Amarok

Amongt all the fun and excitement of the Shanghai motor show its easy to get sidetracked from other things, apart from China selling us back our motor industry iin knocked down form.  Does the MG brand still mean the same to you ?

I have been struggling to find a car for the man who has had everything.  His automotive boredom threshold is like that of a 2 year in a playpen of coloured balls.

Then I noticed that VW are bringing the American Amarok pickup into the UK.  Now I have a bit of a thing about pickups, or trucks as we would call them in the US.  It all started with a Ford F250, and love to drive them in the States.

The VW Amarok looks like it means business up against most of the japanese Nissans and Mitsubishis' that you can get.  It would also stand out from the crowd in a sea of  Range Rovers and Discoverys that jostle for position outside the school gates in these parts.

Reasonable pricing and decent diesel engines seemed to be marred by a bizzare choice of colours available.  Their is the standard black or white, then the done to death silver, a not bad blue, then you are left with green beige or brown.  I really want to know who is going to order a VW pickup in Mendoza brown ?  Are the 70s back and no one told me.  Even Audi have jumped on the brown bandwagon with your R8 available in teak.  Maybe its just a German thing.

So could this US/German venture succeed in the UK where most other US trucks have failed ?