VW pares Amarok back to its Core - Motoring

With a record number of new arrivals to the ute market this year, including the freshly stamped Ford Ranger, Mitsubishi Triton, Nissan Navara and Toyota HiLux, Volkswagen’s first-ever one-tonner is suddenly and old hand in Australia's lucrative... Now, to give the four-year old Amarok -- a facelifted version of which is not expected here for at least another year -- a better chance against its newer competition, Volkswagen will usher in a simplified MY16 range comprising just three models... Volkswagen repositioned the Amarok range earlier this year with a new entry-level 4x4 dual-cab variant called the Core Edition, and from October it will discontinue the Trendline. The previous entry model was simply known as Amarok TDI400 (manual) or Amarok TDI420 (auto), with the Trendline, Highline and Ultimate grades sitting above it in the four-tier dual-cab 4x4 range. This reduces the number of Amarok variants -- sales of which are up 17 per cent year-to-date, in a market that has averaged one per cent growth -- across all variants available to retail buyers from 26 to 18. “A lot of that is down to the fact... Source: www.motoring.com.au