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Volkswagen Argentina develó for our country and the rest of the world, the name of the pickup that will take place only in the plant that the German company has in General Pacheco, in the north of the Big Buenos Aires, where from it will be exported to the whole world.

Amarok is the final denomination of this vehicle, which will be presented officially in the next International Lounge of the Motorcar of Frankfurt, which will develop in the next September.

The director of Institutional Relations of Volkswagen Argentina, Ronnie Frost mentioned that “this pickup will present before herself on our market in the first days of next December and will have different configurations, with haulage options 4×2 and 4×4, and we are doing all the possible so that the official vehicle of the Rally is Dakar 2010, which will move again in next January for ways of the Argentina and Chile”.

VW realized an investment of 1300 millions in weight to arm the line of assembly of this small car of the one that 100.000 vehicles are going to produce to themselves a year. 80 % will be assined to the exportation and the rest will be to sell on our market, in the Mercosur and other countries of America.

The piece of news pickup will compete in the segment of the medians where Toyota Hilux reigns and that it will have also like competitors to Chevrolet S10 and to piece of news Ford Ranger, between others.

The Amarok will offer three engines, a naftero and two diesel, which they will be adapted to fulfill the norms Euro of environmental contamination that they are current.

The haulage system 4×4 will be a derivative of that of the Touareg and although it was not possible to confirm officially, one of the diesel engines will offer between 175 and 180 CV, therefore it will turn into the most powerful medium pickup of the market.