Volkswagen Finalizes Plan To Develop Midsized Pickup With Ford

Volkswagen Group has signed a deal to develop a pickup truck with Ford and may extend its alliance to include autonomous driving and mobility services, the German automaker said.

In January, VW and Ford agreed to develop a range of midsize pickups and commercial vehicles. They also agreed to explore cooperating on electric and autonomous cars as part of a sweeping alliance designed to save each automaker billions in costs.

The successor to the VW Amarok pickup will be the first joint vehicle project with Ford, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles CEO Thomas Sedran said on Thursday. Ford has a platform for its Ranger midsized pickup truck, which could help VW lower development costs.

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MDarringer - 3/28/2019 6:20:48 PM

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Reskin the nose of a Ranger, change the tail lights, call it an all-new design and be done.

jtz7 - 3/28/2019 7:41:14 PM

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No one is going to bring up the bed design of the Chevy Silverado huh? If this was a Kia that's what would had been said. But since it's a VW let's all play stupid and act like it is original.

skytop - 3/28/2019 8:48:06 PM

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Ha! I always wanted to see a VW Found On the Road Dead.

MDarringer - 3/28/2019 9:04:55 PM

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Look around you. VW are notoriously unreliable.