Fancy this 2022 Atlas for sale at Salt Lake City Motorcars in South Jordan, Utah? Of course you do. Listed with DuPont Registry, the asking price is $198,700, a sum that’s fearfully close to the $200,000 price tag of a new model. The tiny difference might be because this one has just 7 miles on the odometer, and today’s Atlas is the same as this three-year-old example.
The listing says the “price includes many premium options and standard features that makes this vehicle stand out,” without listing a single one of them. What we are told is that the go-anywhere black box weighs 4,850 pounds, gets 40 mpg, and can seat up to 12. Checking the Atlas USA site shows power comes from a Renault-sourced 1.5-liter diesel making 90 hp and 162 lb.-ft. of torque. Top speed on land is 38 mph, on water that drops to 5 mph.
If the form factor looks familiar, you might have been acquainted with the stubby-body-on-ginormous-tires form factor thanks to the Sherp. According to lore, a Russian designer penned the Sherp—perhaps inspired by a long line of Russian off-road monsters—a Ukrainian businessman bought the design and turned Sherp into a global business. Others followed, such as Atlas; also Ukrainian Argo, which is Sherp’s Canadian distributor that makes its own versions, like the Argo Sasquatch; and Fat Truck, from Canadian company Zeal Motor. Compared to the Sherp, the Atlas is a few feet longer but weighs a few hundred pounds less, can fit up to 12 people instead of the Sherp’s nine, employs hydrostatic steering with four-wheel steering instead of the Sherp’s skid-steer, has a five-speed manual transmission as opposed to the Sherp’s chain drive, can go 12 mph faster on land, and fits tires that are 5.5 feet in diameter instead of the Sherp’s 6-foot tires. Atlas also says its ATV is road-legal, but we have a feeling that only applies to roads in distant lands. And supposedly, the Atlas can climb a 45-degree incline and hit a maximum 42 degrees of tilt before tipping over. Those numbers are both 10 degrees greater than Sherp claims (or will admit to).
The Atlas is going for a carlike experience, the Sherp is all about simplicity. You can’t go wrong either way, from where we’re sitting, but feel free to let Salt Lake City Motorcars take a shot at convincing you.
Want to stay up to date on the latest UTV Driver news and reviews? Sign up for our weekly newsletter!
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/octane/EG5G2TRRWRHDJAZR2DEXFYFZHU.jpg)
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/octane/7LUCLTGHUVEN3C3N2JI3DPF24M.jpg)
