At the IAA Mobility in Munich in 2021, it was still the attraction at the VW stand: the ID Life study, with which VW wanted to show how it envisaged an electric city runabout for around 20,000 euros. But according to information from Automobilwoche, the study has since fallen out of favor in Wolfsburg. Chief designer Jozef Kaban and his team are now working on a new, decidedly modern design that is also intended to captivate young customers in terms of multimedia and connectivity.
Initial rumors suggest a five-door hatchback in Polo format that offers similar space to the Golf. It is to be launched under the name ID.2 in 2025 and could then be given the additional designation Urban. A year later, the ID.2 X will follow on the same basis, a small SUV in the style of the T-Cross.
Six new ID models by 2027
Both models are part of the new e-offensive from Wolfsburg. Following the ID.3, ID.4, ID.5 and ID Buzz, the range will be expanded by six more models by 2027. With the E-Passat, previously called Aero B, the next family member will debut as a show car at the trade fair in Beijing in just a few weeks and is then scheduled to start in 2023. Name: ID.6.
The fact that there is already an ID.6 in China is not a problem: The large SUV is now called the ID.6 X and will still only be sold in China. Around 18 months after the ID.6 sedan, an estate or shooting-brake version could follow.
Trinity could become ID.7
The prestige model Trinity, which was announced in a big way for 2026, could then be called ID.7, followed by an SUV version ID.7 X. However, a separate name for Trinity along the lines of the ID Buzz is also being discussed.
The abbreviation ID.8. is currently little more than a placeholder for the electric successors to the Touareg and Atlas. Although the Atlas II would have to be replaced in 2023, from today's perspective an extension of the life cycle seems more likely.
According to the cycle plan, the Touareg would have to be replaced in 2025, but VW's top management also wants to give the luxury SUV at least a two-year grace period. The successor, which is now scheduled for the end of 2027, has two options: it can either dock with the new edition of the Q7 (Audi's last new combustion engine model), or it can switch to the much broader SSP architecture.