VW Amarok Power Concept gets a killer sound system

Diesel-powered concept truck receives a 5,000-watt DJ setup for Wörthersee meet

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VW used a 3.0-liter V6 TDI version of the Amarok as a base for this tuning exercise. 

Every year, Volkswagen brings concept cars to the annual Wörthersee tuning festival in Austria -- past events have seen everything from a Phaeton-engined Golf GTI W12-G50 to a tricked-out Škoda Fabia. And this year, the Wolfsburg-based automaker didn't disappoint, with the debut of a real-life Volkswagen GTI Roadster concept for the "Gran Turismo 6" video game.

But Volkswagen also brought something much larger--and much louder: An Amarok pickup that houses a 5,000-watt sound system.

The Volkswagen Amarok has been on sale in dozens of markets since 2010, and it's powered by a range of thrifty gasoline and diesel engines. Available in double and quad-cab form, the Amarok has grown into a popular seller, but it's sometimes knocked for not being offered in a wider range of configurations and for the absence of a V8 engine in the lineup. Volkswagen has left those two issues unaddressed in this concept, which has a distinct whiff of the GMC Syclone, but they did upgrade the stereo a bit, creating what the company claims is one of the loudest portable sound systems ever created.

In the back of this Amarok is a portable DJ station that can be unloaded and set up alongside the truck. It features an Allen & Heath Xone:92 mixer, a Pioneer CDJ900NXS player, a Stasys Xair subwoofer with six micro speakers and two Void Acoustics Impulse 3t speakers. It's all designed to fit in the bed, which admittedly leaves no room for anything else.

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All the DJ gear is designed to fold up into the custom bed. 

Volkswagen used the 3.0-liter V6 TDI turbo diesel version of the Amarok for this tuning exercise, which is coupled with an eight-speed automatic transmission sending power to all four wheels -- the version you'll need to evade the police once you get called in for excessive noise in a residential area.

On the styling front, the Amarok has been finished in Dynamic Grey metallic paint with micro glass flakes mixed into the paint to give it an extra shine, along with custom graphics and chrome inserts for the bi-xenon headlights. 22-inch wheels and door mirror covers painted in gunmetal gray complete the look, which many at Wörthersee found similar to last year's Amarok-based Power Pick-Up Concept which had a go-kart in the trunk instead of the DJ equipment.

We prefer the go-kart version as our preferred source of hearing damage.