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First Drive: 2023 Volkswagen ID. Buzz
Denmark’s capital city, Copenhagen, on the coastal islands of Zealand and Amager, played host to one of the seminal Grateful Dead shows, captured live on the band’s landmark Europe ’72 album. Safe to say there were lots of VW Bulli’s — ‘buses,’ in North American slang — parked outside and around the Tivoli Concert Hall on that historic night on April 14, 1972.
A half-century later, the Bulli returned to the streets of Frederiksstaden, Copenhagen’s stunning 18th-century rococo district, only this time instead of power coming from a rear-mounted air-cooled gasoline engine, the 21st-century version of the iconic vehicle gets truckin’ using electricity.
The occasion was the international media drive of the Volkswagen ID. Buzz, a name derived from the automaker’s nomenclature for its burgeoning EV fleet — “ID.” standing for “Intelligent Design” — and Buzz for, one assumes, the sound emanating from an electric motor (however, Deadheads no doubt embrace a smokier provenance).
Read the whole story on driving.ca