NEXT STAGE: New in 2024
While Volkswagen of America executives and dealers would love to bring a compact or midsize pickup to new-vehicle lots, there are few choices within the Volkswagen global product portfolio to do so, especially now that Ford and VW have signed an agreement to use the global Ranger platform to replace the VW Amarok outside North America. That leaves only a car-based unibody pickup or an EV pickup as the alternative to accomplish that quest, with an MEB-based EV as the leading favorite right now to make it to dealership lots by 2024