Volkswagen ID.7 receives historic top score in ADAC vehicle test

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It is the flagship model from the all-electric ID. family and is now also top scorer in the prestigious ADAC vehicle test: the Volkswagen ID.7 has become the first ever vehicle to achieve an average score of 1.5 and thus an overall rating of ‘very good’ in the independent test performed by engineers from Europe’s largest automobile club.

• The independent testers have never rated a vehicle as ‘very good’ before
• The flagship model from the all-electric ID. family received an overall score of 1.5
• Best ratings in the categories engine/drive (1.0), safety (1.1) and environment (1.2)

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Consumption data: ID.7 Pro - power consumption combined 16.3-14.1 kWh/100km; CO2 emissions combined 0 g/km; CO₂ class: A. Where ranges are stated, the values for consumption, CO₂ emissions and CO₂ classes depend on the selected vehicle equipment. /// ID.7 Pro - power consumption combined 16.3-14.1 kWh/100km; CO2 emissions combined 0 g/km; CO₂ class: A. Where ranges are stated, the values for consumption, CO₂ emissions and CO₂ classes depend on the selected vehicle equipment.

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[tristatez28lt1]

VW has basically owned the ADAC for decades… yet the ADAC is supposedly an unbiased third party testing vehicles.

 

[El Zorro]

VW has basically owned the ADAC for decades… yet the ADAC is supposedly an unbiased third party testing vehicles.

Care to elaborate?

 

[tristatez28lt1]

Care to elaborate?

ADAC data-rigging scandal – DW – 01/20/2014

Germany's ADAC automotive club falsified the data of an annual survey for a members' choice award. A senior official has resigned and there are even calls to break up the club.

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Rammstetter accepted sole responsibility for the incident and said he "messed up big-time."


The club awarded its "Yellow Angel" for Germany's favorite car to VW's Gold last Thursday (16.01.2014) - Volkswagen has said it is considering giving it back. ADAC rigged the numbers, saying that 34,299 motorists had voted for the Golf when it had only been 3,409 votes.


Now, the club even says the annual survey's data may have been manipulated several years in a row, not just this year. "We strongly suspect that the number of votes submitted for the favorite-car survey was falsified in previous years too," Karl Obermair, executive chairman, ADAC said in a statement on the club's website. The club has apologized, and says an internal investigation is underway.