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Volkswagen is making waves in the electric vehicle market with the introduction of its latest sporty GTX models. The double world premiere of the Volkswagen ID.3 GTX and ID.7 GTX Tourer marks a significant expansion of the company’s lineup. Further, promising individualized exterior designs, sporty interiors, and powerful performance drives.
Two new GTX models join Volkswagen’s ID range, one an electric GTI Clubsport counterpart and the other being Volkswagen’s most powerful all-wheel-drive estate ever.
Sitting atop the recently-updated ID.3 range, GTX variants score distinct front bumpers, lighting signatures and wheel designs. More power and chassis focus is a given.
A few Volkswagen model nameplates must be warily eyeing one another across the showroom floor. On one side, the growing battery-electric newness that starts with ID, like the ID.3, ID.4, ID.7, and ID.Buzz. On the other side, historic nameplates like Passat (since 1983), Golf (since 1974), Polo (since 1975), and much newer but highly favored names like Touareg (2002), Tiguan (2007), and Up (2011). As the lineup goes majority EV in the U.S. and perhaps entirely EV in other markets, the VW marketing department will need to grab a Bowie knife and decide which ICE-powered names get to make the conversion and which names head to the underworld.
The Volkswagen Golf GTI hot hatch is set to enter the electric era – with the next-generation, electric Golf range due later this decade – according to UK magazine Top Gear.
Volkswagen's small EV could come full circle in a few years. After the e-Golf was replaced by the ID.3, it seems the folks at Wolfsburg are planning the ol' switcheroo near the end of the decade. A company official has strongly hinted that the ID.3 might be retired after a single generation to pave the way for the return of the electric Golf.
The VW T-Roc Cabriolet has always been a bit of an oddity within the Volkswagen family so it comes as no surprise that it will not be replaced when the next-generation model launches, according to a new report.The German automaker has been selling the current-generation T-Roc as a convertible soft top since 2020 and from January to November last year, managed to sell 11,693 examples. While that made it Europe’s second best-selling open-top model after the Mini convertible, total T-Roc sales eclipsed 191,000 during the same 11 months, meaning it only represented a small fraction of total sales.Driven: Is The VW T-Roc R The Best-Value R Model?Underpinning the next-generation T-Roc will be the firm’s MQB Evo platform also used by the facelifted VW Golf as well as the Passat and Tiguan.
Remember the quirky and affordable Up! supermini that Volkswagen sold locally until 2020? It seems set to make a return as a budget EV for the European market.