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QOTD: What Do You Want to Know About The 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz?

I just spent the morning driving the 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz around San Francisco and Marin County. I can't yet tell you about how it drives -- check back next week -- but I have a bit more time with VW internals before I leave and can get some questions answered for you.

So, what do you want to know?

Tim Healey Oct 16, 2024

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Jeff GM up until the recent few decades hired artists as their designers one of the few major car companies to do so. Look at the 63 Buick Rivera, 63 Pontiac Grand Prix, 66 Olds Toronado and the 67 Cadillac Eldorado just a few examples of cars designed by artistically trained designers and among the most beautiful cars ever designed. Not against using AI to design vehicles but I hate to see any human input in design completely go away. A vehicle not only should be practical, functional, and reliable but it should have looks that appeal to buyers. Someone is going to bring up Toyota and Honda not having the most appealing designs with their vehicles popular and selling well and that consumers don't care about the looks of a vehicle. I still believe many do care. I understand the cost savings and bringing a new vehicle to market faster but I still want to have a human in charge of design and human input into the design of vehicles.
NJRide What are average development costs now? I know GM 10 cost 7 billion in 80s and the Ford Contour 6 billion in 90s
NJRide I admire Walter Chrysler's ideas but the business case is narrow, Americans have mostly dropped their opposition to buying foreign brands, in 2023 foreign and US brands built same number of cars in US. The Detroit 3 are down to 38 percent of the market, and Tesla is already commanding a higher market share than AMC did for most of its life, and is at half of Stellantis' level. Moreover, the Chrysler divisions have been mostly foreign owned for over 25 years so the heritage argument is muddled at best. And basically we are going to a market where an electrified crossover as the dominant product. Maybe someone can make sedans great again and Chrysler did have very good products with the initial LH/LX but they had not been strong in lower segments for quite some time. Chrysler's 1990s strengths were minivans and Jeeps, the former I just do not see re-growing significantly. This is the challenge for Chrysler and Dodge with or without Stellantis.
Eliyahu Its utility. Its software. Its batteries. Marie Kando's take on it (does it bring joy?) Production plans. Let's dive a little deeper into the reporting (budget permitting.)
Carson D I wanted one of these when the VR6 replaced the G60 engine. I liked everything about it except for the mouse operated seatbelts. Then AutoWeek had one for an extended test, which may have only been 12 months. They basically described it as loosening up to the point that it felt used up in what wouldn't even pass for an oil change interval today. I decided to stick with BMWs until every model was better than the next.

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