VW Amorak, owners opinions?

[powerstroke]

cheddar said:

diesel piston said:

Overall everything considered the Hilux is still easily the best least refined, worst handling, slowest, has the poorest interior, is the most outdated of the bunch and the new model can't come soon enough.

Fixed.

With the gretest of respect dp, have you been living in a cave?

And to mcjimmy - the Amarok load bed is bigger than the L200's.

Depends which side of the tasman sea you are and what you need ,if its a glorified car with a load bed and a dubious reputation for robustness you want then the amarok will suit. If its tough working truck then a hilux is a good choice
I'm pleased with my current Toyota 18 monthes in and I'm still enjoying driving and abusing it !!fault free too.

[diesel piston]

powerstroke said:

Depends which side of the tasman sea you are and what you need ,if its a glorified car with a load bed and a dubious reputation for robustness you want then the amarok will suit. If its tough working truck then a hilux is a good choice
I'm pleased with my current Toyota 18 monthes in and I'm still enjoying driving and abusing it !!fault free too.

Yeah my Hilux too has been totally troublefree thats one thing you could never say about the Amarok, its absolutely shocking the sheer amount of issues they have.
Just couldn`t live with that !

Edited by diesel piston on Thursday 6th November 18:58

[diesel piston]

cheddar said:

diesel piston said:

Overall everything considered the Hilux is still easily the best of the bunch.

With the gretest of respect dp, have you been living in a cave?

When the hell did you last drive one ?
Might be a bit tough for a poser but who wants a pickup to pose ?

[cheddar]

diesel piston said:

cheddar said:

diesel piston said:

Overall everything considered the Hilux is still easily the best of the bunch.

With the gretest of respect dp, have you been living in a cave?

When the hell did you last drive one ?
Might be a bit tough for a poser but who wants a pickup to pose ?

G'day dp, I drove a new one recently, swapped utes with a friend who was testing one before deciding what to buy - he didn't like the Hilux and is probably going with the Ford Ranger, I quite liked it though, characterful thing, bit rough round the edges and the interior's miles behind the new stuff but for an older design it drove reasonably well.

I know we all love to defend our vehicle choices but underneath, give or take, these things are all the same basic rugged set up, the Ranger and Amarok are the newest designs so they pack a little more technology, space, ability, refinement and equipment. The Hilux does nothing wrong and bar injector issues (sorted in '09) its reliability is legendary. It's a very old design though, gone nearly 10 years without any major updates and the game's moved on quite a bit.

I haven't read or heard about disastrous reliability with the Amarok and in my personal experience over 2 and a half years of loading mine to the hilt, off-roading and towing not one thing's gone wrong - the rear suspension got a bit squeaky but the dealer sorted it, it uses a bit of oil (about 500ml) between changes but other than that it drives and looks like new, the tyres are rubbish off road but I can't blame VW for fitting road biased rubber, I just can't seem to wear these damn things out.

I've said it before that the headlights are like candles, the gearbox hates cold mornings and you'd never mistake the engine for a petrol unit but VW addressed all this in 2012.
I'd love the Touareg's 240bhp V6 TDI under the bonnet though - just for the hell of it.

I'm quite excited about next years Hilux, the current model's just been beaten by the Ford Ranger in the annual sales figures for the first time in 33 years but it's still regularly in the top 3 sales spots for all new cars, some achievement.

Happy motoring

[deltashad]

My company hack is the Hilux 3.0 D4D, very easy to drive, reverse camera parking cam makes it simple. I have the hard back but for larger objects it really isnț practicle. A Land cruiser would have been better.

I think it looks better than the Amorak.

[bern]

Interesting situation regarding the VAT, it may be back in the game!

Due to the dealer messing up I now have the "normal" vehicles to test drive next week.

[K974]

Absolute scrap. A 4wd body on a car platform. General car use might be ok. Off road work it'll fall apart look at all of them that have fallen apart in australia.

If it's car use maybe, anything form of hard work buy a hilux. I wouldn't trust one to go remote in

[cheddar]

K974 said:

Absolute scrap. A 4wd body on a car platform.

The chassis is a rigid separate ladder frame, same as Hilux and Navara, it's unique to the Amarok, not shared.

[K974]

cheddar said:

The chassis is a rigid separate ladder frame, same as Hilux and Navara, it's unique to the Amarok, not shared.

That wasn't the point I was making the point is its a glorified jacked up car look underneath it, it's drive shafts everything are all light duty. The engine is out a small car. It's not made for work.

We were running about 20hired ones on a project no end of problems, murphy pipe civil (uk contractor) have had loads of them on hire 200-300 on pipeline jobs those boys will tell you some stories. There light duty scrap.

Navara isn't much better.

If it's just for car use it'll prob be ok , but anything else your buying trouble,

I'm basing my expired end of running them on a pipeline project

[bakerstreet]

Might be worth looking at the Ford Ranger. I thought this was considered flavour of the month in the double cab pick up world. Land Rover really need to get a place in this market...

[BugLebowski]

If you want a Pick up to look good in, then get the Amarok. If you need a Pick up for work then get a Hilux.