Here are the four new products that Volkswagen will launch and/or present in 2025.
T-Roc: the last of the thermals
In the summer of 2025, the second generation of the Volkswagen T-Roc will join the German brand’s dealerships. The revisited leisure mode counterpart of the Golf will always plow the same furrow without revolutionizing the recipe. The brand would be wrong to change its strategy, it has, until now, fully smiled on the first version launched in autumn 2017 then restyled in spring 2022. The style will logically be modernized in a spirit close to that of its big brother Tiguan with softer curves and shapes. Under the hood, the big news will be the appearance of plug-in hybrid engines, the 204 hp variant certainly, the 272 hp variant probably a little above market needs. After all, it is indeed available in the Golf GTE.
Unlike its rivals Ford Puma Gen-E and Peugeot E-2008 III, the T-Roc will not go 100% electricpartition which it will leave, to a certain extent, at ID.2X (see below). Finally, the convertible silhouette will not be renewed, meaning at the same time the abandonment of any convertible body in the Volkswagen range.
Tayron: 7 seats or PHEV, you will have to choose
At the beginning of last October, the Wolfsburg brand lifted the veil on its family SUV available in 5 and 7 seat versions, the Volkswagen Tayron. Replacing the Tiguan Allspace, it will arrive in dealerships in March 2025. The call price will be below €50,000.
While the cutting-edge versions, equipped with a 272 hp plug-in hybrid engine, will cost €70,000 once you have purchased a few options. Like its predecessor, the Volkswagen Tayron will take over the technical basis of the Tiguan, namely the MQB Evo platform. But on the contrary, it will not share any bodywork elements with it.
A distinction justifying, according to VW, a move upmarket. Note that PHEV technology will not be compatible, due to its batteries housed under the floor, with the 7-seat architecture. A weakness from which the rival Peugeot 5008 does not suffer.
ID.2 X: More like the Renault 4?
It’s official, Volkswagen has announced through a teaser the presentation in September 2025, at the Munich mobility fair, for a commercial launch in 2026, its future 100% electric urban SUV. It is known “unofficially” under the name ID.2 X. All in all, logical timing if we remember the VW ID prototype. Life unveiled at the very first edition of the Bavarian motor show in September 2021.
The production version should bear a “hybrid” name combining the logical ID name for a 100% electric model with a classic and well-known term in the brand’s heritage. In order to reassure customers who have not really subscribed to the “watté” shift taken by the brand. In any case, to increase its profitability, this vehicle which will compete against the Renault 4 will share its technical base with the Skoda Epiq, the small urban SUV available under the Cupra brand – the alter ego perched in adventurer mode the Raval – and which will also form a common basis with the future Audi Q2 e-tron.
ID.2: popular and rebirth of the GTI
It’s quite a symbol, it embodies the new direction of the brand. The Volkswagen ID.2, unveiled in the form of the ID.2all concept, in March 2023, carries a heavy responsibility on its shoulders. It should allow the brand to reconnect with popular models while reassuring about its electrical policy. This “Polo” will be the rival of the Renault 5 E-Tech but also of the Fiat Grande Panda and Citroën ë-C3. The manufacturer has already assigned a starting price of just under €25,000.
Its very subtly neo-retro look, in fact we can see in its profile a bit of that of the first generation Golf will be a weapon of seduction.
While at the other end of the range, a variant bearing the GTI label and powered by a strong 226 hp engine (at its beginnings, there will be more watts later) will serve to establish its image while maintaining the Alpine A290, Lancia Yspilon HF and the future DS N°3 in a tracksuit.
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