My VW Id.7 likes & dislikes after 3 weeks (3600km) 

The fact that you avoid click bait is more than enough reason to like and keep watching your videos. Awesome!

Thanks for the report. The ID.7 is a bit bigger than I'm used to, but I like it quite a bit. Love the back hatch. I'm waiting for VW to announce pricing in the U.S.

For me you have confirmed - the ID7 it the Volkswagen as it should be! Great review! :-) BTW: but I fell in love with ID2ALL :-) :-)

Glad you’re still happy. I’m happy with my Mach e too. Both have a few small issues but nothing serious. Just went through an arctic cold snap -41C with no problems. Just lucky I picked a home charger that could handle it too.

Thanks for your videos. You mentioned that you only use the backseat for your three dogs. We have two basset hounds and use the backseat for them in our ID.4. We put empty cardboard 12 bottle wine cases in the footwell area and cover the backseat and boxes to create an extra wide space for them. They love the extra wide seating. We have a net between the two front seats to keep them safely in the rear.

Oh man.. I can't wait till I have mine!

Great to hear confirmation that VW is on track finally. If you have the money and are in the market to buy, I don't think you can overlook Id7. If you need more towing capacity of course, but it has everything else. Model Y can be had cheaper, but then with less range (still enough for most people). They should make a version of Id7 to match that with LFP battery, and VW would be cooking!

It looks like it needs a good clean Chris tut tut, no excuses about the weather 😅

Love your way, keep on, greating from DK

Nice car and it looks like they did a good job with 4.0

Great video Chris. I thought at least one of your cameras was a GoPro which is totally waterproof definitely could handle some snow.

After 2 and a half months my new Bolt EV has close to 1800 miles on the odometer and I too am very happy with it. I call it my little Cadillac lol. Gr8 vid as usual. 🚙 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🔌

A very enjoyable review 👍

Danke!

Thx for a great video, however are you sure there will only be 340 ps in the GTX?

Wow 3600 in 3 weeks, that is a LOT, even by my standards . Would be nice to have jump marks in the video.

New favorite word: "Immensely" :)

It is a beautiful car with good specs.

I can’t wait to be able to order one 😸

Love your videos and all of the production you put into them. How is the rear wheel drive in the snowy weather? Did VW do a good job with stability control?

My dislikes about the software (3.0) : - the fact that you have to tap on ok each time you get in the car - the fact that it relaunches each time you leave the car (even for a few seconds) - laggy sometimes (essentially at start) but not always

I hope to see the same feedback also in tourer version....I wait it so much 😅

I test drove the ID.7 and the infotainment is very fast compared to the older VW EV's. The UX team still has a lot of work to do though. Compared to Polestar/Volvo it's so cluttered and messy. To many small "buttons" on the screen which makes it hard and unsafe to use when driving, unnecessary information and "cool design" that takes up a lot of space and the colours are made for kids. They really have to clean that up before I'd consider buying a VW EV.

Thank your for this vidéo! Did you test your battery capacity?

@Battery Life can you please test next time a couple of other annoying thing experienced in other videos of ID3/4s? - How is your door closing button working in the rain/snow? :) - stability and speed (lag) of android auto - ambient light set up? E.g. I was missing the option of having ambient light activated when parking but could not set it to disappear automatically during drive (only option is to disable it is manual). ambient light is extremely annoying during driving for me - Rear breaking light lamp/led bar fogging - is there a sunglass compartment (e.g. in Skodas)? Very useful - Induction charging: telephones getting very hot in a closed compartment in ID4, how is this solved in ID7 Thanks :)

Nice report. The estate/touring version of this would get much attention esp from those who wouldn't look at a sedan/saloon and vere towards SUVs. One question - would a recent iD3 be better than your old iD3 - with sw v4 on maybe better seats?

I have the travel assist on my ID.3, it is very good on straight roads and keeps me in lane but in turns it starts to go crazy also on turns if there is stationary traffic it doesn't see the cars and Everytime I get a big red warning to break.. Driving is of course awesome from VW Still 10 seconds is too much in the Tesla I get there in like 2 seconds or even less

Beautiful review,one of the best!

