2025 Volkswagen ID.4 (inc. 0-100 & braking) review: End of the Model Y?

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Volkswagen has FINALLY launched the Volkswagen ID.4 in Australia in a single rear-wheel drive trim. Does it have the goods to take on the world's best selling electric car, the Tesla Model Y? Paul Maric finds out.  Hardness tester, noise and lane keeping results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/121Auf6HGvaBqRToYcuAz94alin7Sw55SpOPECBDlnKE  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior: 01:01 Interior: 03:24 Infotainment: 04:53 Safety Tech: 06:56  Practicality: 07:37 Charging: 11:14 On the Road: 12:37 Semi-autonomous Driving: 19:45 Accel. & braking: 21:20 Verdict: 23:58  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #volkswagen #id4 #review

Transcript

00:00Let's see what it's like here on our sine waves.

00:04Yeah, nice. That is really impressive.

00:06So, beneath the skin here, you have adaptive dampers,

00:09and we're in the comfort mode at the moment.

00:11And it is literally that. It is very comfortable.

00:13And in and around the city, it feels very compliant and very well sorted.

00:17G'day, I'm Paul. Look what is finally here.

00:21It is the Volkswagen ID.4.

00:23It has been coming to Australia forever, and it has finally arrived.

00:27They've had a lot of complications getting it here,

00:28but it is finally here, and I'm glad.

00:31So, the ID.4 is kind of a competitor to something like a Model Y

00:34in terms of size and price as well.

00:36It's priced at just under $60,000,

00:39so $1,000 more than the Model Y, the updated Model Y.

00:42But importantly, it has around 100km more driving range.

00:46They really have crammed a big old battery in here

00:48that gives you the driving range that you need

00:50without having to spend mega dollars.

00:51So, today we're going to do a detailed review of this.

00:54If you do want to skip ahead to other parts of this review,

00:56you can use the time codes on the screen, or if you're on YouTube.

00:58You can scroll down and use the chapters below.

01:01So, they've launched this, the ID.4, in only one spec here in Australia.

01:05It's called the ID.4 Pro.

01:07There is an all-wheel drive version coming at a later date.

01:09This is just single-motor rear-wheel drive.

01:11There is also the ID.5, which is like a sportier version of this

01:14that is available in GTX trim,

01:16which is like a sporty version of this, effectively.

01:19So, we'll be reviewing that a little bit later on as well.

01:21What does it look like here in terms of design?

01:24So, optional colours, $1,000.

01:26And one of the funny things that I noticed

01:28when we cancelled our Model Y order a little while back,

01:31I noticed that the option pricing for the optional colours has crept up.

01:36So, now the minimum price you can spend on an optional colour on a Model Y is $2,300.

01:41So, if you don't want just the plain colour,

01:44you have to spend $2,300, which is a huge amount of money.

01:47It's like criminal levels of money.

01:50So, when you do add up some of this stuff,

01:51including the additional range,

01:53this actually represents pretty good value for money.

01:55Design-wise, Volkswagen logo up the front here with white on black.

01:58You've got full LED matrix headlights.

02:00So, you've got the good stuff there.

02:02You've got a little bit of aero off to the side there

02:05because electric car.

02:08I'll be curious to see how this is for efficiency as well.

02:10A lot of the other cars in this segment

02:12have kind of gone upmarket in terms of wheel sizes,

02:16low-profile tyres,

02:17and that is affecting the type of range that you can get.

02:20My thought is that with an electric car,

02:21unless it is a sporty one,

02:23you kind of want this set up here.

02:2419-inch yellow wheels, chubby profile tyres,

02:27something that is just going to give you a little bit more mileage

02:29over and above style.

02:30You've got piano black in the centre there

02:32with machined finish on the outside as well.

02:35Wheel arch guards just there.

02:37You've got this sort of silver panel

02:39that runs along the top there.

02:40That matches in with silver roof rails.

02:42Full glass panoramic roof there.

02:45Not a sunroof though, so that doesn't open.

02:47These door handles, they're sort of flush with the body.

