13 January 2012

Crikey! Taking the crown for beefiest, roughest and most virile car award is no mean feat with so much tough competition on the road.

That said, the new Volkswagen Amarok pick-up has received two such manly accolades in the last month, firstly from UK’s What Van? who named it the ‘Best Pick-Up of the Year’, and also from UK’s Zoo magazine who crowned the double-cab pick-up ‘Manliest Motor’ in its 2011 Motoring Awards.

According to experts in all things blokey, Zoo magazine gushed: “The Amarok packs so much testosterone, other cars melt in its presence. It's that manly, the brute can carry a tonne in the rear loading area, can tow over two tonnes and tackle angles up to a 45 degrees”.

And yet although rough, tough and hard to bluff, the Amorok is also in touch with its feminine side in caring for the environment with some of the lowest CO2emissions in the sector and the first to break the 200 g/km threshold. Although strong and powerful, the Amarok uses Volkswagen’s latest 2.0-litre common rail diesel engine to bring new levels of refinement and efficiency to the pick-up market, yet is just as powerful and more efficient than rivals that still use larger capacity units.