Electric Volkswagen Id Polo Gti Is Coming And Bringing A New Ev Naming Scheme With It

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We're reaching a watershed infinitesimal successful nan automotive manufacture wherever nan dumbass names immoderate car companies person fixed their electrical vehicles nary longer make sense, particularly arsenic their state counterparts are phased retired and replaced. Volkswagen is simply a awesome illustration of this pinch its ID (insert number) nomenclature that flies straight successful nan look of nan truth each of its gas-powered cars person existent names. Well, the German automaker wants to rectify that, and it's doing truthful pinch nan preamble of nan all-electric ID Polo and its hotter brother, nan ID Polo GTI. That's right, nan basking hatch is going electric.

Volkswagen says nan caller ID Polo is meant to harvester nan characteristics nan Polo has ever stood for — quality, information and nan democratization of innovations — pinch what ID stands for, precocious technologies and electrical mobility. From nan looks of it, VW mightiness beryllium onto thing pinch this refreshingly mini package successful a oversea of ever-growing EVs. The caller car is besides launching, coincidentally, during nan Polo's 50th anniversary.

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Volkswagen's EVs frankincense acold person been a batch of things, but they haven't precisely been sporty. Well, that's each astir to alteration pinch nan preamble of nan ID Polo GTI. We'd first caught a glimpse of it arsenic nan ID GTI Concept, but erstwhile it comes clip for accumulation sometime successful 2026, it's going to prime up nan Polo moniker.

It'll person a GTI-acceptable 223 horsepower, according to Motor1, which is simply a bully spot much than nan 207 hp nan existent gas-powered Polo GTI puts out. Like nan regular ID Polo, nan GTI will make usage VW's MEB architecture and usage a azygous electrical centrifugal mounted astatine nan front. Sure, a rear-wheel-drive basking hatch would beryllium cool, but what tin ya do?

The 2 Polos look astir production-ready, but for nan clip being, VW is keeping them nether camouflage until their charismatic uncover sometime successful 2026. But, we'll get a person look astatine some of them astatine nan IAA Mobility Show successful Munich adjacent week, on pinch an electrical crossover concept.

It's earnestly refreshing to spot cars for illustration this coming down nan pipeline. It seems for illustration cars are conscionable getting bigger and bigger, truthful to person thing surely mini coming our measurement is beautiful to see. VW says nan determination to ID-ify nan Polo was made successful consequence to customer feedback. People yearn for smaller, much affordable EVs, and that's what VW is delivering pinch nan ID Polo and ID Polo GTI. Unfortunately, I wouldn't clasp retired overmuch dream that we'll ever spot either of these cars stateside. That's nan value of freedom, baby.

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