02:50And then when you put your hand inside,

02:51you've got a little push button there to release those.

02:55Now, around the back, LED taillights.

02:56But these are cool.

02:57You've got like these 3D blades that sit in there.

03:00They look really cool.

03:01So, the LED light is actually integrated into each of those blades.

03:05You've got a wiper here.

03:06Same sort of Volkswagen logo as the front there with the white text.

03:09And then this sort of diffuser section down the bottom here

03:12with the shark fin aerial up the top.

03:15So, let me know what you're looking at about the design.

03:17Do you think it looks good?

03:18What do you think about the price?

03:19Do you think they could have gone sharper on the price?

03:21Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.

03:23So, we're inside the ID.4.

03:25This is what the key looks like.

03:26You've got lock, boot, unlock, and then Volkswagen logo on the back.

03:31It's a proximity sensing key.

03:33So, once you're inside, you basically put your foot on the brake

03:35and it's ready to go.

03:36Or you've got a start-stop button here as well,

03:38just in case you need it.

03:39So, in terms of design, it's also pretty pleasant looking.

03:42Nice big infotainment screen here in the centre.

03:45Thankfully, a screen ahead of the driver as well.

03:46So, you can see all of your critical information there

03:48and it's sort of ready to go.

03:50A gear stick is sort of located here on the steering wheel.

03:53You're able to sort of flick through gears using that.

03:55There is lots of piano black.

03:56So, you've got some around here, around here as well.

03:59The steering wheel has these really annoying capacitive touch buttons,

04:02which they're thankfully phasing out,

04:04but just something you're going to have to deal with

04:06if you end up buying the car.

04:08Storage as well.

04:08I'll run through that shortly,

04:10but I don't know.

04:11It could have been slightly better handled here.

04:13We'll have a look at that in a second.

04:15In terms of your touch points though, love this.

04:18Love a good armrest, especially one that is adjustable.

04:20You can sort of move that up and down where you want it to go.

04:22Just gives you a nice comfy seating position.

04:25What are the touch points like?

04:26I guess we'll use that.

04:27Nice and soft.

04:29Soft on the door as well.

04:30We've got our durometer.

04:31We've tested the main surfaces in this cabin.

04:34If you do want to see how this car compares to others that we've tested before,

04:37look at the link in the description below.

04:40Now, what about build quality?

04:41What is it like?

04:43Feels pretty solid there.

04:45A little feel too bad there.

04:48A little door slam sounds like.

04:49Now, on infotainment, you've got a screen that's just under 13 inches in size.

04:57Very clear, like it is ultra sharp.

05:00So, I love the resolution there.

05:02In terms of the functionality, look, it's fine.

05:05It can be a little bit fiddly.

05:06I was sort of trying to navigate around stuff yesterday,

05:08and it might just need a little bit of time to get used to,

05:11but it was just a little bit fiddly.

05:12There is no inbuilt satellite navigation,

05:14and that can be a little bit annoying because your smartphone mirroring is wired.

05:18I just can't understand how it's wired in this day and age

05:21when wireless smartphone mirroring is a thing,

05:24and if you're not going to have wireless smartphone mirroring,

05:26you've got to at least have satellite navigation there

05:28because if you forget a cable,

05:30you can't use your phone to figure out where you're going.

05:32So, yeah, I don't know.

05:33I just think that could be improved.

05:35In addition to that, Volkswagen, I don't know,

05:37they've had issues with app connectivity here in Australia.

05:40For some reason, we just can't get the same level of app connectivity

05:43you can find with other brands.

05:45So, stuff like remotely unlocking, remotely starting climate,

05:48all of that sort of stuff you can't really do.

05:50It's kind of like a one-way communication style thing here with the application,

05:55which I don't think is really good enough,

05:56and I think if you do want to be up against some of the other competitors

06:00in this segment like Kia, Tesla,

06:02they all have really comprehensive apps that allow you to do everything,

06:05whereas this doesn't seem to have that.

06:06Outside of that, you have Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, both wired.

