It fits in with the feeling that buying an EV is more akin to buying a TV or washing machine than a 'motor' car.
I bet soon there'll be no test drives in person - you just download an app or temporary extra to a computer game and 'drive' it as you would any driving 'game'.
Many electronics shops like (if I recall correctly) Richer Sounds and John Lewis often won't or cannot offer a proper 'test' of many AV equipment or computers any more, often because the shop isn't capable of doing the main task of the items in question, i.e. they aren't hooked up to a TV aerial, satellite dish or the interwebs. They just play a 'stream' from the shop, that's if they even have the model to inspect in store at all.
VW need to be careful with this - look what happened with sales of Hondas in Australia when they ditched main dealerships and went 'direct'.
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