The 2021 Volkswagen ID4 Is a New Fully Electric $40,000 Crossover 

Yes!! I noticed the same thing. I wonder how long the steering wheel will keep looking clean

Its an option

You can get it also in Black 🤷‍♂️

You can also get it in Black.

Reminds me of the white bar tape on my road bike. Its all black and grey now by the way.

A joystick

Well F1 and gt3 cars have basically joysticks for steering wheels

Nah, you just long press it annnnnnd you're in the ditch

Nah man, control by hand gestures is the future 😂

@@paveantelic7876 They still have steering wheels

Doug's review is very unbiased. However, just like Doug said on one of his clip, he gives higher score to sports cars. So his reviews are very good but his scoring is a bit biased.

If people doubt that Germans lack a sense of humor have yet to see the German Forklift training video. Search for it. :)

@@ravencrestmedia I am german and Doug is spot on :) We say here: "Wir gehen zum Lachen in den Keller" we have a different kind of humour, not so obvious

@@bavariancarenthusiast2722 „Der geht zum Lachen in den Keller“ ist negativ gemeint, an eine humorlose Person gerichtet.

@@ravencrestmedia Good old Klaus. He meant well!

Marques Brownlee reviewed the Mercedes-Benz EQS and told the car to tell him a joke. The car said: “Sorry, my engineers were German”

THIS .... would have been a very ungerman joke. I should know, I'm German.

@@VolkerHett Deutsche Witze sind ganz wunderbar

😂 The electric gate

4 years later the steering wheel is black

@@peytonstw just like the pollution from their fake electric engimes

@@superior7387 lmaooo

A quite W12

I returned a test car after 24h and a 100 miles just yesterday. Very impressed with the tech, particularly the smart headlights (which U don’t get in US) and the Augmented HUD. Speach recognition worked surprisingly well even in my native Polish. This is quite an achievement as even Siri still does not speak this language.

one touch on the field with two fingers, where you adjust the temperature, and the Seatheater is on...

OMG, YES!

Perfect analogy. Looks like they took lessons from Acura :)

And as I went on my evening meal break - I swear Doug is discriminating against me by not dropping videos in the UK as early as he does in the US. 🤣

No way homie me too🤘🏻

Every Tuesday and Thursday at the exact same time😉

Same here lmao

Lunch gang

Infotainment systems were always 10 years behind in VWs. For example bluetooth was starting to be pretty common in cars and for vw to have it as standard you had to wait circa 5 to 10 years longer + the first headunits that got it were unreasonably expensive. Hope they will have a better hw and sw team dedicated to this and it changes for the better. Its unacceptable for this time we live in.

@@regular_goof US spec is not the same as the one in EU. In US VW, Audi use engines that are 10 years old in EU. I can confirm with my Audi. Why? Because in US competition is non-existent. Just use old stuff from EU and make money. Easy money.

@@giacomu1 Because US doesn't has the same regulations we do

if running v2.1 software release the bugs are resolved

@@regular_goof My 2010 Golf TDI had a 6.5 inch touchscreen and Bluetooth as standard. I'm not sure how many cars had Bluetooth as standard 5-10 year before that.

Too soon!

Wow, good one!

I see what you did there

Except that the ID4 is made in Tennessee and not Germany lol

Well, damn! User... I can't control the weather! Lol

And it will only take you twice as long to travel anywhere.

@@KeweenawPatriot How often do most people drive more than 200 miles at a time?

@@aribloch right. For average day to day this car is almost perfect.

@@ritawant3189 wtf is wrong with you bro

@@Demobot1 A day to day car is the one you fill up and forget till you get a fuel low or service warning. Hence Toyota sells a lot of them. Its not that hard to understand. I'm really getting tired of you electric folks.

My Xbox 1 S's UI. loll

You know it brother, Online is literally unplayable!

Yeah and pretty sure that's due to low specs on the processor running the screen, I doubt a software update can solve it.

@@KriLL325783 cpu aint worth shit once you in the car industry prices. 146% its software issue

@@Brianz99😂😂 it's really that bad??

How much was it after federal tax credits? Did you get the AWD version?

