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From the moment I laid eyes on this car, I knew that as a self-proclaimed cool

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dad, I had to have one. So, late last

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year, I put down a deposit. But here's the thing. I haven't actually gone

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through with my purchase yet. And after spending the last week with this demo

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car that was provided by VW Canada, I got to say that there's some things that

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make me want it less, but also some things that make me want it way more.

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First up, there's the look. If you think this thing is striking in pictures, I

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got to tell you, in person, it is even better. I think that Volkswagen's work,

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taking a classic aesthetic and modernizing it without losing what made

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it so iconic, is unparalleled here. And

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I'm not the only one who thinks so. This is by far the best conversation starter

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vehicle I have ever driven. And this is coming from a guy who drove this and

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this. And a big part of that is Volkswagen's daring decision to bring

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back the bold two-tone color schemes of the original microbus. And when I say

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daring, I really do mean daring. Consumer trends have overwhelmingly been

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towards monochromatic vehicles over the last few decades. But it's clear from

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the reception to this vehicle that at least some consumers are ready for a

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change. See, Volkswagen does have a solid color version of the Buzz, but

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apparently it's been selling so poorly that they've started subsidizing the

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dealers who have them on their lots to wrap them two-tone to get consumers to

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buy them. Coming around back, we've got parking proximity sensors galore, as

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well as a rear windshield wiper blade. Never take that for granted now that

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I've seen how much Porsche charges for one. Uh, as well as

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our Dang it. Sometimes with the key in my pocket, this is unlocked and I can

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get my charger out of it. Sometimes I got to unlock the car first. Can't find

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the pattern, boys and girls. Since we're down here, Volkswagen boasts a range of

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about 375 km depending on the variant of

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the Buzz and charging rates of up to 200 kW. So, when I say boasts, I'm using

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that word extremely loosely here. The ID

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Buzz suffers from what I could best describe as an identity crisis. See, on

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the surface, she's a people mover. She's

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for camping. She's for the great outdoors. She's for road trips. I mean,

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good gravy. Look at the room in this

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thing. But under the hood, she's better equipped for short trips to the grocery

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store or the soccer pitch. I'm not saying that the Buzz is a car for

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nobody. I mean, I have a level two charger in my garage and I don't mind

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charging up every couple of days. But if you're the kind of person who wants to

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take long road trips or you are totally dependent on public charging

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infrastructure, it's hard to recommend something with such limited range. But

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that doesn't mean it's out of the running. Ivonne and I have been shopping

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kind of hardcore for a new family vehicle recently. And she went from

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rating the buzz a three out of 10 from seeing it in pictures to a 7 out of 10

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after the first test drive to okay, are we buying one? After spending the last

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week with it. And out of every vehicle we saw, the Buzz was rated number one by

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its most important customer, my kids.

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And there's a lot of little details that contribute to that. I mean, Volkswagen's

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been designing cars for as long as most people on Earth have been alive, and

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that experience shows. I mean, look here. Here's a simple thing. Ingress and

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egress. Getting into this car is so

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painless compared to almost any other

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family vehicle. Look at that. I mean, I'm not the tallest guy in the world,

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but I can practically flip and walk around in here. And my 10-year-old

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daughter legitimately can. She can stand

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in this car. So getting into the back seat, it's not a chore anymore. This is

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big. Volkswagen has taken a nononsense approach to visibility. There's no

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middle seat in the back, so the driver has a clear shot out the back window,

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which along with the rest of what I call the panoramic Windows throughout the

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car, really does contribute to a heightened sense of situational

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awareness, which is pretty important when you're carrying precious cargo.

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There's also a ton of leg room, even in the back row. Like, how cool is that?

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with the middle seats being able to adjust forward and back depending on how

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much you require or if you need to have these folded down to carry cargo. And

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there's little hidey-holes like all over the place to stash snacks and books and

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drinks. Um, not to mention for every seat in the six seat configuration,

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there's a USBC charging port which is

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great for long road trip. Okay. And since we're

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disappointed, I actually want to talk about the seating

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configurations. See, here's the thing. I can live with the limited range, but

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what's a little tougher for me is the seven seat configuration would have

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another seat right here in the middle where I am now, but is only available in

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rear wheel drive in crappier colors. Volkswagen, can you explain this to me?

