Well I was hoping my next check in would be my 3 year/50k mark for my 2021 which will be coming up in September. Due to some drastic changes in commute patterns for both of us we are piling ~2500 miles/month on both of our vehicles. After 3 months of doing the commute with my ID.4 and the now departed Taos we determined the Taos needed to go, there was the side problem of the Taos being leased when commute was 600-800 miles/month so we decided to get out of Taos lease ~16 months early. Deal was too good to pass up both on trade in for the Taos, ID.4 price and the icing of the $4k used EV credit applied at dealer.
We internet shopped quite a number of things in our price bracket both used and new. We kept getting hung up on that VW Travel Assist worked so well on both my ID.4 and the Taos and was standard equipment on VW. Equinox was top contender but finding Super Cruise equipped required crazy amounts of add on options and ballooned the Equinox to high 40k mark, Mach-E and Hyundai/Kia twins are not our taste, Volvo EX30 had our utmost attention for a few days until we saw many reviews of how bad the highway assist was and that it required the Ultra trim level.
Other half has driven my 2021 many times so knew that he liked it so once I sent one pre-owned ID.4 to him it was game on. Little did I know I would get a link for a CPO 2022 that was my same exact vehicle just 1 year newer with 7k fewer miles, was asked "would you mind if we had matching cars?". My stupid behind was like "naw it will be fine", yeah now they are both in the garage I am kicking myself and wondering what the neighbors are thinking.
Anyhow welcome to Klaus and the 2022 that is to be named. VW didn't make many changes between 2021 and 2022 - very slight efficiency improvement for 5 extra miles of range and has some extra buttons for the VW version of OnStar on the overhead console (2021 you have to push the SOS button for everything even roadside, 2022 has a wrench button and I button).
Fortunately we equipped the house for 2 EV's, yeah my Chargepoint Flex install is pretty horrific on the left. We are going to get an Emporia for the 2022 to plug in on the right side of the garage and it will probably have to park nose first so the cable won't have to drape around the back and be wound up every time.
We internet shopped quite a number of things in our price bracket both used and new. We kept getting hung up on that VW Travel Assist worked so well on both my ID.4 and the Taos and was standard equipment on VW. Equinox was top contender but finding Super Cruise equipped required crazy amounts of add on options and ballooned the Equinox to high 40k mark, Mach-E and Hyundai/Kia twins are not our taste, Volvo EX30 had our utmost attention for a few days until we saw many reviews of how bad the highway assist was and that it required the Ultra trim level.
Other half has driven my 2021 many times so knew that he liked it so once I sent one pre-owned ID.4 to him it was game on. Little did I know I would get a link for a CPO 2022 that was my same exact vehicle just 1 year newer with 7k fewer miles, was asked "would you mind if we had matching cars?". My stupid behind was like "naw it will be fine", yeah now they are both in the garage I am kicking myself and wondering what the neighbors are thinking.
Anyhow welcome to Klaus and the 2022 that is to be named. VW didn't make many changes between 2021 and 2022 - very slight efficiency improvement for 5 extra miles of range and has some extra buttons for the VW version of OnStar on the overhead console (2021 you have to push the SOS button for everything even roadside, 2022 has a wrench button and I button).
Fortunately we equipped the house for 2 EV's, yeah my Chargepoint Flex install is pretty horrific on the left. We are going to get an Emporia for the 2022 to plug in on the right side of the garage and it will probably have to park nose first so the cable won't have to drape around the back and be wound up every time.
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