VW News: Volkswagen Looks Towards Vans and Pickups for U.S. Lineup

[William Maley]

Volkswagen is looking towards vans and a possible pickup as way to bolster its U.S. lineup and become something other than a niche player in the marketplace.

Bloomberg reports that Volkswagen's head of the light commercial vehicle unit, Eckhard Scholz said the company is investigating whether or not to send some of their vans and possibly the Amarok - the only pickup VW builds at the moment - to the U.S.

“Pickup trucks are a dominating segment,” while there’s also a trend in the U.S. toward compact European vans, Scholz said. “We’re looking at both options intensively.”

Now if this sounds familiar, Volkswagen of America CEO said something similar back in January. Michael Horn told Automotive News the company was looking into bringing a van over - be it the large Crafter van or small Caddy.

Source: Bloomberg

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[G. David Felt]

This would be good for VW, they need to figure out how to crack the nut of the US market and get their sales going other than to the 60's era make love not war peeps. They clearly are not firing on all cylinders yet.

[Drew Dowdell]

There are going to be more import brand cargo van models offered in the US than domestic ones very soon. 

 

Domestic:

Transit

Transit Connect

Promaster series

Promaster City

Express

Savanna

City Express

Ram C/V

 

Import:

NV200

NV1500

Sprinter

Metris

 

Possibly:

Caddy

Crafter

[daves87rs]

Too many! Way too many....