Amarok is so cool that VW even named a car after it.

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Eelko Berkenpies <e.berkenpies at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Please forgive me if I bring up an old subject (a quick search didn't gave me
> any results though) but did you know that Volkswagen is apparently building a
> car that is called Amarok? At least I didn't and I was quite surprised they
> did, in both a pleasant (the car looks quite bad-ass, imho) and a slightly
> disturbing way (can they just claim the name like that?).
>
> Here's a random shot from Google images: http://www.caradvice.com.au/wp-
> content/uploads/2009/12/2010-vw-amarok00.jpg

Yeah, we've known about that for a long time.

We have been wondering a bit who inspired whom here with the name :)

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at Collabora Ltd
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
http://amarok.kde.org - http://www.fsfe.org - http://collabora.co.uk