06:12So, once it is wired in, it's fine, works well, no dramas,

06:15big full-screen integration,

06:16and importantly, you still have access to the rest of your controls with ease,

06:19including like a shortcut menu at the top here that's customizable as well.

06:23I'll show you what Android Auto looks like.

06:26So, full-screen there as well, pretty straightforward.

06:29In addition to all of that, you have FM and DAB digital radio,

06:34no AM radio, but you can get pretty much all of those AM stations

06:38through online streaming or through digital anyway,

06:41so nothing sort of too crazy there.

06:43You've got these slide things for your climate and volume.

06:47It's going to work fine.

06:48It would just be good to have a knob.

06:49I don't know why everyone's so knob-adverse these days.

06:52Then screen ahead of the driver,

06:53just all your critical functions there,

06:54and really everything it needs to be.

06:56On the safety front, you've got an auto-dimming rear vision mirror.

07:00You've got blind spot monitoring built into the wing mirror.

07:02You've got radar cruise control with a semi-autonomous steering function,

07:06front and rear parking sensors, and a 360 camera.

07:09I'll show you what that looks like.

07:12Make that quiet for a sec.

07:13Quality of that isn't very good.

07:15It's quite sort of grainy,

07:16and even that 360 view isn't really that good.

07:20I do just wonder, you know, in this day and age,

07:24how you just can't have high-quality cameras.

07:27They're just like a cheap off-the-shelf item,

07:29so hopefully that is something they can improve as part of an update,

07:32but that definitely needs to be better.

07:34And this is what the horn sounds like.

07:37So let's talk about practicality,

07:39and we'll start off with your connectivity.

07:41You've got two USB-C ports down here,

07:43one of which you'll need to use for your smartphone mirroring.

07:46There's wireless phone charging down here as well.

07:49No 12-volt outlet up the front here, that is, at the back.

07:52In terms of storage, so I mentioned before that,

07:54I don't know how impressed I am with the amount of storage here.

07:57So you've got these cup holders.

07:59That can come out and give you a little storage slot there if you want,

08:02which is good.

08:03Then you have this centre storage here,

08:05and importantly, it has a cover,

08:08which means you can hide valuables and stuff,

08:11but it's not a huge amount of storage space.

08:13So I think that the packaging here probably isn't that good.

08:16I just don't understand why that is all open.

08:18You could have easily joined that to the floor there

08:20and had quite a deep storage area.

08:22That really doesn't need to be open,

08:24so a bit of a weird one there.

08:25But it does mean that you get these armrests,

08:28which I reckon is a good thing.

08:30Over here, glove box, also very small for some reason.

08:33It only goes halfway across.

08:34There's probably a fuse box or something behind that

08:36that's limiting the size of that,

08:38but it's just a really sort of weird thing to have.

08:41And outside of that, it's all sort of pretty straightforward.

08:43There's nothing else to sort of report on the storage front.

08:46In terms of comfort, you've got dual-zone automatic climate control.

08:49That's controlled through the screen here.

08:51You've got heated steering wheel and heated seats as well.

08:55And then outside of that, you have electric seat adjustments.

08:57You can go forwards, backwards.

08:59Your backrest can go forwards and backwards.

09:01Lift the front of the seat, the back of the seat.

09:03You've got lumbar adjustment as well.

09:05Passenger seat is electrically adjustable too.

09:08On the steering front, offers both tilt and reach adjustments.

09:12And on our reach test, how does this all go?

09:14Easy to reach while you're driving.

09:16So, second row, what's it like?

09:18Knee room, really good.

09:20Tow room, okay, but not amazing.

09:22Sort of a little wedged in there.

09:24Headroom, reasonable as well.

09:26I think if you were taller, though, your head would be touching that roof.

09:30It sort of feels nice and airy back here.

09:31You've got storage for a phone up the top here.

09:34You've got matte pockets as well.

09:35Down here, you've got two USB-C ports, plus air vents,

09:38and a third zone of climate control.

