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2020 VW Atlas Tanoak Release Date, Specs, Price, and Redesign

2020 VW Atlas Tanoak Release Date, Specs, Price, and Redesign

2020 VW Atlas Tanoak Release Date, Specs, Price, and Redesign. Volkswagen Group is preparing two major additions for the US market. Rumors about Audi pickup truck are very loud. Fans are keeping their attention on the news about the luxurious models. Well, this makes details about 2020 VW Atlas Tanoak somehow less interesting. It isn’t so. The German carmaker could bring its standard model before…

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2020 VW Atlas Cross Sport Changes, Release date, Price, and Specs. It is becoming a reality! Photos of the nearly-production model are now available, but we still expect final tuning on the 2020 VW Atlas Cross Sport. This is going to be a 5-seater version of the largest SUV with Volkswagen badge. The Cross Sport version is slightly smaller, and it will appear in the Asian market at. Soon after, European customers will also get their version. For the US the 2020 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport could replace Tiguan. It is still not confirmed since it can take a position between it and standard Atlas.

The prototype of the 2020 VW Atlas Cross Sport also pulls some other conclusions. The 2020 VW Atlas Tanoak truck will also arrive soon. This is what everyone expects since these two concepts shared a lot of in common. What’s more, we still don’t know what will be under the hood of the new SUV. Hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and standard petrol unit, all options are still open. Various markets could get different configuration. One thing is sure– leaked images are not showing the PHEV model.

2020 VW ATLAS CROSS SPORT HYBRID

There are few options for the 2020 VW Atlas Cross Sport Hybrid and PHEV vehicles. Experts started their prediction from the existing SUV in the USA. That means the new vehicle will combine either 2.0-liter turbo-four or a 3.6-liter V6 with an electric battery. It is likely that VW engineers will opt for a larger displacement. It is going to pair a couple of electric motors. The system will be good for 355 hp (265 kW). Standard setup can make 275 hp.

This power will help 2020 VW Atlas Sport accelerate to 60 mph in just 5.5 seconds. Max speed is going to be limited to 130 mph (210 kmh). A dual-clutch auto gearbox transfers the energy to either front or all wheels.

The electric battery alone will be able to supply the SUV with power. The range of an 18 kW pack is not stunning, with an estimated range of 42 miles before the recharge. This is also good as an optional possibility. The 2020 VW Atlas Cross Sport could get a mild-hybrid system with a small 2 kWh battery as the last option.

2020 VW ATLAS CROSS SPORT SPY PHOTOS

All we know about the upcoming 2020 VW Atlas Cross Sport are the spy photos. Without camo, leaked images are showing definitely something that could be the production model. We can se a coupe-like SUV. The spied vehicle changed a few things on the concept model, but it still keeps the main idea of an aggressive and appealing SUV. Rounded front fascia gets a new bumper and grille.

The 2020 VW Atlas Sport will be different than its sibling from the US. It is going to be a coupe, the roofline is not so tight. This means occupants on the rear bench will have enough space for heads. The back of the SUV is the part where we will spot the most noteworthy difference between this and US model. Body color is unique, with special finishes. We have another change compared to standard Atlas.

2020 VW ATLAS CROSS SPORT RELEASE DATE

With such images already available for fans, the release date of the 2020 VW Atlas Cross Sport is not far away. The company announced earlier that the SUV is coming in 2019. Exactly when we still don’t know.

Two things are certain– the 2020 VW Atlas Sport will have a premiere in China. Well, leaked images are from there. The SUV will soon head to North America, to one of the major auto shows in the United States. Which one, again is a mystery. Production and sales will start late in 2019, also in Europe and Australia.

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2019 New and Future Cars: 2020 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport

The Cross Sport is a two-row version of the family-friendly Atlas, as shown at the 2018 New York auto show as a “near-production” concept car. The low fastback roofline works well with the blocky front end, making it look stylish and sexy without rendering the back seat useless. The Cross Sport’s wheelbase is the same as the seven-seater, with 7.5 inches chopped from the rear overhang. VW announced two hybrid drivetrains, a 355-hp plug-in version with 26 miles of electric-only range and a 5.4-second 0-60 time and a “mild hybrid” with 310 horsepower and a 6.5-second 0-60 run. Both are based on the 276-hp 3.6-liter V-6, which we also expect to make an appearance.

Premiering next to the Atlas Cross Sport—and garnering even more attention—was the Atlas Tanoak pickup concept, built to gauge public reaction, which was overwhelmingly positive. The Atlas Tanoak could be built in Chattanooga, Tennessee, along with other Atlas variants, and would be a perfect foil for the Honda Ridgeline.

