2024 Volkswagen Atlas First Drive: Welcome Tweaks

•    Auto123 gets in a first drive of the 2024 Volkswagen Atlas and 2024 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport.

Saugerties, NY - Launched on the North American market in 2017 for the 2018 model-year, the Volkswagen Atlas benefits for 2024 from its most important upgrade to date, which will tide it until a new generation is offered. That next edition could be either gasoline-powered (which VW confirmed to us is a real possibility) or electric.

The first VW model truly designed for the North American market, the Atlas has been essential to the company's success in North America. Volkswagen has sold 564,000 of them since 2017, including 62,000 in Canada. In its class, the Atlas has proven more popular than big players like the Honda Pilot and the Kia Telluride and Hyundai Palisade duo. It does trail the Toyota Highlander, Ford Explorer and Jeep Grand Cherokee.

2024 Volkswagen Atlas and 2024 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport: What's new?

Changes fall into three different categories: esthetic, mechanical and structural. In the case of the design, we can also divide it in two: what's changed on the outside, and on the inside.

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