Ford and VW May Work Together on a Mid-size Pickup

The new decade is approaching, that that means that automakers are looking to come up with new, sexy ideas. Well, how sexy is a team-up between Ford and Volkswagen on a mid-size pickup truck? If rumor isn’t quite enough for a first taste, the rumors are circulating because of hints the companies are giving out themselves. There’s a joint venture between the two to make commercial vehicles, but a regional managing director for VW hinted that there might be more than just commercial trucks coming out of that arrangement. The Ford Ranger and VW Amarok might even share tech and parts. More concrete details will no doubt follow later.   Australian website GoAuto is reporting, based on an interview with a local Volkswagen executive, that the next-generation Amarok pickup truck could be related to the next-generation Ford Ranger pickup truck. The story was soon picked up by Automobile, where we saw it (because we don’t often peruse Australian news). Cue head-shaking surprise! Could it be that Ford would team up with VW to develop a new mid-size truck? Maybe. In his interview with GoAuto, Volkswagen Group Australia managing director Michael Bartsch touched on a recently announced commercial-vehicle joint venture between the German automaker and Ford, leaving open the possibility that the connection could bear fruit beyond work vehicles. Of course, justification along the lines of lowered development costs, complex global-supply-chain matters, and tariffs were dangled as hints that a VW/Ford mid-size-pickup mashup could be in the works after each automaker updates its trucks for 2020. Click here to continue reading

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