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No More IDs, VW’s EVs Will Get Real Names (www.carscoops.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Good point, I just liked the logic of the numbers.
The polo equivalent would be the ID1. Possibly to be named ID-Every1.
Which seems very logical to me to be an about Polo sized car, even with no prior knowledge of VW naming schemes. So you can also quickly figure it's like a FIAT 500, or Peugeot 108 or Citroen C1.
Polo is actually a pretty stupid name IMO.
Golf makes an association to a golf cart, and should clearly be the smaller car of the two.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Something didn’t feel right about the polo being compared to the ID.1

Checking the dimensions on google, a closer comparison would be:

VW Up! - ID.1 VW Polo - ID.2 VW Golf - ID.3

I too am a fan of the numbering. I drive an ID.4 and when I was purchasing, I understood where the size slotted in.

Although, the ID.5 being almost the same size definitely confused things a little

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I thought Up! and Polo were similar size, so there you go, complete failure of the old naming scheme.
Without prior knowledge, the Up! might as well be bigger than a T-Roc.
But the ID2 is advertised as having as much space as a Golf!?
So I guess it depends if you measure exterior or interior, although I don't see much sense in measuring on the exterior?

https://www.volkswagen.dk/da/elektriske-biler/elbiler/id-2all.html

And it's the 2nd point.

Rummelig som en Golf

Means spacious as a Golf.

I tried to find it in English, but apparently VW doesn't let you choose language?
But it seems to me the ID3 is obviously bigger than than the Golf?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think all the IDs are bigger than their ICE equivalents, A quick check shows https://www.automobiledimension.com/model/volkswagen/id-3 https://www.automobiledimension.com/model/volkswagen/golf

The golf is longer but the ID. 3 is wider and taller (not by much)

Honestly the fact that I’m having to google this proves your point that the numbers are easier for non experts to understand.

Maybe there’s a compromise where they can call it “ID.3 Golf” lets the golf users know what they need to look at and if they want to go up or down in relative size they can easily do so

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

the numbers are easier

I like easy. 😀

they can call it “ID.3 Golf”

That could work, but if it's actually more roomy, it seems a bit diminishing to the car to call it a Golf.