VW ID Buggy Likely to Enter Production – MotorTrend

Want Volkswagen’s electric dune buggy? You are in luck because it looks like VW will make the ID Buggy, an electric two-seat concept shown at the Geneva Motor Show with no roof or doors, designed to enjoy motoring.

When the wraps came off the ID Buggy, the initial reaction was lust and then dismay on the assumption VW would never actually build it. It does a good job of demonstrating the flexibility of VW’s electric MEB (modular electric drive) platform, but the outrageously simple styling, old-school Beetle face, and stark packaging could not possibly make it to market. How mean of VW to tease us with something we can never have.

We were wrong to judge.

VW execs love the buggy, too, and it seems poised to get the green light.

We went right to the top and asked Herbert Diess, chairman of the Volkswagen AG Board of Management, if the automaker would make it.

MEB fits nicely with the Buggy, Diess said, and is the kind of emotional vehicle VW wants to include in its portfolio, which will include the ID Buzz, a modern and electric take on the Microbus. The objective is to make electric mobility attractive for a broader base of customers—not just for the rich.

“We decided on the Buggy because it is the most emotional and irrational vehicle we could develop,” said Diess. “We could do this car if we keep one time spending low and one-time investment low.”



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