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I want all-wheel drive and seven seats and a cool color cuz there's still so

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much more to love. Let's look at the

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cargo. Check this out. I can store all my swag from

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ltstore.com and my backpack and uh

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wow, really not much else. But hold on,

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it gets

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better. There we go. You can fit so much

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cargo in this bad boy. But again, the

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caveats, not if you want to seat more than four people in this gigantic

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vehicle while also carrying cargo. The

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sevenseater option is the cool one. Volkswagen, I need the three. Since

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we're back here, we got a 12vt plug and a pretty good look at the dual

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interfaces for the rear zone climate control, which is nice. You don't have

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people fighting over who has controllable climate control. Not that I

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speak from experience. Power lift gate. Pretty common these

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days. Why don't we talk about the experience for the driver? Oh yeah, this

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window's cool. It like goes in and slides back. And oh yeah, this mirror is

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less cool. It's square. So like it's

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harder to see not just the lane beside you, but also the one over there. I

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don't like it. Oh, they're also heated, ventilated, and have a massage function.

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The middle of which is the most important one to me. And it

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is primo ventilation. No swast for this

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guy while on a road trip. While we're up

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here, we can look at some more of the hidey-holes. They're in the doors. They're right here. You can put your key

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there. There's a spot to put your phone book. I'm not sure where they're going

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with that. Another one here by the glove box. Got your glove box. Oh, boom. Cup

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holders. And I think this thing like Oh, yeah. Look at that. It pops out like

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that. These are cool. There's these modular little things so you can adjust

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this guy. And they're functional. You can open a bottle or scrape your

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windshield. Oh, yeah. Oh, right. And the whole thing comes out if you just plane

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don't want it. See you later, buddy. Ah, dual USBC's for the driver, by the way.

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And before you say, "Oh, come on, L. It's one of those that's probably for your passenger." No, no, they're mine.

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They've got their own. It's in the door. These are mine. Probably the coolest

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thing in here, though, is the electrochic moon roof. With just a swipe

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of this interface, you can adjust the opacity of the glass on top of you. What

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I don't like so much is that this along with almost everything else is touch.

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Now to be clear, I am a digital first kind of person. I don't mind interfacing

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with a touchcreen. But what I am not a big fan of Oh, I found the power button.

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Not that it works to turn it off or anything. Ah, you hold it. By the way,

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before you smart Alex or like Lionus, the start stop button is right there.

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Look at this. Hello, buddy. Oh, there. Now it goes.

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No. The point is, I don't mind a

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touchcreen, but what I'm not a huge fan of is unnecessary capacitive buttons,

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and they're everywhere. They're under the touchcreen for the climate control

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and volume adjustments, and they're on the steering wheel, more importantly,

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where every once in a while, I'll be turning hand overhand, and I'll brush

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against something or I'll bump something and end up activating it.

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with this little interface right here. Do it again to go into regenerative

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braking mode. Do it again to go into coasting mode.

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Then backwards to go into reverse. It's

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okay. Feels a little cheap, but functions just fine. And I'd say the

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same about the backup cam to be perfectly honest with you. It's a little bit jittery and stuttery sometimes, but

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unlike my car, at least it actually shows you where the heck it is that you

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are going. And the bird's eye camera is excellent from my experience. really

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giving you a good idea of how close you are to things. Now, let's talk about

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what I like more about this car than almost anything else. And I'm going to

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show you. If you're like me, you might be the kind of person who, you know,

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doesn't always remember to put in your destination before you start moving.

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Unlike my Tyan, which by the way is a

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Volkswagen Group vehicle, I can just

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type a couple quick letters. Boom. Create a new drive. And yeah, if you

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drive a Tesla or a Rivian, this is not going to look that impressive to you.

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voice in my Tyan or has this horrible

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drawing on the screen interface in my wife's new

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vehicle, I got to tell you, whatever reduction in distraction that a car

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manufacturer thinks they are achieving by disabling the on-screen keyboard,

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they are achieving the opposite. Because being able to key in a special character

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here as needed is way faster than trying to do it six separate times with voice

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and then ultimately giving up and putting it in on your phone. Oh, by the

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way, I flipping love this. Not only does

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the heads-up display interface with both the built-in navigation, so this thing,

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and also your Android Auto navigation,

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but the front dash has this cool little

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light that flashes all the way across in various colors when you need to turn

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right or turn left. It's just a really

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nice little touch. And you know, if you're on a long road trip, for example,

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you're driving in a straight line for a long time, it really gets your attention

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and makes you think, "Oh yeah, I need to turn. Time to move over to this

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lane." That was maximum

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acceleration. Right off the line, she's got a lot of torque. She is still an

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electric car, but once you're off the

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line, my son, I think, put it better than I could.

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Did you press the pedal down all the way, Dad? When I was showing him how

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fast this car accelerates, she's really not super powerful. I've also found that

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the acceleration and braking curve have taken a little bit for me to get used to

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because of that quick off the line that I guess they're trying to make the car

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feel a bit peppier than it is. It's a little lurchy to start and because of

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the way Volkswagen handles the mixing between pressing the pedal and

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activating regenerative braking and then

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mashing it and actually activating the physical brakes. I find that when I'm

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coming to a stop, it's really hard to do perfectly smoothly. My family gets

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pretty motion sick pretty easily and has

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complained that they get more nauseous in this car than in other ones that I

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drive. I can't say for certain that it's not a skill issue, but it is something

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that I observed. So, it's iPhone like in the sense that there's no back button.

