Why we’re running it: Volkswagen is looking to repeat the glory days with a massive family EV, but is it as easy to love as a bug?
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It feels at home almost anywhere – except perhaps a 1960s multi-storey car park - 3 March
I recently arrived at a launch in Somerset, where I was met by a journalist from another motoring title who wondered aloud, in good humour, whether there might be anyone on the Autocar team who had less of a need for a car like the ID Buzz.
Fair point, I replied, but the fact of the matter is that - perhaps against the odds - this massive family EV is actually suiting me right down to the ground.
My learned contemporary's argument was founded on three crucial facts: I live in cramped, snarled-up suburban London, I don't have children and I have no ability to charge an EV at home.
Perhaps a diddy urban runaround would be more up my street, or - considering that I often find myself covering large swathes of ground at short notice - something that turns liquid into fumes and forward momentum.
But while the Buzz is far from the longest-legged or most efficient EV I've lived with, it's returning some impressive economy figures often outperforming the much smaller and lighter Ora Funky Cat that I ran before.
It managed a scarcely believable 4.2mpkWh on a stop-start commute through west London the other day, although that was a distance of less than five miles at an average of 16mph.
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The appealing looks come from the 1,800 paint job, and its 'smile'. The sides are dull, the rear, rather ungainly. The inside is too minamilist. Surely by now car makers have realised the mistake in not giving us buttons?
And its nearly 70K!!!
I have seen 1 on the road. If it were 40k i imagine they would sell. But as it isnt, they are going to be very rare sight
Nearly 70k, get the versions that's nearly 60k then.
Why doesn't it have three individual seats in the second row like a proper MPV?