On Thursday, the company announced that its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will stop producing the company’s fully electric SUV ID.4 starting mid-April. Instead, the focus will shift to producing the new generation of Atlas models, a best-selling gasoline-powered SUV.
Devils advocate, it could be because the ID.4 is terrible? This is anecdotal, but yea.
I have a friend who is an OUTSTANDING car mechanic, the shop he owns/started has everything from VW to Ferrari. He’s been doing this since the 90s.
He has an ID.4 he bought to daily drive to said shop. He talks a lot about how big of a piece of shit the car is. Like every single time I see him it’s a new complaint. I’ve personally seen panels just start falling off, the infotainment is always janky, you have to manually turn on the A/C and can’t even do so when in reverse. The list goes on.
He legit has one single compliment, that his AWD model has outstanding acceleration. Which is nothing special for an electric car…at all.
Who would have thought that cars made by a poorly-educated populace that cant afford rent, healthcare, groceries, or a good life for their children would be hunks of shit?
Ive had 2 VWs and loved them both, but neither was made in the US. Now I have a German-made MINI and its even more reliable than the dubs were despite being a BMW product.
You couldnt pay me to own an American-made vehicle. Why would I want the headaches of owning a car produced by people that dont give a shit? The US is quietly dying the death-by-a-thousand-cuts that is everyone at all levels grifting to collect a paycheck. Basically no one gives a fuck anymore since effort is rewarded with continued struggle to simply exist in society. Even people making 6 figures are mostly phoning it in…
Likely this is a bigger role than anything.
I pretty much only drove VWs whole life.
I can get a used Chevy Bolt or used ID4 for roughly the same price.
Should be picking up the Bolt next week.
VW really fucked up with their EV strategy.
All of that plus the substantial price tag and their stupid subscription service.
I would have been very interested in an electric VW(loved my old Passat), but they completely botched the rollout of their ID series.
Got an ID 4. Janky af touchscreen/software, everything else is solid. No complaints other than the software, and apparently past 2023 models this is fixed. Imo it’s a really good car for the price I paid. It hasn’t locked me in the car and exploded so that’s a big bonus.