VW's electric car plans started small with the ID.3, before moving into the sort of mass-market SUVs that everyone seems to want. The ID.4 and ID.5 followed, leaving one car segment relatively untouched. Estates – or station wagons – may appear to be less popular than they once were, but Volkswagen told me that it expects to sell more of the Tourer version of the ID.7 than it does the saloon across Europe.
That's because estate cars are effortlessly practical. They offer better aerodynamics than an SUV, so are more efficient, while the length of the car means there's loads of passenger space and loads of boot space. It's not just dog owners who love an estate (although as a nation of dog owners that's a large pool of buyers), but families love the space an estate offers too – and that's before you get to company cars and taxis.
