Thanks Neil. These things are here to stay so I feel our mission is to make them so even more people can't style them and enjoy them. Thats and we're just massive VW fan boys and girls.
Awesome video thanks. I'm waiting for mine, March delivery. Good to see a positive review of the infotainment too. I have an ID3 and find it great for the most part.
I absolutely love the ID Buzz. Nice to drive and looks great, but I specced one and it’s £67k 😮 I’m going to have to stick with my T6.1. Looking forward to your mods.
It will be interesting to see what they are like on the second hand market. VW are confident they will hold their value well though as they are offering strong GFV's on PCP finance.
After waiting over 2 years for a caddy and having a Zoe for a few months i see the attraction of electric and the Buzz Cargo and could make 200 miles work for most trips and always looking for instavolt or Ospray for fast splash and dash. We have PPF kits for whole vehicle also so limit damage to expensive paint from chips and bushes down country lanes.
My wife has had her Buzz since 2023-02-13, and in those 10 days, we have put on 107 km. It may not have needed charging, but we did plug it in once, to gain some experience. We learned that one has to remove the pistol within 30 s of opening the vehicle. We paid NOK 613 k for the vehicle, which was over twice as expensive as our previous vehicle, a 2012 Mazda 5. For us, in our mid-70s, range will never be an issue. The reason it was purchased was for its driving capabilities. We live in the country, with 13 km to the village, or 7 km - the wrong way - to an even closer grocery store. We don't want to move, and that means we should keep on driving for as long as it is practical. It helps when one sits up high, where one can see the road, and use tools such as dynamic cruise control, to ensure one does not crash into anything. Last year, we took three day trips, where the total distance driven on each trip was about 200 km. The Buzz should be able to handle that.
@@THQAutomotive Yes, we are definitely enjoying the Buzz. Ours is two tone white and yellow, with a white and yellow interior. Living in Norway, we, of course, have the driver sitting on the left. A couple of additional comments. First, we chose yellow because when we married 45 years ago, we rented a sunbrite yellow VW Rabbit in Canada for our honeymoon. We moved to Norway in 1980, two years after that. We tried to buy a 1992 Golf III in yellow, but the salesman advised against it, saying it would probably loose too much value. In the end we bought a red Golf, kept the car 14 years, then gave it away. Our Buzz does not have electric rear sliding doors, but the tailgate is electric, which is delightful. Instead of fitting the vehicle with a raised floor for NOK 7 500, we bought 6 SmartStore Pro 31 boxes, for about NOK 900. These comfortably fill the cargo/ baggage area, are solid, about the same height as the raised floor, and can be used to carry groceries when they are not being used to support a 120 cm wide mattress, for our afternoon naps, when we are away from home.
I test drove one a few weeks ago just out of curiosity… I was blown away by how good it was!! Personally I don’t think electric vehicles are the way to go… If the government are incentivising us then it’s the wrong decision. look how they (Gordon brown) encouraged us to buy diesel… now we are being told they are pollutant and we will have to pay a £12.50 daily charge to use them. Also whilst it might be cost affective now - Pay per mile will reel in the EV market and everyone else.
We've got our Buzz 1st Edition arriving very soon - literally the only thing we have a gripe about (so far, before having it sitting on the drive) is the lack of Multiflex board - and VW aren't giving us a straight answer on cost / whether the 1st Edition has the correct fittings for one. I'm a noob with these things! Would be really interesting if you did a short follow up video on the Multiflex board - or even comment here how you got on getting one retro-fitted! Not everyone's priority, but absolutely ours because it's the first step towards using it as a camper :-) Great video - the most useful video I've seen when it comes to range etc. Annoying about the wireless charger not working - I couldn't get the one in the show room to work either on my iPhone 13.
When you say multi flex board, is that the name for the shelf that comes in the rear of the other spec ID-Buzz car versions? If so i'll do some research on price and availability
@@THQAutomotive Exactly that :-) Looking forward to seeing how you get on! Absolute game changer that board, real let down it didn't come on the 1st edition.
