There are many views on the Internet about what kind of cars young people should buy, but it is an indisputable fact that sporty models are often more favored. For example, my classmate Xiao Guan, he is a person who loves to play and love sports by nature, and also pursues fashion and freedom, and taste and aesthetic are very online. His first car chose the Golf, which is a 2021 FAW-Volkswagen Golf 280 TSI DSG R-Line Version (referred to as golf), the guidance price is 165,800 yuan, and he can't wait to get started not long after the new car is on the market.
Xiao Guan said that young people should have their own cars, that sense of freedom, exclusive to young people's sense of unrestrained let him have more passion for life, since the car has become a larger range of activities, running customers are also convenient, work efficiency and quality of life have been significantly improved.
By chance, I got a 2021 SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 Pro Jizhi Edition test drive, the reference price is 173,900, this car and the Golf R-Line, belongs to the same level of rare driving fun exquisite model, so I asked Xiaoguan to look at the car together, by the way, what is the difference with his golf comparison.
PART1 Good-looking skin bags are not the same
Because of the reason that it is very similar to the positioning of golf, Xiaoguan has actually always paid attention to ID.3, as early as 2016, when Volkswagen unveiled the ID.3 prototype car - I.D.Concept, we also discussed it with pictures, and at that time, we were also attracted by its futuristic design, and said that we did not know how much it could be retained when mass production. Nowadays, it seems that the mass production ID.3 is quite a high degree of restoration of the concept car.
It is said that looking at the lights first when looking at the car, Xiao Guan will always focus on the first goal on the lights. As far as I know, Yatsuyo Golf also comes standard with IQ.Light LED headlights, but Xiao Guan said after experiencing the IQ.Light headlights of ID.3 that he felt that the IQ.Light of golf was completely inferior to ID.3, and the IQ.Light on ID.3 was too good, both in terms of illuminance and paving.
In order to satisfy his urgent thirst for knowledge, we decided to put the two cars together and thoroughly study them. ID.3 Length 4261mm Width 1778mm Height 1568mm, Wheelbase 2765mm; Golf Length 4296mm Width 1788mm Height 1471mm, Wheelbase 2631mm. Although the ID.3 is slightly smaller than the Golf, the advantages of wheelbase and height make the ID.3 look bigger, and the visual senses of the two cars are completely different.
He feels that the rear color of the Golf is a bit monotonous, in contrast to ID.3, the rear tailgate of the contrast color occupies most of the visual center of gravity, while the tailgate and roof integrated with the rear windshield also reduce the visual center of gravity of the vehicle, through such a simple color matching can make people remember it at once.
Although the ID.3 is not as wide as the Golf body, the rounded tail makes the body fuller and more powerful. The more slender tail lights, lit at night like light suspended in the night, are very technological.
The PART2 interior is an interesting soul
Although he had already seen the interior pictures of the ID.3, Xiao Guan still couldn't wait to sit in the car and feel it. Maybe we did car editing, we are used to getting on the car to see the design first and then say the experience, but has always believed that he has a "golden right foot" of the small level but first paid attention to the electric door pedal, he felt that this kind of brake and electric door pedal marked on the pause and play in line with the design is very interesting, absolutely an interesting soul.
Finally back to the driving perspective, Xiao Guan began to look at the interior of id.3 with the owner's mentality, he said that the first feeling is simple and capable, although the central control screen and golf are almost exactly the same, but ID.3 is to look younger and more technological, why is this?
The physical control buttons of traditional cars are almost invisible in the ID.3 car, and most of the functions are set through this central control screen, and it is also very convenient to control by voice.
Only the left rear of the steering wheel also retains the headlight touch switch, the piano paint panel feels very good, and the summary is technology + fashion in the words of Xiao Guan.
Because id.3 and golf machines use the same system, so it is easy for Xiao Guan to get started, he said that he prefers volkswagen's simple UI design, and now many car machine system interfaces are fancy, look very advanced, in fact, will interfere with the driver's attention, because you can't see the information you want at a glance.
