Volkswagen ID.Buzz

[Madman]

Volkswagen of America says US dealer allocations of the ID.Buzz will be determined by how many ID.4 EVs each of their dealers have sold.

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/news-blog/volkswagen-id-buzz-dealer-allocations-will-be-based-around-id-4-sales-44509525


So that means nobody will be getting them? 


If this wasn't an EV, this thing would have Boomer-bait written all over it.  But the boomers will walk out of the showrooms, shaking their heads, once they discover they can't get one with a proper engine.  Unfortunately for Volkswagen, nobody else will even be interested.  It appears VW never got the memo that retro is over and they are 20 years too late to the party which, ironically, they started in the first place with the New Beetle.

I predict this will be lot poison for VW dealers, just like the ID.4.  Put a 2.0 Turbo or a VR6 into it and they just might sell a few to the 70-plus crowd.  But no one under retirement age will want to be caught dead in one.

[veeman]

Starts at $61,545 for RWD.  At least $65 to $70 grand for AWD.  230 mile range.

Yeah I don't see many takers.

[veeman]

I remember as a 10 year old in the early '80s going to California with my family for a month because my Dad was on a sabbatical there. One of his colleagues he met there had done the same thing with his family and had driven to California from Ontario, Canada in a beat up old manual transmission VW Microbus. It had stickers all over it from all the places they had taken that Microbus. We became friends with their family and I would get driven in their Microbus around town a few times.

I would love this new VW EV because I thought the old VW Microbus was cool and this looks cool too. But the old one was cool not because it was luxurious. It was spartan inside. It had a hippie vibe and a small footprint for the amount of space it had. 

VW shouldn't have tried to make this a luxury car and instead keep the price as low as possible. 

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

Starts at $61,545 for RWD.  At least $65 to $70 grand for AWD.  230 mile range.

Yeah I don't see many takers.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Oh, another dead-on-arrival overpriced quirky retro thing.

[Morris Minor]

VW is doing a very good imitation of a company that is going under. Allocating these things to those dealers who are best at conning people into buying the ID4 turd is a marker for the company's decline.

[FoMoJo]

No self-respecting boomer would be caught dead in something that looked like that.

[AutobahnSHO]

I think it looks cool, but the original sold because it was functional and cheap. This is neither.