Volkswagen ID Buzz 2024: seven-seat long wheelbase version confirmed for Australia, performance versions slated for 2025

Volkswagen Australia has confirmed that the long-wheelbase seven-seat ID Buzz will join the short wheel-deplorable 5-seater model – and three-seat ID Buzz Cargo initiating van – on the electrical autos’ local inaugurate in Q4 2024.

At a most up-to-date place match, Volkswagen Australia printed that the two passenger van specs at inaugurate will embody the already confirmed SWB Pro 5 Seater RWD collectively with the newly announced LWB model that shall be before all the issues supplied in Pro 7 Seater RWD guise.

The effect apart the SWB will offer 2-plus-3 seating, the LWB will rep a 2-plus-3-plus-2 configuration.

At 4962mm, the LWB model of the ID Buzz is 250mm longer in each length and wheelbase than the SWB layout, permitting dwelling for a third row seating. The elevated body style additionally enables up to a whopping 2469L of cargo dwelling per its maker.

Australian specs

While Volkswagen Australia hasn’t printed pricing or fleshy specs for its MY24 ID Buzz, it did exhibit some of the differ highlights that merchants ought to search files from arrive its Q4 2024 free up.

This can also arrive in 11 quite loads of colours with wheel sizes of up to 21 inches. Meanwhile, the internal colour schemes would possibly be on hand in all dusky, all white, or combos that specialize within the launch air paint colour across the internal neat work.

Internal highlights embody 30-colour ambient lights, twin-electric sliding aspect doors, devoted rear climate management for rows two and three, an likelihood of a panoramic glass roof and multimedia plot of up to 12-inches in size.

Output boosts and that you simply would consider GTX for 2025

Volkswagen Australia’s presentation additionally printed that a “efficiency variant” would possibly be announced some time in 2024. This would possibly possibly presumably be a circa-250kW twin-motor GTX guise that has been printed globally and potentially slated for a 2025 Australian free up.

Alternatively, there are some fundamental doable variables at play.

The 2023-spec rear-power ID Buzz Pro specification supplied globally – as tested lately by Editor Tom Baker in Europe – at this time affords 150kW and 310Nm.

Alternatively, Volkswagen’s other RWD EVs are receiving a 210kW and 545Nm upgrade, most notably the facelifted ID4 and ID5 electric SUV that Volkswagen Australia has confirmed will arrive for those devices’ debut in Aus in mid-2024.

For the length of Volkswagen Australia’s most up-to-date place day in Sydney, it printed that the versions of the ID Buzz RWD for the local lineup are slated for a “product change Q1 2024” earlier than its Q4 2024 free up, whereas stating that “motor specs [for ID Buzz RWD] to be confirmed later”.

It’s very that you simply would consider that the ID Buzz’s Q1 2024 product change will embody the upgrade to the 210kW and 545Nm APP550 power plot that arrives mid-year in (facelifted) ID4 and ID5.

Additional, the GTX spec is confirmed to carry 250kW (up 30kW) excessive-efficiency energy for Australian ID4 and ID5, so a doable ID Buzz GTX would very presumably follow suit in 2025.