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Three-Row Hero Volkswagen’s Atlas has a lot riding on its burly shoulders. _by K.C. Colwell IT IS FITTING THAT THE ALL-NEW Volkswagen Atlas takes its name from the Greek god condemned to keep the sky from falling on mortals. VW needs this long-overdue three-row ute to lift the hugely publicized diesel-emissions scandal that continues to hang over the company [see page 050]. While sales for the people’s brand are up through spring, they’re still down compared with prescandal 2015, and the recent sales gains are largely due to the Legitimate three-row comfort, cushy ride, thrones suitable for a long haul, tows 5000 pounds. Could use more power, no rear entertainment for fidgety offspring. arrival of the Golf Alltrack, a boomlet that eventually could fizzle. Hence the need for the Atlas to prop up the enterprise. Riding on the same flexible architecture that underpins the Golf, the Tennessee-built Atlas is a medium-large three-row SUV that fills a major gap in VW’s portfolio. Not since the Routan, a rebadged Dodge Grand Caravan that VW last sold in 2013, has there been a Volkswagen with more than five seatbelts. Buyers have been forced to look elsewhere for their family-hauling needs. The Atlas’s outer dimensions skew toward the burly end of the segment. Overall length is within an inch of the Ford Explorer and the Nissan Pathfinder, but the VW has a longer wheelbase and makes excellent use of its footprint. Seven passengers, or six if buyers opt for the late-availability second-row captain’s chairs, have 153 cubic feet of space to share. That matches the Honda Pilot’s interior volume and eclipses that of the Mazda CX-9 by 18 cubes, although it’s just shy of the Explorer’s 155. With butts in all the seats, the Atlas has 21 cubic feet of cargo space while most competitors are in the teens. Moving all that mass—up to an estimated 4550 pounds—is a task shouldered by one of two engines: VW’s ubiquitous EA888 turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four and a naturally aspirated 3.6- liter V-6. In this application, the turbo four makes 235 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque and feeds that output only to the front wheels. The narrow-angle V-6 [see tech highlight] is good for 276 horsepower and is available with either front- or all-wheel drive. Both engines get bolted to an eight-speed automatic transmission. We didn’t have the opportunity to drive the four-cylinder, but it shouldn’t be too terribly lazy around town. Its peak torque is just 8 pound-feet shy of the V-6’s, and it arrives 1150 rpm lower, at 1600 rpm. We expect the V-6 Atlas to hit 60 mph in about 094 . CAR AND DRIVER . JUL/2017
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