We've driven the 2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz and are sharing our initial impressions, exploring its iconic retro styling, driving dynamics, electric drivetrain, utility, and infotainment system on this week's Talking Cars. Listen now: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/cars-driving/talking-cars-467-driving-the-volkswagen-id-buzz-a1035906752/?EXTKEY=YSOCIAL_FB | Consumer Reports

After twenty years of concept cars, at long last, we are here. Volkswagen has reinvented the Microbus for the EV age – and called it the ID Buzz. Really. The silly name is just one of the touches that aims to give this car what EVs sorely lack. Character. Personality. Soul. But this sliding door-equipped family box-on-wheels is also designed to bring something new to the EV scene: a truly useful MPV instead of another fake off-roading crossover. This is just the first Buzz: soon there’ll be vers