VW ID.3 Is Here! But There's a Catch... 

VW is not realy the "batch-production" manufacturer. Americans just buy other everyday cars as Europeans. If VW would want to make a competitive offer on the US marked, the car would have to be built in Mexico, USA or Canada and massproduced. There is just not the demand in the USA. Yet there is hope, as if you have looked at the rear hatch, the taillights are not fixed to the hatch as it would be the reasonable way to place them for a European car! The gone so far to cut out parts of the hatch, for apparently no good reason, just to make it uglier. I'm pretty sure the only reason you would do it is to please USA-car provisions. So Maybe they did it to be prepared just in case the Golf-class of cars suddenly catches on in the USA . From my European perspective, I think the taillights realy belong fixed to the hatch...and the cutouts in the hatch look weird! So IMHO this part was designed with the USA in mind.

The Model 3 was unavailable in Europe for long too.

$41000 plus tax is $46330 for the base model with the shortest range. Probably freight/delivery fee on top of that. There is no way average Canadian will be buying this car, way too expensive! Definitely out of my price range, too bad cause I like this car.

​@@leafskickass1 Assume the car would be $45,000 to qualify for the federal EV grant, and you live in BC. 45K x 12% tax - 5K federal grant, - 3K provincial grant, -5K down payment, -10K trade-in: 45,000 * 1.12 - 5000 - 3000 - 5000 - 10000 = $27,400 If you drive 13K km per year and pay on average 11 cents per kWh and charged 100% at home, borrowed the 27,400 at 4.25% and paid it off over the life of the car (10 years) including $2,725 in electricity, $4,000 maintenance and $6,223 interest it would cost you $336.24 per month. Assuming you currently have a BMW 328i that is paid off and you drive 13K per year, your maintenance + Fuel per month would be the same, around $300 per month. If you drive a large SUV like an X5 35i and it is paid off, the average cost is around $400 per month.

Is it available on canada?

Well hatchbacks don’t sell in the North American market, you say you’re interested, but that is vastly different from cold hard cash on the Dealer’s countertop

That's true but electric cars sit high because of the batteries making them between hatchbacks and crossovers. I believe the ID3 would sell well for an electric.

Well, VW always has market specific vehicles. The Atlas for example is only sold in north america, but not in europe for example.

Rob Burcham - They will expand the markets they will be sold at over the years, but you have to start somewhere.

I'm not really saying that VW is making the wrong move here... from a business/financial standpoint, excluding the ID.3 hatchback from their US lineup and bringing over a crossover instead is the right call. It's just personally disappointing because I happen to like cars/hatchbacks and don't have much love for crossovers or SUVs.

Model 3 is kinda doing ok. But ID3 might be subject to 10% import so unless they make it in USA it's protetty understandable. That said, I'm European, I have high disdain for murican obese mindlessness and I don't care about the stagnant thinking ID3. Forced into an old working class hatchback format is a celebration of their obtuseness. I'd never buy one over a base 3. That said, Tesla should make a Model 2 post haste. Similar to 3, just leaner and cheaper. Model 3 is just better than S, 2 could be similarly more spritely. It's important for Tesla to not leave a gap for the mindless old garde to push their junk.

Alex Venz get used to it because the demand for CUV and SUV is accelerating. The small car and sedan is done.

Don’t worry, it’ll come with time (& charging stations) - I drive a hot hatch (VW) and see no real reason to jump ship straight away, in just about everything the first generation/s are to pay off the production costs

Basically that sums it up for me too xD

Diesel gate has soured me on VW and its partner companies.

@@toctoc9927 me too! Tesla has the proven real-world experience, capability and charging network. What experience does VW have with BEVs? So VW has no demonstrated experience beyond their ICE car mass-production, which aren't exactly known for their reliability...

I'm dône with VW products. Audi and Porsche too. Tesla is THE game and paradigm changer. After dieselgate, I won't give another dime to VW. Saw that they just got caught cheating on gas cars too. True VW?

Considering the US is one of the countries that polute the most per capita, all this dieselgate whuuuhoo shit is BS. If any of you watch car racing and have heard of a 24 hours race called Le Mans, Audi a VW company brand, won it many years in a row, some years ago they gave up this race to focus on Formel E. What is Formel E, well E for electric, get it? So why did they do that, just for fun, or as part of a electric car development programme? It won’t take long for a giant like the VW to catch up to Tesla.

