Staying up late at two in the morning to watch a car launch that is thousands of miles away, doesn't it sound a little crazy?
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What is a classic?
Even if you are not a Volkswagen fan, not a Van fan, but there is a high probability that you have seen a retro rounded "van" in games or film and television works such as PUBG, Cars, Forrest Gump, San Francisco Grand Prix, etc., which is the Volkswagen legendary van T1 born in 1950.
The birth of T1 was very interesting. In 1947, the Dutch businessman Ben Pon went to Germany to talk about business, saw the Volkswagen factory scooter pulling goods, so he came to the inspiration, and drew a four-corner plug wheel, looking like a "bread" small truck, and called it "Transporter", although no one around at the time was optimistic about this "van", But Ben Pon still handed over the drawings to the Volkswagen headquarters. A year later, Volkswagen wrote to say that it was going to mass-produce this "cute guy".
In March 1950, the T1, which was co-produced with another classic Beetle, was officially rolled off the production line and delivered, so we must be clear that the T1 is the second car in the history of the Volkswagen brand.
The T1, which has a rear-drive, independent suspension, durable leather and cute shape, was quickly recognized by the vote of consumers' pockets, and quickly entered thousands of households and assumed various responsibilities.
Thanks to the durable mechanical quality of the leather, people have different requirements for T1 in different fields, so we can see that the T1 has been officially produced in various versions.
But the credit for bringing the T1 to the world may go to the "hippies" of the United States. In the 1960s, the hippie movement advocating "love and peace" swept the United States, and thousands of hippies, on the way to the wanderings, chose T1 as their "companion", and made a lot of decorations and adjustments in appearance and interior, forming a unique aesthetic genre exclusive to hippies.
Then Volkswagen's van, from the T1 all the way to the T7 unveiled last year, was given the function of slowly out of pulling goods. For our country, the earliest impression of the Volkswagen van may come from the T5 version of The Gateway.
But in any case, the public is "old", the most important thing on hand is "classic" and "feelings", and in the era of pure electricity, the public must not only continue the classic, but also give it the necessary historical mission.
So can Volkswagen ID.BUZZ reproduce the legend of the T1?
Let's take a look at its product strength first.
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devise
In this era of "looking at faces", having a good design is already half the battle. And many times, the so-called trend is a retro reincarnation, which is more obvious in the public ID.BUZZ.
First of all, the two-color spliced body and the huge "VW" logo on the front of the car are obviously paying tribute to the T1, and if you look closely, you will find that there are three similar heat dissipation ports next to its rear window, which is because the first three generations of the Volkswagen T series are all rear-mounted engines.
In addition to many "tribute" elements, the headlights on both sides of the front face and the through-type light strip, with the diamond-shaped skeleton below, make it easy for you to recognize that this is a Volkswagen ID. Family models. The taillights adopt the popular through-style, with a two-color body, the sense of layering is good.
Coming to the car, the steering wheel and the central control and the instrument of a large and a small two screens and the steering wheel are very familiar, have to spit again under the dashboard is small, even if the black edge really "can stop the aircraft carrier". On the left side of the steering wheel is the light adjustment area, and there is a small storage slot next to it, which is still very in line with the habits of traditional fuel vehicles.
An interesting design is that the switch of the left and right sliding doors is placed on the air conditioner outlet under the central control screen, and there is a hidden cup holder below, which can achieve the penetration of the main co-driver when it is put away.
From the overall design point of view, volkswagen ID.BUZZ integrates the retro and modern styles very well, and the appearance of the public ID.BUZZ the next city first.
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bodywork
After talking about the design full of characteristics, Volkswagen ID.BUZZ other aspects of the product force is very mediocre, after all, as the most "inner volume" of the Chinese market, everyone's vision of electric vehicles is also more demanding.
The new car offers a five-seater passenger version and a "Cargo" version, the latter being a van version, compared to the second half of the passenger version, with locked windows and removed the left door. In fact, this situation is very common in foreign countries, and in Europe, you can often see the uncle use the "Cargo" version of the Mercedes-Benz V-Class to pull wood.
