VW pickup?

bcp · Mar 28, 2018

Who wants one? Anyone?

VW Atlas Tanoak first look: Volkswagen, build this pickup - SlashGear

Our biggest frustration, of course, is that VW is insisting that right now it has no production plans for the truck. The goal is to get feedback, with the automaker saying that it recognizes just how important pickups are to the US market.

Bruce

RalphVa · Mar 28, 2018

The world needs another big pickup like we need a hole in the head. Where's another 1995-1999 Tacoma size? Or another one like the Dodge Rampage? Even another one like the original VW pickup with diesel engine?

Screw the regulators. Bring back our small pickups.

Ralph

Peter 315 · Mar 28, 2018

Look out Honda ridgeline

ovrszd · Mar 28, 2018

RalphVa said:
The world needs another big pickup like we need a hole in the head. Where's another 1995-1999 Tacoma size? Or another one like the Dodge Rampage? Even another one like the original VW pickup with diesel engine?

Screw the regulators. Bring back our small pickups.

Ralph

That's totally not a "big" pickup. It's built on an SUV chassis. Only thing truck like about it is it's puny bed.

Wagtail · Mar 28, 2018

<meh> They've been down here for a few years now.

oosik · Mar 28, 2018

I wonder if this VW will pass the state emission standards.

fried1765 · Mar 28, 2018

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That's it!
I still have my dad's beige 1981 VW 5 spd. diesel pickup with 55,000 miles.
Gets an honest 50 mpg on the highway.
It has been stored since 1990, and is in near showroom condition.
I really need to get it out, put a new battery in it, and list it on E-Bay.
I just can't seem to make myself do it.
Nostalgia maybe?

PA-Kubota · Mar 28, 2018

Unless it's made in the USA we will never see it! Remember the chicken tax that kept many foreign built truck off our soil!

Fastball · Mar 28, 2018

I see a lot of the VW pickups when we go to England, along with the Toyota Hilux, etc.
Nice little mid-sized unit, especially with the diesel. In North America, it’s all about displacement, payload and towing. I’d be fine with a truck the size they “used to be”. I wish there was a domestic market for a compact truck with a small diesel. I don’t need to tow the Queen Mary or carry a ton of rock. I want to go to the dump and the lumberyard every once in a while...maybe tow my fishing boat. Most of the Big Three offerings are super-overkill for what I need. And frankly, I don’t need to compensate.. I’m OK with the size of my manhood.