V6 Diesel Amarok??

[Tobes_WIR35]

Golf diesel quicker then SS ute ? You could see his white knuckles 300m away I would say he was just playing with you
German engineers are good but i think you are a bit brainwashed with your german engineering ideas - they are known to make their designs overly complicated which in turn reduces reliabilty.
Name one german 4wd that is commonly used in serious offroading by normal people and not racing teams with huge budgets...

How about half the world's defence forces who drive G series Mercedes? As well as the other Mercedes heavy vehicles. Or the millions of VW beach buggies harassing sand dunes all over the world for the last 50 years? (which had very UNcomplicated engineering - air cooled and everything...)

The "Aussie bloke" approach to engineering is "throw as much steel at something as we can." By definition this is not engineering at all.

How many Aussie 4WD owners actually do "serious" off roading anyway? I had a D40 Navara with big tyres and about $10k worth of ARB gear, took it to Moreton Island, and my sister's stock standard Subaru Forester went everywhere the Navara did.

[phantomcamel]

V6 "might" be in the cards - not that I think it is necessary unless you have mega horse float or similar

[Transporter]

YES! ...and I hope it will find its way into other commercial vehicles, incl. 4Motion Crafter!

[Sharkie]

I now have it on very good authority that senior people at VWA have DRIVEN the V6 TDI prototypes in Germany recently ....... Discuss

[Transporter]

That's fantastic news, hopefully it will find the way to down under.

[Sharkie]

If I was a betting man, I'd say watch out for some announcement in March at the Geneva motorshow ..... I think that sounds like a likely place to make such a big announcement Could be wrong on that though......

[phaeton]

If I was a betting man, I'd say watch out for some announcement in March at the Geneva motorshow ..... I think that sounds like a likely place to make such a big announcement Could be wrong on that though......

or if the potential biggest market for this vehicle was us? it could be AIMS in Melbourne

[Amasparki]

V6 Diesel Amarok??

Hi guys. I have an auto h/l and with payload + trailer the Rok is grossly under powered. Not to mention uses virtually twice the diesel for the same trip with just 2 people. Yes I'm unimpressed, should have kept my 06 T5 4 motion Lwb 128kw van, pulled like train with negligible consumption change. 1x extra Turbo DOESN'T = .5 litre of capacity.

[phantomcamel]

Well, I am visiting Germany in a couple of days courtesy of VGA - including one, if not two factory visits, so hopefully I have some juicy news on Amarok (& other models) by the end of the trip

[Roo]

Will be very interested to hear the results on this!! Cheers, Roo

[flyingfridge]

I note that we do have a drive program in Wolfsburg, wouldn't hold my breath that we'll even see any prototypes

[Sharkie]

And it is yet another step closer .....

Drive - Volkswagen GTI Ute at Woerthersee

and

New Volkswagen Amarok R-Style Concept images emerge

and

Volkswagen Amarok R-Style Concept announced for Worthersee

go figure, 3 days after I order an Amarok, a new model is almost announced .... And whilst I would never in a million years again buy a 2.0TDI, I might buy a 3.0TDI V6 .....

[Sharkie]

Latest feedback I have is:

V6 TDI only to be in the Ultimate as an auto model .... about $70K ..... that is, no mid spec V6 models to be offered.

[retailraymond]

Latest feedback I have is:

V6 TDI only to be in the Ultimate as an auto model .... about $70K ..... that is, no mid spec V6 models to be offered.

Any literature on that mate? Would be interesting to read about it let alone confirm it for Aus.

[Deadly_headmen]

V6 Diesel Amarok??

Someone on vw amarok forum posted pics of a v6 petrol amarok in the system, so hopefully the diesel is on it's way as well