Fresh reports have surfaced regarding the German automaker’s flagship pick-up truck – the Volkswagen Amarok, it might be manufactured in somewhere in the Asia-Pacific region according to CarAdvice who spoke to Volkswagen Australia’s director of commercial vehicles, Carlos Santos recently.
“It’s definitely on their agenda. Not neccesarily Thailand, but somewhere in the Asian region, because this area the Asian Pacific area — is one of the next big, well already is, the next big growth area,” Santos said. Should the idea be put into motion, we might eventually see the Amarok arriving here on our shores.
Volkswagen’s pick-up truck is currently built at its plant in Pacheco, Argentina and Hanover in Germany. Should it a manufacturing base be established in the region of South East Asia, production and transportation costs will be lowered substantially, which would in turn lower the overall price of Volkswagen’s pick-up truck.
Some years back, Andreas Muerer, communications director of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles also mentioned that the division was looking to expand into the ASEAN region – which consists of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
There was word previously that the plan was to build the Volkswagen Amarok in Vietnam, but there has been no update on the matter since.
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Amarok, ….come..lah Malaysia. Rm currency ,so low…where to find…oh!!!
But our worker are lazy and need more prayer than others. Yet complain money not enough to feed their family of 6 and godcar.
In the end need to bring bangla viet or indon assemble the car.
come here the DSG also kaput. Cannot sell lah in Malaysia
Amarok uses ZF 8-speed auto.
Because torque
Unless it is a facelift or an all new AMAROK then it would be too little too late. Design is quite dated already.
if they choose here by this month, they will immediately enjoy the benefit of rm value…no need 70million USD of investment..
Use Pekan or Gurun plant VW. The ringgit at its lowest level now. You can sell cheap amarok to the whole world.