In 2019, Volkswagen debuted two electric off-road concepts, the ID Buggy and the ID Ruggdzz (VW’s naming convention is stuck in 1994) but both projects were scrapped in 2020 for more mass-market EVs.
An ominous thud startles me as the ID.4 hits the dry desert earth, kicking up a plume of silky dust ahead of another whoop-dee-doo. I brace for a front-end scrape that doesn’t happen and I remind ...