[balls187]

> Despite its global standing as the world's second-largest carmaker, Volkswagen is a chronic underachiever in the United States.

There is a large community of VW enthusiasts in the US, and yet that market is never treated as anything other than an afterthought by VW.

Despite being 2nd generation VW owner (my dad drove an original beetle, and my first and second vehicles were both Golfs), my next vehicle will be a Ford.

[WorldMaker]

I still think it was a massive mistake that VW skipped selling the ID.3 to focus on the ID.4 in the US, assuming all Americans would prefer the SUV-like ID.4. The ID.3 is the true EV successor [0] of the Golf and every American fan of VW that I know loves the Golf and had one or two of them. (I'd consider the ID.3. I don't want an ID.4.)

[0] For a few years they made an "e-Golf" that was batteries badly fit into an unmodified Golf frame. The ID.3 is bespoke EV on the shared MEB architecture.