In addition, the Volkswagen car machine has always been equipped with CarPlay function, usually go out in advance on the mobile phone to set up a good navigation, on the car can be wireless automatic connection to the car machine, to achieve seamless switching from mobile phone to car machine navigation, Xiao Guan thinks this is very practical.
The knob shift integrated on the right side of the instrument seems to him to be very novel, and it can also save a lot of space for the traditional stall position, the middle countertop of the main co-pilot is a storage design, I said that here is also suitable for hiding private money, he said, no, this is the makeup box left for his girlfriend.
In order to compare the space size of the two cars, Xiao Guan also actively made a model.
Part3 The owner's test drive was full of surprises
Although there are many optional models at the same price on the market now, there are very few cars like id.3 and golf that are exquisite and fun to handle, and there are even fewer electric versions, so Xiao Guan is eager to know what is the difference between ID.3 and golf in driving, the most intuitive way is the driving experience, Xiao Guan can't wait to test drive a lap.
ID.3 uses the front-facing rear-drive motor layout, the maximum power of the motor is 125kW, the peak torque is 310N·m, this power data is slightly larger than the Golf's 1.4T engine, but Xiao Guan said that the acceleration is much better than the Golf, the power output is more direct and coherent, and it is really a response to zero waiting, all say that people and cars are integrated, but Xiao Guan said that this is the foot integration, as long as the right foot has action, the speed will immediately change.
This is well understood, because the electric vehicle does not have a transmission in the traditional sense, in other words, there is no frustration brought about by the gearbox shift of the fuel vehicle, and how deep the acceleration pedal is, how direct the feedback is, and the feeling of driving up is naturally more enjoyable than that of the traditional fuel vehicle.
In the driving mode, ID.3 also has two gears to choose from, D gear mode is suitable for the road smooth elevated or high-speed road conditions, there is no active kinetic energy recovery in this mode, the release of the electric door vehicle will slide, only when the brake is stepped on will recover a part of the kinetic energy, the overall driving experience is closest to the fuel car, for the small level of the fuel car, the hand does not need to adapt at all.
In the B gear strong kinetic energy recovery mode is more suitable for urban congestion road conditions, lifting the foot can feel a good sense of deceleration brought by kinetic energy recovery, but the vehicle deceleration is very linear, the occupants of the car will not have uncomfortable nodding action, which also makes driving more convenient, Xiao Guan said that he has been an old driver for many years on the brakes on the fuel vehicle can not step on this feeling.
Of course, for Xiao Guan, the biggest surprise that ID.3 gave him was actually from the rear drive, starting to accelerate the tire grip more, and the handling limit was higher. The front wheels are also better directed and more agile when turning, don't look at the ID.3 wheelbase is longer than the golf, but the turning radius is smaller than the golf, only 5 meters, and the body flexibility is higher. At the same time, the rear drive also makes the ID.3's rear performance more active and more fun to drive.
Indeed, looking at the market at the same price as the ID.3, there are actually very few rear-drive models, and I can think of zero-run C11, SkyriME5 and Chery Big Ant, but only the ID.3 is known for its control, and it is also a pure German global model, and there is no opponent in the same level.
Finally, in terms of battery life, xiaoguan is also very satisfied, all the way in the suburbs of the stop-and-go, ID.3 table power loss is actually less than the actual mileage, energy efficiency is very high, the mileage is enough to meet daily use. Xiao Guan said that it is enough for urban running customers to charge once a week, which is more convenient than golf refueling, because there are charging piles in the community, and the electricity bill is only about half of the fuel cost, and the insurance money can be saved after a year.
Summary: A short experience of the day, Xiao Guan is in love with ID.3, the whole time he is driving ID.3, golf directly lost to me, he said that opening ID.3 feels younger and more energetic, if there is ID.3 when buying golf, he may directly buy ID.3. It's really a person who likes the new and the old, but I think that ID.3 is really great, in many ways far beyond golf, maybe it is only a matter of time before the status of fuel vehicles such as golf will be replaced in the future, after all, who can refuse a quieter power, more direct acceleration, lower cost of use, or a back-drive "electric golf", Xiao Guan is a good example, and he is a microcosm of the young people who pursue the new trend in this era.