Volkswagen’s Atlas, the roomy, Tennessee-built SUV that debuted for the 2018 mannequin 12 months, has simply acquired its first main refresh.
For the 2024 mannequin 12 months, the 3-row Atlas and its slope-roofed, 2-row Atlas Cross Sport sibling get revised entrance and rear styling, plus an upgraded inside with premium supplies and 3-zone automated local weather management.
Search for the 2024 Volkswagen Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport to go on sale this summer time, with pricing to be introduced nearer to then. At the moment, the 2023 Volkswagen Atlas ranges in value from $34,460 (Atlas Cross Sport SE) to $52,340 (Atlas SEL Premium R-Line).
Customary new niceties embody vented entrance seats, a height-adjustable entrance passenger seat, and a heated steering wheel. A redesigned heart console sports activities a helpful storage cubby beneath.
What’s extra, VW has given the brand new 2024 Atlas an improved know-how suite that now incorporates a “floating” 12-inch infotainment display screen.
VW’s Cockpit Professional digital gauges seem at each trim degree, together with a wi-fi smartphone charger and 6 USB-C ports. Additionally customary: VW’s IQ.Drive driver help know-how, which options automated lane centering and a capacitive steering wheel. A head-up show and adaptive cruise management proceed to be obtainable.
One Powertrain
Vital adjustments happen beneath the Atlas hood.
VW has scrapped the previous strategy — a selection of a turbo 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine or a V6. For 2024, all consumers get the identical all-new turbocharged 2.0-liter 4-cylinder. It produces 269 horsepower and 273 lb-ft of torque. That’s up from the 235 horsepower/258 lb-ft of torque made by the present turbocharged 4-cylinder.
In actual fact, that’s related in energy to the soon-to-be-outgoing V6 however seemingly means an enchancment in gasoline financial system. The only real transmission continues to be an 8-speed automated. Towing capability stays a good 5,000 kilos. Entrance-wheel drive is customary; all-wheel drive is non-obligatory.
New Fashion
For the 2024 mannequin 12 months, VW matches the Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport with a brand new four-bar grille framed by newly customary adaptive LED headlights. All however the base 2024 Atlas get Daytime Operating Lights that wrap across the headlights and into an illuminated lightbar that provides a little bit of visible pizzazz by stretching throughout the nostril of the car, proper above the illuminated VW brand.
Principally the identical factor occurs within the again. An illuminated lightbar crosses between the LED taillights on all however the base Atlas. Each Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport fashions get a bigger roof spoiler, which lengthens the roofline a bit whereas offering a sleeker aspect profile.
The Cross Sport goes a step additional with a extra aggressive rear diffuser. Wheel sizes vary from 18 to 21 inches. R-line fashions will get a gloss-black grille, 21-inch alloy wheels, and R-line badging.