If it was just about storage space, then hatchbacks, wagons, and minivans should be more popular than they currently are.

I thought that was odd as well. Probably a move by the bean counters.

Win-Win situation, most of the braking power will be done by the front disc brakes or by recuperation. Rear brakes tend to rust or corrode because they get barely used on small and light EV's. So using a drum brake is cheaper for the costumer and the brand because it basically needs no maintenance and is cheaper for the brand to produce and the customer to buy.

I wouldn't exactly call the ID.3 light given that, according to Road & Track, it's heavier than a standard range Model 3. Also, many cars have slightly rear-biased braking for stability reasons (though, the fronts are still doing most of the work from an energy conversion standpoint) and the rears get used for both stability control and simulating a limited slip diff in an open diff RWD configuration (if VW is doing that).

@@AlexVenzMaybe they can get away with doing that due to most of the braking could be accomplished by regen? Leaving the drums to do a eLSD diff like you mentioned? Would love to know their decisions on doing so. Weight? Cost? Friction (pads vs shoes)? Less hardware for emergency brakes?

Alex Venz I have to partially disagree, the Model 3 is light as well but with 1720kg the ID 3 is still a relatively light car for EV's. No road production car has rear-biased breaking systems. In every car the front brakes are at least the same size as the rear ones or bigger than the rear brakes, no car has bigger rear brakes than front ones, it's simple physics since when you drive (not in reverse) and brake the weight of the car will be pushed to the front and the front brakes will do most of the Work. Yes the rear brakes get used for stability control etc. but you really don't need more braking performance than what drum brakes can offer giving the recuperation system on EV's, I guess we will see how they will perform though.

Ian Kennedy Perhaps sales data across the past decades suggest that HATCHBACKS DON’T SELL IN THE U.S.A.

Hi neighbour , I'm from Slovenia

Hello EU friends. I'm from Ireland.

TRY to HELP you Tariffs for the US? Trump says Yes Please!

Bob Owen Which is why BMW, VW, & Mercedes (Hybrid) all released EV at Frankfurt Motor Show.

baby the car was invented in Germany. they are the masters

Bob Owen - They are already spending a lot of money on developing their EV offerings with a lot coming on the market in the next couple of years.

That's exactly why they won't release the car yet...They still need to sell GTIs and other ICE cars they've already produced. Once that inventory is down we'll see the car

Haywood Ja'Blome Y not?

I've got a feeling you think the US market is equal to the World market. In Europe and every other country except for the US, Australia, Canada and some more countries no one gives a f*ck about Pickups, SUV's and crossovers are very popular in the whole world tho.

Nastasio except that the US market is the most lucrative of any. So yes, what we think and buy matters. Pickups matter. CUVs matter. Sedans don't matter. Nor do hatchbacks.

Haywood Ja'Blome not true at all, China is the most lucrative market in the world, where Sedans, SUV's and hatchbacks rule. VW's most sold car per year is the VW Golf which happens to be a hatchback. If you think the US market is more lucrative than the Chinese market you have no clue.

Nastasio sorry,but you're wrong. The most money per vehicle ( profit) is made on pickups and large SUV. Not on hatchbacks , sedans and small cars like the Golf.

copycat ? what did they copy ?

Congratufuckinglations

Jason Miles - Tesla did not invent the electric car. If you notice the Tesla model 3 and why look Porsche inspired when looked at from the front.

Small battery? The long and mid-range versions of the ID.3 align fairly closely to the Model 3.

Shut the fuck up Elon !!!

Paulo Almeida he's right, VWs goose is cooked. Dieselgate cost them $ 25billion. They should have paid more.

@@haywoodjablome234 Shut the fuck up Elon 2 !!! Volkswagen's operating profit in 2018 was the biggest ever at a record 13.92 billion euros.... THAT'S 13 920 000 000 EUROS NET PROFIT ... tthe biggest ever and a new world record of 11 MILLION car sold. Tesla lost 976 million U.S. in 2018 and is already down another 1 BILLION USD in 2019 . just google it