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We’re celebrating car love. From life-long friendships and happy memories to the people who’ve made the leap to living electric. We hope these stories inspire future owners and offer a warm embrace to those who are already part of the Volkswagen family. After all, without the Volks, there is no Wagen.
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Read a selection of Volkswagen stories below.
My name is Janet, and I was a teacher for 30 years, I’m now retired. I've got an ID.3 which I love. I named it Peter in memory of my uncle. My love of cars actually comes from Uncle Peter.
My family didn't have cars, except Uncle Peter, he always did, and he was always passionate about them. He was kind, he was gentle - the loveliest man. He was very meticulous in what he did, but he had the most wicked sense of humour. Uncle Peter had been an electrical engineer; he loved the idea of electric cars, but because of his illness he didn't ever get the chance to drive one.
When you climb into the ID.3, it is so spacious, it's so light, it's so airy and it's ridiculously comfortable. It's like driving from your armchair. There are so many features on my ID.3 that I absolutely love. As you're driving along it will tell you if there are things getting too close to you in front. The safety features are fantastic.
When you think about switching to an electric car, the thing that worries people is the idea of range. That worry has been blown out of the water. The range is absolutely fine. The number of places that you can charge on journeys makes it so easy. The ID.3 is very good at telling you how much charge you've got and how far you can get with that. So, there's no guesswork with it.
I think we’re literally the VW family. My first car was a Golf and I have driven Volkswagens ever since. We've got an Up!(which our Son drives), a Golf, a Passat and now we've got the ID.5. When we decided to go electric, we knew that the ID.5 was going to be the obvious choice. Reliability was just the most paramount thing. The ID.5 also has a prestige about it, a luxury about it, but it's still so grounded.
When I first drove the ID.5, I found it amazing that, when I put my foot on the accelerator, how responsive it was. It’s so clever, too. It can recognise speed limits and also other cars around it and how close they are. When it senses danger, it adjusts itself. You feel really safe.
We've got a lot of experience travelling across Europe, seeing charging points up to 350kW puts us in a comfort zone. To be honest, range has never been a problem. I mean, apart from our tours of Europe, how often do you drive 300 miles in one go? Hardly ever. It covers us in our day-to-day life.
We've got a home charger so charging is really easy. We just plug it in at night, and then set it on the app to come on at a certain time, that way we get a cheaper tariff overnight. We only have to charge it for a few hours every few days. I just love the fact that I don't have to go to the petrol station ever again. Which is great when I've got the girls in the car, it makes my life a lot easier. We've really noticed a difference, it's so much cheaper to run.
I learnt to drive and passed my test in my first VW, the Up! then I moved onto a VW Tiguan. I loved the sunroof on the Tiguan, after that I said I would always have a sunroof because it creates such light. And now with my ID.3, with its big glass sunroof, it creates so much light in the car.
I really love my ID.3. We use it daily to run errands around town and for dog walks. One of the great things about the ID.3 is that, being electric, it's a really quiet car. We can fit everything in the ID.3 – two adults, two children, two dogs, plus all of our bags and things!
The girls like to look up through the panoramic sunroof at the clouds and birds in the sky. They are happier because they can see more, particularly my older daughter, who's very aware of everything that's going on around her.
We've got a home charger so charging is really easy. We just plug it in at night, and then set it on the app to come on at a certain time, that way we get a cheaper tariff overnight. We only have to charge it for a few hours every few days. I just love the fact that I don't have to go to the petrol station ever again. Which is great when I've got the girls in the car, it makes my life a lot easier. We've really noticed a difference, it's so much cheaper to run.
Growing up, we were a Volkswagen family. I learned to drive in a Mark 1 Golf, which was originally my Gran's, but it was handed down to my Mum. She had it for 13 years - something like that. Once I passed my test, I ended up with a VW Jetta, which I had for 10 years. I did 220,000 kilometres in it. I used to do a six-hour journey from university to home and back on weekends and holidays. It never let me down... ever.
I love the layout of them. They're familiar. I get in my ID.5 now and it's like a spaceship, but the graphics and things let me know I'm in a Volkswagen. I just feel instantly at home.