Andy the colour will look mint in the summer and the interior. Put it out in the countryside or on a beach. I like it dude. Even better than your moustache wax 🙂
I cancelled my first edition a few weeks ago and so glad I did. It’s so poorly specced. No powered tailgate, or sliding door, plus lack of multiflex board is a disgrace at the price point. Still love the styling of this thing, but Volkswagen must try harder before I part with my pennies. Needs front swivels, rear sliding bench seat and aircon in the rear before I consider another, along with what I mentioned above.
@@THQAutomotive I visited the dealer last month, couldn’t change my first edition which seemed poorly specced compared to their demo van. Really disappointed, but knew it was the right decision to cancel and wait. Probably be Gen 2 in a few years before I contemplate another. Enjoy the van , they look great👍🏾
Having looked into it since this video, the charging network is a lot better than I originally thought. There are also 16 Tesla superchargers across the UK that charge none Tesla vehicles. You're right, it's not there just yet, but it is getting better all the time for sure.
Just bought a Euro T6 as I’m not keen on electric vans as I would to change three times on long trip..think there will be problems with electric vehicles regarding batteries etc ..at least I can keep,a gallon of diesel safely in my van
Sorry Peter, I feel we've let you down on the caddy. It seems to have been put on the back burning as we have some much other stuff coming along. I promise we will have a caddy update, I just can't say when at the moment.
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Front row could have been 3 seats. Think it was a bit of a miss there.
Maybe these electric cars are best for closer journeys. Then if out and about and u need to charge it at a garage you could get a taxi home and pick it up laters lol
@@THQAutomotive Great Vid again, thanks! I have a Buzz Cargo, in the same Lime Yellow due at the end of March, and I can't wait. Andy, what will you be doing with those 21 inch wheels please?😜
Make sure Bilstein don't make the rear springs coilbound like the wanky transporter rears. Been through 4 pairs of rear b14 springs on my T6 in 100k miles, last set I picked up from you guys in person. Hopefully they do better on the Buzz.
So many springs on coilover run bound at the bottom part of the spring, across many manufactures and vehicle platforms. They are designed to do that as the active part is on the up stroke. The problem with the original B14 is the H&R spring. The Eibach version that we sell it a much better spring. These come on the B14 Komfort but we also sell them on their own. I've not know of any of these break and the same price is used on the Twin Adjust Projekt coilover too.
It is a great vehicle. I think the commercial cargo version is fairly priced compared to other electric vans. Especially with the £5k government grant.
@@THQAutomotive I thought that would be the case, what are your thoughts for mileage based on the fact that you don’t have the Tesla network? I do about 30k miles per year, I am just cautious that there are no affiliated chargers for VAG EV cars
@@davetalton6939 I'm told there are 16 Tesla super chargers in the UK that charge none Tesla vehicles. I don't think with your mileage, the ID-Range and the charging network, an ID-Buzz isn't right for you, yet.
Nope. There’s no way it’s big enough to convert to a camper. It will be like when you see a caddy converted lol. Colour looks good though. Uk is not geared up for electric yet. The battery chemistry needs to be better also. Ie cobalt. You watch joe rogan, you might have seen how they get this out the grd. Not great.
Yes I've listen to Joe's interview with Siddharth Kara, it's very interesting but disgusting that this is going on. As he says, it wouldn't take much for the big tech companies to right their wrong's on this though. EV's will always be there, just like we're not going to all stop using our mobile phones using the same cobalt. I'm aware of a few camper builds already in progress. No they aren't big but the compact size does suit some builds.
Loved the expression on the boy’s face when he came alongside. He seemed to like it.
