VW

[CalG]

Uni-body? Just buy the Honda.

 

[ArlyA]

A phenomena I've see in auto's of the past, that were short lived.

Incredibly good fuel mileage.
Never broke down.
Broke Mach 1 top end.
Cost next to nothing to buy.
Better than anything built today.
Dropped here by aliens but snatched back before they could be copied..

 

[panamaguy]

Time will tell what the US ends up with:

2022 VW Amarok pickup teased, will be twinned with next Ford Ranger

Its too bad you can not get the Ford ranger we get in Panama. Either a 4 cyl diesel or the 3.2 five cylinder diesel. No gas pot even offered. Friends with the 5 cyl are get right around 30 mpg. And a 5 cyl engine is easy to balance to they run super smooth.

 

[Tony H]

If my old brain is recalling correctly, VW had a pickup in the US for a couple of years.

Little one. Back in the early 80's. I designed and sold Controllers to a company that put electric motors in them.

 

[barts]

We owned a 81 VW diesel. It got great mileage - 50 mpg - was amazingly slow (47 hp), and worked quite well if you didn't overheat the engine, since the aluminum cylinder head would promptly warp. We added a Calloway Turbo kit to ours, which helped w/ the slow part a bit.... but 'trucklet' died when a drugged out idiot ran a red light and I t-boned the idiot in 87 or so. Fueling up once on a 900 mile trip was pretty cool. In really cold weather it would start to knock w/o the cold start knob being pulled out (which adjusted timing iirc) since the heater would pull too much heat out of the engine below 55 or so.

 

[Whidbey]

Volkswagen Looks Ready To Bring Amarok Pickup To The US

It's been a long time since Volkswagen offered a pickup in the United States. The Rabbit-based pickup ended production back in 1984, and due to the odd Chicken Tax law in the US, VW hasn't been able to offer a truck without building it locally. This situation might soon change, though. While...

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It is mentioned in this article, I apparently still have long term memory.

Sorry to tell you this but it is the short term memory that goes first!