No doubt my esteemed colleague has used the phrase ‘knife to a gunfight,’ about the evaluation of the Volkswagen Amarok Style and the Ford Ranger Wildtrak, especially given the engine discrepancies between the two protagonists.
For my part, I had spent an extra amount of time running about in the Amarok before our extended drive up north and, during that time, the Amarok – even with its four-cylinder engine – showed its town and around practicality.
Driving around Auckland city, the Amarok's 10-speed transmission and its 2.0-litre engine work well together to deliver fuel economy figures in the six litres per hundred range, but then one rarely gets to 100km/h even on