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At under ,000, VW’s ID.Buzz might FINALLY be priced right

At under $49,000, VW’s ID.Buzz might FINALLY be priced right

Volkswagen aimed its all-electric ID.Buzz minivan squarely at an nostalgic baby boomer market that had aged out of $70,000 hippie nostalgia purchases by the time it arrived on US shores – but now VW that dealers are advertising the premium van for less than $49,000, VW’s new-age bus might be worth a second look. SKIP THE STORY: take me to the deal! After teasing a modern Bus for nearly two decades (the ID.Buzz was introduced as a concept at the 2017 Detroit Auto Show, and was the fourth Type 2 Bus- or Bulli-inspired concept from VW since 2001), Volkswagen had high hopes for the all electric minivan. Unfortunately, price-gouging dealer markups sending transaction prices over $100,000 and a drastic over-estimation of the van’s lasting cultural impact more than twenty years after the launch of the first-generation New Beetle conspired against early flippers in particular and the van’s mainstream success in general. Advertisement – scroll for more content At less than $49,000, however? That may be a different story. That’s more like it Photo: Volkswagen of America Dixon Ford …

VW Sportline is the electric GTi the ID.Buzz SHOULD have been

VW Sportline is the electric GTi the ID.Buzz SHOULD have been

VW have finally built the van enthusiasts have been asking — and it’s not the ID.Buzz. Meet the new e-Transporter Sportline, the retro-tastic people-mover with GTI-inspired styling, a proper performance attitude, and room for seven that VW should have been building all along. Volkswagen was on the right track when they decided to market the premium-priced ID.Buzz as a nostalgia play, they just targeted the wrong demographic. It’s not the aging Boomers, but the Gen-Xers and elder Millenials who are spending big money on vans these days — and, to us, VW isn’t about Beetles and Buses. It’s about high-strung GTis, Sciroccos, and Corrados. This Transporter Sportline? This is the way. As far as the van itself goes, the e-Transporter van packs a 210 kW (~280 hp) electric motor with gobs of low-end torque for convincingly GTi-levels of straight-line acceleration. That motor is efficient enough, too, to take you and six friends nearly 200 miles on its relatively small 64 kWh battery, pairing real-world range with the kind of interior space VW enthusiasts have been …