On sale: Late 2019 Base price: $37,000 (est)

2019 Volkswagen Arteon

Volkswagen’s decade-old CC finally gets replaced by the Arteon, which is longer, lower, wider, and decidedly more upscale. The exterior is a strong shape that requires little chrome adornment, while the interior is VW-style luxury—high-class materials and a wonderful digital dash arranged with restraint bordering on austerity. A 268-hp 2.0-liter turbo-four and an eight-speed auto power either the front or all four wheels. We drove a Euro-spec version and described it as “big, solid, and smooth—typically Teutonic.” The Arteon is VW’s latest attempt to sell American buyers on the concept of a German luxury car without a high-end brand name, and it just might succeed.

On sale: Late 2018 Base price: $36,000 (est)

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2019 New and Future Cars: 2020 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport

The Cross Sport is a two-row version of the family-friendly Atlas, as shown at the 2018 New York auto show as a “near-production” concept car. The low fastback roofline works well with the blocky front end, making it look stylish and sexy without rendering the back seat useless. The Cross Sport’s wheelbase is the same as the seven-seater, with 7.5 inches chopped from the rear overhang. VW announced two hybrid drivetrains, a 355-hp plug-in version with 26 miles of electric-only range and a 5.4-second 0-60 time and a “mild hybrid” with 310 horsepower and a 6.5-second 0-60 run. Both are based on the 276-hp 3.6-liter V-6, which we also expect to make an appearance.

Premiering next to the Atlas Cross Sport—and garnering even more attention—was the Atlas Tanoak pickup concept, built to gauge public reaction, which was overwhelmingly positive. The Atlas Tanoak could be built in Chattanooga, Tennessee, along with other Atlas variants, and would be a perfect foil for the Honda Ridgeline.

On sale: Late 2019 Base price: $37,000 (est)

2019 Volkswagen Arteon

Volkswagen’s decade-old CC finally gets replaced by the Arteon, which is longer, lower, wider, and decidedly more upscale. The exterior is a strong shape that requires little chrome adornment, while the interior is VW-style luxury—high-class materials and a wonderful digital dash arranged with restraint bordering on austerity. A 268-hp 2.0-liter turbo-four and an eight-speed auto power either the front or all four wheels. We drove a Euro-spec version and described it as “big, solid, and smooth—typically Teutonic.” The Arteon is VW’s latest attempt to sell American buyers on the concept of a German luxury car without a high-end brand name, and it just might succeed.

On sale: Late 2018 Base price: $36,000 (est)

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2019 New and Future Cars: 2020 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport

The Cross Sport is a two-row version of the family-friendly Atlas, as shown at the 2018 New York auto show as a “near-production” concept car. The low fastback roofline works well with the blocky front end, making it look stylish and sexy without rendering the back seat useless. The Cross Sport’s wheelbase is the same as the seven-seater, with 7.5 inches chopped from the rear overhang. VW announced two hybrid drivetrains, a 355-hp plug-in version with 26 miles of electric-only range and a 5.4-second 0-60 time and a “mild hybrid” with 310 horsepower and a 6.5-second 0-60 run. Both are based on the 276-hp 3.6-liter V-6, which we also expect to make an appearance.

Premiering next to the Atlas Cross Sport—and garnering even more attention—was the Atlas Tanoak pickup concept, built to gauge public reaction, which was overwhelmingly positive. The Atlas Tanoak could be built in Chattanooga, Tennessee, along with other Atlas variants, and would be a perfect foil for the Honda Ridgeline.

On sale: Late 2019 Base price: $37,000 (est)

2019 Volkswagen Arteon

Volkswagen’s decade-old CC finally gets replaced by the Arteon, which is longer, lower, wider, and decidedly more upscale. The exterior is a strong shape that requires little chrome adornment, while the interior is VW-style luxury—high-class materials and a wonderful digital dash arranged with restraint bordering on austerity. A 268-hp 2.0-liter turbo-four and an eight-speed auto power either the front or all four wheels. We drove a Euro-spec version and described it as “big, solid, and smooth—typically Teutonic.” The Arteon is VW’s latest attempt to sell American buyers on the concept of a German luxury car without a high-end brand name, and it just might succeed.

On sale: Late 2018 Base price: $36,000 (est)

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Don’t Shrug: Six Things You Should Know About the Volkswagen Atlas Line

Volkswagen would have been one of the headliners at the 2018 New York International Auto Show with only the Atlas Cross Sport to unveil. But the story goes that VW brass were so taken with their design staff’s proposal for a pickup truck, that they added it as a surprise premiere at the brand’s press conference.