@@louisvilleslugger6806 it's not available yet in the united states as far as I know ,but in dubai/middle east hongkong/china and eu it's really quite affordable 35k if your getting the Crozz model which's the tip top ,and then you have the id5 the cross over version similar to the porsche cayenne and bmw x6 and finally the id6 if you're looking for a large suv similar to chevys and gmc Yukon

@@khalidalotaibi8761 ...it's avaliable in the states

Underrated comment

@@theboogeyman5736 came to type this.

Damn, you got there first

He is

😂😂😂

You ain't funny

@@AngelValdovinos Your comment isn't necessary or funny.

not funny

😅👍

@Xavier likes Technology As a non German I agree with you.

The German joke goes like this: Was essen Elektroautos am liebsten? - Parkplätzchen! 🤣

German comedy is no laughing matter.

Here's a proper German joke: How many Germans does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, because they are efficient and have no sense of humour.

@@wermagst Germans have long since replaced inferior light bulbs with ze highly efficient and long lasting LEDs. 😅

He's lying every time. Everybody knows that Doug is two small children standing on each other's shoulders pretending to be an adult.

Rest of the world: ???????

Doug only knows his height in metric and can't do math.

He's 6'2 with only one t-shirt, and 6'3+ with multiple shirts, worn over each other. Pants would add +2 inches but this a purely short-pants program.

@@seanbrewer1232 exactly

EXACTLY ! give it 9 hour charging time and very short battery life :D

While we're at it, let's make the things used the most *white*

@@arctus4272 God, I love stains.

@@Dagreatdudeman I know right, I'd love to see my steering wheel full of black handprints

Great insight!

Nice one ill yeĺl play over the autobahn

Help i think my cat is broken it doesnt pause when I tell it to?

@@schnuffelpuff3923 Try getting a dog

This is what Germans think humor is

It's not "new" anymore, it's 1 year old.

I'm stonished by the intuitiveness of that feature /sarcasm/

When you have silent but deadly fart and realize the heated seats or on trying to figure out if you cut the red wire or the blue wire🥵🥶

Front trunk could be a factor

The Model Y is also a lot more practical to take on a road trip (325 mile range vs 250 miles and 250kW charging vs 100kW) and actually has more cargo volume and rear legroom than the ID.4.

@@ohutchie the cheap model y has 150kW max. But the important thing is 0-80% time and consumption imo.

@@buzzdee6683 Yes, but the Model Y he reviewed was the Performance.

@@ohutchie But the ID.4 does 125 kW while the Y hits some marketing number and goes down down down so charging times will be not much different in the end, only VW will have 3 years free energy at EA.

You are a nobody

It helps with aerodynamics and therefore improves the electric range u knowwww cos less drag👨‍🎓👨‍🏫 Thank u for coming to my TED talk🤓

true but Tesla can pull off cars that appear handless pretty well in my opinion

I wish people , especially the lawmakers would see the staggering amount of benefits to using liquid hydrogen rather than pure electricity. It would cost a lot of money for the infrastructure to be put in place but I think it would be very worth it!

@@vish6351 Uhh go look at most of the door handles in the 90s a lot of cars had flush door handles and they worked fine

What did you want it to say, “eject”?

@@619guy202 it doesn’t have an engine

@@nickmorrison5856 that's why you don't have to use it :)

It's hard to hit the

Parts bin....

I didn't get a 100k button for my channel so this would be a crappy consolation prize 😕😫

@@eddieg28sp I honestly got mine after I opened up a customer service chat with Google I told him what I wanted they said hold on one second let me verify you it was in the mail the next week

Thanks, I hate it

@@eddieg28sp you need to redeem it, if you still dont you can order a new one on society awards

I think it is a really cute idea and surprised nobody has done it before. Shows VW's playful side. I really hope we see an ID.3 GTi equivalent. Surprised there hasn't been a Small-EV-Big-Motor "hot hatch" EV yet, but you know it's coming.

all the forks and creatures

Thank you for your comment, Tim 🌈

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Priorities, priorities!

this comment deserves more likes

to be fair not even the emission cheat software was developed by VW. They let Bosch develop it for them

Why do people think emission scandal is only exclusive to Volkswagen? Other car manufacturers had emission scandal long before Volkswagen, yet you people think emission scandal is only exclusive to Volkswagen. I swear everyone on RU-vid are against Volkswagen and hate when people drive them, they even wish death on people for owning a Volkswagen. I bet when you see a Volkswagen, you get out and murder the driver and the passengers. You even wish that buying any Volkswagen models should be illegal. You people make no sense. Everyone complain about emission scandal, yet you people make your own exhaust louder and removing your cars' catalytic converters, even add rolling coal on truck diesel V8 trucks.

