Volkswagen ID. Buzz GTX Confirmed With 335 HP And All-Wheel Drive

Back successful October 2022, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles shared a teaser of the ID. Buzz GTX but without releasing immoderate details. Thankfully, immoderate of the missing pieces of the puzzle are present falling into spot arsenic R&D brag Kai Gruenitz shared immoderate juicy specs. Coming aboriginal this year, the show mentation of the electrical minivan volition person 250 kilowatts, which works retired to 335 horsepower. That’s really much than the 295 hp of the ID.4/ID.5 GTX.

Gruenitz did not specify however overmuch torque the ID. Buzz GTX volition have, but we'll punctual you the 2 show SUVs boast 339 pound-feet (460 Newton-meters). VW's R&D caput honcho confirmed the zero-emission minivan successful its sportiest spirit volition person dual motors and all-wheel drive. It's besides getting peculiar colors and a unsocial interior, on with "some further features." 

A non-GTX dual-motor exemplary is nether consideration, according to Gruenitz. As a substance of fact, that presumption we mentioned besides had a teaser for a long-wheelbase, all-wheel-drive configuration. We'll punctual you the elongated exemplary volition beryllium the lone 1 disposable successful the United States erstwhile the ID. Buzz volition spell connected merchantability successful 2024. It's going to person a bigger artillery battalion compared to the standard-wheelbase, rear-wheel-drive model.

Speaking of the longer ID. Buzz, Gruenitz told Autocar it volition beryllium stretched by 250 millimeters (9.8 inches). As a refresher, the modular exemplary already connected merchantability successful Europe successful rider and cargo configurations measures 4,712 mm (185.5 in). He added it'll person a three-row layout with 7 seats, "and you tin propulsion them each retired of the back." He went connected to notation "it volition besides person Captain's chairs that crook around."

Gruenitz reiterated a California-badged camper is successful the works, but it won't travel retired sooner than 2025.

VW volition beryllium expanding its electrical car portfolio aboriginal this twelvemonth with the ID.7 and an ID.3 GTX owed to get with the compact car's already announced facelift. An Atlas-sized ID.8 is besides successful the works, arsenic is the flagship Trinity.