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Volkswagen Amarok — wolf packs in more power
The Volkswagen Amarok receives a shot in the arm in the form of the new V6 TDI engine, writes Lerato Matebese
In six years, Volkswagen has sold 455,000 units of its Amarok bakkie globally with 81% of sales being of the double cab variety and 80% of buyers opting for the eight-speed automatic transmission over the manual. Conversely, the singe cab has sold only 6,000 units in 2011-16, a rather lowly figure that has warranted the company to discontinue these models altogether. Subsequently, the double cab range will increase from seven models to 12 to appease the somewhat insatiable appetite for double cab Amarok models. Finally, Volkswagen’s wolf (Amarok) is now a proper wolf in wolf’s clothing. Since the model’s launch in September 2010, the Amarok has only been available with a 2.0l, four-cylinder engine in varying states of tune that was at the time headlined by a 132kW BiTDI engine. The latter was good, albeit with a small power band, but it was incredibly frugal, returning as low as 6.0l/100km on the combined cycle when Motor News ran one in its long-term fleet a few years ago. It was a...
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