Amarok Pan Americana (Ranger in Disguise)

[rhr]

Hello all

Rob from NSW Australia and as of last Sunday am the proud owner of a Volkswagen Amarok Pan Americana.

Why the VW over the Ranger?? The interior. I have two-tone "leather" seats in the Amarok which for me makes it feel a little more classy. The seatbelt reminder on the top of the dash on the Ranger looks like such an after thought IMO. Felt also that "everyone" has a Ranger so wanted to be a little different.

Wont be towing as such as have a 2023 Y62 Nissan Patrol for that. Tows the 3t caravan with ease.

Have a garage queen in the 2015 Ford Falcon XR8. Last version of the Falcons to be proudly produced here in Australia and I had to have one. 5.0L of supercharged bliss.

Mainly been into fords, from a 67 Falcon UTE to the Ugly AU XR6 Falcon to Falcon BA XR6 Turbo and two Falcon FG XR6 Turbos both fitted with the legendary BARRA. Also had a BA Fairmont which was fitted with the 3 valve 5.4L.

Must say this place is full of great information. Just started mucking around with Forscan on the Amarok and have been able to enable Auto lock. Now just do deactivate STOP/START!!!!

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[HighDesertRanger]

Welcome aboard Rob. I think you might be the first Amarok here. Let’s see some pictures.

 

[superj]

welcome!! i have never even heard of an amarok so i am super interested in the pics and posts about it.

 

[rhr]

 

[rhr]

It shares probably 90% of components with the Ranger. All body panels are different except for the roof.

They also have matrix style head lights called IQ-Light

 

[superj]

Looks very cool. My wrangler has the steering wheel on that side and its not terribly useful here in the usa.

No drive throughs, banks don't like you going through the drive up teller, getting in military bases are the same fun as the guards hate it

 

[fordtrks4ever]

Looks very cool. My wrangler has the steering wheel on that side and its not terribly useful here in the usa.

No drive throughs, banks don't like you going through the drive up teller, getting in military bases are the same fun as the guards hate it

Did the Wrangler belong to the Post Office at some point?

 

[superj]

Did the Wrangler belong to the Post Office at some point?

It actually did. Its an 03 wrangler rhd that was used as a rural postal jeep. The guy had this wrangler and a rhd cherokee that were both rural postal jeeps and he had them both for sale. Whichever one sold, he was keeping the other since he retired.

This is when we drove down to brownsville texas and bought it. Its since been rolled down a mountain in colorado and rebuilt. Has a lift and bumpers and better tires now.

 

[rhr]

Here's a video of an Amarok review

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