The subscriptions come to all of us, in all aspects of life, and all that we can do is avoid them. This has become a little more difficult for the owners of the smallest EV of Volkswagen, the ID.3, in the United Kingdom, we are used to hearing subscriptions to improve the performance and comfort of creatures on luxury cars, but VW Triat BMW and Mercedes-Benz’s Greate Hits of Consumer-Hostiles and 27 additional horses behind a monthly payment of $ 2.30 on the ID.3. Alternatively, owners can pay $ 878 to unlock this power permanently, for the life of the vehicle.
This news comes to grace Automatic expressionAnd it’s alarming for several reasons. First, once again, the ID.3 is not exactly a good deal, starting with the equivalent of $ 41,770, but it is not Mercedes Eqe either. Second, as the article points out, the car is recorded at 228 hp, which affects insurance rates, even if the owners only get 201 HP Before subscription. Thus, you pay a penalty on your insurance premium according to the energy to which you can only access if you give Volkswagen even more money each month.
This monthly fee also raises the 195 LB-PI couple at 228 LB-PI, and VW says that the increase in production has no impact, so at least there is that. The optional software upgrade applies to all versions of the ID.3, with the exception of the Speedy GTX variant, which has around 320 horsepower and costs $ 21,600 more. All in all, it’s about $ 63,000 – for the smallest VW EV! And you thought the G golf course was expensive. The more I learn about this thing, the less I am sad that it is not offered in the United States.
The best result that we can hope in these cases is that the outcry against it becomes so strong that VW yields. This worked to a certain extent on this side of the pond, with BMW heating siege policies. But the retractions do not last forever, and the car manufacturers are almost ready to wait for their time until all the software is standardized, and they can get away with all this.
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