2024 Volkswagen Atlas Towing Capacity

What’s the most important thing to you and your family in your next vehicle? What are the features you know you can’t live without? Is anything missing from that list that might be worth considering? For more and more families and individual adventurers, an SUV with a good towing capacity is a must-have. The 2024 Volkswagen Atlas combines the comfort, space, and safety you need in an everyday vehicle with the capacity and capability to travel and adventure your way.

Our Volkswagen of Marion team looks at why towing capacity is something to consider when choosing your next vehicle and why the Volkswagen Atlas is a great all-around SUV for work, school, and play. Read on for feedback from our team, drivers, and top car magazines on why this might be the best SUV with towing capacity you haven’t considered…yet.

Driving Your Best Life

A car is an important investment, and a spacious SUV with sufficient towing capacity for all your adventures can enhance your life in many unexpected ways. Perhaps that’s something you’re looking for now – or maybe it isn’t something you need right now, but as you look out over the life of your next best vehicle, you imagine it might be something that you and your family would like to have in your future. Even if you haven’t owned a vehicle with towing capacity yet, choosing the 2024 Volkswagen Atlas ensures that when you’re ready to take your boat or camper on your next excursion, your car will be too. If you’re wondering how much can the 2024 Volkswagen Atlas tow, let’s investigate.

Adventure Awaits

If you have – or plan to own – a canoe, fishing boat, pop-up camper, or utility trailer you want to bring on your next vacation or weekend adventure near Marion, you’ll want to be ready with a vehicle with the towing capacity to handle it.

Perhaps you’ve considered a Volkswagen an ideal option for all your family’s day-to-day transportation needs but haven’t thought about how much it can tow. That may be about to change with the redesigned 2024 Volkswagen Atlas.

The Volkswagen Atlas is a spacious, comfortable family SUV with a powerful towing capacity. In fact, its towing capacity of 5,000 pounds matches both the Toyota 4Runner and Subaru Ascent.

Plus the spacious Atlas seats seven – even seven adults, with its generous second and third-row seating. There’s room for everything you and your passengers want to carry, too.  The 2024 Volkswagen Atlas earned standout remarks in Car and Driver’s luggage testing “by fitting four carry-on suitcases behind the third row and 38 behind the first, same as the enormous Honda Pilot.”

The Best Towing SUV You Haven’t Driven Yet

Along with its 5,000-pound towing capacity, the 2024 Volkswagen Atlas also offers a new, turbocharged, four-cylinder engine that produces 269 horsepower and 273 lb-ft of torque. Yes, that’s right, a four-cylinder – but a powerful one. Even cars.com calls the new turbo engine “a more premium offering in refinement and power delivery than both the outgoing four-and six-cylinder…”

And with Volkswagen’s 4MOTION with Active Control, you gain that added power without sacrificing the control you want on the road. Whether you’re heading to a campground near Marion or driving to school on rainy or icy roads, with Volkswagen’s 4MOTION with Active Control, you can change the all-wheel-drive mode from the touch screen.

The Stylish 2024 Volkswagen Atlas’ Interior and Exterior Features

The engine isn’t the only difference with the new model lineup. The 2024 Volkswagen Atlas is better than ever in other ways, too. It has a refreshed, modernized design and comes standard with many infotainment and safety features your entire family will love.

The upgraded materials and leatherette trim bring the interior to a new level. The updated exterior features new headlights and a new wheel design. Of course, it’s still as spacious and family-friendly as ever.

You can also rest easy knowing that, along with looking good while you drive around Marion, your family will be safe along the way. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gives the new Volkswagen Atlas a five-star overall safety rating.

Optimized Connection Technology

The expanded technology, connection, and entertainment offerings will surely please the entire family on short drives and long hauls. The Atlas includes a standard digital instrument panel and 12-inch touch screen and outdoes some competitors with its standard connection features.

“As far as phone integration, VW does it right with standard wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, as well as standard wireless phone charging; not all automakers offer both (most notably Kia and Hyundai), and to get the maximum tether-free benefit, you need the whole kit and caboodle,” according to cars.com. They go on to note that in order to match these highly-desirable features that come standard on the Atlas, on many other vehicles you may need to step up to a pricier trim level or add an optional package.

And that’s not all when it comes to impressive standard features. Other features include a heated steering wheel with shift paddles, heated and ventilated front seats, a height-adjustable passenger seat, and KESSY keyless access with push-button start. Also standard are the Volkswagen Digital Cockpit Pro and IQ.DRIVE drive-assist and safety technology. IQ.DRIVE includes blind-spot monitoring, forward collision warning with automatic emergency braking, rear traffic alert, and lane centering and uses adaptive cruise control for long-distance driving.

The SEL Premium R-Line adds an overhead area view parking camera, another feature that, like towing, you’ve probably never thought you needed but won’t be able to live without.

Towing in Your Future

Whether towing capacity is already a must for you or something you haven’t considered but might want to have available in the future, why not consider a great vehicle with it for when you need it? Stop in for a test drive at Volkswagen of Marion and find out what a great SUV with towing capacity can make available for you and your family.