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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Life with a Volkswagen ID Buzz: Month 4
Colder temps bring longer waits... - 7 February
I downloaded the Volkswagen phone app during the recent cold snap so I could preheat the Buzz’s cabin and battery to preserve its range and the feeling in my extremities. But the app told me to register a new user on the car’s infotainment, which doesn’t seem to have the option to do so, so I’m typing this update (slowly, with numb fingers) while I wait for the windscreen to clear.
Mileage: 6255
Life with a Volkswagen ID Buzz: Month 3
It's over to our Staff Writer for a Cornish holiday, and a California comparison - 24 January
Knowing I was spending Christmas and New Year down on the Cornish coast, I leapt at the chance to grab the keys to the ID Buzz. What better place to take the spiritual successor to the classic Volkswagen camper van?
Yes, it has been done before (by this car's keeper last January, no less, but this would be different as I would be taking the Buzz for an extended period, with the family and a dog and much deeper into Cornwall, far away from the tourist hot spot of Newquay.
It also just so happened that my parents were already there and had travelled down in their 2016 Volkswagen California Ocean, so there was an opportunity for an impromptu comparison test.
According to Zap-Map, there are 408 publicly accessible EV chargers in Cornwall, many of them found on the A30 - the main road in and out of the county. Others are dotted around the larger towns, some of which would be around 30 miles away from where we would be staying: Lizard, England's southernmost settlement.
The Buzz proved to be an extremely comfortable travel companion on my 315-mile trek there - even at 4am - and carried my festive cargo with room to spare.
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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?