Volkswagen ID3 review - all you need to know about VW's EV! 

Damn you appeared out of nowhere on my recommendations and yet you provide such a great content. Best of luck to your channel. Can't believe your subscriber count is so low.

Haven't seen your video's before. Great way to review the car. No useless elaboration with extreme detail, just the gist of it and your opinion on it. Awesome, subbed.

Just driven 1,800 miles around England and Scotland in our new ID3. Our first electric car. Brilliant car, great handling, fast acceleration when needed, comfortable, quiet. You need to get used to regenerative braking and one pedal driving - this saves electric charge and increases range. Able to get 240 miles on on charge but very careful driving, 180 miles on fast motorway driving. The electric charging system in Scotland is great ( Charge Place Scotland) - one system, lots of places, well spaced, most worked. The system in England is as mess- multiple companies with different systems, half did not work, lots of different apps or cards needed - in one motorway services 18/20 chargers out of order and the 2 Ecotricity ones still did not work- this needs government action to standardise the system. Ionity have 9 charging stations in England and 2 in Scotland - not enough. They do charge rapidly but if you have to pay they are expensive ( 79p/Kwh) - VW give you free charging for 1 year on the ID3 first. The electronics are great, still getting to know how it all works. Sat nav good- especially taking you to the charging stations. Some points which could be better- not enough cubby holes in dash or doors, rain drips into the back seat area when back door opened when parked and raining ( no sill above), seat controls are manual- not electric. Overall it is a great driving machine - if the future is electric then this is a good car have.

Oh and thanks for the time spent on the interior and controls. Lots to see. Really been looking for this in a review. I currently have a 19 plate eGolf..... this is on my shopping list now

Really enjoyed this thanks ! Refreshingly honest and realistic car reviewing.

Great review Nobby. I'd definitely take the jump.

Just discovered this channel as I'm buying an ID3. Pretty shocked at the production quality, easily comparable to other bigger channels. I'm a happy new subscriber!

What a car! Also the channel seems to work on the shooting and editing quality- fair play to you! Especially the very beginning of the video was very well edited! that makes watching experience not as dull!

Just found your channel and loved the video so have subscribed. You're clearly impressed with the car and I found it refreshing to hear you playing down the "issues with switchgear" that a number of reviews seemed to have fixated on. But above everything, I was taken with just how quiet the car is when you're driving! Can't wait to get behind the wheel when my local VW dealer has one available for test drive.

Nice straight simple video, subscribed

good review Nobby. i have ordered one, waiting for it to be delivered. shane that i cant go to showroom , to have a test drive or pick it up. the times we are living in..

Really great review Nobby. Very informative and clear. Thanks!

Great review Nobby, also the 3 follow-on ones, which helped me, along with a test drive, to choose a replacement car and I now have that beautiful turquoise ID.3 for 3 weeks now. Enjoying every minute I have with it, it’s a great alternative to my old Golf.

Great review Nobby. I like your view on touch controls. I mean how many times do you have to change the heating controls when your driving.

Good review! THX!

I’ve subscribed as it was a great review. What I found when I test drove it was how compliant and comfortable the suspension was...amazing.

Great video, well done. We have our base ID.3 two weeks today, very happy with it so far. At the same price roughly as a base Diesel Golf auto, it is good value for an EV. Great performance and so refined. And efficient. Also a nice place to be, quality is excellent, even with the hard plastics which you don't notice after the first few miles.. At least they look good, which isn't always the case with other marques. When you set up the info screen to your own requirements, it's very simple. I just hand gesture between the two screens I need. First one has maps and trip info. Second one has phone and radio. But looking forward to the updates whenever. Only complaints so far is the fob had a flat battery!! And the wipers are set for left hand drive.

Great review Nobby...I had my first drive in an ID.3 yesterday, suck a good handling car, very impressed.

Great review. Subbed 😄

Great review and the three follow up ones, nice to get a sensible practical review that doesn't get caught up on fairly minor issues. I am "patiently" waiting my lovely turquoise family edition ID.3 with panoramic roof that I ordered a month ago 🤩 My local dealer quoted 5-6 months, so hopefully a nice wee Christmas present. It will replace an 8 year old diesel Kia Cee'd sportswagen. Really pleased I took the leap to electric and cannot wait to get my new car 😀

Great review, very informative, thank you 👍

I have had an ID3 for 2 weeks and love it! Still getting used to all the tech so this video was really useful

Relly love your videos on the ID.3. Best I've seen on RU-vid (and I've seen a lot of them in my pre-purchase decision). Nice job Sir!! :-)

Great review, I am definitely in the market for an EV have test driven both the eCorsa & e208 the preferred choice so far. Have been driving a Golf for years haven't been able to test drive the 1D3 yet final decision will be made once I have, but your reviews to date have helped greatly.

