{"id":4626,"date":"2013-05-13T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2013-05-13T15:30:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T15:30:25","slug":"vw-teases-fans-with-272ps-amarok-power-pickup-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4626","title":{"rendered":"VW Teases Fans With 272PS Amarok Power Pickup Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Volkswagen

The Volkswagen Amarok Power Pickup concept, which has 3.0 V6 272 PS engine boasting 600 Nm of torque and was unveiled at the annual GTI enthusiasts’ meeting at Lake W\u00f6rthersee in Austria<\/p><\/div>\n

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has wowed the crowds at the annual GTI enthusiasts\u2019 meeting on the shores of Lake W\u00f6rthersee in Austria with an Amarok Power-Pickup concept featuring a 3.0-litre V6 TDI engine with a power output of 272 PS and 600 Nm of torque.<\/p>\n

The Power-Pickup, based on an Amarok<\/a> single cab, is designed as a rolling workshop to carry spare parts, tools and race equipment, with performance to take it from standstill to 62 mph in 7.9 seconds in conjunction with an eight-speed automatic transmission and permanent 4MOTION transmission.<\/p>\n

The striking exterior design features widened wheelarches to accommodate 22 inch alloy wheels, 80 mm lowered suspension, bi-xenon headlights with chrome surround and a chrome grille plus an enlarged lower air intake.<\/p>\n

At the rear there is also a carbon fibre diffuser and dual exhausts, plus tinted taillights and red, white and black side decals.<\/p>\n

Inside, the dashboard, door trims and exclusive Nubuck leather sports seats have a black, red and white colour theme.\u00a0 In-car entertainment is supplied via an infotainment system with an eight-inch touchscreen and 500 watt subwoofer.<\/p>\n

\"Volkswagen

Inside the VW Amarok Power Pickup concept, which boasts leather, an eight-inch touchscreen and a 500W subwoofer.<\/p><\/div>\n

VW hasn’t said whether the Amarok Power Pickup will make it into production, but full details of the current UK Amarok range are available at www.volkswagen-vans.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volkswagen has unveiled a high octane concept version of its Amarok pickup, boasting 272PS, 600NM of torque and a high-spec luxury interior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1108,493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4631,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}