Looks like a great ute to me. I'd be happy to have one I reckon. One of the things that has stopped me getting a ute has been poor handling and fuel economy - trust VW to fix that. The carsales reviewers are correct in saying most utes handle like crap, do not inspire confidence and tend to chew through fuel.... unnecessarily in many cases. Big engines in commercial vehicles are a thing of the past 15 years - people forget too easily about the sub 2.5 litre engines in almost all utes back in the 80's and beforehand... in vans too! Its really only been in the 90's and 00's that people have had the luxury of big engines in what are essentially supposed to be economy vehicles - fuel costs = running costs. Times are a changing, thats for sure, and i do think that people need to begin to consider exactly what they feel justification for a big capacity engine is.
To me, even a 2.0L 90kW 350Nm diesel engine is far and away better than a 2.8L non-turbo diesel that made the hilux the class leader it is today, long before it had turbo's and air-con.
My dad had a 1600 rodeo back in the day, with that shoddy oil guzzling petrol guzzling isuzu engine. It was a 2wd one. We still managed to fill it with a whole winters worth of fire wood and drive it out up the logging tracks no worries. I reckon its not just utes that are going soft, its the ute owners too
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