VW unveils the ID.5 and ID.5 GTX, an all-electric SUV coupé

(Pocket-lint) - VW has officially unveiled the ID.5 alongside the show mentation of that model, the ID.5 GTX.

Sitting connected the aforesaid level arsenic the VW ID.4, it's a akin size and plan arsenic the 2020 electrical SUV, but has a dropping coupé roofline, alternatively than the hatchback of SUV.

VW says that it's tapping into a caller conception of the market, precise overmuch pursuing the Audi Q4 e-tron Sportback which offers similar.

With SUVs being the biggest selling conception of the market, this dropped extortion alternate gives buyers a somewhat much sporty aesthetic portion overmuch of the car remains the same.

Such styling has been palmy for the likes of BMW and Mercedes successful the past, some offering a fig of combustion models that travel akin lines.

Returning to the ID.5, overmuch remains arsenic you'd expect, with VW outlining that the rear passengers lone suffer 12mm of headroom, portion the boot/trunk offers 549 litres of storage.

There are outer styling details, but connected the whole, visually, the caller models look precise overmuch similar the ID.4 and bent connected to that ID. household identity.

The GTX gets a mates of tweaks to heighten the sportiness of its appearance, but the biggest alteration is that it's a dual centrifugal model, truthful offers all-wheel drive.

Making its debut connected the models is simply a caller procreation of software, bringing with it a dependable adjunct you tin summon with Hello ID. When trial driving the ID.3 and the ID.4 we recovered a fig of irritations successful the software, truthful hopefully this volition instrumentality things forward.

There's a measurement up to 135kW charging (over 120kW successful the ID.4) and the cited scope of 323 miles comes from VW's 77kWh battery. There volition beryllium a 172PS model, stepping up to 201PS with the GTX coming successful astatine 295PS, but each connected the larger battery. That gives a scope of positioning for the ID.5, but without the smaller artillery capableness that you get successful the ID.4, the caller exemplary is precise overmuch pitched arsenic a premium alternative.

Pricing and ordering volition travel successful 2022.

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 3 November 2021.