The Volkswagen ID X Efficiency thought is a 558bhp electrical sports activities saloon that previews the way forward for the logo’s efficiency fashions. 

Giving hints at what sizzling Volkswagen EVs will seem like, the one-off is very easily probably the most tough Volkswagen to put on numberplates but, and packs just about double the facility of the logo’s present maximum potent road-going EVs. 

Printed at the once a year Volkswagen ID Motive force’s Membership assembly in Switzerland, the ID X Efficiency follows closing week’s ID GTI thought as a commentary of intent for Volkswagen’s electrical sports activities vehicles. Tellingly, it makes use of the similar ‘X’ moniker as a prior four-wheel-drive efficiency model of the Volkswagen ID 3, which was once quietly printed in 2021. 

Andreas Reckewerth, Volkswagen’s head of era for the platform, mentioned: “The MEB platform gives many incredible probabilities for coming near automobile building with quite a lot of creativity. It was once transparent to us that we needed to base our new display automobile at the ID 7 and that we’d focal point on bettering the efficiency. On this approach we will be able to display what’s imaginable.”

The company has no longer mentioned how carefully the ID X thought previews the already-confirmed Volkswagen ID 7 GTX, however Autocar prior to now reported that the production-spec automobile will pair the bottom fashion’s 282bhp and 402lb feet rear motor with the ID 4 GTX’s 107bhp entrance motor to provide a blended output of round 390bhp. It’s imaginable {that a} long term ‘ID 7 R’ might be extra immediately impressed via this idea, given the logo has proven an electrical long term for its top-rung efficiency sub-brand. 

The idea that is clearly marked out from the usual ID 7 via its chunky entrance splitter and rear diffuser created from carbonfibre, 60mm suspension drop and 20in alloys with 265-section observe tyres. Tinted rear lighting and a matt gray paint scheme whole the overhaul.