Yeah it gets that kind of look regularly, I don't think they're laughing at it, but maybe? haha
Like it! Also love how open minded THQs being about the T7 and ID Buzz. 👍👍
Thanks Neil. These things are here to stay so I feel our mission is to make them so even more people can't style them and enjoy them. Thats and we're just massive VW fan boys and girls.
Awesome video thanks. I'm waiting for mine, March delivery. Good to see a positive review of the infotainment too. I have an ID3 and find it great for the most part.
Thank you, glad to help. More content coming very soon on the ID-Buzz.
These look great imo, can't wait to see what you guys do with it!
Thank you, keep watching. More updates soon.
I absolutely love the ID Buzz. Nice to drive and looks great, but I specced one and it’s £67k 😮 I’m going to have to stick with my T6.1. Looking forward to your mods.
It will be interesting to see what they are like on the second hand market. VW are confident they will hold their value well though as they are offering strong GFV's on PCP finance.
Absolutely love the Buzz. A dream car for me but for now ‘stuck’ with my T6 Kombi 😅
@@24k__J Why? And I think you meant quiet 🤫
After waiting over 2 years for a caddy and having a Zoe for a few months i see the attraction of electric and the Buzz Cargo and could make 200 miles work for most trips and always looking for instavolt or Ospray for fast splash and dash. We have PPF kits for whole vehicle also so limit damage to expensive paint from chips and bushes down country lanes.
I'm tempted to build some sort of crazy buzz cargo next
Looks good, great colour!
It's grown on me for sure.
I was a VW technician and you do have to register it in VW’s network before those systems work. So that’s all it was.
Yeah I thought as much. All working lovely now 😊
My wife has had her Buzz since 2023-02-13, and in those 10 days, we have put on 107 km. It may not have needed charging, but we did plug it in once, to gain some experience. We learned that one has to remove the pistol within 30 s of opening the vehicle. We paid NOK 613 k for the vehicle, which was over twice as expensive as our previous vehicle, a 2012 Mazda 5. For us, in our mid-70s, range will never be an issue. The reason it was purchased was for its driving capabilities. We live in the country, with 13 km to the village, or 7 km - the wrong way - to an even closer grocery store. We don't want to move, and that means we should keep on driving for as long as it is practical. It helps when one sits up high, where one can see the road, and use tools such as dynamic cruise control, to ensure one does not crash into anything. Last year, we took three day trips, where the total distance driven on each trip was about 200 km. The Buzz should be able to handle that.
Interesting to read. Are you enjoying the Buzz so far?
@@THQAutomotive Yes, we are definitely enjoying the Buzz. Ours is two tone white and yellow, with a white and yellow interior. Living in Norway, we, of course, have the driver sitting on the left. A couple of additional comments. First, we chose yellow because when we married 45 years ago, we rented a sunbrite yellow VW Rabbit in Canada for our honeymoon. We moved to Norway in 1980, two years after that. We tried to buy a 1992 Golf III in yellow, but the salesman advised against it, saying it would probably loose too much value. In the end we bought a red Golf, kept the car 14 years, then gave it away. Our Buzz does not have electric rear sliding doors, but the tailgate is electric, which is delightful. Instead of fitting the vehicle with a raised floor for NOK 7 500, we bought 6 SmartStore Pro 31 boxes, for about NOK 900. These comfortably fill the cargo/ baggage area, are solid, about the same height as the raised floor, and can be used to carry groceries when they are not being used to support a 120 cm wide mattress, for our afternoon naps, when we are away from home.
Great choice in colour, looks great. I can’t wait to see it looking low, just a shame I won’t be able to afford one any time soon 😢.
They look like they're going to really hold their value. Not sure how they'll sit in 2-3 years on the used market.
Can’t wait to see what you do with it....💯
Updates coming so please keep watching :)
Great looking van . Love it 😂
I'm not sure if i detect a little sarcasm there or not? 😉
Been looking forward to your honest opinion
I hope we didn't disappoint
@@THQAutomotive nothing a microphone wouldn’t fix 😜
@@vdubster Yeah there was me thinking, this ID-Buzz is so quiet, the built in GoPro mic would be ok.....wrong!! oooops
Great informative video Andy 👏🏻
Cheers Oli, can't wait to see your ID-Buzz when it's finished.