@@automation7295 Because Dieselgate sounds cool.

​@@Aperson156 So everyone think that Volkswagen is the only brand in the world for causing Dieselgate? You know Dieselgate isn't exclusive Volkswagen, Dieselgate can happen for any manufacturer. People are just stupid and forgetting that all manufacturers had scandals, not just Volkswagen. Yet people in 2020's are still talking about Volkswagen's Dieselgate, even if it's was solved in 2015. God, every time when car reviewers reviews any Volkswagen, people always being disrespectful and calling everyone out for buying or owning a Volkswagen, regardless what model year they are. Why can't all RU-vidrs disable comment whenever they review a Volkswagen or any car from VW Group?

@@automation7295 Because comments drive engagement and the algorithm.

@@automation7295 Dude, relax. It's not everyone that is against VW. I think its a great company that made a mistake and got found out. They are now driving the electrification of cars in Europe and that is fantastic. Dieselgate can be credited with giving EV's the push they needed to lift off.

Kind of dumb - it means that instead of looking at the buttons out of the corner of your eye with your hands on the wheel and pushing the button without looking, you get a different menu to the one you were looking at all along just as you're trying to make an input. This is a car crash waiting to happen.

Agreed. He was speaking of the excellent build quality,and I see that weatherstripping pucker behind his left ear.

Another Tesla fanboy. Your gawd builds sucky cars (inside and out).

It was painful to watch, and considering how many car options need to be set through it, if the production version is like that I can see that being a deal-breaker for many.

As a german im ashamed

Same as most electric cars. It seems like they have to have dumb ideas baked in to make them different. Of course they miss the point that things like buttons have been developed over the last 100 years or so until they work well with the human form so changing it for the sake of newness is almost always making it worse.

It really makes a Tesla so appealing to buy when compared to other electric vehicles on the market. At least with Tesla, everything you think is a function, actually works as the function. Display is super intuitive, smooth, and everything you need is displayed immediately in front of you. The only downfall is honestly the windshield wipers. lmao

@@siraff4461 Exactly! I understand having to make cars more modern, but simple things you use everytime should be buttons. Would those touch controls even work with gloves on?

@@ProJC It is interesting how although Tesla had moved even more into infotainment than VW, they managed to pull it off. I've never been in one before but it looks like they've got the layout sorted

I don't know what was ever wrong with normal buttons. Why replace it with a less intuitive system that will collect fingerprints and never look clean after the first month?

@@emperorzalsibuar451 It's cheaper to produce and easier to market.

@@emperorzalsibuar451 less moving things to break, cheaper, appeals to a tech savvy audience, etc

if you every had an iPhone 7 you’d know that a touch sensitive button feels just as good, or even better than a physical button

It’s super annoying I have used them quite frequently. this car seems like they didn’t involve any ux experts

Congratulations, you're the only one that likes that.

I guess "Why?!" pretty much sums up this car and some choices that were made when designing it.

Same. Why can't someone make an EV that doesn't have to be weird as hell.

I found myself saying why is Doug calling it a crossover when it's a small SUV? A crossover is something that's half between a hatch and an SUV. Such as the Toyota CH-R or BMW X1

because they have to pretend to be Sci-fi to appeal to the people that think screens and touchscreen are still todays inovation.

@@UProductions457 Aside from the name being highly divisive, the mach-e is a legitimately compelling and decent ev for people who just want a great car imo.

🍓🍅

Trouble is I don’t think he spends more than a day with each car so it’s hard to test range.

More stuff to keep from paying attention while driving. As a bonus it seems to not work when new, so what happens when this car has 50,000 miles? It will be in the shop more than on the road.

Ikr, what's wrong with a climate and volume knob

@@teddibear1943 its a modern VW... which means it probably wont last 50000miles without a dozen or so dealership visits.

