Here’s Your First Look At The New VW I.D. SUV Concept
For better or worse, VW is now really pushing its electric vehicle agenda. The e-Up and recently updated e-Golf are already available buy, and now there’s a new member of the futuristic ‘I.D.’ concept family.
Following the I.D. and I.D. Buzz, we now have an as-yet unnamed coupe-ish SUV EV. VW is teasing it ahead of its Shanghai Motor Show debut, revealing only that - like previous I.D. concepts - it’ll go autonomous at the touch of a button, with the steering wheel retracting into the dashboard.
The point of all this? According to VW, it’s all about “advancing electric drive vehicles from the status of a start-up niche to large-scale production models by the middle of the next decade in a worldwide product offensive”. in other words, in about 10 year’s time, a huge chunk of VW’s product range will be electric.
Let’s just hope we can hang on to the Golf GTI for a little longer…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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it it then slowly revealed in weekly videos that tell vague information in a totaly original idea
Like what happened recently…
cough supercharger whine cough
You couldn’t tell it was an SUV from the pictures, says something about modern SUVs…
Looks ELECTRIFYING…
I’ll show myself out…
What’s the point of retracting the steering wheel? You can’t take control if something goes wrong.
That’s just the typical concept car chic. There is no way Volkswagen can make a retractable steering wheel legal, not even with all their lobbying.
A zero Emisions VW the world is coming to an nd
Well, they say it’s zero emissions. But I bet its default road mode will be “Roll Coal”.
Put the Audi badge on the back of it and you’ve got 2 new cars
Put a Skoda badge on it and you have three new cars
Put a SEAT badge on it and you have four new cars
Put a Porsche badge on it and you have five new cars
Another junky EV that will never be made
Life after dieselgate-go to using 20 teaser trailers.
That is a nice car! (Without VW’s recommended emissions) xD
That’s a nice Renault
Megane :o