Volkswagen Amarok Canyon Concept Shapes up for Extreme Sports

The Volkswagen brand's commercial division is represented at the 2012 Geneva Auto Salon with a new concept version of the Amarok pickup truck named Canyon that has been configured for those that compete in the extreme sport of ‘freestyle kayaking’.

The two carbon fibre kayaks are mounted to the cargo floor while the paddles are latched on the inside surface of the tailgate.

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Volkswagen Cross Coupé Concept Take Two at the Geneva Motor Show

If Volkswagen's Cross Coupé Concept looks familiar, that's because we saw it at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show last autumn. So are we going to see the same study at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show? The answer is yes and no.

For starters, the Geneva concept gets a two-tone red and silver exterior paint work but it's what's hiding under the hood that justifies its existence.

Whereas the Cross Coupé shown in Tokyo features a plug-in petrol-electric hybrid system the newer versions replaces the TSI gasoline engine with an even more frugal turbodiesel four-cylinder unit with direct injection.

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It's a Swiss Thing: Volkswagen Prepares Four New Concepts of the Up! for the Geneva Salon

Joining the new Golf GTI Cabrio and the Polo GT Blue at Volkswagen's Geneva Motor Show booth next week will be four specially themed concept versions of the Up! city car called the Swiss Up, Winter Up!, X Up! and Cargo Up!.

Though you may have a hard time figuring it out just by looking at it, the Swiss Up! pays tribute to the hosts of the motor show. It supposedly does so by adopting the basic red color of the Swiss flag in its ‘tornado red’ exterior paint together with white ‘porcelain paint’ accents on the door mirror housings and wheel caps.

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