Volkswagen have already confirmed a Buzz California .
What more do you not understand…???
Well, they have “confirmed” an ID California, not a Buzz California as the Buzz is a variant of ID, not the other way around.
So what did they confirm?
So far that an ID Cali would be after 2025 (no actual date given, so could be as far as 2027) and that the approval is for development only at this stage.
People are guessing that it may be built on the the LWB variant of the Buzz, but VW did not say that. In fact they said very little.
Personally I still have challenges. I have said previous I would love an all Electric vehicle but I can’t make a passenger car work for us, never mind a Camper. Our 800m recent France trip would have been impossible and likely taken an extra 2 days and as for our upcoming NC500, the 10 days planned would need to be a lot longer if even possible. Could we even reach Cornwall without a very long stop at a service station with a broken charge point?
I also have worries about any interior space on a Buzz. Atm it’s about 3/4 size of a Cali, regardless of Exterior dimensions - the lower roof and sliding nose take a lot of space away. So any LWB would need a lot of shell work.
I get the passion, but prefer realism and facts. I’m not a EV detractor, having been heavily involved in the launch, marketing and social media when Nissan Leaf was released, including personally interviewing Robert Llewelyn. I’ve seen and heard it all on both sides.
Edit - just to add. At Nissan we had something called the “z” plant - where top secret models sat for several years before a single person not approved saw them. Security tighter than Apple. There is nothing to say the Cali ID Buzz 8.0 (add variant here) of your dreams is not sat in there just waiting to be revealed in 2025. Model cycles, car dependant, are 5 - 10 years, not counting facelifts. In some cases (Qashcow) we started the new model (in secret) almost immediacy after launching the previous!
