Volkswagen ID pre orders open May 8th
Discussion
mids said:
and driving footage : https://youtu.be/kwwieUvmEUA
Thanks but a useless pr video. Who wants to tap a haptic button in .5 degree increments. I would hope you can tell it what temperature you want. The interior is poor imo.
kuro68k said:
They will probably wait on the UK price because it might shoot up a lot if there is a no-deal brexit. Don't want to tie themselves in to a price and then realize they have to pay tariffs and deal with a crashing Pound eating up all their profits.
If they could have fixed a price, I’d have probably left my deposit on. But as you suggest, it would be madness to quote a price now and then find that post-Brexit exchange rates leave them making a huge loss on the UK ones. Worse would be to find the price is fixed, but mysterious “surcharges” appear at time of actual purchase. I think I’ve seen some posts on Porsche threads suggesting Porsche were adding additional charges to cover exchange rate losses since price lists were announce some time ago??I've just seen that the ID 3 has a centre airbag between the front seats, for side impacts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myjbHyGW1tE&fe...
untruth said:
It's exceedingly unlikely I will follow through (or be able to afford to follow through), but I kept my preorder in case of a financial breakthrough. But... the communication has been appalling. Really, really bad.
Same here. It's a disappointing launch for me. And the interior quality is reported to be not as good as a Golf.MagicalTrevor said:
untruth said:
It's exceedingly unlikely I will follow through (or be able to afford to follow through), but I kept my preorder in case of a financial breakthrough. But... the communication has been appalling. Really, really bad.
Same here. It's a disappointing launch for me. And the interior quality is reported to be not as good as a Golf.The real downer on it is that it is a premium priced vehicle with seemingly no noticeably premium element to the launch specification... and by the time you've added all that you've spent a small fortune.
I have a feeling that anything except the high range will depreciate like crazy. The high range cars might really hold their value like a GTI Golf can... because they will be seen as the ultimate utility car that isn't a Tesla. But will the low range will get superseded so quickly by other competing cars with better range, or faster charging, and not be unique enough to hold value?
I have a feeling that anything except the high range will depreciate like crazy. The high range cars might really hold their value like a GTI Golf can... because they will be seen as the ultimate utility car that isn't a Tesla. But will the low range will get superseded so quickly by other competing cars with better range, or faster charging, and not be unique enough to hold value?
untruth said:
The real downer on it is that it is a premium priced vehicle with seemingly no noticeably premium element to the launch specification... and by the time you've added all that you've spent a small fortune.
I have a feeling that anything except the high range will depreciate like crazy. The high range cars might really hold their value like a GTI Golf can... because they will be seen as the ultimate utility car that isn't a Tesla. But will the low range will get superseded so quickly by other competing cars with better range, or faster charging, and not be unique enough to hold value?
It doesn't really matter as most will lease or PCP, and get a newer one 3 years later. That's VW's business model.I have a feeling that anything except the high range will depreciate like crazy. The high range cars might really hold their value like a GTI Golf can... because they will be seen as the ultimate utility car that isn't a Tesla. But will the low range will get superseded so quickly by other competing cars with better range, or faster charging, and not be unique enough to hold value?
untruth said:
LG9k said:
It doesn't really matter as most will lease or PCP, and get a newer one 3 years later. That's VW's business model.
Quite - I think that sums it up - they are most definitely 'consumable' cars. So, look out for good lease deals soon!https://youtu.be/eRT8SXntrRE
Bob Flavin covers ID 3 cost and financing in Ireland.
Summary is:
€40k for the base, and the example the gave was a 10% deposit, 36 x €409 and then 50 % final value to get out at the end.
Not sure how that will translate to U.K. they gave an example next to “equivalent” Golf 1.0TSI and it comes out cheaper overall in a total cost of ownership sense.
Bob Flavin covers ID 3 cost and financing in Ireland.
Summary is:
€40k for the base, and the example the gave was a 10% deposit, 36 x €409 and then 50 % final value to get out at the end.
Not sure how that will translate to U.K. they gave an example next to “equivalent” Golf 1.0TSI and it comes out cheaper overall in a total cost of ownership sense.
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