The first is that Volkswagen is going to sell a rebadged Hilux as its own, something that it's done in the past when it partnered with Toyota to produce the Hilux-based Taro from 1989 to 1994.

However, the Taro wasn't quite as brutally simplistic as the EA489 and other prior Volkswagen trucks had been. In fact, the Taro technically wasn't even a Volkswagen at all. Instead, the Taro was ...