If you are in the market for a rough and tumble pickup truck, let us introduce a new version of the VW Amarok called Canyon. This special edition model comes with £8,500 worth of additional equipment compared to the standard car, and that makes it good value.

The extra equipment fitted to the VW Amarok Canyon are all good, useful stuff, including satellite navigation with a six-inch colour touchscreen,Bluetooth, unique styling bars, 19” Cantera alloy wheels and heated leather seats.

What’s more, you get front and rear parking sensors, privacy glass, a protective coating for the load area, a matt black roll cover, interior floor mats and high-gloss black side styling bars and rear bumper.

There are, however, some features that are of little importance to a pickup driver, such as Nappa and Vienna leather upholstery in two-tone Moonrock (light grey) and Anthracite (dark grey), leather steering wheel and gear knob with sporty orange stitching, and air vent surrounds in the same color as the exterior.

Crucially though, the Amarok Canyon is the same rugged car underneath that it’s always been, powered by a 2.0-litre BiTDI 180 PS engine with 420 Nm of torque. It comes with a six-speed manual with selectable 4MOTION (50 vehicles available) or an eight-speed auto with permanent 4MOTION (300 available).

Limited to 350 units in total, VW Amarok Canyon is priced at £28,990 for the manual transmission and £30,720 for the automatic.