09:41Center armrest here as well with a set of cup holders and a port that goes through to the boot.

09:47It is a little bit scratchy back here, though.

09:49So, they've gone with the world's scratchiest plastic up the top here.

09:54So, it kind of just cheapens the vibe a little bit there, which is unfortunate.

09:57But I'm just going to call this out.

09:58I think this is really cool.

09:59So, basically, this door handle, it's an electronic release.

10:03So, you only need to give it a light pull and it will open.

10:05If you are in a situation where the car, you know, fails or power doesn't work,

10:10you can still emergency open it by pulling it harder and it's got a mechanical release.

10:15There's heaps of electric cars on the market these days that just have a button to release the door,

10:19but there is no manual release.

10:21All the manual release is hidden away somewhere and you'll never be able to find it in the event of an accident

10:25or being unable to get out of the car.

10:27So, it's good to see these guys have just stuck with what works,

10:30which is literally a door handle.

10:32Who would have thought?

10:33All right, window test.

10:34Does it go all the way down?

10:36Let's have a look.

10:37Yes, and it's auto up and down as well.

10:42Now, let's talk about cargo capacity.

10:44So, you've got a power tailgate.

10:47So, just in its sort of standard form here, you've got around 550-ish litres.

10:53You've got storage under the cargo floor as well for cables and other bits and pieces.

10:59And there is a sub-sub floor with other storage.

11:03So, you've got a fair bit of storage there to work with, which is pretty good.

11:07If you do want more space, though, you can drop the second row.

11:11When you drop that out of the way, you're getting around 1,600 litres of space.

11:16So, it's not a bad storage compartment.

11:18Now, let's talk about charging before we go for a drive and the battery as well.

11:23So, 82 kilowatt-hour nominal capacity.

11:25I think usable is just under 80 kilowatt-hours.

11:27It's an NCM battery.

11:29So, it's a battery that contains nickel.

11:30You've got both AC and DC charging.

11:33This is the type of battery you don't necessarily want to charge to 100%.

11:37It's recommended to charge it to around 80% to increase the longevity of the battery.

11:42DC charging can occur at up to 175 kilowatts with an average rate of around 120 kilowatts.

11:49AC charging, on the other hand, three-phase 11 kilowatts, which is pretty decent with a driving range,

11:54official driving range of just over 540 kilometres on the WLTP cycle.

11:59It also has bi-directional charging.

12:01It's not kind of the bi-directional charging you're used to in other cars where you have vehicle-to-load.

12:06This can actually do a vehicle-to-home setup.

12:08So, you can actually integrate a DC charger in here that can charge your entire home.

12:14A lot of people misunderstand with vehicle-to-load.

12:16You can't really just run your home off vehicle-to-load because it doesn't have the right communication protocol with the car

12:22and you typically can't draw enough current.

12:24This, on the other hand, if you are able to draw from DC, it actually has enough current there to run your home

12:29and for it to work forwards and backwards in terms of charging capacity.

12:36Okay, we have just hit the road in the ID.4.

12:39Let's start off with some of these safety systems.

12:41I kind of always talk about this stuff because it tends to not really work.

12:46But I haven't actually had that many issues with this.

12:50It's interesting with a lot of the Chinese brands that we test here that it's constantly a problem.

12:54I've got to switch it all off.

12:55But here, it's actually not that bad.

12:58I'll probably just turn the lane departure system off just because we don't have to adhere to lanes here.

13:03But the rest seems to be pretty good.

13:05So, touch wood. Let's see how it goes.

13:08So, ID.4 Pro, available in one spec at the moment.

13:10And that is just rear-wheel drive with a single electric motor, 210 kilowatts of power, 545 newton metres of torque.

13:19So, pretty healthy numbers.

13:20And as a result of that, you're actually getting a really nice and meaty throttle response there.

13:26Pushes you nicely in the back.

13:27It's not like face-pulling performance stuff.

13:30But for the price that you're paying, it actually feels really nice and punchy there in the mid-range,

13:34which is what you want.