In terms of body dimensions, the Volkswagen ID.BUZZ has a length, width and height of 4,712 x 1,985 x 1,937 mm, and a volume of 1,112 L when seated with five people, and the rear seats can be retracted in proportion to 2,205 L.
The interesting point is that the Volkswagen ID.BUZZ in terms of length this is a compact positioning, but the width is close to 2 meters, here it is speculated that the size of the battery pack has increased the width of the model, as to why it is five-seater and compact car length later.
At the same time, as a model born on the MEB pure electric platform, thanks to the shorter front and rear overhangs, Volkswagen ID. Buzz has a wheelbase of 2,988 mm, while a wheelbase of almost 3 meters is typically around 4 meters 9 on conventional fuel vehicles.
Three electricity
The most important battery for pure electric vehicles, volkswagen ID. BUZZ is equipped with an 82 kWh ternary lithium battery pack, which is actually available as 77 kWh, and the official did not announce the specific endurance, which speculates that the WLTC has a range of about 400 km.
In terms of power, Volkswagen ID. BUZZ adopts a rear maximum power of 150 kW, peak torque of 310 Nm motor, the parameters are consistent with ID.4 and ID.6, here is expected to accelerate 100 kilometers in about 9 seconds, compared to the traditional fuel MPV, combined with the 21-inch large wheels given by the show car, the rear tire width is 265 mm, you can expect volkswagen ID.BUZZ have a certain driving pleasure.
In terms of charging, Volkswagen ID.BUZZ the only charging port in the tail, supporting 170 kW fast charging, this cancellation of slow charging operations has been seen in weilai ET7, I don't know if it will become a major trend in the future. It is worth saying that Volkswagen ID.BUZZ also supports external discharge, although it is not a new technology, but it is very friendly to users who like to "eat hot pot and sing songs" outdoors.
Assisted driving
In assisted driving, ID.BUZZ has applied volkswagen's latest version, which not only includes emergency braking, lane keeping, and memory parking, but also two more interesting functions.
One is the Car2X feature. This function can not only realize mutual communication between MEB models, but also capture traffic information and remind the driver through a dedicated communication protocol independent of the cellular network, which ensures the safety of driving to a certain extent.
Travel Assist with swarm data. According to the official expression of volkswagen, this optional function can achieve auxiliary lane change on the highway, which can be understood as a high-speed navigation function. The special feature of this feature is that Volkswagen will record information about other MEB models that have already passed on this road and feedback it to your car, which Volkswagen officially said, and even let you drive on roads without lane lines.
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How to understand the mass ID.BUZZ?
In the eyes of many people in China, MPV is equal to "commercial car" or "daddy car", so it is very confusing for Volkswagen to produce such an MPV with a length of less than 4 meters and only five seats, so for Volkswagen ID. BUZZ should be understood in the light of the actual situation in Europe.
As a very early into the aging and low birthrate of the region, Europe rarely has the United States of a few children plus two dogs car scene, while Young people in Europe will rarely live with their parents as in China, so there is rarely a car to sit full of 7 people, this time hatchback or station wagon is the first choice, if there is a higher demand for space, then will choose a compact rear seat can be put down five-seat MPV, and Volkswagen ID.BUZZ just meet the above requirements, is it easy to understand?
However, as the world's largest and second largest automobile market, Volkswagen naturally cannot ignore it, so it is likely that it will enter the Sino-US market with an extended 6/7-seater model in the future. The body length is expected to be extended to a level with toyota Sienna and Chrysler Grand Jaylon, that is, about five meters two.
In this regard, it can be said that Volkswagen ID.BUZZ in Europe still has the opportunity to reproduce the legend of volkswagen T1, especially in the case of European fuel vehicles have been "Countdown to Death". But in China and the United States is not so easy, especially at present, the domestic Hongqi, Lantu, Extreme Kr and other brands of MPV are already on the road, leaving the public ID.BUZZ time is really not much.
Author: Giraffe
Editor: Liu Guangzhen
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