At present, the Volkswagen ID range does not include vehicles in the small car segment. But that will change from 2025. By then, the VW ID.2, an electric car in Polo size, should be on the market. Our spies near the Arctic Circle have now snapped a test mule in form of a radically shortened ID.3.
Technically, the VW ID2 is closely related to the compact entry-level Cupra, so far called the Urban Rebel. Unlike the ID3 and all larger models, ID.2 and Urban Rebel will get front wheel drive. Volkswagen plans to produce both models at the Seat plant in Martorell, near Barcelona, in northern Spain. Both will see daylight in 2024 or 2025.
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The approximately 4.4 meter long VW ID.2 will replace the current VW Polo in the medium term and will cost just under 25,000 Euros. That would be about as much as VW is now asking for the petrol-powered Golf – after cheaper basic versions of the compact class king are no longer available. However, the Golf is already a discontinued model that is to be completely replaced by new electric cars.
The battery capacity of the ID.2 is expected to be between 50 and 80 kWh. This should enable a range of up to 400 kilometres. A somewhat more robust ID.2 X is going to replace the T-Cross city SUV in 2025 or 2026.
Skoda Kodiaq
Skoda has started the development process of the new generation of its popular seven-seater SUV. An prototype for the Skoda Kodiaq 2024 has been photographed for the first time. It got caught in northern Sweden. Bear in mind that the Kodiaq range was updated in the first half of 2021. It underwent a facelift as a mid-cycle update.
The new Kodiaq is being developed on the same MQB floorpan as the current generation which supports Skoda’s plans to electrify its successful SUV. Despite all the resources that Skoda has put into developing a family of electric vehicles in record time, in the short and medium term there is room in the range for this successful seven-seater SUV.
The new generation of the Kodiaq will be available with gasoline and diesel engines. 48-volt mild-hybrid (MHEV) technology will make an appearance and, more importantly, there will be plug-in hybrid (PHEV) versions. They will be the most ecological option.
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The new Kodiaq should see the light of day at some point in 2024, predictably in the first semester. Everything will depend on whether, by then, the situation of scarcity of microchips and semiconductors has returned to normal.
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