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VWSA has a fleet of sexy electric ID.3 vehicles for SA customers to experience. Picture: Supplied
In the meantime Volkswagen SA and other brands are soldiering on, readying themselves for inevitable change. Last week the local subsidiary brought out motoring media to sample the ID.3 — the compact all-electric hatchback it pins its hopes to continue on the messianic influence of the Beetle and Golf.
Phase two is kicking off with the ID.3 — the vehicle which Motor News first encountered at the 2019 Frankfurt Auto show where it was a showstopper that was mobbed even by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her security entourage. Comparisons can be extended to the interior furnishings. Though the Golf gets the latest digital wizardry, the ID.3 trumps it with its cutting-edge electric displays.But both prove they are related by equally bamboozling your knowledge of button placement and complicated menus.
The rack of batteries of its MEB platform that underpin the ID.3 make it markedly heavier than the Golf, and you feel it. This made it tricky to drive on the circuit but the brakes are strong and sharp and are designed to decisively retard the heft.
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