julie of the Volkswagens.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    The Inuit are a proud people, surviving in unbelievably harsh conditions using traditional skills passed down through the ages.
    In their language, Inuktitut, there are over twenty words for snow. Soon, they will have over thirty words for "electrical problem".
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    06/04/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: They will still have no need for a word meaning "repaired under warranty" though.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/04/09

    @Alfisted: Customer service is an alien concept in this frozen land...
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: They have no good Cotomer Sevis.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/04/09

    @Deartháir wishes engineerd a Happy Birthday!: These all work better if read in the style of "Hinterland's Who's Who", or in David Suzuki's voice, like a Nature of Things special.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: Almost caught me on a coffee spit-take, but I've learned to finish my drink before reading your comments.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    06/04/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: At long last, spring breaks and with it, the Amoraks.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/04/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: Zing!
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    06/04/09

    @Alfisted: That read more like David Attenborough... "you wouldn't think to find a Volkswagen here, among the frigid wastelands. But, as you can see, this isn't the usual sort of Volkswagen."
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/04/09

    @Alfisted: Perfect.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    NO. WAY.



    This album is tight as hell. I think I'm in the market for a German truck.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/04/09

    @Replying as a troll: What the hell is that?


    Looks like Balki from "Perfect Strangers."

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/04/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: It's Mike Oldfield. You may know him as the writer of "Tubular Bells", which you may know as the theme from The Exorcist. He released that in 1973, at 19, the first album ever on Virgin Records.


    His first few albums were friggin' awesome, everything he made in the '80s was utter shit, and then Amarok, released in 1990 as a "Fuck you" to Virgin and to Richard Branson. It is excellent.

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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    06/04/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: Now we are so happy, we do the Dance of Joy!
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    Image of loquaciousmusic loquaciousmusic
    06/04/09

    @A strolling player is uncomfortably excited: Oh, c'mon! You don't like "Earth Moving"? "To France"? There were some good Mike Oldfield songs in the 1980s...there just weren't many!
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    06/04/09

    @loquaciousmusic: Fair enough. I kinda like QE2, but that's 1980, so it's not really the meat of it.
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    Image of John Krewson John Krewson
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    Please, VW, offer the optional bud vase. Or, in America, the Bud Light vase.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    06/04/09

    @John Krewson: Real truck drivers drink Bud Fat. Bud Light belongs in the Mrs' cupholder.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    06/04/09

    @Alfisted: And LeMons losers drink Coors Light. Or water.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/04/09

    In reply to Volkswagen Amarok: Hungry Like The Wolf
    I've heard every variation on this truck, from it being a competitor for the Honda... whateverthefuckit'scalled thing, to it being a three-quarter-ton work-horse with an 800lb-ft diesel V10.


    Anybody know what the latest is? If it came in as a proper half-ton or greater with a diesel, I'd probably want it.

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