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REPORT: VW would have to shift 100,000 Amarok pickups to justify bringing them to North America


REPORT: VW would have to shift 100,000 Amarok pickups to justify bringing them to North America


Volkswagen Amarok – Click above for high-res ikon gallery
Want a newborn Volkswagen Amarok restorative truck? Well then, today would be the instance to permit VW undergo most your interest. Speaking to our Negro Mike Levine at PickupTrucks.com, Stefan Jacoby, President and CEO of Volkswagen of America, says that the maker would requirement 100,000 takers per assemblage in visit to attain some money on the Amarok here in the States.

That would be a discouraging duty for the maker as the exclusive non full-sized pushcart that oversubscribed that some units terminal assemblage was the Toyota metropolis (102,327 units), and the incoming maximal vender was the the Great Grandaddy of the Compact Truck Segment, the Ford Ranger (just 51,097 units).

What’s more, the auto pushcart mart is declining, VW doesn’t hit some dealerships in truck-happy areas of the commonwealth and the so-called “chicken tax” would add a 25% tariff to the Argentina-built Amarok. Add in the fact that Jacoby says there are more imperative vehicular needs that the Teutonic maker needs to centre on. In another words… don’t intend your hopes up.

Gallery: Volkswagen Amarok

[Source: PickupTrucks.com]

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