<story><title>VW opens preorders for the ID.3, its first long-range electric car</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/8/18536668/vw-volkswagen-id-3-preorders-oelectric-car-long-range-ev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bdamm</author><text>After the terrible treatment I received as a Volkswagen TDI customer, I will never buy another VW. Period. They fraudulently sold me a car, then managed to finangle their way out of any financial restitution by putting up not only extensive hurdles for customers who wanted to opt for restitution instead of return, they then penalized customers who experienced delays due to their internal system faults by simply rejecting applications for restitution that were even a little bit out of spec.&lt;p&gt;Never. Again.</text></comment>
<story><title>VW opens preorders for the ID.3, its first long-range electric car</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/8/18536668/vw-volkswagen-id-3-preorders-oelectric-car-long-range-ev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mft_</author><text>Interesting (and great that the bigger manufacturers are starting to come through with their electric offerings) but the price:range ratio doesn&amp;#x27;t seem great compared to the Tesla model 3?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to be objective with all of the strongly pro- and anti-Tesla nonsense flying around, but I&amp;#x27;ve had a sneaking suspicion for a while that once the market matures a little (with eg Audi, VW, Porsche all offering their first-gen EVs) Tesla&amp;#x27;s offerings will be seen as more revolutionary (or at least, taken less for granted) than they currently are...</text></comment>