In the latest video, the hosts take their Muscle Truck, a 1974 Chevrolet ... To test its mettle, they put the pickup up against an offroad-prepped 1969 VW Bug. Actually getting to the showdown ...

Volkswagen did indeed create a pickup truck based on the Atlas for this ... doors and a bed that's a bit over 5 feet long. Basically, VW borrowed from Honda's Ridgeline playbook.

It combined a Karmann Ghia chassis with Beetle drivetrain ... and gloriously boxy lines -- makes the T3 Syncro pickup our favorite VW truck. An odd choice, perhaps, but slap some aftermarket ...