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by Brad Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n August 24, 2026 at 02:23<\/p>\n Volkswagen\u2019s next-gen Amarok arrives in 2027 for South America.<\/p>\n Truck likely borrows its underpinnings from Chinese partner SAIC. <\/p>\n A plug-in hybrid version may push output past 470 horsepower.<\/p>\n A new generation of the Amarok is closing in, with VW teasing the mid-size pickup under camouflage right after it pulled the covers off the smaller Tukan<\/a> for South America over the weekend. Built to take on the Toyota Hilux, Ford Ranger, and Mitsubishi Triton, this one will have little in common with any Amarok that came before it.<\/p>\n Read: VW Built A Ranger-Based Sports Truck That Costs More Than The Ranger Raptor<\/a><\/p>\n It arrives in 2027, and according to Motor1 Brazil, production goes to VW\u2019s General Pacheco plant in Argentina, which already builds the current truck. This generation is believed to be reserved for South America, with a handful of other markets possible.<\/p>\n
Volkswagen has been working on it for at least a couple of years, and while the company still hasn\u2019t confirmed the details, the truck is thought to come out of VW\u2019s<\/a> long-running partnership with SAIC, possibly sharing hardware with the Maxus Interstellar X. <\/p>\n A Tale Of Two Amaroks<\/p>\n Borrowing someone else\u2019s engineering is a common practice in the mid-size pickup<\/a> segment these days, as the Nissan Navara and Mitsubishi Triton showed, and VW already went that way with the global-spec, second-generation Amarok, which has been based on the Ford Ranger since 2022<\/a>. <\/p>\n South America took a different route, as VW never retired the first-generation truck there, keeping the 2010 original in production on its own older ladder-frame platform and handing it a second facelift in 2024. That leaves the two current Amaroks sharing a badge and nothing else, one built on Ford hardware and the other on a design Europe stopped buying in 2020.<\/p>\n
Images of South America\u2019s next Amarok<\/a> confirm it will look quite a lot different than the outgoing model. The front end is all-new, sporting a full-width LED light bar and two additional DRLs positioned just before the hood shut line. Below sits a shallow grille split by two horizontal slats.<\/p>\n Viewed from the side, we can see square wing mirror caps, squared wheel arches, chunky door handles, angular windows, and prominent roof rails. These images don\u2019t show the new Amarok from the rear, but it too will be very different from the existing model.<\/p>\n Chinese Underpinnings?<\/p>\n![\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/new-savolkswagen-amarok-copy-1024x576.webp\")
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