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Thanks. Your voice assistant, which is cool. You can give it its own name so

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that it'll trigger on whatever keyword you see fit. Charging, so you can

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monitor that in a separate place from right here. I mean, I guess for what the

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range is, they want you really paying close attention to that. As far as I can

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tell, there's no meaningful way to reconfigure what you want your home

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screen to be. I didn't notice this. The regenerative braking goes up in sport,

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but if you go to custom and configure it, regenerative braking is not one of

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the options that they actually allow you to play around with. So, I guess it

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would just be driving dynamics. I don't know. Who knows? Uh, I didn't find a

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huge difference between comfort and sport in terms of performance or even

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suspension. It's pretty it's pretty

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floaty, but no more so than I would expect from a people mover. How about

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this? Let's try out the assistive driving features. So, I'm going to

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switch her over to semi-auto drive assist mode. Uh, okay. So, it's both

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lane assist and adaptive cruise control. I'm going to go ahead and set that.

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Let's set it to 30 km an hour cuz we're coming up on a school zone. And I

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actually really like using cruise control in school zones because what it

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means is I never have to pay any attention to anything here. Okay. I can

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have my foot covering the brake, right? And then I can just be looking at

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absolutely nothing but like what's going on in my peripheral here. Uh I don't

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have to think about speed management. Something like that. Yep.

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road immediately. Pretty cool. It's been a mixed bag. Sometimes

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it was really good, needing basically no intervention for long periods of time.

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Um, this one time I took it into a construction zone, though. Doesn't

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understand pylons. So, yeah, it's no Tesla autopilot. Also,

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where are we going right now, buddy? Where are we going? Are you going to stop? Oh, man. The way that it breaks at

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like the last second, I'm pretty sure you can adjust it. Like I think that's

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this button like follow distance or something. Oh yeah, there we go. There's

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your follow distance button. Okay, never mind. I figured it out. Oh man, I hate

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the touch volume control. So you can either swipe like

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this or you can like mash this thing on the one side.

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that? What I like more than the volume adjustment though speakers. uh they

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partnered with Harman Carden actually and dude it like sounds pretty decent. I

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don't know what they did whether it's the tuning or just the fact that it is

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so spacious in here compared to a regular car but the sound feels big and

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the sound stage is really wide. Um I

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think it sounds great. There's an audio one. There we go. Look at that built-in

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EQ. I mean seriously, how cool is that?

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Are they the best speakers ever? Absolutely not. But my point of

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reference here is my minivan. And minivans have had so little competition

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here in North America for the last realistically 10 almost 20 years that

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having anybody come in and make them a

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little better, a little more exciting is exciting for me. As for parking, you

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know what? Let's try and get it to do the thing. Searching for parking spaces like do I do I move while I'm searching

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for parking? I couldn't get it to do it. Oh, wait. Do we have one? Okay. Hey, it

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found one. All right, let's try it. Hey, and if it screws up, it'll hit your car.

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Belle, don't hit my car. I love that we're next to Belle's car. Hey, good

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luck, Belle's car. Whatever. You don't like driving a Tesla

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anyway, do you? Is this going to make it? We're going to We're going to hit the freaking curb.

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Oh, here we go. Oh my god, it's doing

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it. It's going to go up on the curb. Just We just climbed the curb.

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When do I hit the brake here, boys?

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Quality job, Volkswagen Group. And I mean, look, okay, that

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sample size of one, I'm not saying it wouldn't work a lot of the time, but

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I've made my position on autonomous vehicle operation pretty clear if it

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doesn't handle edge cases. It ain't autonomous. With that said, I can park

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my own car, so I don't really care about that. What I do care about is the price.

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Yes, VW is mixing up the minivan market,

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but VW is also mixing up the uh minivan

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price point a little bit. The ID Buzz cost tens of thousands of dollars more

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than competing people movers, which is a pretty tough pill to swallow until you

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consider that I don't really think there are competing people movers. At least

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not yet and at least not here in North America. Whether you're looking at an

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Odyssey or a Sienna, the build quality and the feature richness of those

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vehicles just isn't that close. Like

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every seat in the ID Buzz feels like I

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am driving around in a freaking living room compared to those other vehicles.

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So, while I don't love the price, it's not like I'm looking at it going, "Well,

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I can't even figure out where they spent this because I 100% can. I just wish

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they'd spent a little more on a bigger

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