Though both Atlas family models are presented as concepts, there already are production plans for the VW Atlas Cross Sport. It will be added to VW Passat and Atlas production in the Chattanooga, Tennessee assembly plant in late 2019, which would make it a 2020 model. The VW Atlas Tanoak concept is not quite so far along. It’s a design study so far; Volkswagen will gauge public and press reaction, and will study sales projections and public clinic results and other data before the pickup gets the green light.

Volkswagen of America chief Hinrich J. Woebcken says both concepts are designed to be part of the company’s “Atlas Family.” Here’s how that young family is coming along, so far…

1. The Atlas Family fit into an MQB puzzle to fill capacity in a big factory. VW’s seven-year-old Chattanooga plant is set up to build a variety of models in the VW Group’s MQB architecture, which is a very flexible platform that will account for the largest share of the Group’s future products. The U.S.-spec VW Passat is not on MQB yet, but the next generation, expected in the 2020 model year, will be. The big three-row Atlas SUV is on MQB as well, as are the Golf, Jetta, and Tiguan. But the Chattanooga assembly plant’s capacity is 500,000, so there’s space for more than Atlas, Atlas Cross Sport, and Passat. Chattanooga also can build vehicles based on VW Group’s all-electric MEB platform, though that requires installation of a separate assembly line.

2. The VW Atlas Tanoak would stretch MQB to its limits. The Tanoak’s overall length of 214.1 inches would be MQB’s longest, by far. The pickup truck’s wheelbase is 11 inches longer than the Atlas, at 128.3 inches. It’s 79.9-inches wide and 72.6-inches tall. Some car and SUV factories do not have paint booths that can handle tall vehicles over a certain height, but VW says that’s not a problem for Chattanooga.

3. Tanoak’s slick concept truck features are production-ready, says the design chief. Surprise-and-delight features include the moveable cargo rail, a sort of large basket-handle that slides from inside the rear window frame toward the back of the bed, looking like a thin Dodge Daytona Charger-style rear wing. There’s also a compartment that opens in the rear bulkhead to make room for items too long for the 64.1-inch long bed, and wild geometric LED lights outside, and a horizontal LED line surrounding the front passenger compartment inside. All of this is producible, design chief Klaus Bischoff says—it’s a matter of how much he can get the production engineers to approve.

4. But what about the Atlas Cross Sport? That’s already on. The Atlas Cross Sport will ride on the same 117.3-inch wheelbase. The overall length is 7.5-inches shorter, at 190.8 inches. All of that comes out of the rear overhang, where the Atlas’ third row would be. With the new Tiguan filling the popular compact SUV slot in the VW lineup, the two-row Cross Sport is to the Atlas three-row what the Ford Edge is to the Explorer, or what the Nissan Murano is to the Pathfinder. But while VW says the Cross Sport will be priced at, or just below, the Atlas, younger buyers and empty nesters tend to load up the options and spend more on a two-row midsize than most families spend on a three-row midsize SUV.

5. Atlas engine lineups. That’s lineups, plural, because each Atlas Family model has something different. The VW Atlas three-row comes with your choice of 2.0-liter turbo I-4, or the venerable 3.6-liter VR6 V-6. VW showed the Atlas Cross Sport with a 3.6-liter V-6 plug-in hybrid with a 1.8-killowatt hour lithium-ion battery, and the company said a mild hybrid also would be added to the powertrain lineup; a hint that maybe the VR6 is about to get a 48-volt system. Though there was no mention of the 2.0-liter turbo, it’s hard to imagine it would be offered in the bigger three-row, and not in the Cross Sport. The Atlas Tanoak is said to have a 276-horsepower V-6, with eight-speed automatic and 4Motion all-wheel-drive. It seems unlikely it wouldn’t get a VR6 with 48 volts, and maybe a PHEV, though a 2.0-liter with front-wheel-drive might be more of a stretch.

6. And a prediction … Considering current U.S. Passat sales levels of about 60,000 per year, Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport sales might push total capacity utilization just past the halfway mark of 250,000. It will take far more than a large-midsize unibody pickup truck to make the rest. MEB production there can’t make up the difference, unless the U.S. and more likely California push up their electric vehicle incentives, or a large portion of the mainstream consuming public goes green, gasoline prices spike upward, or all of these happen. Chattanooga could become a large assembly plant of relatively niche models, which seems appropriate for Volkswagen. So I’ll make this future product prediction, with no backing from any VW insiders so far: The upcoming MQB Passat spawns an Alltrak-style wagon.

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Don’t Shrug: Six Things You Should Know About the Volkswagen Atlas Line

Volkswagen would have been one of the headliners at the 2018 New York International Auto Show with only the Atlas Cross Sport to unveil. But the story goes that VW brass were so taken with their design staff’s proposal for a pickup truck, that they added it as a surprise premiere at the brand’s press conference.

