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2018 VW Atlas 3-row Crossover Debuts


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Their interiors don't have artistic flourishes seen on a lot of vehicles today. I don't want to say "simple", but I would not say cheap either. Perhaps function over form.

Dare we say it's "Germanic"?

 

Definitely function over style but there is something to be said about that.

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Perhaps function over form.

 

Well, based on their cupholders and other fiddly bits made out of lots of pieces of very breakable plastic*, I would say 'unnecessary engineering over function over form'

 

Like these cupholders, for instance.

 

I would bet you dollars to donuts those little grips, which are single pieces of soft rubber on most Japanese/domestic cars are actually little plastic caps over springs on this car.

 

Or maybe they're even little rollers on spring-loaded axles!

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VW puts nicer interiors in the same cars in Germany. Germans seeing a VW in the US are often completely confused by the lack of quality.

 

I like some of the VW vehicles, especially their willingness to bring more euro style vehicles to the US, but overall am not impressed with their offerings. When they have competition, it seems like most of the other offerings execute better. That said, I had a Golf as a rental in Spain that had a much nicer interior than the US Golf - and it was a lower model. I wouldn't say the car was a joy to drive though since it had been in a major accident before me and I think the location was just trying to dump it on another location, since it was a one way rental.

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Very conservative and very Grand Cherokee-ish but that's not a bad thing. I don't particularly like VW interiors but I don't see them as cheap.

 

 

Their interiors don't have artistic flourishes seen on a lot of vehicles today. I don't want to say "simple", but I would not say cheap either. Perhaps function over form.

 

Perhaps "sterile" is a better word? Not to say I don't like a simple interior design......I much prefer something like the Edge or Continental or Navigator (concept) "clean" look to overstyled Focus and Escape dashes.....but there's something about the latest VW interiors that just look phoned in or something. Maybe my view has been biased after driving in the current Jetta, which featured hard plastics everywhere.

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My 2 cents: I'm not a fan of the name because it makes it sound too big and excessive. The exterior is IMO typical VW: Conservative and plain but somewhat handsome. I am worried the size might be too much. Interior: The word I'm looking for is Spartan. If it's like the Tiguan my friends have it has the hard durable plastics and the soft touch plastics in the right places where it counts but not much more. Will it work? At least it isn't a Cry-Co minivan in disguise.

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Looks like they took parts from wrecked late model SUV's and put them together, but made sure it's not too expensive.

Someone on another site said "can't do wrong selling a GENERIC_SUV in today's market".

 

But like in the early 70's when lone commuters drove 6 passenger full size cars to work, same thing today. 3 row seat SUV's with one driver, because "they wanted one" i.e. "want to fit in with what everybody has".

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But like in the early 70's when lone commuters drove 6 passenger full size cars to work, same thing today. 3 row seat SUV's with one driver, because "they wanted one" i.e. "want to fit in with what everybody has".

 

Yeah, because nobody that commutes to work alone has a family to haul around when they aren't commuting.

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