13:35Especially if you've got this loaded with family and stuff you want to be able to overtake.

13:38It really feels very comfortable from behind the wheel.

13:41In terms of economy, it's actually pretty reasonable as well.

13:44So, Volkswagen claims a number of around 16 kilowatt-hours per 100 k's.

13:48I've been averaging less than that, sort of around the 13 or 14 mark.

13:51As we sort of drive around here today, it's crept up to 16, 17.

13:55But that number is still pretty good, given that Model Y is consistently around the 13 or 14 mark.

14:00And it was when we owned it a little while back as a rear-wheel drive vehicle.

14:04And I think that is right where you want to be.

14:07It means that you're getting a good mixture there of range with the bigger battery.

14:11Decent acceleration.

14:12Again, you've got a bigger battery.

14:13Nice, big, chunky electric motor.

14:15So, it is just a really good combo to play with.

14:17Now, one thing I discovered just after we filmed the interior section,

14:21there is no way to schedule charging on this car.

14:24And I find that genuinely bizarre.

14:25And it could be a deal-breaker for some people.

14:28If you have off-peak charge rates, you're going to have to invest in a wall box or a charger

14:33that has the ability to schedule charging.

14:35Most cars can't even think of any cars on the market that don't let you actually schedule charging

14:40for off-peak rates for electricity.

14:42So, it's quite odd that they haven't fitted that to this vehicle.

14:45And that, you know, as far as I can tell, it's not available.

14:48It is available overseas by the look of it, because I've seen videos explaining how to activate it.

14:52But I just cannot find it here.

14:53And Volkswagen has confirmed that it's just not available in the car, which is just odd.

14:57So, hopefully, there's a reason to that.

14:58I don't know what that reason is.

14:59I'm going to chase it up.

15:00And if we do get an update before we publish this, I'll insert it into this part of the video.

15:04Now, let's talk about body control.

15:06We're going to crank the speed up to 130 k's an hour.

15:09It is maximum speed limit in Australia.

15:12Also, the speed you're likely to hit if you're overtaking on a country road.

15:16Let's see what it's like here on our sine waves.

15:20Yeah, nice.

15:21That is really impressive.

15:22So, beneath the skin here, you have adaptive dampers.

15:25And we're in the comfort mode at the moment.

15:27And it is literally that.

15:28It is very comfortable.

15:29And in and around the city, it feels very compliant and very well sorted.

15:33There, over those sine waves, even in comfort mode, there's plenty of body control.

15:37And it just gives you the vibe that, I don't know, this car is from a company that has been making cars for a while.

15:43You know what I mean?

15:44It just feels pleasant to drive.

15:46It feels like any other Volkswagen product, which is a product that really doesn't sort of err on the side of sportiness, unless it's an R model or a GTI, and kind of just is inoffensive.

15:56And that is exactly what this feels like behind the wheel.

15:59We've driven so many cars in this segment now, like previous generation of Model Y.

16:04We're driving the new version of Model Y next week.

16:06But the previous generation, the ride was appalling.

16:08Mustang Mach-E, which I've been spending the last six months with, ride appalling.

16:12So, it really just shows you that these guys have gone to the effort of sorting that out.

16:16We'll see whether that affects performance in terms of handling, because that is probably where it'll fall apart if it is too soft.

16:23But let's wait and see how it goes.

16:24Okay, rough road time.

16:2690km an hour is the speed.

16:29We tackle this dodgy stretch of road on.

16:32It's a shocker.

16:33Corrugations, potholes, you name it.

16:35We've got a condensed sine wave here as well.

16:38Let's see how it goes over this.

16:39This actually feels really quite comfortable.

16:41Yeah, there it is.

16:43That is great.

16:44Now, look, this is the thing, right?

16:45You've got these big profile tyres, really well-tuned suspension.

16:50It's just a really good combo for this type of road.

16:53This is a typical Australian road.

16:55You can go from having good quality roads to this stuff in a bit of a heartbeat.

17:00Okay, let's pop this over to Sport mode.

17:03So, you have Eco, Comfort, Sport and Individual instantly.

