Retro nostalgia doesn’t begin to cover the buzz that’s been building around the 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz electric minivan. Heavily inspired by the brand’s iconic Type 2 Microbus, which can still be seen cruising across Canada every summer, the ID.Buzz seems to inspire an instant desire to hit the open road in just about everyone who lays eyes on it. Though details remain relatively scarce, we expect all eyes to be on VW as the ID.Buzz surfs its way closer to launch.
Here’s everything we know so far about the 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz in Canada. Be sure to bookmark this page: we’ll update it as we receive more information.
2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz: What we Know so Far
- 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz styling
- 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz interior design and practicality
- 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz engine and drive
- 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz price and release date
2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz styling
Volkswagen knows its audience, which shows in the ID.Buzz’s many retro-inspired design elements. An oversized VW logo, illuminated in North America, looks as pulled straight off an original Microbus as the boxy stance, short overhangs, and available two-tone colour scheme offered in eight colours spanning the entire rainbow. Although it’s shaped roughly like a toaster, VW has pulled off the seemingly impossible and given the ID.Buzz an amazingly low drag coefficient of 0.29.
Although there’s no engine at the back to cool, VW has kept a trio of simulated air vents on each D-pillar as a nod to the original Bus’s rear-mounted powerplant. Kick-activated dual power sliding side doors and power liftgate make it somewhat reminiscent of a minivan. Although the second-row windows can’t open, there are power-sliding panels on the windows of each sliding door. At least there’s that much since these windows don’t open at all on the short-wheelbase version.
2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz interior design and practicality
There’s a short-wheelbase version of the ID.Buzz, which is already on sale in Europe and elsewhere. Since we have a reputation for thinking bigger is better in North America, we won’t see that version here. Instead, we’re getting the long-wheelbase version only. In the U.S., this means every ID.Buzz will ship with six or seven seats by default. Despite getting the long-wheelbase variant, Canada will be the only country on the continent offered an exclusive two-row, five-seat configuration of the ID.Buzz as the entry-level setup. This is because VW Canada expects more of us to want the space for thinks like camping gear, bikes, outdoor equipment, and other larger items.
In either layout, heated front and outboard second-row seats will be standard equipment. A six-seat configuration will also be available with captain’s chairs in the second row.
The long-wheelbase ID.Buzz is 4,962 mm long and has a 3,238-millimetre wheelbase, making it roughly 25.8 centimetres longer than the short-wheelbase version. It’s roughly as wide as a Volkswagen Atlas at 1,979 mm, but it’s nearly 13 cm taller at 1,895 mm in height. A lot of this goes into the seating position, which is 10 cm higher in the ID.Buzz than in an Atlas.
A 12.9-inch touchscreen serves as the infotainment system, while a 10.0-inch digital instrument cluster will also come standard. In fact, there’s a shocking amount of standard equipment in the ID.Buzz. Front-row 12-way power adjusting seats with heat and ventilation, massage, and memory functions come at no extra charge. However, a heated steering wheel, heated and power-folding exterior mirrors, and a heated windshield and heated washer nozzles are available—and a heat pump will cost you extra, too. The playful pedals from the Buzz concept are included in the production version, and a removable centre console has dividers that can double as an ice scraper or a bottle opener.
We also know VW plans to offer a series of accessories for the ID.Buzz, though no details have been announced as of this writing.
2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz engine and drive
The version of the ID.Buzz we’ll see in Canada comes with a 91 kWh battery. The 82 kWh version seen in other market is not expected to be sold here. Power output measures up at 282 horsepower and 406 lb-ft of torque. Rear-wheel drive (RWD) will be standard—yes, even in Canada—though we do expect an AWD version to be available at launch. No details have been provided on that other than that it won’t be the VW ID.Buzz GTX that was recently revealed for Europe.
Those who opt for the RWD variant will see a small bump in range, though range figures for either configuration have not yet been released. (The Americans are estimating a range of 260 miles or 418 kilometres; if that’s accurate, Canadian five-cycle testing will likely produce a lower figure.) The ID.Buzz will be capable of charging at speeds up to 170 kW, which takes the battery from 10 to 80 per cent in 25 minutes.
2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz price and release date
The 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz is set to arrive in Canada sometime in the second half of 2024. Pricing has not yet been announced. We’re expecting this to be a high-cost, low-volume vehicle. But given the anticipation around it, we also expect it to sell out in a flash, no matter the price.