I test drove one a few weeks ago just out of curiosity… I was blown away by how good it was!! Personally I don’t think electric vehicles are the way to go… If the government are incentivising us then it’s the wrong decision. look how they (Gordon brown) encouraged us to buy diesel… now we are being told they are pollutant and we will have to pay a £12.50 daily charge to use them. Also whilst it might be cost affective now - Pay per mile will reel in the EV market and everyone else.
I've grown to love more and more as i use it. The government will no doubt find away to tax us for electric vehicles once more people own them.
love the content, dam be your stabilizer .
I don't understand sorry
@@THQAutomotive hm..... the image is shackey it makes me dizzy at times
@@danachim5932 Ok got ya, sorry about that.
We've got our Buzz 1st Edition arriving very soon - literally the only thing we have a gripe about (so far, before having it sitting on the drive) is the lack of Multiflex board - and VW aren't giving us a straight answer on cost / whether the 1st Edition has the correct fittings for one. I'm a noob with these things!
Would be really interesting if you did a short follow up video on the Multiflex board - or even comment here how you got on getting one retro-fitted! Not everyone's priority, but absolutely ours because it's the first step towards using it as a camper :-)
Great video - the most useful video I've seen when it comes to range etc. Annoying about the wireless charger not working - I couldn't get the one in the show room to work either on my iPhone 13.
When you say multi flex board, is that the name for the shelf that comes in the rear of the other spec ID-Buzz car versions? If so i'll do some research on price and availability
@@THQAutomotive Exactly that :-) Looking forward to seeing how you get on! Absolute game changer that board, real let down it didn't come on the 1st edition.
@@tombrown819 I've requested details from VW / TPS. I'll report back tomorrow.
I love it, reminds me of a modern splitty....
That's very much the style VW we're going for with the ID Buzz
Andy the colour will look mint in the summer and the interior. Put it out in the countryside or on a beach. I like it dude. Even better than your moustache wax 🙂
Haha, thanks Mark. I think I need a stronger wax. I started to get a little sag as the day went on.
I cancelled my first edition a few weeks ago and so glad I did. It’s so poorly specced. No powered tailgate, or sliding door, plus lack of multiflex board is a disgrace at the price point.
Still love the styling of this thing, but Volkswagen must try harder before I part with my pennies.
Needs front swivels, rear sliding bench seat and aircon in the rear before I consider another, along with what I mentioned above.
I am disappointed with the 1st edition spec for sure 😞
@@THQAutomotive I visited the dealer last month, couldn’t change my first edition which seemed poorly specced compared to their demo van. Really disappointed, but knew it was the right decision to cancel and wait. Probably be Gen 2 in a few years before I contemplate another.
Enjoy the van , they look great👍🏾
And there’s the problem,our infrastructure is appalling for electric vehicles !!!!!
Having looked into it since this video, the charging network is a lot better than I originally thought. There are also 16 Tesla superchargers across the UK that charge none Tesla vehicles. You're right, it's not there just yet, but it is getting better all the time for sure.
Just bought a Euro T6 as I’m not keen on electric vans as I would to change three times on long trip..think there will be problems with electric vehicles regarding batteries etc ..at least I can keep,a gallon of diesel safely in my van
If you're doing long journeys, they aren't the right vehicle just yet.
Fantastic walk around and how everything works good colour How is the candy coming along 👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍
Sorry Peter, I feel we've let you down on the caddy. It seems to have been put on the back burning as we have some much other stuff coming along. I promise we will have a caddy update, I just can't say when at the moment.
Front row could have been 3 seats. Think it was a bit of a miss there.