17:07I could feel the ride firm up there.

17:09Okay, brake throttle response there too.

17:12Let's go for a fang around the track and see what it feels like around the ride and handling track.

17:17Oh, yeah, that brake pedal feel is really not very good at all.

17:21All right, so handling-wise, love that rear-wheel drive feel.

17:33It sort of feels nice and perky from the back there.

17:35You get on the throttle.

17:36It sort of picks up really nicely.

17:38You don't get much wallowing.

17:39It just sort of gets up and moves.

17:41And, you know what, for a spec of this car that isn't the GTX, which is the sportier one, it actually feels really nice and accomplished.

17:48It's got great steering feel.

17:50Just these brakes are really not very good.

17:53The brake's fine once you step on it.

17:55It's just the brake pedal feel that's quite average.

17:58Even these bumps mid-corner, it's dispatching off quite nicely.

18:02Let's see what it's like along the back straight here.

18:04Yeah, I love that rear-wheel drive feel.

18:07It's quite playful.

18:09So you can sort of lean into the throttle as you're sort of ploughing through these corners,

18:13and you can really feel it's quite active at the rear, but still feels quite planted.

18:18So here's the back straight.

18:19Let's see how this goes.

18:21Yeah, nice.

18:22Very good.

18:23Picking up speed beautifully.

18:24But, yeah, this brake pedal, like, standing on it there, it's just, you don't feel anything.

18:30It's really weird.

18:30There's, like, no feel through that pedal.

18:32It's just really spongy.

18:33Then it goes firm, and then you've got to really stand on it a bit.

18:37I mean, the fact that this has rear drum brakes, I think, in 2025 is totally unacceptable.

18:42You can't, I don't know.

18:43It's just, it's a cost-cutting measure, and if the drum brakes are affecting the brake pedal

18:49feel and performance here, then I think it's probably something they need to have a look

18:53at addressing.

18:54If they do the job perfectly fine, no dramas.

18:56I know that EVs use less brakes than a typical internal combustion car, because you are regenning

19:03a lot more.

19:03But when you start getting brake pedal performance, if it is linked to drum brakes, I think it's

19:09something they need to switch out pretty quickly.

19:10Now, in terms of visibility, I can see clearly down the front of the car there, it's a great

19:13seating position, big wing mirrors, and reasonable visibility out the back.

19:17It's a narrow envelope, but not the end of the world.

19:20In terms of road noise, this is probably one of the car's big benefits.

19:24There isn't a huge amount of road noise that comes into the cabin.

19:26Even on course-chip stretches of road, it was fairly quiet and subdued in here, so pretty

19:31impressed with the way they've been able to really level that out.

19:35We put it up against our calibrated sound meter, and this is how it went in terms of

19:39the results.

19:40If you do want to see how this car compares to others that we've tested before, there's

19:44a link in the description below.

19:46Okay, let's test the lane support systems.

19:48We do this at 80Ks or 70Ks an hour, rather, and we'll see how well it holds itself in these

19:53lanes, so easy in the first lane, gradually gets harder as we get to the outermost lane.

19:58Outermost lane has the most banking, and it requires the most amount of torque input from

20:04the car to the steering to hold it there, so first lane's all good.

20:07We'll jump over to the next lane.

20:11Okay, wait for that to go green.

20:14There we go, so it's kind of straddling that lane.

20:18Yeah, it's moving itself into the center there.

20:20It's working pretty well.

20:22That's all good.

20:23All right, let's try the outermost lane.

20:25We'll see how it goes up here.

20:29There it is.

20:30Beautiful.

20:32Holding itself bang in the center of that, so it veers towards that.

20:45It's going to smash into that, I think.

20:46Okay, so yeah, it's holding itself there, but it keeps steering itself to the guardrail,

20:55and I fear that it's going to hit the guardrail, so yeah, don't love that.

21:00Haven't had that experience in any other cars, so I don't know whether that's just the angle

21:05that it's on or something, but yeah, it didn't love that.

