Volkswagen Amarok test drive since 2010 pickup

Volkswagen Amarok Test drive: without bargaining

Advertisers do not need to work hard for Amarok to like the public - it is obvious that the first European pickup is created with an eye on all the potential requirements of people who choose a pickupa.

We met the first European pickup Volkswagen Amarok as soon as he was born in the summer of 2010. But that was the summer and beautiful roads of Austria, in which off -road should be built at artificial training grounds. It's time to test Amarok in Russia.

If I were a Volkswagen advertiser, it would not be difficult for me to come up with the concept of Amarok promotion.

Perhaps the only troubles of this car is its target audience. In the United States of America, for example, the question of pickups has long been closed. Cars with a similar type of body are erected to a cult. It is in America that all kinds of pickups are produced at various wheeled bases in billions of modifications. But Russia is a giant market not accustomed to practical impractical cars.

So who may need a pickupa? Choose the right farmer or collective farmer. Hardly. Given the financial realities of the Russian hinterland, they cannot be pulled amaces. The second largest consumer basket in the automobile hypermarket can be considered active hunters and fishermen. There are noticeably more rainbow prospects than in the first category. By the way, hunting leisure for very wealthy people, and often they choose large frame SUVs for their harsh sorties. The man in camouflage knee -deep in the mud with a gun, trying to lay a freshly shot beast in the trunk of a luxury SUV worth 100 thousand euros and destroying the beige upholstery of his car, is comical.

And finally, we got to the 3rd category. People who, in fact, do not need a pickup, and they understand the brain that this is oh-oh-oh-very impractical. But, as they say, you cannot order the heart. They like the pickup, and that’s it. Your humble servant refers precisely to this, the latest category of potential buyers of Amarok. If with the first and second more or less clear, they do not present increased requirements for the workhorse, then the categories of patients with pickups are important by the sled characteristics of the car, efficiency, comfort, etc.

We will figure out everything in order. The appearance is impressive and authoritative. Dimensions: length 5254 mm, width 1944/1954 mm and height 1,834 mm, only confirm the seriousness of the application for victory in the classroom. And most importantly, Amarok does not look like exhausted in the slaughter of a hard worker. The design is fresh, neat and very presentable. Of course, all family features are present in the design: optics, radiator grille and much more. Looking at the car outside, you begin to perceive it as a luxury SUV, and not as commercial transport.

We open the massive door, penetrate the salon. They worked hard on the decoration of the salon. I will immediately make a reservation that all the materials, excluding the stuffing and finish of the seats, are tough. With all this, they look very presentable and in severe operational realities will be more than practical. The ergonomics of the salon is expected by Volkswagenovskaya, everything is in its place, without excessive overload.

Yes, and there are more than enough places, both for front passengers and for the rear. The only small inconvenience for the rear passengers is the angle of inclination of the back of the sofa. He strives for 90 degrees, and on a long trip such landing can be a little tired.

We got a car for the test in the top equipment of Highline. As a result, we have an impressive electric package that includes glass windows of all four glasses with an automatic mode, adjusting and heating the rear view mirrors, a two -band heating of the seats, a two -zone climatic installation, a fairly good full -time music with a head device that digress mp3. Three connectors of the type of cigarette lighter for connecting various peripheral devices, one of these sockets is located in a very correct place on the upper part of the panel, in a niche for trifles, directly under the most windshield. And if you need to connect the navigation or any other device that must be attached to the windshield, there will be no problems.

On the panel from the driver and passenger there are two seats with a unified fixed mechanism, designed to install various devices, which in a huge amount can be purchased additionally. In our case, a holder for bottles/glasses was installed on the passenger side, and on the driver’s very convenient sensory device wireless communication with the phone, completely integrated for working with a standard audio system, which has the functions of the voice set and many others, which, as it turned out, is very convenient to use , even to me, always ignoring such devices. But the microphone that perfectly performs its functions, in the salon, I could not find.

The AMAROKA dashboard is also in the spirit of the entire model range of the Volkswagen, I find it difficult to say which car has become the device of the devices, it is very similar to Polo. It is traditionally convenient to use them. But here there is a small trouble - the absence of a fluid level sensor in the washer tank. In any other car, I would not have paid attention to this, but Amarok does not have a trunk as such. Therefore, you will have to carry canister with non -freezing at the feet of the second row of seats. And this could be avoided using an early notification by the sensor about the ending liquid.

The test car is equipped with a 2.0-liter biturbo-diesel with impressive characteristics: horsepower this engine gives as much as 163, and the torque is 400 nm at 1,500 revolutions. Six -speed mechanical transmission. According to some reports, by the spring of 2011, you can expect cars with automatic transmission.

The first impressions of riding on Amarok on public roads are breathing the car. Adequately responds to pressing the electronic gas pedal and is ready at any moment to rush into battle, having a very solid reserve of dynamics. The only unbearable road cars are features is a long -term clutch and short transfers, especially the first three. Of course, such settings are selected for the sake of using the car under heavy loads. Amarok’s steering wheel is understandable, with comfortable efforts. It may seem unnecessarily airy to someone, but he performs his work impeccably, not boring the driver with excessive information transmitted from the road surface. Needless to say that there are no vibrations, noise supports and other charms of commercial transport in the cabin when driving. Definitely on the VW Amarok you can and need to travel along good and not very roads even for long distances.

And now a little curtsy towards the first and second category of potential consumers of the car. Off -road abilities. The right drive is the rear, with the possibility of forced connection of all -wheel drive using a cam clutch that provides a rigid connection between the axes. In order to solve the most difficult tasks set in front of the car, there is a reducing gearbox that will help to overcome serious rises when the car is completely loaded, as well as during transportation of overall objects, which, by the way, can be up to 2.8 tons when equipping the rear axle with five -line springs As in our test car. In a word, with all the technical weapons present on board, a powerful frame and an uncertain rear bridge with springs of Amaroks will not hit the mud with almost any complex coating.

Advertisers do not need to work hard for Amarok to like the public - it is obvious that the first European pickup is created with an eye on all the potential requirements of people who choose a pickupian, no matter what reason. And as a journalist, I note that the car is not enough in the model line of the gasoline engine and automatic transmission - however, in 2011 this gap must be eliminated.

The easiest Amaroks will ask to lay out from 983,000 rubles. Intermediate Trendline equipment from 1 013 000. And finally, the final, richest Highline from 1,133,000 rubles.

   
 
 

Dmitry Malygin

 

Source: Carclub.ru