What? You don’t mean to be transporting ping pong Balls!

Ferdinand Piëch is spinning in his grave.

This shitheap is what happens when the timecard-punching imbeciles are given the keys to the car-company castle. Had Piëch lived to see this, the homicide rate in Wolfsburg would have had a dramatic spike when the id4 launched.

Am I being harsh? Yes, but remember the BMW E65 7-series (catastrophe); the W220 S-Class (Dodge Neon-quality POS) or the ’08 WRX (an insult to its own brand.)

This is one of those moments.

Does the thing drive ok? Sure: VW has built hundreds of millions of cars. Surely they’ve learned a thing or two. It’s fine.

But from the cartoon styling to the disasterous UX, its gimmick-to-function factor is the inverse of what VW has been since its genesis.

The well-documented lack of rear window controls and non-illuminated controls are just the beginning.

The gauges and shifter are a craptastic version of the BMW i3’s, which were laughable a decade ago. See slide 10 for the full range of display customization 🤦‍♂️

You can’t adjust the driver aids while moving.

I almost threw a brick through the fucking window when it wouldn’t open its door on a hill unless I pushed as it was unlatching.

The rat’s nest under the hood tells us everything we need to know.

An all-new, from-the-ground-up platform should not need visible reinforcements. This scares me — where else did VW skimp?

Add up the negative space up front, it’d make a big frunk. There isn’t one tells us that the teams at VW worked against each other, not for the good of the whole.

Disclosure: I own an e-Golf. It’s everything a VW should be (with exception of range.) Quick, well-crafted, gimmick-free, efficient, handles well, easy to use, and packed full of features that make daily life easier.

No gimmicks, unlike this. VWs should earn you respect from grownups; not be rolling cartoons of poor design.

This thing is a comicbook joke. I’d only recommend buying one is because IONIQ 5 isn’t available yet and you need something to ram into a tree for fun. Given the visible reinforcements up front, I’m not sure I’d recommend actually being in the id4 for the impact.

Man, does it miss the mark.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYHOHICF9KM/?img_index=10

Just wait until one plows into you.

Ironically you could say the same thing about how EV cars are being sold as “clean”

No serious attempt has been made to estimate the total cost of free roads (nor will one be made here) but it likely runs into the trillions. For example, consider the sums likely spent by the federal government on building the interstate highway system. One partial estimate of this expense—which excludes many important federal highways and does not include maintenance or expansions, or, of course, state, county, and local roads—exceeds half a trillion dollars in 2019 dollars, calculated from 2006 dollars using the Consumer Price Index (“CPI”) Inflation Calculator published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.220 Meanwhile, of the amount spent on local (noninterstate) roads in one recent year ($39.65 billion in 2019 dollars, calculated from 2002 dollars using the CPI Inflation Calculator), 89% was paid by the general taxpayer and only 11% by motorists themselves. At this rate, state and local governments would spend half a trillion dollars on roads every thirteen years.

The vast majority of anti EV stuff I see is from this sub when people complain about it lol

This is a country that just spent hundreds of billions widening highways which didn’t need widening…

Sure, but you can easily change that in a decade… just like China did.

FL of all states made good advances recently. No matter how shitty it is compared to what it should have been… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6tufFWSaA&pp=ygULYnJpZ2h0bGluZSA%3D

Same thing could be said with getting us off car dependency in general, and yet this sub will fight that notion tooth and nail.

They’re doing it for broncos

Most negative impacts of car-based planning will notbe alleviated by electrification, especially the wasteful consumption patterns caused by decentralization;

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Greenwashing with electric cars is like cutting down the rainforest, but using electric chain saws. Yes, it is more environmentally friendly but….

Why would you? They’ll gladly trade you for “worse” wheel set.

So swap the wheels at the dealer