Volkswagen's Amarok Pickup My Eventually Be The Basis For The Ford Ranger

The commercial vehicle partnership between Volkswagen and Ford could eventually extend to shared platforms for future generations of the brands' Amarok and Ranger pickups because the move would reduce costs to make the trucks more competitive. If this pickup partnership actually happens, then it would still be several years before they actually arrive in showrooms.

"All avenues are being explored. I think it would be disingenuous of me to say there is nothing going on with Ford, otherwise, Ford wouldn’t be making the comments that they are making, but I am not in a position at the moment to say what it may or may not be," VW Group Australia managing director Michael Bartsch told GoAuto. "What I think is very clear is, in order to be competitive in Australia, we have to get the cost base of [Amarok] down. It’s being produced in Argentina and Germany and both of those are high-cost markets for a product that is in the most competitive environment that you can be in."
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MDarringer - 8/7/2018 10:27:11 AM

-5 Boost

Why would we assume that VW would have the job of engineering the future pickup platform given that the Amarok is a complete failure due to its "Mercedes" pricing that relegates its sales to footnote status?

VW is the village idiot when it comes to knowing anything about pickups.

Using the Ranger for the next Amarok would be the move NOT vice versa.

TomM - 8/8/2018 6:48:15 AM

+1 Boost

The RANGER is not a "commercial" truck as defined by the deal.
It is primarily a retail customer purchase - not a business purchase and I doubt that now - when Ford will not be making cars for the US market - that they would use a VW platform for this truck - BUT - if they did - it certainly would be far less in price than the VW version - and they could take advantage of that.