If you’re jonesing for a new SUV, and if the recently launched, 2018 Volkswagen Atlas is on your test drive hit-list, you’re likely in for a pleasant surprise – especially if you’ve owned one or more recent VW products lately. Light at its controls, feels easily maneuverable as big utes go, and is scarcely harder to position, park, or wea

Volkswagen's Atlas crossover, the company's biggest model, has only been on the market for three years, but the automaker has already revealed a refreshed model. Designed to give it a bolder look, there are also new driver assistance features and interior upgrades for 2021, along with standard all-wheel drive. The revised grille of the Atlas mak

The end of VW’s modern van experiment dovetailed nicely with the arrival in the early 2000s of its first SUV, the Touareg, a five-seat mid-size model developed alongside the first-generation versions of the Porsche Cayenne and Audi Q7 . Atlas seems an entirely appropriate name here, given how much of Volkswagen’s future is riding on its br

BOERNE, Texas – You don’t need four or more offspring to need six seats in your family hauler. Even with our two boys, we’re often packing in carpooling friends to practice, aging grandparents, or just separating our youngest from his grumpy teenage sibling. Volkswagen has finally made a serious effort to reach folks who want a real third row

Volkswagen's Atlas is quickly becoming one of the most versatile model ranges around. Last night, VW showed off the shorter and sportier Cross Sport and now here is the longer and stronger Atlas Tanoak pickup. The Tanoak pickup stretches the Atlas by 401 mm, for a total length of 5,438 mm. VW calls it a mid-size truck, but for comparison that

Volkswagen's barrage of SUVs continues. A new five seat and sportier version of the Volkswagen Atlas crossover is on the way. This is our first look at the concept that will be unveiled at the New York auto show at the end of the month. Based on the MQB platform that underpins most of the current Volkswagen lineup, the new crossover will be a

The 2020 Volkswagen Atlas and the new VW Atlas Cross Sport will no longer be offered with front-wheel drive in Canada. This means the 2020 VW Atlas and VW Atlas Cross Sport will be offered as standard with the 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine and all-wheel drive, whereas the 2.0-litre engine was previously available with front-wheel dri

Volkswagen Canada has confirmed that a five-seat version of the Atlas crossover, likely to be called the Atlas Cross Sport, will join the brand's lineup next year as a 2020 model. The new vehicle would replace the Touareg in the mid-size crossover segment, where it would allow VW to compete directly with big sellers like the Ford Edge and Subaru

Things don’t always go exactly as planned. If anyone knows this, it’s the folks at Volkswagen. What matters, though, is how one responds to a challenge and if the 2018 Volkswagen Atlas SUV  is anything to go by, the Wolfsburg company has every intention of putting its best foot forward. we repeatedly tried to catch the system napping, but

Volkswagen has just revealed their newest and biggest SUV. The three-row SUV is all new, and slots above the Touareg in the automaker's lineup. Moving away from Volkswagen's traditional wind-based naming system, the new SUV is called the Atlas. It will be built at VW's Chattanooga Tennessee plant and will arrive at dealers around June of 2017. P

The big two-row crossover segment was pretty empty for a long time. Buyers flocked to the even-bigger three-rows, and the smaller two-rows were the hot ticket for drivers needing only four seats. But now, like every crossover segment, it’s growing. VW is here with its own new entry, a shortened version of the Atlas: the 2020 Volkswagen Atlas Cross

Introduced for the 2018 model year, Volkswagen’s Atlas may be a recent entry in the mid-size three-row SUV market but it hits the mark squarely, offering well-packaged blend of roomy practicality, comfort, ease-of-use, and all-weather capability that families and adventure-minded buyers are looking for. The Atlas features some of the best driving d

Volkswagen's latest concept is a look at a five-seat sporty version of the Atlas crossover. It's shorter than the Atlas, and uses a plug-in hybrid system that makes more power while allowing all-electric trips up to 42 km . The Atlas Cross Sport cuts 191 mm off of the length of the Atlas, but keeps the same wheelbase. That trades the third row,

On top of the world premiere of the 2018 Tiguan , Volkswagen revealed more details today at the North American International Auto Show on their plans for the upcoming Atlas large three-row SUV and the I.D. Buzz, a concept for the electrified return of the brand’s venerated microbus. On the Atlas side, following on its October launch in Santa M

The success of Volkswagen’s three-row Atlas has inspired a variant that the automaker is hoping will capture even more new customers. The 2020 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport lacks the third row of its bigger sibling, but maintains much of the hardware and personality. In addition to being a five-seater that feels like a bigger crossover, the Atlas Cr