Buy This 2022 Atlas ATV and Dominate Marsh, Bog, and Tundra

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.

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