If Rolex is an Audi for watches, Tudor is Volkswagen, the so -called brand of people. Single, practical and surprising at times, but it is rarely in reality lust after. This was the Volkswagen problem for a better part than two decades. Certainly, they made reliable cars. But exciting? ambitious? Not since Kombi and the original GOLF GTI moments in the sun.
For years, the Volkswagen badge meant safe, realistic and inspiring: vanilla SUV, beige abundance, and a Komby ghost wearing corporate clothes. You cannot pay me to lead one; People have tried.
But today in Bondi, something has changed.
She was parked near VRTUS boys, like her had been transferred to the time of a better future, a car that made me stop SIP in the middle of the powers: the Volkswagen ID.Buzz. Fully electrician, retroactive, dipped in a two -colored color system that screams a journey on the road and oat milk networks. It generates a compian – and for once, VW has already named it.
I saw for the first time earlier this year in Geneva during hours and wonders. She was stalled with confidence outside the introduction to Novotel Central as if she had not had the idea that she was in Switzerland. It looked like a wrong turn on the Pacific coast road and ended up in the Swiss Alps. However, although it was specifically for California or Peron, I have not yet monitored it in the streets of Australian. Success, I tell you.
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Id.buzz is not just kombi regards. This would have become Kombi if designed by someone who used iPhone. The front is fun and similar, the traps is short, and the badge is huge (as it should). It looks like a back Pixar character, in a good way.
The design language transmits the spirit of origin Type 2 microbus But nostalgia goes out to nostalgia. It is modern, clean and clean, does not take itself seriously. Finally, a fun car that does not look like was cooked in a German Accounting Office.
Built on the MEB platform in Volkswagen
ID.Buzz sits on VW’s standard electrical driving matrix, MEB platformCommon with ID.3 and ID.4. This means that it is the rear wheel drive, just like Og Kombi. At launch, it comes with one electric motor installed on the background that provides 150 kW and 310 nm of torque, and withdraws energy from a 77 kW battery.
It ranges? About 423 km (WLTP) if you are driving like a normal person. And with fast charging DC, you can get 5 to 80 percent in slightly more than half an hour. Translation: It is not just a beautiful face.
Space for several days, technology to suit
Inside, it is all about flexibility and good feelings. Flat floors, sliding rear seats, composition 5 seats resemble the hall room more than the truck. A long -norm version with 7 seats already offered for sale in Europe, and it is likely to come to Australia soon.
There is a 10 -inch touch screen that works on the latest information and entertainment for VW (still is not perfect, but improves), wireless play, all usual EV games, excessive air updates, and access to the application’s dimension. The removable central control unit in the Buzz box is a useful and useful touch. Even the surrounding lighting feels fun, not forced.
Why did they not do this ten years ago
This is the real scratch. The following Kombi worship was begging for modern re -interpretation for years. Instead of tending to that energy, Volkswagen Tiguan beige gave us after Big Tiguan. ID.Buzz gives fans and buyers finally what they were waiting for a personality. Not just another badge engine.
It is the most likely universal Volkswagen since the first Golf GTI. Electricity, practical and really cold. Now they need to pricing it reasonably in Australia, although we are honest, this is likely like Kombi outperform Tesla.
Even if you are a sarcastic son (gay) it will not be caught in a car, the identifier forces you to reconsider. It is the first new Volkswagen in twenty years and does not feel that she apologizes for something. It’s the first brand in the modern memory that made me say loudly, I want a car.
Just do not expect me to wear cannabis pants and start the Kombucha tag.