@@aaronjudt3096 my 71 Super Beetle, awesome. My 77 Golf, awesome. My 2002 VR6, biggest POS ever. Last VW for me. You speak the truth.

The climate/volume/ventilation setting thing works alright, I've seen worse. I don't know why everyone has to come up with new ideas and less intuitive stuff where we have working solutions in place but at least they allow sliding motions which ends up feeling pretty standard and intuitive after a week or so

This would be hilarious

Yep. Fake grilles on EV's is so annoying. That's why I don't really like the styling of cars like the Polestar 2.

Haha bmw bad

@@9.5.9.5 Nice NPC response, bucko.

They didn't make an unnessecary fat grille, but they made an unnecessarily fat and tall front end.

@@seanplace8192 I like the Volvo Design for EVs and the Audi E tron. Only the design (I hate electric) but I like normal styling like these two vehicles waaay more than the "new" Styling. bmw, tesla and VW and many other EVs look like trash in my opinion. But I guess personal preverences.

It‘s a preproduction model, that’s why it’s laggy. The mk8 Golf has the same screen and it’s super responsible in that. A software update before the official sale is going to fix that.

@@damir_arnautovic97 Exactly. In europe all the ID4 are on hold and are not delivered until the softwareupdate is ready.

They are still working on it. IMHO too many components from different sources to integrate into one system. Tesla might be right there, do it yourself and you know how it works.

@@damir_arnautovic97 lmao. Sure

I was JUST thinking that, I was in a dealership and tried it.

Not just the max kWh charging but the overall charging curve from 10 to 80%.

Yeah, I do that in my 2014 Jetta Gli.....have had for over 8 years and still do that...if manufacturers wanna stick with more buttons than maybe some "braille-type" raised imperfections on the buttons for retards like me....

Never thought of it that way but yeah that’s actually a good thing I always open the rear windows in my Prius c like this by accident

Their last job was at Sabre working on the Pyramid.

I can really imagine they hire designers who ride a bicycles in big cities.

@@NaplesInsider my mk7's infotainment is just fine, idk what youre talking about

you mean like Tesla ?

@@matbeedotcom yeah fr it is actually the best i have used

LMAOSHSHA FR

LEXUS MOVED ON

And they probably invest a lot of money into these bad infotainment systems lol

lexus probably still has the worst one with that pad but volkswagen also has better infotainment screens in other cars so idk what happened to the id4

@@santiagocalderon3261 yeah, my 2015 golf has a smoother infotainment

You own one ? I have a question.

@@sabahameer2620 no, but I've driven it several times. maybe I can still answer your question?

@@raphi25895 is the pro edition has more mileage than the 1st edition?

@@sabahameer2620 these are actually the same cars, but the driving data is improved by newer software versions, i.e. approx. 40-60km more range.

@@sabahameer2620 you can get the same mileage out of both if you have the newest update (2.4 currently, soon 3.0/3.1) The mileage solely depends on the size of the battery. If both have the 77kwh battery both will get around the same mileage, the same with the 58 or 44kwh battery

Its just the software not the hardware. European Id models was just like this, but then they got faster with OTA-upgrade.

@@RRUser2003 the question is, how badly do you need to fuck up for the software to be so laughably bad? first gen iPhone was better than this, probably with same resolution and response rate too. This is frankly inexcusable even if it can be improved by software updates.

I hate that vast majority of full electric cars are just more crossovers. And with the exception of tesla all are like 150 to maybe 300 horsepower at the top. Why no 2 door sports cars or mini vans or suvs just more of the ugly boring cars that i believe are the worst of all worlds. Akd i like electric cars just tired of the cuv trend

@@Real_MisterSir First gen iPhone was made by a software company. VW used to be a car company and they are becoming a tech company while they continue to make over 10 mln cars a year. They will become better and better with every 120 days. Just watch them.

@@RRUser2003 no it’s not over the air yet, you had to go to your dealer and the programming takes a full day!!! after this update over the air updates are be possible

I3 has a column shifter, all Tesla most Benz SUVs almost all American SUVs and pickup trucks also have a column shifter this is fixed to the dashboard, so a little different.

