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Devils advocate, it could be because the ID.4 is terrible? This is anecdotal, but yea.
I have a friend who is an OUTSTANDING car mechanic, the shop he owns/started has everything from VW to Ferrari. He's been doing this since the 90s.
He has an ID.4 he bought to daily drive to said shop. He talks a lot about how big of a piece of shit the car is. Like every single time I see him it's a new complaint. I've personally seen panels just start falling off, the infotainment is always janky, you have to manually turn on the A/C and can't even do so when in reverse. The list goes on.
He legit has one single compliment, that his AWD model has outstanding acceleration. Which is nothing special for an electric car...at all.
Likely this is a bigger role than anything.
I pretty much only drove VWs whole life.
I can get a used Chevy Bolt or used ID4 for roughly the same price.
Should be picking up the Bolt next week.
VW really fucked up with their EV strategy.
All of that plus the substantial price tag and their stupid subscription service.
I would have been very interested in an electric VW(loved my old Passat), but they completely botched the rollout of their ID series.
Got an ID 4. Janky af touchscreen/software, everything else is solid. No complaints other than the software, and apparently past 2023 models this is fixed. Imo it's a really good car for the price I paid. It hasn't locked me in the car and exploded so that's a big bonus.