Volkswagen Amarok
Best Dual-Cab 2025 Utes: Luxury
When ute is life, you’re prepared to fork out for the specced-up top-end models… here are four to consider including our Best Dual-Cab Utes 2025: Luxury winner.
Best Dual-Cab Utes 2025: Towing
When considering a ute purchase, the clincher is towing capacity for many buyers. Here’s our pick of the best on the market including the winner of Best Dual-Cab Ute 2025: Towing.
Best Dual-Cab Utes 2025: Over $50K
This is the category where you’ll find the cream of the crop of utes on the Australian market – but there was one clear stand-out in Wheels Best Dual-Cab Utes: Over $50K.
Best Ute Under $80K: Ford Ranger V6 Sport
All utes are our trusty workhorses, but which is the best when you’re looking in the nicer part of the stables?
Best Ute Under $60K: Volkswagen Amarok Life
Not everyone has the budget for the fancier dual-cab utes in town, but do you opt for a Ford or VW badge if you have less than $60,000 to spend?
Best Ute for Towing
When it comes to the important task of towing, it’s a straight fight between the Ford Ranger and VW Amarok twins in the mid-size ute class.
2023 VW Amarok vs Ford Ranger comparison review
Tubthumping: Can the all-new Volkswagen Amarok put the stoppers on the market-leading Ford Ranger? We test them on road and off
VIDEO: 2023 Volkswagen Amarok review
The original Amarok was something of a pioneer. We drive the Ranger-twinned successor to find out if it stands up to VW’s claim of being the dual-cab ute segment’s most premium offering.
Can a tuned dual-cab take on a box-fresh hot hatch at the drags?
Australia has gone dual-cab crazy but, with the help of the aftermarket, can you have your performance car, and tow with it too?
2020 Volkswagen Amarok V6 TDI580 Highline review
The standard Volkswagen Amarok is a capable thing in its own right, but add a stonking-great V6 engine and it’s an all-timer
Can the best dual-cab you can buy beat an American pick-up?
The champ of the dual-cab division moves up a weight class to see if it has a puncher’s chance against a true heavyweight
2019 Volkswagen Amarok Ultimate 580 review
The Volkswagen Amarok Ultimate 580 is the new performance flagship of VW’s impressive dual-cab ute range
2018 Volkswagen Amarok TDI 550 Sportline review: Wheels Ute Megatest Winner
Quiet achiever doesn’t have youth on its side, but still shows how it should be done
Wheels Dual-Cab Ute Megatest: Introduction
It’s X-class warfare as Mercedes-Benz bleaches the blue-collar dual-cab workhorse into a sparkling white show pony. But is it sufficiently thoroughbred to make eight rivals eat its dust?
2017 Volkswagen Amarok and Amarok V6 Range Review
The sophisticated Volkswagen Amarok handles better than most SUVs – let alone other dual-cab utes – and is very good off road. A V6 diesel engine offers rapid overtaking.
Volkswagen Amarok V6 Ultimate Quick Review
More power and extra gear are the highlights of an update to the impressive 2017 Volkswagen Amarok ute.
2017 Volkswagen Amarok V6: 18 things you didn’t know
The Volkswagen Amarok V6 TDI brings a revised interior and fresh face, but no updates to the sheetmetal. Here’s 18 things about the popular ute you didn’t know.
2017 Volkswagen Amarok V6 review
More punch and extra gear are the highlights of an update to the impressive 2017 Volkswagen Amarok ute.
Ford Ranger vs Volkswagen Amarok comparison review
We compare two of the most expensive and best-equipped dual-cab 4×4 utilities on the market.
Dual-cab 4×4 ute comparison review: Volkswagen Amarok
There’s never been a better time to review the dual-cab 4×4 class of 2016 than right now. Wheels pitches eight of the biggest sellers in the segment for the title of King of the Heap. Here’s number one, the Volkswagen Amarok.
Volkswagen Amarok Aventura: 10 things you didn’t know
Lift the bonnet on the new Volkswagen Amarok Aventura, and you might be mistaken that you’re buying a luxury Audi. Here’s 10 things you probably didn’t know about what will soon become Australia’s most expensive trade ute.
2016 Volkswagen Amarok Aventura Quick Review
Barry Park takes a look at what’s likely to be the most expensive tradie’s ute to hit Australian markets: Volkswagen’s new limited edition 3.0-litre turbo diesel V6 – the Amarok Aventura
2016 Volkswagen Amarok Aventura review
Volkswagen celebrates the roll-out of a versatile diesel V6 for the Amarok with a rather expensive special edition called the Aventura
Dual-cab 4×4 ute comparison review: The testing process
At work or play, these are the utes Australians are buying in increasing numbers. We put ’em to the test, on the road and off it, to find the best