VW’s ID range goes back to basics with sensible, small SUV with a big boot – and buttons
VW has listened and it has changed. Buttons, glorious buttons – you’ll find them pretty much everywhere you and I both might want them in this new VW ID Cross.For years now, owners, journalists, internet commenters, my mum and probably your mum have taken issue with the haptic sliders and touch-heavy interfaces used by Volkswagen’s ID models. The cabins of the ID 3 and ID 4 in particular became a convenient shorthand for overzealous minimalism: capacitive steering wheel pads, fiddly temperature sliders and a general absence of tactile bits, knobs and switches.With the new ID Cross, VW has rowed back – and is happy to admit that. The ethos behind Wolfsburg’s new affordable compact electric SUV is very much one of ‘back to basics’.
