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

[Leo Franchi]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Eelko Berkenpies at 09/03/10 08:56 did gyre and gimble:
>> 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?).
>
> Amarok is an Inuit wolf-related folk take IIRC (details escape me of the
> top of my head, but I'm sure Wikipedia can tell you more). That's where
> the wolf mascot comes from.

Amarok actually just means "wolf" in Inuit :)

leo

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