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To say there’s a bit of buzz around Volkswagen’s ID.Buzz is, well, both a bad pun and a gross understatement. Styled after the most iconic of classic minivans, VW’s new electric Kombi attracts attention wherever it goes. It is both a zero-emissions vehicle and a faithful recreation of the Type 2 Transporter that took millions of bikers, surfers, and families around the world to destinations unknown.
Article contentAdvertisement 1Story continues belowThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Article contentUnfortunately, if Presse-citron is right, it might not be very affordable. According to the French news website, a leak from the German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) suggests the cheapest of the recreational — i.e. non-cargo versions — of the beloved Kombi will fetch around 54,270 euros. That’s without tax. Add in Germany’s VAT, and that number balloons to almost 65,000 euros. At current exchange rates, that’s about CDN$74,400 and CDN$89,000 respectively, neither one the cheap and cheerful pricing that the original Camper was known for.
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We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team.Play VideoThat said, there might be some mitigation to be had. Firstly, few are the cars that come from Germany — or anywhere in Europe for that matter — that get priced precisely according to exchange rates. Such is the weakness of our beleaguered loonie that Teutonic luxury cars would price themselves completely out of the market if such strict calculations applied to local MSRPs. Instead, automakers apply “market pricing,” a polite way of saying that they’ll take whatever they can get.
Article contentArticle contentFactoring that it in and comparing European pricing with Volkswagen’s ID. 4 hatch — which shares the base Buzz’s 77-kilowatt-hour battery and 201-horsepower powertrain — as well as Audi’s e-tron would seem to indicate a base price just below CDN$70,000. Not quite as offensive as the numbers wrought with that simple currency switch, but still not eligible for the federal government’s newly relaxed price-point demarcation for its $5,000 incentive.
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David Booth is Driving’s senior writer as well as the producer of Driving.ca’s Driving into the Future panels and Motor Mouth podcasts. Having written about everything from the exact benefits of Diamond Like Coating (DLC) on motorcycle camshafts to why Range Rovers are the best vehicles for those suffering from opioid-induced constipation, Booth leaves no stone unturned in his quest for automotive veritas. Besides his long tenure with Driving, he was the editor in chief of Autovision magazine for 25 years and his stories have been published in motorcycle magazines around the world including the United States, England, Germany and Australia.
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Graduating from Queen Elizabeth High School in 1973, Booth moved from his Northern Quebec hometown of Sept-Iles — also home to Montreal Canadiens great, Guy Carbonneau — to Ottawa to study Mechanical Engineering at Carleton University. There, he wrote a thesis on the then-burgeoning technology of anti-lock brakes for motorcycles and spent time researching the also then-burgeoning use of water tunnels for aerodynamic testing.
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After three years writing for Cycle Canada magazine and another three working for the then oldest magazine in Canada, Canadian Automotive Trade, Booth, along with current Driving writer Brian Harper and then Toronto Star contributor Alex Law, created an automotive editorial services group that supplied road tests, news, and service bulletins to what was then called Southam newspapers.
When Southam became Postmedia with its purchase by Conrad Black and the subsequent introduction of the National Post, Booth was asked to start up the then Driver’s Edge section, which became Driving.ca when Postmedia moved into the digital age. In the past 41 years, Booth has tested well over 500 motorcycles, 1,500 passenger cars, and nearly every significant supercar of the last 30 years. His passion — and proudest achievement — is Motor Mouth, his weekly column that, after some 30 years, remains as incisive and opinionated as ever.
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Booth remains an avid sports enthusiast — read: fitness freak — whose favorite activities include punching boxing bags until his hands bleed and running ski hills with as little respect for the medial meniscus as 65-year-old knees can bear. His true passion, however, remains motorcycles. If he’s not in his garage tinkering with his prized 1983 CB1100RC — or resurrecting another one — he’s riding Italy’s famed Stelvio Pass with his beloved — and much-modified — Suzuki V-Strom 1000.
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