Volkswagen has confirmed characteristic, trim, and coloration combos for the upcoming 2025 ID.Buzz in its long-awaited U.S. specification.
The ID.Buzz will initially arrive for the U.S. in a launch-only 1st Version model, VW confirmed, plus two different trims: Professional S and Professional S Plus.
Pricing of the U.S. model received’t be introduced till near its launch, in line with VW. It had beforehand focused the U.S. model for first deliveries in June or July 2024, though VW of America has extra lately instructed it received’t arrive till later within the yr. If it’s any indication, VW nonetheless doesn’t seem to have a reside on-line U.S. construct device, permitting prospects to visualise its completely different American proportions and construct combos.
As VW revealed with 2025 VW ID.Buzz specs almost almost a yr in the past, U.S. variations of the ID.Buzz will journey on an almost 10-inch-longer wheelbase than the two-row mannequin that received’t be bought within the U.S. Set to have a 91-kwh battery pack, the U.S. ID.Buzz will include a single-motor electrical powertrain for now, and it will get the 282-hp unit from the 2025 VW ID.4. A dual-motor model with 335 hp (additionally the identical because the ID.4) is on the best way. VW confirms the U.S. model will have the ability to tow with an obtainable retractable tow hitch, however it hasn’t but confirmed scores.
Volkswagen ID.Buzz (Euro spec)
In a evaluate of the ID.Buzz EV in standard-wheelbase type two years in the past (a model for Europe and different markets), Inexperienced Automobile Experiences noticed it as a terrific household automobile within the custom of a minivan, carrying over a few of the glorious ride-and-handling traits of the VW ID.4 with which it shares MEB underpinnings.
In its launch-only 1st Version, which builds on the Professional S trim, the ID.4 will get a two-tone exterior with a singular 20-inch wheel design, roof rail cross bars, a “coastal-inspired inside” with a panoramic roof, a 700-watt premium sound system, power-sliding doorways, and an influence tailgate.
The bottom Professional S will get 20-inch wheels, a parking-assistance system, 30-color ambient lighting, and the larger, much-improved 12.9-inch infotainment system now given to a lot of the ID.4 lineup.
2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz
The important thing differentiator for the extended-length U.S. model is its second-row bench seat, permitting house for as much as seven. Professional S Plus variations get bench seating as commonplace in single-motor type, however a captain’s chair package deal—dropping capability to 6—could be added. The captain’s chair format is included on Professional S Plus and 1st Version variations, and can come commonplace with all-wheel drive.
Regardless of the delay to repackage this automobile for the American market and add three-row seating, not one of the ID.Buzz variations supply utterly flat-folding seats, underscoring a problem with skateboard-layout electrical vans and their underfloor house that is occupied by the battery pack. Included on the first Version and non-compulsory on the Professional S Plus is a Flexboard system that provides two material storage bins and “creates a flat ground when the seats are folded”—by laying an elevated panel via to the hatch, on the degree of the folded second row. The third row could be eliminated utterly, although, and the second row slides fore and aft 7.9 inches.
2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz
2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz
2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz
The Volkswagen ID.Buzz is a contemporary electric-van incarnation of the VW Microbus, and it’s been a very long time coming. That’s particularly the case for Individuals, which maybe had the strongest connection to the unique Microbus through automobile tradition.
VW determined that Individuals didn’t need the model of the ID.Buzz that’s 185.5 inches lengthy, or about the identical general parking footprint because the bestselling Tesla Mannequin Y, using on a wheelbase about 4 inches longer. In its U.S.-bound XL type, the ID.Buzz is 192.4 inches lengthy, 77.9 inches extensive, and 74.6 inches tall, and it has a 127.5-inch wheelbase. It is going to additionally get an enormous panoramic glass sunroof, measuring 67.4 inches lengthy by 40.8 inches extensive, with electrochromic tinting.
VW is placing an enormous emphasis on coloration combos in and out for the ID.Buzz, and so they’ll be completely different in U.S. variations. On the skin that features brilliant white two-tone combos with orange, yellow, inexperienced, blue, and extra, whereas single-color choices are restricted to silver, white, and pearl. Inside, the American model of the ID.Buzz may also get distinctive coloration combos, together with synthetic-leather seats in shades of brown and grey, a wooden search for a few of the trim, and varied piping shades, with one of many combos, Copper, stated to channel “mid-century trendy vibes.”
2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz
Outstanding cabin trim and luxurious options have been by no means a part of the unique positioning of VW’s Microbus. Nor was a mid-century design aesthetic. So with VW mixing its messages on the Buzz, and constructing a product that is a contemporary tackle childhood nostalgia at this level, it stays to be seen whether or not this now a lot greater product connects with Individuals.
