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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    VW Ridgeline?
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    No U.S. Amarok? The lucrative Mitsubishi Raider market will live on to fight another day.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    Most Excellent! Now I can replace my Tacoma with a diesel that has less than 300% more displacement than I need really. Until now, if you wanted a diesel truck, it was impossible to get anything less than a full blown towing rig. And I don't believe that it won't be coming to the US. There is too big a market for it, and they already have the engine emission spec'ed for the US market.
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    Edited by DoctorNine at 12/01/09 12:46 PM DoctorNine was starred DoctorNine was unstarred
    Image of vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    When I sent a letter to VW requesting a new double-cab truck I should have been more specific.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    In Mexico, there is a ute-like VW pickup still made.

    Wait, it's probably not very expensive or equipped with any luxury features...that'll never sell in the US.

    /eye roll
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    It's a good looking little truck, though I really can't say that I'll miss it here - I still have an unfavorable impression of VW's quality and value, especially their utes.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    We're not getting VW's version of a truck with a pointlessly small bed? What is Inuit for "no great loss"?
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    Another biggish truck with an itty tiny bed. If you're going to call it by an Inuit name, shouldn't it have the capacity to carry a useful amount of firewood? I understand that it gets pretty cold where those folks are from.

    Trucks should have real capacity, not a nodding acknowledgement of the need for capacity.
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    Me: "Hi I think we've met before..."

    Amarok:"Sorry I don't think we have."

    Me:"Ya I am almost certain I have seen you somewhere before."

    Amarok:"Are you sure? You don't look familiar to me."

    Me:"It was a few years ago. You look a little different but I am certain it was you."

    Amarok:"Really? Sorry I don't recognize you."

    Me:"Oh I remember where we met. It was at the Chevrolet dealer. We talked a little while. Your name is Colorado isn't it?

    Amarok nervously stares at the ground her eyes reveal the answer.

    Me:"Wanna go for a drive sometime."

    Amarok interrupts as she heads for the door "I gotta go."

    Me:"Colorado!"

    Door slams shut.

    The end.
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    Image of VeeArrrSix VeeArrrSix
    12/01/09

    @FrankGrimes: My previous job years ago we had some 5 Cylinder Colorados. They were such dogs in the sand... If the Amarok has any of the Touareg's DNA it would destroy a Colorado off highway. Factor in an interior light years ahead of anything in a Chevy truck...

    ahh screw it... we'll never see it in the states...
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    All I see in that front-view photo is a great big bird being flipped at America.

    Hopefully they'll change their minds and jump into the pool with the Ranger, Colorado, Frontier/Equator, Dakota, Ridgeline, and Tacoma.

    If you want to be Automaker Über Alles, selling trucks in 'Mercuh can't possibly hurt.
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    Edited by bmoreDLJ at 12/01/09 11:29 AM bmoreDLJ was starred bmoreDLJ was unstarred
    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    US lesbians will have to settle for the Ridgeline.
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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    12/01/09

    @snapoversteer 'bout to get told: It's "we lesbians."

    Sorry to be a grammar Nazi ;)
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    12/01/09

    @Ash78, tryptophanatic: us lesbians lolered.
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    Image of darngooddesign darngooddesign
    12/01/09

    @Ash78, tryptophanatic: It is NOT "we lesbians" because US referred to United States. Don't be a douche, especially when you are wrong.
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    Edited by darngooddesign at 12/01/09 11:30 AM darngooddesign was starred darngooddesign was unstarred
    Image of bobman1235 bobman1235
    12/01/09

    @darngooddesign: Hi, I'm comedy, I don't think we've met.
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    Image of maximum-sienna maximum-sienna
    12/01/09

    @bobman1235: He doesn't know Ash either, one of the most respected commenters on Jalopnik.
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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    I wonder if they were going with a vague "loves rocks" angle in selling this across Latin America. Subliminable marketing or something.
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    Image of ciscokidinsf ciscokidinsf
    12/01/09

    In reply to VW Amarok Officially Shows Off Decidedly Un-Wolf-Like Face
    Hopefully, the next generation generation of VW cars will be named with more inscrutable names, picked by IKEA designers. The VW Kwobo, VW Jankko, VW Apskar etc...
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    12/01/09

    @ciscokidinsf: I'm waiting for the "VW Kwyjibo."
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    12/01/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: Why you little ...
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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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