Mapping the Atlas in a VW Touareg 30 | 12 | 2018

“YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF on very slippery dusty and loose gravel tracks not much wider than the car, and from the driver’s seat you’ll be staring down into ravines of up to 1500-feet deep,” the offroad expert from Volkswagen smiled. “This isn’t for the faint-hearted.”

And he wasn’t kidding, writes Jim McGill. A few hours later, deep into the day’s driving in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains — which stand like an impenetrable barrier south of Marrakech — from my driver’s seat in the latest Touareg, I was indeed peering down into the depths of a deep, black gorge with the valley floor almost 2000ft below me.

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