’Shit-hot’ news! Volkswagen ID.Buzz GTX electric super-van landing in Australia in 2025

The Volkswagen ID.Buzz GTX is coming to Australia.

Yep, the born-again all-electric version of the Kombi with a healthy dose of GTI spice will flesh out the ID.Buzz range when it hits the roads locally in 2025.

As the performance hero in the broad ID.Buzz range, the GTX promises serious punch from its dual motor set-up.

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“The truly exciting one which we can confirm is coming to Australia as well is the ID.Buzz GTX,” Nathan Johnson, Volkswagen Australia head of product for commercial vehicles, told EV Central this week.

“This car is going to be in the long wheelbase variant, it will be an all-wheel drive, it will do 0-100km/h in around six seconds.For an MPV that is quite quick.”

While plenty of EVs will outpunch it in a straight line, Johnson thinks the ID.Buzz GTX could be a dark horse in the people mover market it partially plays in.

Volkswagen also expects it to straddle the SUV segment while also drawing early adopters in the EV space.

“It is shit-hot for an MPV vehicle,” he says of the latest addition to the GTX sub-brand, the EV equivalent of GTI.

The ID.Buzz GTX has currently only been confirmed in the ID.Buzz’s long wheelbase configuration that seats up to seven and has more interior space.

It gets a larger rear motor making 210kW and 560Nm teamed with a front motor producing 80kW and 134Nm. 

Combined the power peaks at 250kW, enough to launch the retro-styled people mover to 100km/h in 6.5 seconds.

The GTX also gets various design tweaks compared with regular ID.Buzz models, including black highlights, red highlights inside and GTX badges liberally applied.

Volkswagen also confirmed Australia would get the shorter five-seat version of the ID.Buzz in more mundane guises as well as a family-focused long wheelbase seven-seater without the GTX go-fast kit.

And Volkswagen is also readying the ID.Cargo – the van version of the ID.Buzz – for a local launch.

“We really think this will be a strong product to market,” said Johnson of the ID.Cargo.

”It’s got good range, it’s got robust features that you’d come across in any other Volkswagen commercial vehicle. It’s not just a quick adaptation of ID.Buzz.”