The Amarok was barely off the line before Volkswagen trusted it with one of motorsport's toughest tests — 45 of them served as official support vehicles for the 2010 Dakar Rally.
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Lead trim: 2.0 TSI (165 PS) · up to 221 hp
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FactThe Amarok was barely off the line before Volkswagen trusted it with one of motorsport's toughest tests — 45 of them served as official support vehicles for the 2010 Dakar Rally.
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles' first pickup, presented on 7 January 2010 in General Pacheco, Argentina after a 2005 start and the "Robust Pick-Up" concept teased in September 2008 (the design was said to be 95 percent like the production version). It is a body-on-frame truck with double-wishbone front suspension and leaf springs at the rear, as a single cab or double cab, rear-wheel drive or 4motion four-wheel drive (either shiftable, or permanent through a Torsen differential splitting torque 40:60 front to rear), with 45 support vehicles used in the 2010 Dakar Rally. Production is at General Pacheco, with 40,000 a year at Hannover, Germany added from mid-2012 (to 2020) and assembly in Algeria and Ecuador; the 100,000th was built on 8 October 2011, and 830,000 were sold between 2010 and 2022. Launch engines were two 2.0-litre common-rail TDIs from the Transporter T5 (122 PS single-turbo, 163 PS bi-turbo) and a 2.0 TSI petrol from 2011; the 2016 facelift brought the Transporter T6-style interior and a 3.0 V6 TDI (a more powerful 580 N·m version from 2019). The Dark Label limited edition of September 2014 had a 180 PS BiTDI, and VW Australia launched the V6 Core with a true low-range transfer case in January 2020. A second facelift for Argentina in summer 2024 borrowed the Mk2's front end.
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7 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 BiTDI CR DPF (165 PS) | 2010–2022 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 163 hp | 295 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.0 BiTDI CR DPF (179 PS) | 2012–2022 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 177 hp | 310 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.0 TDI CR DPF (122 PS) | 2010–2011 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 120 hp | 251 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.0 TDI CR DPF (140 PS) | 2012–2022 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 138 hp | 251 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.0 TSI (165 PS) | 2011–2022 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 163 hp | 221 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 3.0 TDI V6 BlueMotion SCR DPF | 2016–2022 | 3.0 L V6 | 221 hp | 406 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 3.0 TDI V6 manual (224 PS) | 2020–2022 | 3.0 L V6 | 221 hp | 369 lb-ft | — | — | manual | — |
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The Amarok was barely off the line before Volkswagen trusted it with one of motorsport's toughest tests — 45 of them served as official support vehicles for the 2010 Dakar Rally.
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