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Gross... I hope not. [emoji23]

I'm hoping most of the body lines of the concept (like the creases around the wheel wells) make it to the production model but with toned down headlights. What's in that link looks a lot worse than the normal Atlas.

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cgvalant said:
Gross... I hope not. [emoji23]

I'm hoping most of the body lines of the concept (like the creases around the wheel wells) make it to the production model but with toned down headlights. What's in that link looks a lot worse than the normal Atlas.

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Honestly I’ve seen a few Atlas on the open road lately, strike me as rather grotesque. No wonder the business case took years to squeak through... The Germans are probably aghast.

But that’s just my opinion!
 
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Atlas is a typical American built SUV with little special about it. It is sad the VW management has so little regard for the US car buyers. VW was a German car Co for a long time ,now it is global and is losing why many of us bgt there cars. We get nothing built in europe now out of the VW label,might as well buy Ford or GM,same deal as far a quality is concered.:banghead::banghead:
 
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ribbit said:
Atlas is a typical American built SUV with little special about it. It is sad the VW management has so little regard for the US car buyers. VW was a German car Co for a long time ,now it is global and is losing why many of us bgt there cars. We get nothing built in europe now out of the VW label,might as well buy Ford or GM,same deal as far a quality is concered.:banghead::banghead:
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Not sure what VW you are thinking of. VW does bring many European VW into the USA and their quality is far above any of their USA competitors.
 
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ribbit said:
Atlas is a typical American built SUV with little special about it. It is sad the VW management has so little regard for the US car buyers. VW was a German car Co for a long time ,now it is global and is losing why many of us bgt there cars. We get nothing built in europe now out of the VW label,might as well buy Ford or GM,same deal as far a quality is concered.:banghead::banghead:
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Yeah I went to the Atlas website looking for clues about how the Cross Sport might be packaged. But the Atlas itself is such an eyesore, I didn't last very long looking at it. I've not been inside one, but the interior panels didn't look very high end. And those goofy, undersized wheels. Sheesh.

I do like the sheet metal on the (purported) Cross Sport, hope the interior is a step up as well.
 
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The image on that news article looks way more like a Tiguan variant than an Atlas. The perfectly round wheel arches and the overall size in particular remind me more of the little guy than the Atlas Cross Sport.

Those taillights look huge, though... almost to the point where it looks like some kind of production mule, rather than a real article.
 
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GavinD said:
The image on that news article looks way more like a Tiguan variant than an Atlas. The perfectly round wheel arches and the overall size in particular remind me more of the little guy than the Atlas Cross Sport.

Those taillights look huge, though... almost to the point where it looks like some kind of production mule, rather than a real article.
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The vehicles pictured in the article are different from each other. The black one has the round wheel well arches and the red one has the flat top ones. The hood on the red one has the Atlas hood with the sheet metal bends, but a Tiguan has no bends and is just rounded. The side panels on the red also look more like an Atlas.
 
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Pnvwfun said:
The vehicles pictured in the article are different from each other. The black one has the round wheel well arches and the red one has the flat top ones. The hood on the red one has the Atlas hood with the sheet metal bends, but a Tiguan has no bends and is just rounded. The side panels on the red also look more like an Atlas.
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The red vehicle is the Cross Sport concept. Black is supposedly the production version. Very common for a production model to be toned-down from its concept.

If you compare the backside quarter-views, you’ll see similarities between the two. I don’t think a Tiguan derivative is pictured here.
 
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