Volkswagen’s idea of a range-topping model has changed over the past couple of decades.
Spool back 20 something years and you’d get the Phaeton limousine with a leather-lined interior and a 12-cylinder engine. Now the mantle has been passed to the ID.7, a big, electrically-powered five-door hatchback, which might be described as championing inconspicuous rather than conspicuous consumption in the way it looks and what it does.
