Volkswagen looking at bringing new high-performance ID.Buzz GTX electric Kombi to Australia

Hold onto your dreamcatchers, ageing hippies, Volkswagen has announced that a GTX high-performance version of its ID.Buzz electric Kombi is coming and VW Australia has told CarsGuide it’s considering bringing it Down Under.

Speaking to British motoring website Autocar, Volkswagen Research and Development chief Kai Gruenitz revealed plans to expand the ID.Buzz range and confirmed the addition of an ID.Buzz GTX performance variant.

“The GTX will be a cool, high-performance version, with 250kW, a dedicated interior, new exterior colours and some additional features,” he told Autocar.  

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That’s a leap in grunt compared to the 150kW produced by the regular ID.Buzz, which uses a single rear-mounted electric motor to drive just the back wheels. 

The ID.Buzz GTX will have two motors - one at the rear and the other at the front - providing all-wheel drive.

A sporty body kit and GTX-specific alloy wheels would take the already unique looking ID Buzz to another level.

The regular ID.Buzz is coming to Australia, but CarsGuide reached out to Volkswagen to see whether the GTX would make it here, too.

“We're interested in any and all Buzz variants,” Volkswagen Group Australia’s general manager of corporate communications, Paul Pottinger, told CarsGuide. 

“And we will be ascertaining if that vehicle is possible for us.”

Speaking of other ID.Buzz variants, Gruenitz also mentioned that a long-wheelbase version was coming, too.

The ID.Buzz long-wheelbase will be 250mm longer than the regular version and have seven seats over three rows. The regular ID Buzz is a two-.row, five seater.

ID is the name Volkswagen has given to its all-electric range of vehicles. The ID.4 mid-sized SUV will be the first to come to Australia and will arrive this year. There’s also a larger ID.5 SUV and a smaller ID.3 hatchback coming, too. 

Volkswagen says the ID.Buzz will land in dealerships about the middle of 2024. Hopefully the GTX won’t be too far behind it.