Nota especial: Prediciendo la futura camioneta VW.

Conste que no soy brujo ni vidente, pero hace casi 2 años predije la futura camioneta pick up de VW. Para los que no se han enterado, justo hoy VW USA mostró al mundo el concepto Atlas Tanoak que no es otra cosa más que un Atlas hecho pick up, es decir, podríamos decir que es la futura Amarok para Estados Unidos.

Ahora les cuento como la predije: Hace precisamente casi 2 años escribía ocasionalmente para un sitio en inglés, dejé de hacerlo porque los editores no publicaban mis posts, aclaro, algunos si los publicaron, entre ellos el que predije que llegaría la Ford EcoSport a Estados Unidos, otros no los publicaron como el del Mitubishi Evo Final Edition de $88,000 dólares que otro sitio sí publicó cuando les dí el tip.

En fin, entre los artículo que el otro sitio se negó a publicar es el siguiente texto que aquí les comparto:

VW: Now is the perfect time to bring the Amarok to the USA.

Struggling automaker could benefit by selling in America’s most profitable segment.

Americans love pick up trucks, VW has one in its lineup, it’s time to bring it to the country that sell the most of them.

Everybody knows VW is in big trouble: it can’t sell the vehicles it once were its best sellers: diesels. And people seemed not to be very interested in its gas lineup.

VW has a lifesaver but VW USA is unaware of that. Worldwide VW sells a medium pick up truck called Amarok. Its main powertrain is a diesel engine, which would be a problem since the EPA has forbidden the automaker from selling vehicles with diesel engines.

But that is not really a problem: GM was able to fit a 2.4L Duramax diesel in its Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon trucks. VW with its German engineering should be able to do the opposite: put a gas engine in the Amarok.

Americans love pick up trucks, even medium size ones, the segment is booming, and is no longer dominated by a decade old Toyota whose one rival was a Nissan just as old. No, the Tacoma is brand new for this year, the Colorado was named «Truck of the year» by a magazine 2 years in a row, GMC has the Canyon, Honda is resurrecting the Ridgeline looking like a regular truck, Hyundai showed a concept called Santa Cruz and even Mercedes Benz is testing their future truck.

The Amarok has all the styling or lack of found in the rest of the VW lineup, it has been updated and now offers a 3.0L V6 diesel with 221 HP, the other engine available is a 2.0L 4 with 178 HP. Again, VW could easily fit one of its gas powertrains and called it a day.

VW could build the Amarok at its Chattanooga plant using the future CrossBlue platform to avoid the chicken tax and offer the first «German engineering truck» to help move some units.

Should VW sell the Amarok in the USA? Absolutely, if the brand wants to survive the dieselgate scandal, it better sell what the Americans buy the most: trucks.

Escribí eso el 3 de Mayo del 2016, cuando VW estaba metida en su escándalo del diesel, desde entonces la VW CrossBlue se convirtió en el Atlas y adivinen qué? La recién presentada Atlas Tanoak está basada en el Atlas que se produce en la planta VW de Chattanooga en Estados Unidos.