2025 Volkswagen ID Buzz Yearlong Review Arrival: Weighing Charm Against Range
Key takeaways
- Might this electric minivan’s almost universally adored styling excuse its unimpressive electric practicality?
- When filling out official questionnaires, consumers are about as unlikely to rank styling or design as a top of SUV/van-purchase priority as you are to confess having chosen your mate based on their looks alone.
- And yet, here we are in mid-2026 launching a year-long test with an unsold 2025 Buzz.
Why this matters: an automotive development that could shape industry direction or buying decisions.
Might this electric minivan’s almost universally adored styling excuse its unimpressive electric practicality?
When filling out official questionnaires, consumers are about as unlikely to rank styling or design as a top of SUV/van-purchase priority as you are to confess having chosen your mate based on their looks alone. Allowing aesthetics to outweigh practical, objective factors in major life decisions seems unconsidered, shallow, ill-advised. Volkswagen seems to doubt this truism.
The 2025 Volkswagen ID Buzz is a vehicle so objectively cute, cool, and iconic in its design that it blatantly dares buyers to ignore practical considerations like price, range, charging speed, and passenger/cargo space flexibility. And yet, here we are in mid-2026 launching a year-long test with an unsold 2025 Buzz. (The model sat out the ’26 model year and will return shortly for 2027.) Danged if it hasn’t bewitched us to the point that one of our staff’s biggest EV long-trip range-whiners didn’t just return from a long trip smiling. Will the new wear off and the extended travel times change that over the course of a year? Stay tuned to find out.