New Volkswagen named Amarok

Volkswagen has announced the name for its new pickup. It will be called Amarok. In Inuit (native Eskimos in Northern Canada and Greenland) mythology, the word giant wolf was named Amarok. Amorak was generally following and killing anyone who decided to hunt at night. In fact, Amarok is different from other wolves that hunted only in isolation, rather than in the groups. But we should note that Amarok is also the name of a computer program for playing audio files for GNU / Linux, Mac OS X, other Unix like operating systems and Microsoft Windows.

Volkswagen representatives say that the new pickup is built from scratch (previously all assumed that it will lay the foundation platform of the Touareg). The first time, Amarok will be sold only in the version with four doors and Full-power transmission. But later it is expected to be changed to a two-drive only on one axis, which would be much cheaper.

Amarok will be produced at the plant near Buenos Aires in Argentina and will be powered by VW’s next-generation of common-rail diesel engines. Sales of the car is scheduled to start in spring 2010. First, it will be available on the market in South and Central America, and will appear in Europe, Russia and Africa in the summer of 2010. WV is not planning to sell Amarok in the United States market yet. And this is strange, because the U.S. is considered to be the largest market for pickups.