I presume the steering wheel is capacitive, same as the Megane E-Tech, not having to jerk the steering wheel to get it to register you are still there is so much more relaxing isn't it? When in traffic using assist, how long before you have to press a resume button/accelerate to move off again?

Question about the rear seat of the ID.7 - what is the headroom and legroom like?

Pleased you are liking your ID7 😁. Like you I really don't need a large car, I have a Cupra Born, which suits me fine. Just need VW to sort out their version 3.x software - do you think they ever will ?

Would be nice if you did a comparison between the 4 and the 7 - I’m a prospective buyer. ✌️

How is the connectivity between the car and android auto? In my id3 it is so very annoying that it won't connect if you start the car straight away.

Glad you are happy with ID7. Interesting what you say about the V4 software. As a friend of VW, do you have any information about when VW will launch a “proper” facelift for the ID3? My ID3 is fine but it needs that V4 software and lit controls.

Happy to note that they left away the small weird screen behind the wheel. I always found it cheap. Integration is way better now in the id7. Regarding software, I hope we will get 4.0 in the older iDs/Enyaqs (but quite pessimistic).

Can you explain please why you opted for one without a heat pump? Is it noisy or something?

Thanks for all of your videos on the ID.7. I think that it will do well in North America, except that the almost 1 year delay in launching it here will allow others to catch up. It appears that VW prioritized the launch in China and that didn't work out well. My guess is that they could have sold many more if they had prioritized a launch in NA. I probably will not wait another 9 months for the ID.7, but will likely go with Kia. That's too bad, as the ID.7 seems to be the perfect car for me.

That software was so bad, I decided not to buy an ID4 in 2021. I bought another ICE vehicle. a BMW X1. Now I'll take another look at the ID4 AWD but it's 10k more than a X1. Seems crazy imo but I'll check it out soon.

Not sure If Im digging the lower profile tires. You think this car could use aftermarket 17 inch wheels or smaller?

As a Passat GTE owner (who only uses Android Auto when navigating/as a media player), I'm curious about how you use "built-in"-navigation together with (?) Android Auto on Hank? Any comparisons or are you simply not using Android Auto for navigation?

3600 km in 3 weeks is quite a lot. I have double of that in a year lol.

Glad VW has figured some things out! Lovely car

Does it not bother you that the close button is on the left on the trunk door? In ID.4 it is on the right. Makes more sense to me as most people are right handed.

The biggest improvements (compared to 2021 ID.3 Max) seem to be the new infotainment system, new engine/aero (better range) and faster charging. It’s a shame that ID.3 facelift didn’t get the new infotainment or the new engine, and aero optimizations were minimal. Both ID.4/ID.5 2023 facelifts got the new infotainment and engine. I don’t need a big car either. If I would buy a new car right now, I would choose Volvo EX30 over VW cars. It has AWD too. Shame that ID.3 GTX never become a reality.

6:14 It's a shame that this will never come to older cars. A 3 year old car won't get real updates anymore and the ID.3 Facelift is already dead on arrival. This behaviour from VW is the main reason why my next car won't be from the VW group.

Voltwagen

This tech in a. ID.4 must be the ultimate car on the market imo.

I really like the car, but I NEED awd for my country, where no one is cleaning the roads in winter.

Rear drum brakes can go to negatives

ID.7 and ID.3 are still to expensive ones. I suppose that ID.7 fair price is almost same price as Model 3.

I love everything but price 😢

I still see that you need to press OK every time you start the car. That is very stupid detail from VW. Can you dig into why they force you to do that. Other brands don’t. It should be enough to confirm this once in the software.

Battery degradation is high on VW's atm But the car as a whole is the best they have made yet.

So two of your 3 likes are features that your id.3 also could have if you had bought it? Not much of a ID.7 review. You still have to click OK on every entry… Great to hear that v4.x is better, previous ID owners is now left in The Dark. My BMW i4 is two years Old and have a better charging curve. I would have expected VW to deliver better in a completely new car. The question i dont get answered anywhere: Does The ID.7 have preheating of The battery to fast charging? All The IDs have The hardware, but it cant preheat The battery.

To slow man you need to install a new engine ...