Be interesting to see how the ford/vw pans out with vans and pickups. You can't see it working that ford badge all the cheaper/lower spec vehicles and vw stick their badge on the high end ones. And it could be that you end up with the worst of both combined rather than the best.
That's the puzzle though isn't it Ford get to sell all the low profit models and vw get the cream?It looks like ford are only bringing the small 2.0l engines in to the UK, even though the is a v6 3.0l else where, maybe for the UK the deal is VW can have the larger displacement models?
You can get one now instead of buying a house cost wise.
the truck or the wife ???Manual 3.0 invincible, 2012.. and with the new Toyota warranty/ service deal it has still has manufactures warranty on major components
Oh and yeah, it’s been with me as long as my wife so kinda hard to get rid of easily!
You'll love it!My purchase seems a bit lame with all this pick up talk
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Well pleased with it for cutting cable and the like (I don’t do concrete)
All very vague on details...I can't quite figure out how it's going to pan out yet .I'm not convinced that VW will bring the V6 over here even with all this emissions s**t.It looks like ford are only bringing the small 2.0l engines in to the UK, even though the is a v6 3.0l else where, maybe for the UK the deal is VW can have the larger displacement models?
It wasn't that big a surprise to anyone who had experience of the 2 litre bi turbo motor in their vans certainly the early ones anyway.All very vague on details...I can't quite figure out how it's going to pan out yet .I'm not convinced that VW will bring the V6 over here even with all this emissions s**t.
Although Funny with all the apparent eco conscious that when they brought the last V6 here their pickup sales rocketed?
Yes...much preferred the old 2.5 although in fairness the 2.0 in my old Amarok wasn't that bad
Its more the fact the early 2 litre bi turbo engine ate themselves. I know of one that did it in a transporter and the lad found out it was so common vw offered an exchange engine scheme but it was about 7k. Was something to do with egr cooler setup i think. It was possibly altered before the pickups came out.
well their history there isn't great ..... is it?All very vague on details...I can't quite figure out how it's going to pan out yet .I'm not convinced that VW will bring the V6 over here even with all this emissions s**t.
Although Funny with all the apparent eco conscious that when they brought the last V6 here their pickup sales rocketed?
were a hand grenade with the pin out by all accounts .... know a few ppl who spent a fortune on some pretty well low mileage specimens
I can't remember exactly what it was but i think it was blamed on egr cooler being mounted low down and i think alloy heat exchanger which corroded and sent aluminium oxide through the intake filing the bores down. Either way i know low compression was the end result. I think they were lucky there wasn't big numbers of vans sold with the early bi turbo setup tbh.were a hand grenade with the pin out by all accounts .... know a few ppl who spent a fortune on some pretty well low mileage specimens
they did ...... but not for long enough
And as for the dsg box if they go wrong........
