Volkswagen Amarok test drive since 2010 pickup

Revolutionary equipment VW Amarok

The VW company decided to destroy the concept of pickups by decisively updating the HighLine equipment for Amarok ... I was offered to test the new Amarok set, which completely discredits the entire flimsy freight culture that has managed to develop in our country over the years of sales of the Mazda BT-50 and Mitsubishi L200.


Typically, Russians bought pickups for household needs or to take a couple of fishing rods from Arbat to Silver Bor. But in any case, due to poverty, because there was not enough money for Hummer. In general, during this time I even managed to form the image of a guy from a pickupa, which can be described by approximately the following words: it is not clear who, but definitely not an oligarch and not an official. But then VW came and broke everything.


My castle.
In addition to all diets in the new configuration, there is an additional engine protection and checkpoint


PR. At least sometimes a pickup driver should be photographed against the background of crushed stone

Who will rob?
When in what dream could anyone imagine that a man from a truck would use parking sensors? He usually parks, lining garbage tanks and crushing drain pipes. Did the dude from the pickupian put its transport on the alarm with the control of the salon and the autonomous siren? Who in their right mind will throw a pickupa? And the touch screen with navigation and multi -ruling looks completely absurd in the truck. These female jewelry driver should be deeply despised, pulled out with wires and thrown out into the window. Navigation in a pickupa?! He has only two routes: to the lake and to work! Why does he need a protective polymer super -strength coating of the cargo compartment, and besides, a nonsense and with a plastic cover on the castle? Firstly, he doesn’t carry anything there, and secondly, if he hurts something, then no polymer will hinder him. However, there are also useful options, for example, heated nozzle scraps and additional metal protection of the engine and gearbox crankcase. I also hoped for the Comfort pendant, with a smaller load and better smoothness, but, oddly enough, it seemed even tougher than usual.


Truck with a claim.
One of the new toys is a touch screen. Navigation, of course, is also


Parking.
In fact, surprisingly convenient. Why didn't they do it before?

The neighbor will not understand
The pickup is difficult to redo. He was always something like Kalashnikov. The lever of the box you fall into the gear, as if Kiyim drive a ball into a luster. The steering wheel is fraught with hard gloves. Wheels in clay. The windows are open. This is driven. Parctronics could change the alignment, because it is surprisingly convenient and peaceful, but by the time you enter the courtyard on your pickup, everyone is trying to stay away. I am not against the innovations of VW, but they are from a completely different opera. The neighbor sees your truck and understands that you are not a banker or a bandit. This is good because you will make contact. Then he notices navigation with multi -ruler and decides that you are a disguised millionaire or latent metrosexual. This is bad, because in the worst case the neighbor will begin to despise, to pester in the worst. Now say: why are all these problems the simple owner of a truck for blood 1,902,300 rubles?


Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [August /2012]