For The Casual Hauler: Volkswagen Reveals Cool Extendable Bed Pickup Concept

If you want to haul things, just get a regular-ass truck, for Christ's sake.

I'd love to have something like this on the lot as a Ford Ranchero and a Chevy El Camino, but it has to be 100% a crossover-pickup and not attempt in any way to do what a real pickup does. If it's strictly a light duty, weekend gardener thin, it would work. Honda has focused the Ridgeline wrong TWICE and the terrible sales show it.

Was that supposed to hurt my feelings? #LAME

The sales of the Ridgeline, from its inception, prove it is a failure.

Someone should slap VW out of their naming vehicles with rediculous obscure sounding names. What the hell is Tarok? I think it means "diaper rash" in Portuguese.

Call this pick up Honcho, T-Bone, Mad Max or Striker, for example.

I'm thinking VW doesn't want to appear ignorant or disrespectful by naming their vehicles using (American-ized) model names. Those old-school model names only positively resonates with their (decades) old models. It won't go-over too well in today's media-hyped-over-sensitive market. And especially since those older models - however well-known now - reminds today's consumers of the stereotypical perception they had decades ago as well.

So, they're better off trying new names that intentionally mean something specific - from their home base of operations.

Kia Provo and this VW has the came C pillars. But because the Kia was unveiled first ain't no one going to bring that up. If it was the VW that came out first, then that's what would had been said.

"...Cool Extendable Bed..."

VW & Agent009 should research Chevy Avalanche.

Mid-gate. This isn't a new concept.