Like those old yellowed computers and keyboards

Germans don’t realize that Americans normally drive with their hands covered in French fry grease & ranch dressing.

I mean if you keep your hands clean and clean the knobs often, I think it'll stay clean

This car should come with a 5 year supply of white gloves.

@@jonathanmangum4347 I have a 2010 Volvo with blond leather and I'm constantly scrubbing the wheel and stalks. It's a constant thing. Otherwise, it looks nasty

I hope you're right. This version has WAY too many things to fix.

major flop if that infotainment isnt optimized..

I've seen 2 different reviews and neither mentioned it being a review unit or pre-production software. There was a mention of over-the-air updates, but every auto manufacturer is starting to promise this and none of them have delivered (save Tesla).

The delay looks like a hardware issue more than a software issue.

Over here in Germany, they are not delivering the ID.4 to the customers, yet, even thoug production is running continuously. The cars will be delivered at the end of March, when software revision 2.1 is released. This will allow OTA updates, which all currently available test cars don't have. I am sure that especially on software level this car will see a lot of improvement over the next years.

It might have been working fine for you but it wasted a lot of paper, and I would much rather like to know that someone else hasn't accidentally touched the tissue that I'm using with their dirty hands

Murderer: I will kill everyone you love Doug: I love you Murderer: fuck

Murderer: I fear no man Doug: Quirks and Features Murderer: but that thing, it scares me

He said IF an update comes out. It's almost unbelievable that this car is actually a production model with such horrendous tech response.

@@prasad530 An update is coming out.

@@prasad530 there is no if. VW themselves have said multiple times there is a major update coming in March that will also add OTA updates

@@prasad530 It’s not production software, it’s pre-production and VW has said that the updated production software will be in cars before deliveries begin later this month.

@@davidc-l9174 Well if it's a promise from the clean diesel guys, no reason to doubt it right ? That screen was lagging like if it was swapping to a mechanical hard drive or something... not sure how you fix that in code

Northeast too 😆

Here in Ireland, we call it a "window demister".

Defroster in Canada too, but it makes sense since there's no frost in California.

It is a kitchen appliance

most likely, but will definetely have permanent patches of grey where you put your hands and fingers in about 6 months and ain't nothing you can do about it will all detailing in the world

There's a reason that I'll never buy anything past the 2000's. too much tech.

The white interior is not standard, it's optional.

It better be. I'd never buy it, but I don't think anyone else would either, with that interior. And most people prefer real, gas cars.

@@isaac24 Your last point is moot. I consider myself a petrol head but I'm seriously considering an electrified vehicle for my next car. More specifically the upcoming KIA EV.

Don't. You'll be disappointed. And it won't last as long as a real car will.

“This climate is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.”

I hope more people get this reference!

It's time for daydrinking

@@tkomow2 You know you're old if you do.

'' Open the pod bay door '' ..'' open the friggin door '' '' Sorry Doug I'm afraid I cant do that , did you hear the one about the chicken that crossed the road '' ?

Not true, the golf infotainment system works fine, they either gave Doug a pre production version or just fucked this one up

@@Stuttgart1887 the prototype we had at the plant worked fine. It is probably a single car issue.

@@Stuttgart1887 the press units seem to always be laggy. Makes me wonder if they need a reset or something.

@@kaitlyn__L McLaren has the same issues with their press cars. I’m wondering if they don’t realize that people actually base their opinion to buy or not buy a car on these reviews..

@@Stuttgart1887 while I'm certain there are people who look up reviews, there are also a lot of people who are happy to take whatever they can get financed for.

Not years, but months.

EVs are so much more reliable than engine powered cars that they design these cars to break, especially in the interior.

Touch buttons last longer than regular buttons. Moving parts break. Buttons are moving parts, they break. get rid of the button, the car becomes ever so slightly more reliable.

@@ProJC how about the whole touch screen broke then.

Lol that's the plan. Pre-2000s cars are indestructible for the most part, with exceptions of course. They'll outlast anything put out for the next 20 years

hahaha

xdd

lmao

trueee

Brains and balls*

Going forward, u get pushed back and the opposite pushes u forward

If you push it forward on the bottom, you go into reverse.