I like to get in a car and feel comfortable. As a commuter I do 25,000 miles a year to work, so it’s absolutely perfect. You get out the other end and you're refreshed, you're ready to go. You get in after a long day at work and it just breezes you home. One of the things I love is you actually hear music really well when you're driving the ID.5. I can just cruise along listening to music, and suddenly I start hearing bits in songs that I've been listening to for 30 years that I never knew were there, you know, instruments and things that are just amazing.
Every time I walk up to my ID.5, whether it's back, front, whatever, I just smile because, at night, as you get near to it, the lights all pop up and do a little dance for you. It actually greets you. In the winter, I go outside in the morning and find it all defrosted by itself, the steering wheels heated, the cabin's warm, and the seats are warm, too. I get in, put it into drive, and off we go.
We first met at antenatal class and have been friends for 24 years. We have a great friendship. We've been there for each other through all sorts of ups and downs. Not a day goes past when we don’t message.
Me and my husband have an ID.Buzz and we've got an ID.4, too. We're a two-dub family. They're just great for taking us to the beach.
We started open water swimming at the end of 2019. My head space wasn’t very good. The menopause made me very angry all the time. I’d heard a lot about open water swimming and the benefits of it. I said, “Come on Jo, let’s just go and try it,”
Making the decision to go electric was partly to do with spending so much time with nature. You feel like you’re helping her. You try to persuade people that they should get one, and they’re like, well, it doesn't do this, and it doesn't do that. But none of that matters, because the driving experience is so great. You’re saving the planet, as well as saving money on petrol and tax and everything else. I would never go back to petrol now.
The heated seats are a big bonus come the winter. We’re giggling as we get dressed, looking forward to our hot drink and warming our bums in the car. They creep up on you. You turn them on, then suddenly you get this warm feeling just going up the backs of your legs.
From the age of two or three, I started to ask my dad questions when we were out on our travels, stuff like, “What does that pedal do? Is that the brake?” How does an accelerator work?” I started tinkering with cars when I was eight or nine. I’d pick up a spanner here and there, help dad out when he was doing a service in the garage. A week or two before my 10th birthday, dad just walked into the room one morning and said, “Do you want a car?” I was like, “What car... what car?” And he said, “A Volkswagen,” I asked him, “Which one... which one?” He replied, “Uh, a Volkswagen Scirocco.”
I passed my driving test first time without taking any lessons because I grew up moving the cars at Dad’s garage. I've got pictures of me driving around in the Scirocco with L plates on.
What I love about cars is that every car is like a character. It's emotional, especially when you work on a car yourself and then you go out and drive that car, you feel very connected to it.
Dad and I still work on cars together. Up until I was about 16 or 17, a lot of the stuff that I'd do he'd supervise, purely because of how young I was. And probably due to the fact that my mum wouldn't be happy if he left me on my own in the garage. I drove to my secondary school prom in the car that I'd spent years working on. You can't describe that buzz, that feeling of, you know, I've done this.
I've got to know the Volkswagen community due my passion. A lot of people are more than happy to come over and spend a few hours with me helping me put something together.
My first car was a Mark 2 Golf. And it was the love of my life. I didn't stop washing it. I didn't stop hoovering it. After getting a little part time job, I started to make adjustments to it, like putting on new alloys, all those little bits and pieces that you do when you're younger. Back in the day, it was all about how you could change a vehicle, switch it around, personalise and make it your own. I think that's kind of what drew me to it as well. The amount of kits you could get and sound systems, things you could do to the engines. It was amazing.
From that point on it progressed. I got the bug. It became Mk4 golfs, then it progressed on to bigger and better things with a Mk5. I had a lovely black Mk5, which was done up as well.
Then the Mk5 eventually turned into a Volkswagen CC, which is a saloon car I got when I had my first child.
I wanted something really lovely and fast, but also something that was super practical for a family as well. We had that for about 10 years.
When we knew that we wanted to go electric, we went straight onto the ID.3. It was practical for us. I also really wanted to circle back around to a Golf style after the CC.
My children have made me much more aware of the environment and what's going on around us. I think that the future is definitely electric. I’m 100 percent more geared towards the kids and what their future will look like.
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