Though both Atlas family models are presented as concepts, there already are production plans for the VW Atlas Cross Sport. It will be added to VW Passat and Atlas production in the Chattanooga, Tennessee assembly plant in late 2019, which would make it a 2020 model. The VW Atlas Tanoak concept is not quite so far along. It’s a design study so far; Volkswagen will gauge public and press reaction, and will study sales projections and public clinic results and other data before the pickup gets the green light.

Volkswagen of America chief Hinrich J. Woebcken says both concepts are designed to be part of the company’s “Atlas Family.” Here’s how that young family is coming along, so far…

1. The Atlas Family fit into an MQB puzzle to fill capacity in a big factory. VW’s seven-year-old Chattanooga plant is set up to build a variety of models in the VW Group’s MQB architecture, which is a very flexible platform that will account for the largest share of the Group’s future products. The U.S.-spec VW Passat is not on MQB yet, but the next generation, expected in the 2020 model year, will be. The big three-row Atlas SUV is on MQB as well, as are the Golf, Jetta, and Tiguan. But the Chattanooga assembly plant’s capacity is 500,000, so there’s space for more than Atlas, Atlas Cross Sport, and Passat. Chattanooga also can build vehicles based on VW Group’s all-electric MEB platform, though that requires installation of a separate assembly line.

2. The VW Atlas Tanoak would stretch MQB to its limits. The Tanoak’s overall length of 214.1 inches would be MQB’s longest, by far. The pickup truck’s wheelbase is 11 inches longer than the Atlas, at 128.3 inches. It’s 79.9-inches wide and 72.6-inches tall. Some car and SUV factories do not have paint booths that can handle tall vehicles over a certain height, but VW says that’s not a problem for Chattanooga.

3. Tanoak’s slick concept truck features are production-ready, says the design chief. Surprise-and-delight features include the moveable cargo rail, a sort of large basket-handle that slides from inside the rear window frame toward the back of the bed, looking like a thin Dodge Daytona Charger-style rear wing. There’s also a compartment that opens in the rear bulkhead to make room for items too long for the 64.1-inch long bed, and wild geometric LED lights outside, and a horizontal LED line surrounding the front passenger compartment inside. All of this is producible, design chief Klaus Bischoff says—it’s a matter of how much he can get the production engineers to approve.

4. But what about the Atlas Cross Sport? That’s already on. The Atlas Cross Sport will ride on the same 117.3-inch wheelbase. The overall length is 7.5-inches shorter, at 190.8 inches. All of that comes out of the rear overhang, where the Atlas’ third row would be. With the new Tiguan filling the popular compact SUV slot in the VW lineup, the two-row Cross Sport is to the Atlas three-row what the Ford Edge is to the Explorer, or what the Nissan Murano is to the Pathfinder. But while VW says the Cross Sport will be priced at, or just below, the Atlas, younger buyers and empty nesters tend to load up the options and spend more on a two-row midsize than most families spend on a three-row midsize SUV.

5. Atlas engine lineups. That’s lineups, plural, because each Atlas Family model has something different. The VW Atlas three-row comes with your choice of 2.0-liter turbo I-4, or the venerable 3.6-liter VR6 V-6. VW showed the Atlas Cross Sport with a 3.6-liter V-6 plug-in hybrid with a 1.8-killowatt hour lithium-ion battery, and the company said a mild hybrid also would be added to the powertrain lineup; a hint that maybe the VR6 is about to get a 48-volt system. Though there was no mention of the 2.0-liter turbo, it’s hard to imagine it would be offered in the bigger three-row, and not in the Cross Sport. The Atlas Tanoak is said to have a 276-horsepower V-6, with eight-speed automatic and 4Motion all-wheel-drive. It seems unlikely it wouldn’t get a VR6 with 48 volts, and maybe a PHEV, though a 2.0-liter with front-wheel-drive might be more of a stretch.

6. And a prediction … Considering current U.S. Passat sales levels of about 60,000 per year, Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport sales might push total capacity utilization just past the halfway mark of 250,000. It will take far more than a large-midsize unibody pickup truck to make the rest. MEB production there can’t make up the difference, unless the U.S. and more likely California push up their electric vehicle incentives, or a large portion of the mainstream consuming public goes green, gasoline prices spike upward, or all of these happen. Chattanooga could become a large assembly plant of relatively niche models, which seems appropriate for Volkswagen. So I’ll make this future product prediction, with no backing from any VW insiders so far: The upcoming MQB Passat spawns an Alltrak-style wagon.

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