
The 2020 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport is how America likes its hatchbacks
It turns out the US buyer will embrace the hatch as long as you supersize it first. …

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They say America doesn’t like the hatchback, but what is a VW Atlas Cross Sport but a VW hatchback at 1.16 magnification?Jonathan Gitlin
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Do you remember the TV show Eureka? I do, and we came across what must have been one of its prop vehicles when my codriver and I stopped to take photos at a boat yard just north of Vancouver.Jonathan Gitlin
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People call cars as large as this one “boats,” but I took this photo to show that, as large as the Atlas Cross Sport is, it’s still smaller than an actual boat.Jonathan Gitlin
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Those brushed aluminum bits that look like exhaust pipes aren’t actually exhaust pipes.Jonathan Gitlin
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The interior of the Atlas Cross Sport I drove was dark, like this one.
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But it also apparently comes in other shades and tones.
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This is where SUVs return to the water before spawning season. Later in the year, you may see little hatchbacks leaping upriver and trying to avoid bears.Jonathan Gitlin
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I wonder how much trouble we’d have gotten in if we’d accidentally driven this Atlas Cross Sport into the water?Jonathan Gitlin