Great work Nobby!

Great review!

The ID 3 won't kill off the Golf but the increasing regulations and the governmental pressure for lower and lower emissions will. Like it or not, this is the shape of things to come.

Brilliant review

Nice review. You seemed to drive same roads I drive. One thing you said this is a basic model. Its the plus so not basic. 7k more. It does not have wireless for phone which is shit. Also plenty of weird software issues. But to my initial point nice review. I have the same car in white. I wont trip to see last year in Germany. Big VW fan and this car has me very impressed after 2 weeks of driving. 2 years of egolf before and no regrets

Worth keeping an eye on so - very encouraging vid. Forgot about the rear drive until you said it... should be a hoot with that much torque!! Next year should be very very interesting with all the new EV stuff being launched. 👍🏻👍🏻 How’s the pup ??!!

Thx for the review, that interior is though... like my thick and ugly like my Gameboy

Excellent job letting us know about this car - and I am again sad that we won't get the ID.3 here in the USA. It would be my *ideal* car - I am 6'-4" (1.93m) and my family has had two e-Golfs. We are getting an ID.4 1st Edition, but I have been hoping for an ID.3.

Superb review. Thanks

Well done thanks

I enjoyed the review on the ID3 but I hear this from most all the reviewers " I have a car charger at home" no you don't unless you have a stand alone unit that can produce high output DC you have a "power supply" the battery charging is done by the onboard charger in the car. Here in the USA we have 1 x 120AC 16 amp and also 2 x 120AC 32 amp the higher the input the quicker the charge rate a small point but I guess the industry is already saying "home car chargers" but its not quite a true description. I enjoy the channel anyway Nobby keep it going.

Subbed and thanks for the great review, we got our Plus last week. Excellent car so far, delighted with the drive, plenty of poke and fairly planted. As you mentioned, 4motion (plus maybe another 50Hp) would make this a hoot to drive. Coming from an eGolf, the build quality is OK..not too gone on the scratchy plastic on the door cards for example.. Also a bit of a pain having to disable the lane assist every time you start, it goes rasher on bendy back roads-you're through the damn bend and its still trying to compensate.. Did you manage to get it charging on a schedule? Doesn't work on ours as we can't set a charging location-infotainment message says function not available.

Thanks Mark, another comprehensive review which was highly informative. Lots of positives and some negatives which thankfully can & will be addressed in the upcoming software releases. For the money we believe we now have a genuine mass market EV offering and if the September numbers are anything to go by it should take its place as the #1 selling EV in 2021. Another interesting point about your review is the notable improvements in your editing and production quality, it was already good but now has moved to the next level. That’s great to see 👌🏼 W

Great video. Just received an email from VW . . . “We are now planning production of your ID.3” . Can’t wait 😜

This could be an affordable ev for the EU 👍

Good video, well done.

Your bang on the money again Nobby I have a question for you Nobby would it be suitable for a Taxi or is it to small. Great channel keep up the good work.

Great review as always . Love the looks of the id3, but the interior is a bit too minimalist and low rent .an amazing first effort by vw

Wish this was coming to Canada.

Good review, thanks. How does it compare with the similarly priced yet longer range 64KW eNiro or cheaper eSoul? Also, I cannot understand how Volkswagen, of all people, can put out software which crashes showing a Java stack trace on screen. That's going to take a dealer visit to fix.

Comments and thoughts very welcome!

probably best VW did after beetle and golf, is id3.. cars who are for all people, practical, small, reliable, affordable, daily driver

Went to have a look at the new golf and ended up looking Into this . Cost wise by the time I get petrol golf and actually fill it v extra cost of this upfront. It's neck and neck cost..but lot of spec on this Id3 Style.... Very tempted ... Didn't think I would bother with Elec but...... This or Leon Fr 150tsi or Golf 130tsi 🤔. Super review as per usual

Looks Good Nobby, The ID4 is also coming early 2021 so at last, big competion for Tesla, when you think there is 16K in the difference between ID3 and Model 3, makes ID a no brainer

I have my white ID.3 first Max five days now. And i can say: its so a beautiful Car. Im going too the Car and i start smiling everytime. My Car have no one failure from the produktion. Off course the materials in the inner room can be better, but that dont disturb me. Its good but not perfect. And the driving is wonderful. The travel assist works very good. Test it. Greetings from Germany and sorry for my bad english.

Hi Nobby, great video. Im seriously considering the id.3. one question you say the price starts at 34k. Looking online a 2020 model with 25k miles is around 37k. Has the price increase that significantly?

