VW reveals more US ID.Buzz feature details—no pricing yet

Volkswagen has confirmed characteristic, trim, and shade mixtures 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 accordance 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 steered it received’t be arriving till later within the 12 months. If it’s any indication, VW nonetheless doesn’t seem to have a reside U.S. construct instrument, permitting clients to visualise its completely different American proportions and mixtures. 

As VW revealed with 2025 VW ID.Buzz specs almost almost a 12 months in the past, U.S. variations of the ID.Buzz will journey on a virtually 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 might be single-motor in its U.S. structure too, for now, however it will get the 282-hp unit given to the 2025 VW ID.4. A dual-motor model with 335 hp (additionally the identical as ID.4) is on the way in which. VW confirms the U.S. model will be capable to tow—with an obtainable retractable tow hitch—however it hasn’t but confirmed rankings. 

Volkswagen ID.Buzz (Euro spec)

In a review of the ID.Buzz EV in standard-wheelbase type, two years in the past with the arrival of that model on the market in Europe and different markets, Inexperienced Automobile Experiences noticed it as an incredible household automobile within the custom of a minivan, carrying over among the wonderful 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 the panoramic roof, a 700-watt premium sound system, and energy sliding doorways and 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 many of the ID.4 lineup. 

2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz

The important thing differentiator for the extended-length U.S. model, initially supplied in rear-wheel-drive type solely, 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—will be added. The captain’s chair structure is included on Professional S Plus and 1st Version variations.

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 significantly neat (or flat) seat-folding, underscoring a problem with skateboard-layout electrical vans and their underfloor house already occupied by the battery pack. Included on the first Version and non-obligatory on the Professional S Plus is a Flexboard system that provides two cloth storage bins and “creates a flat flooring when the seats are folded”—by laying an elevated panel by way of to the hatch, on the stage of the folded second row. The third row will 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 automotive 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 broad, and 74.6 inches tall, and it has a 127.5-inch wheelbase. It can additionally get an enormous panoramic glass sunroof, measuring 67.4 inches lengthy by 40.8 inches broad, with electrochromic tinting. 

It is placing an enormous emphasis on shade mixtures inside and outside, they usually’ll be completely different in U.S. variations. On the surface that features shiny 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 can even get distinctive shade mixtures, together with synthetic-leather seats in shades of brown and grey, a wooden look to among the trim, and shades of piping, with one of many mixtures, Copper, mentioned 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.