New Volkswagen ID 2 baby SUV confirmed for 2026

Volkswagen has confirmed that it volition motorboat a 'high-volume' A-segment SUV successful 2026, apt serving arsenic a raised, rugged instrumentality connected the upcoming Volkswagen ID 2.

To beryllium built successful Wolfsburg alongside the larger Volkswagen ID 3, the 'ID 2 X' arsenic it is expected to beryllium called, volition beryllium based connected the aforesaid MEB Entry level arsenic its supermini sibling, arsenic good arsenic the Cupra Raval and an unnamed equivalent exemplary from Skoda. 

Those 3 cars person been confirmed to beryllium built astatine a caller accumulation enactment tally by Seat successful Martorell, Spain, and it is not yet wide if Volkswagen volition physique its ain babe SUV there, arsenic good arsenic successful Germany. Autocar has approached the institution for clarification. 

Confirmation of the ID 2 X's motorboat day comes arsenic the institution reveals details astir the signifier of its mill web done to 2028, pursuing a gathering of the committee of absorption earlier today. The institution is successful the process of allocating assorted upcoming models to each of its assorted planetary accumulation hubs, with a absorption connected maximising ratio by grouping platform-sharing models together.

Volkswagen's accumulation brag Christian Vollmer said: "We are utilizing the modulation to electromobility arsenic an accidental to trim the complexity of our accumulation operations and summation the ratio of our plants adjacent further. We are systematically bundling vehicles based connected the aforesaid architecture crossed each brands successful our plants. 

"By doing so, we volition prevention important investments successful the integration of antithetic conveyance architectures. Rather, we privation our plants to nutrient respective antithetic models connected the method ground of 1 conveyance architecture.”

As good arsenic the ID 3 and ID 2 X, Wolfsburg volition proceed to physique the Volkswagen Golf hatchback – to beryllium heavy updated successful aboriginal 2024 – and the latest mentation of the Volkswagen Tiguan, revealed earlier this month. The seven-seat Volkswagen Tayron SUV – a replacement for the Tiguan Allspace – volition beryllium built successful Wolfsburg from 2025.

The ID 2 X volition service arsenic a replacement for the existent Volkswagen T-Cross, which is scheduled to bow retired successful astir 2025, overmuch arsenic the ID 2 volition regenerate the Polo. 

It volition measurement astir 4050mm agelong and person a circa-2600mm wheelbase, making it a adjacent lucifer for its combustion-engined predecessor, though a level EV floorpan and the deficiency of an motor volition mean it has interior abstraction much successful enactment with that of today's Golf.

Like the ID 2 and its Cupra and Skoda siblings, it volition beryllium natively front-driven and offered with the prime of 38kWh oregon 56kWh batteries, giving a maximum scope of astir 260 miles - fixed the lighter, lower-slung ID 2 claims a 280-mile figure.

Volkswagen says the larger of these batteries tin beryllium charged from 10-80% successful astir 20 minutes, with a maximum velocity of 125kW. 

The ID 2 conception was shown with a 223bhp azygous centrifugal connected the beforehand axle, giving a 0-62mph clip of sub-7.0secs but Volkswagen has yet to corroborate details of immoderate different powertrain options. It is improbable the ID 2 X volition beryllium offered successful blistery 'GTI' format, arsenic has been confirmed for the ID 2, fixed its much practical, family-focused billing. 

The ID 2 is acceptable to deed the marketplace astatine an ambitious £22,000 erstwhile it arrives successful 2026, but erstwhile its raised sibling enters accumulation aboriginal that year, it tin beryllium expected to bid a premium of astir £3000, successful reflection of the spread betwixt the Polo and T-Cross. 

In today's announcement, Volkswagen has besides confirmed that "as things basal today", it volition not physique a dedicated caller mill for its long-awaited Trinity flagship, alternatively gathering this caller highly autonomous EV astatine Zwickau, wherever it presently builds the ID 3 and ID 5. 

Autocar reported past twelvemonth that delays to the Trinity programme had prompted interior discussions astir the viability of a dedicated mill for the model, fixed forecasted easing request for combustion cars could escaped up abstraction for a caller exemplary wrong the existing network.