21:08So yeah, it's weird.

21:09It was holding itself fine there to start with, and then it just didn't like it.

21:12So just a weird scenario, but it works fine in those first two lanes.

21:16And on the way here today, it actually worked pretty well in terms of holding itself within

21:19the lane while we were driving.

21:20Now, let's do a little bit of performance testing.

21:23So we're going to go zero all the way through to 120, so we can see what the 80 to 120 overtaking

21:29time is like as well.

21:31It's in sport mode at the moment.

21:32I'll maybe just put stability control into ESC sport.

21:37There is no way to switch it off entirely, unfortunately.

21:40I'll brake boost just to see if it has launch control.

21:42It sort of squats down a bit there, so here we go.

21:50All right, building up speed there.

21:55I think the official time was a little under seven seconds.

21:58There's 100 and 120.

22:01All right, let's see how that feels.

22:03So zero to 100, 6.86 seconds, so slightly off the claim time, and then 80 to 120 in 3.88

22:13seconds.

22:13That number's actually pretty good.

22:14Once it gets up and moves, you know, one of the things they need to manage with these cars

22:19with that much power and torque, you need to really taper that torque input from low speeds.

22:24I think if they were to just unleash it all at once, it would probably be a bit unruly

22:28in the wet, but that 80 to 120 time is really quite good.

22:31It just means that if you are overtaking and stuff like that, it's going to feel quite brisk.

22:36You know, we're going to give that one more shot.

22:37I just want to try something else here when it comes to launching it.

22:40So I'm just going to kind of stand on the throttle instead of brake boosting.

22:44So here we go.

22:45It felt a bit stronger off the line there, so we'll see if that helps us get closer to

22:50their claim time.

22:52100 and 120.

22:56All right, let's have a little look.

22:58Yeah, for some reason when I brake boosted, it really was quite slow off the line, but

23:01that felt much better.

23:03So that time around, 0 to 100, 6.4 seconds.

23:05There you go.

23:06So just standing on it makes all the difference.

23:08All right, let's see what the brake and tire package is like.

23:10I'm going to do a stop from 100 here.

23:14Here we go.

23:19I'm trying to squeeze my stomach out of me.

23:23That seatbelt thing is vicious.

23:26All righty, let's see how that went.

23:28So 100 to 0, 2.93 seconds, 37.8 metres, which is a really good stopping time.

23:33Anything between 35 and 40 is good.

23:36And it also shows you that when you go for maximum pedal pressure, you're getting a really

23:40good stopping distance.

23:41It's just that brake pedal feel just really, really isn't very awe-inspiring when you're

23:46out on the road trying to drive a bit faster.

23:48All righty, so how fast does it go in reverse?

23:51Let's find out.

23:52Here we go.

23:55All right, that is 32 kilometres an hour.

23:59Okay, so Volkswagen ID.4.

24:02Look, I think that this thing is inoffensive.

24:04It's a Volkswagen.

24:06You know what I mean?

24:06Like, you get inside it and it feels just like any other Volkswagen.

24:09You drive it and it feels like any other Volkswagen.

24:12And I think, to me, that is what a lot of people want from an EV.

24:14They don't necessarily want a science project.

24:16They just want something that looks normal and feels like other stuff that they've driven

24:19before.

24:20It's well-priced.

24:21So I think from that point of view, really good.

24:23Downsides, though.

24:24Brake pedal feel, don't like it at all.

24:26I also don't like the fact that you can't schedule charging.

24:28For a lot of people that want to do off-peak charging, there just appears to be no way

24:32to do it inside the car, which I think is disappointing.

24:34And also the phone app.

24:35I just don't think they've put enough effort into that for the Australian market to match

24:38some of the competitors in this segment.

24:40So I think there are things you have to weigh up.

24:42But on the balance of it, it is a really good car.

24:44And I'm impressed that it is finally here in Australia.

24:46So let me know what you reckon in the comments section below.

24:49Have you had a drive for this?

24:50What do you reckon?

24:51I'm keen for your feedback.

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