
2020 Volkswagen ID.3 review: Evolution or revolution?
Volkswagen’s electric launch lacks punch of predecessors

The ID.3 doesn’t come cheap, even with the Government’s assistance. Golf aficionados might expect more
It is meant to be one of ‘those’ moments. A landmark in the history of Volkswagen to which only two others can compare: the launch of the Type 1 (aka Beetle) in 1938, and the Golf in 1974. But I just can’t see this new ID.3 in those terms. At least not yet.
The ID.3 comes across as a capable new electric car, fluently conceived in the main, genuinely attractive, but no kind of revolution in the way that, say, the BMW i3 was in 2013.
The car I drove was one of those annoying first-edition cars that tend to appear at launch to exploit early adopter eagerness. Fully equipped, it would cost worryingly close to £40,000 were it not for the Government’s extant £3000 electric car grant. I’d like to try a Life model, which still sounds pricey at £30,000 (after the grant) for a base-spec car the size of a Golf.

