{"id":240581,"date":"2026-01-12T05:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/240581\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T05:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:41:12","slug":"geraldine-herbert-reviews-the-volkswagen-id-buzz-style-lwb-7-seater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/240581\/","title":{"rendered":"Geraldine Herbert reviews the Volkswagen ID Buzz Style LWB 7\u2011Seater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThis seven-seater gives sunshine and surfboard energy with thoughtful engineering, ample range and good safety features\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geraldine Herbert test drives the new Volkswagen ID Buzz Style LWB 7\u2011Seater. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3efd402a-9d0c-4b14-85df-266c62759043.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Geraldine Herbert test drives the new Volkswagen ID Buzz Style LWB 7\u2011Seater. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Seven-seat family cars were once the automotive equivalent of sensible shoes \u2013 practical, dependable and rarely anyone\u2019s first choice. When my kids started school, I lost count of how many parents begged me to suggest an alternative to their dull MPVs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But times change. Manufacturers are now bringing design flair, advanced safety tech and increasingly imaginative interiors into vehicles built for school runs and summer holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This seven-seater gives sunshine and surfboard energy with thoughtful engineering, ample range and good safety features Geraldine Herbert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,7781,61,60,6361,15467],"class_list":["post-240581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-geraldine-herbert","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}