VW Won’t Make Its Electric Dune Buggy, But Your Kid Can Still Have One

Concept cars live a funny life. Many of them get made on paper, literally drawn out and sketched. Some of those napkin designs make it to a larger drawing pad to refine details and lock down a thesis. Even fewer make it to the stage of rendering and making a complete design. Barely any actually make it to a full-size physical model concept car, and almost no ideas make it to production. The VW I.D. Buggy concept from 2019 made it to rendering, but apparently got shunted sideways into being a kid’s ride-in car instead of being made for real.

The I.D. Buggy was a cool concept from when VW’s MEB platform was just entering mass production. It essentially was VW’s electric version of a Meyers Manx, complete with a 201-horsepower electric motor on the rear axle, a 62 kWh battery pack, and a WLTP estimated range of 155 miles. Though those numbers are largely pulled from thin air and math, as the Buggy never made it that far in the production process, and was largely a demonstration of the MEB platform’s versatility.