The commercial version, the Buzz cargo, does come with 3 seats in the front so I'm sure it will become an option or could be retro fitted.
@@THQAutomotive mmm interesting. Hope to see that eventually, maybe with swivel support.
Great Van.
Still not sure how roomy a camper build would feel. Looks smaller than the old T1, right?
It's bigger than it look in the Cargo form. It's defo going to be more of a compact camper though.
Great video. Do you have any seat swivel kits for the front seats, particularly for the electric first edition seats?
It's not something we're working on personally but I believe Rusty Lee is.
Maybe these electric cars are best for closer journeys. Then if out and about and u need to charge it at a garage you could get a taxi home and pick it up laters lol
We'll see as technology evolves
Looking forward to the new wheels… pls don’t forget to post it
100% I'm sure this will have had several sets of wheels in the coming months
@@THQAutomotive Great Vid again, thanks! I have a Buzz Cargo, in the same Lime Yellow due at the end of March, and I can't wait. Andy, what will you be doing with those 21 inch wheels please?😜
@@timeaves6164 they'll be for sale in the coming weeks for sure
Make sure Bilstein don't make the rear springs coilbound like the wanky transporter rears. Been through 4 pairs of rear b14 springs on my T6 in 100k miles, last set I picked up from you guys in person. Hopefully they do better on the Buzz.
So many springs on coilover run bound at the bottom part of the spring, across many manufactures and vehicle platforms. They are designed to do that as the active part is on the up stroke. The problem with the original B14 is the H&R spring. The Eibach version that we sell it a much better spring. These come on the B14 Komfort but we also sell them on their own. I've not know of any of these break and the same price is used on the Twin Adjust Projekt coilover too.
@@THQAutomotive that's good to know. Thanks. These springs will last until I get the Buzz cargo and you guys can slam it on the battery pack.
@@rattymcclelland That we can, keep watching for updates ;)
The best car VW have made for many years 👍 it’s way to expensive though
It is a great vehicle. I think the commercial cargo version is fairly priced compared to other electric vans. Especially with the £5k government grant.
I have a Tesla but really like the look of this, so the million dollar question is, how does it fair against your tesla?
Some much better build. German build quality etc.
@@THQAutomotive I thought that would be the case, what are your thoughts for mileage based on the fact that you don’t have the Tesla network? I do about 30k miles per year, I am just cautious that there are no affiliated chargers for VAG EV cars
If you retrim the seats, change the I.D to H.Q.
@@davetalton6939 I'm told there are 16 Tesla super chargers in the UK that charge none Tesla vehicles. I don't think with your mileage, the ID-Range and the charging network, an ID-Buzz isn't right for you, yet.
@@enemyfruitloop5858 we may just do that 😊
Nope. There’s no way it’s big enough to convert to a camper. It will be like when you see a caddy converted lol. Colour looks good though. Uk is not geared up for electric yet. The battery chemistry needs to be better also. Ie cobalt. You watch joe rogan, you might have seen how they get this out the grd. Not great.
Yes I've listen to Joe's interview with Siddharth Kara, it's very interesting but disgusting that this is going on. As he says, it wouldn't take much for the big tech companies to right their wrong's on this though. EV's will always be there, just like we're not going to all stop using our mobile phones using the same cobalt. I'm aware of a few camper builds already in progress. No they aren't big but the compact size does suit some builds.
Sweet Jesus...it looks like a lunch box on wheels!!! I hope you can make it look better.......
Haha, I like that. Yeah I'm sure we'll make it look less lunch box like.
Who can afford it 🤔
I guess like most expensive cars, people finance them
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Can you review my granny's mobility scooter next?
Yeah sure, bring it over Paul.
Electric vehicles are a con.
Maybe but this is a lovely con.
@@THQAutomotive Not my cup of tea in all honesty it's vile but each too their own pal you do you. 🤝
@@CarlSab9088 yeah i get that and each to their own. Still thanks for watching 🙂