Really looks great.. Still expensive for me

Hey,do a review on bmw 330i msport :)

Very cool review - they seem to be everywhere recently and VW apparently brought it way more stock than needed. Pretty unforgivable to ship the car with such an awful UI, they should have gotten CarPlay/AA in there at least. The 34k spec is fairly sparse but the 41~48k price tag for this (with the same battery and motor) is laughable. How much would this car be in petrol? About 24k starting price probably. Therein lies the rub. Nobody will be saving 10k in running costs over 3-5 years in reality. But I’d say they are fun to test!

Went to buy one the other day, trading in the missus car but came away with a Gti, now I’m wondering should I trade my car in for an I.d 3

Mine wouldnt charge, reversing camera issues - needs calibration and screen froze and is slow. Not sure I like the haptics. Sorry not as impressed as I would have hoped but is a nice drive and fairly comfortable. Will live with it so long as nothing else is wrong. Not all features available - eg charge point locations

Hi. Have you or are you doing the new Octavia

How good is comfort of ride over irish bumpy roads?

If its rear wheel drive, it wouldn't be suitable for most parts of Canada where I live. ;( but good review

Two in 1 day 👏🏼

What is the B setting for the transmission?

can you tell me about the ride comfort? Is the suspension nice? Or is it a bit annoying. Cause i really want to get in and not be bothered by it.

can you confirm it only has 2 speakers in the front and if so what is the sound like

First time I am seeing a colored stop error screen on a car 😂. Does it runs on Windows?

How do you think the ID3 compares to the Kia e-Niro or e-Soul?

I'm sure a mid spec golf is more like 25k, it's only 35k when you go for a gti

think the rear wheel drive would rule it out for me with living at higher altitude with icy cold winters with snow brrrrrr

The lane assist on the basic ID.3 1st and plus is just a lane departure system that will ping-pong you between lane markings at best. It is not a proper lane keep assist like you have in the Max trim nor is it a travel assist (aka autopilot in Tesla terms) also like you have in the Max. Anyone that wants those advanced assist systems (and they are awesome) should look to the 1st Max or higher trims on the fast lane models.

This or a Fiesta ST? Not competitors in any sense, but they're my shortlist choices for my next car.

Bout Time nobster

rwd puts me off only had fwd. would i end up in a ditch?

I’m confused why you’re demonstrating lane assist as if it’s supposed to hold the lane like travel assist

I drive about 40k Kms per year and have a night rate meter ... would this be better than a diesel

Jaysus u wouldn't wanna be relying on that lane keeping action! 😱

i like it ,, but i earn 35k a year and i defo cant afford it , how far away do you think we are from a 20k EV from any brand?

Bring it to the USA, VW!

By the way, same goes for miles, inches, pounds, yards, ounces, etc.

I think they may have hit the "sweet spot" for cars in Europe. Like the Golf did in the 70s. All the benefits of an EV - for the price of a disgusting old petrol car.. A no-brainer, as we say these days.

Heads up - dreadful continuity - one moment the car is locked and mirrors folded in the next they aren’t . That’s simple stuff. Check editing . That aside - pretty decent review .

Hmm the long range is not much cheaper than the tesla. However the tesla has more style. The cheap version just lacks range. Seems like a cheat to me.

The sound is not very good in your video. I had to put it very high and still had issues to understand everything with a kid playing next room. This is not usually the case.

watch bjorn road test on this car.....

so the lack of android auto.....it's like a Tesla then :)

It sounds like you are being apologetic for quite a few shortcomings.

Badle o uadar

Since May2023

There's more bugs in the cars software than an old dog's bed and that interior dash is horrendous

Is it a Puegot

Bought my ID3 May. I drove it 5 weeks dealership driven it 5 weeks. Carnt find fault. Scared me. Perhaps Im too old for Electric.

Yeah the entire interface for the car crashes every now and then with a red screen of death....and the touch headlight/demist controls are iffy with it turning the blowers on full randomly....and the steering wheel controls are glitchy - but hey its new and fresh. Why do people make excuses for a £30000+ product which doesn't properly perform the very very basic functions of a 30 year old car. Since when does it be ok for a machine that requires your constant attention otherwise it will kill you and others - to have all the glitchy, temperamental interface of a f'ing mobile phone. All this touch control garbage WILL kill people - its more distracting than using your mobile whilst driving as you stab around trying to get the car to do the most basic of functions.

🤮 YUK! Wouldn't touch with a barge pole

Problem is there are so many paid people on hete singing ID3. Want to lnow what its like? Ask a "true" user owned 60 ars been driving 49 years. Dont touch its been driven by dealership more than me.