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Look into the new ID7. I will get mine in a few months and from what I heard so far it's a damn good car. Everyone who tested it was thrilled.

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It would be very hard for me to live without a car in Winter. But if ID7 has some inventory and I like it on test driving, I can sell Model Y and buy ID7 instead.

The waiting time is also the reason why I did not choose Volvo XC40 recharge.

The XC40 was in the middle of a refresh which might explain the waiting time. Availability should be much better now, and MY24 has some really nice upgrades.

yeah, but it's still based on CMA so the space is not best optimised I don't know how much will the new Polestar 4 cost but it looks more competitive than XC40

The transmission tunnel indeed is an issue, but they do use it as additional space for batteries to make the seating position a bit better for the rear left/right passengers.

It has VW software, so… yeah. No doubt, all the ID.s drive great. Their usability otherwise is not good however. Especially the capacitive “buttons” on the steering wheel are atrocious.

> capacitive “buttons” on the steering wheel

Dystopian authors got it all wrong, this is what we should have been warned about.

The trouble is that they were presented as utopian; see Star Wars TNG’s obsession with them. The Enterprise D doesn’t have any real buttons at all.

Just shows how far certification requirement dropped by the time of TNG. Nowadays, no Starfleet ship design would be certifiable.

Obviously joking, but the reason for this in TNG, as it is for cars, that it was cheaper. The same reason RBMK reactors are graphite moderated with a positive void coefficient.

> Just shows how far certification requirement dropped by the time of TNG.

Well, see also the lifts; I’m pretty sure that over the course of the series the Enterprise alone had more catastrophic lift incidents than most _countries_ today have in like time. And the consoles which explode whenever anything happens. And the _bloody holodeck_. Clearly, at some point in the next century, some catastrophe kills off engineering as a discipline entirely.

Next century? You, sir, are an optimist!

FWIW, I've found the VW group software for traffic sign recognition significantly more accurate than BMW, and I like the lane assist, it's far less intrusive than other implementations I've driven. (I'm not including lane centering - I can't stand lane centering.)

(I base this mostly on comparing driving my Skoda Superb 2019 and a BMW 5-series touring estate rental with luxury trim on the same roads, a mix of city, urban and autobahn.)

I regularly drive an ID3 and every ten minute or so I accidentally activate a button on the left side of the steering wheel. It’s happening in roundabouts, sharp turns or sometimes even on straights when I just adjust my hand position. The buttons on the left are for the cruise control which this car doesn’t have, so it’s always only showing an error on the driver screen, which is funny on it’s own, but probably a good thing in this case. The software has a lot of unforgivable quirks, but other than that it drives very well.

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