Volkswagen does not build many cars like the Volkswagen ID.3: a 5-door hatchback with electric motor, built from 2019 as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Its designer of record is Klaus Bischoff, Marco Antonio Pavone, Felipe Montoya Bueloni and Ákos Száz.
The story
The Volkswagen ID.3 is a battery electric small family car (C-segment) produced by Volkswagen since 2019. It is the first passenger vehicle of Volkswagen Group to utilise the MEB platform, and the first in what would become the long-running ID. series. It was unveiled on 9 September 2019 at the Frankfurt Motor Show, after being first shown as the I.D. concept car at the 2016 Paris Motor Show. Deliveries to retail customers began in Germany in September 2020.
What is underneath
Under the skin sits electric motor. Kerb weight is 1772-1935 kg. The gearbox is a Single-speed. The wheelbase is 2770 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Where it sits in Volkswagen's history is not in doubt: the Volkswagen e-Golf came before it; it was built at Zwickau (Volkswagen Zwickau-Mosel Plant. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Model Y, the Kia EV6. Nearby in the Volkswagen catalogue sit the Volkswagen Apollo and the Volkswagen Routan.