Start with what the Volkswagen Atlas is: a 5-door SUV with Petrol engine, built from 2017, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Oliver Stefani.
How it came about
The Volkswagen Atlas is a mid-size crossover SUV manufactured by the German automaker Volkswagen since 2017. Developed mainly for the American, Chinese, and Middle Eastern markets, the vehicle is based on the MQB platform. Outside of the United States, Israel, Canada, and Chile, the vehicle is marketed as the Volkswagen Teramont (Chinese: 大众途昂, pinyin: Dàzhòng túáng). It is positioned above the Tayron (sold in North America as the Tiguan) and in China, below the Tavendor and Talagon.
The hardware
The engine is Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1864-2046 kg. Drive goes through a 8-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / 7-speed Direct-shift gearbox / DSG. The wheelbase is 2980 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Volkswagen line-up the Volkswagen Atlas has a clear place: it replaced the Volkswagen Touareg (US and Canada); the factory was Chattanooga, Tennessee (Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Bolt, the Chevrolet Camaro. Its Volkswagen stablemates include the Volkswagen Apollo and the Volkswagen Routan.
Owning one today
Buying one now means $19,600–$52,000 for a typical example, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $3,683–$7,092 a year. Insurance sits around $1,400–$2,490 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.