One of the most anticipated new cars of the year is a van. That may sound strange, but only a few vans in automotive history qualify as iconic. This year’s buzzy car is the rebirth of perhaps the most iconic van of all.
The 2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz is a spiritual and aesthetic rebirth of the minibus – the VW Type 2 you picture with curtains in the windows and a surfboard mounted on top. Volkswagen built the Type 2 on several continents, with at least one factory producing busses from 1949 until 2013. But Americans associate it with the counterculture of the 1960s when campus protests rocked… you know, this nostalgia thing might work better than I’d expected.
The ID. Buzz is electric – which probably fits the ethos of a Love Bus rebirth for 2024.
Volkswagen is keeping pricing and range secret until closer to the van’s arrival on sales lots later this year. But the company released details on which vans you can buy.
Interior Themes
Every ID. Buzz will come with a 12.9-inch infotainment display, a 5.3-inch driver’s digital instrument cluster, and 30-color ambient lighting. Volkswagen’s unique ID. Light is standard. That’s a thin line of LED lighting at the base of the windshield that communicates simple things in the driver’s peripheral vision, like flashing side-to-side to indicate turn-by-turn directions. Our test drivers have enjoyed it on the Volkswagen ID.4 electric SUV.
Inside, ID. Buzz buyers will be offered three design schemes.
Volkswagen calls Moonlight “a moody dark interior,” with “dark brown leatherette seats with white piping, blue door inserts, and a dark wood-look dash.” Dune is “a bright, airy, coastal-inspired interior,” pairing light gray leatherette seats with clay-colored piping, clay door inserts, and a light wood-look dash.” Copper ”gives mid-century modern vibes with rich brown leatherette seats with yellow piping, brown door inserts, and a washed wood-look dash.”
At launch, the ID. Buzz bus will come in three models: Pro S, Pros S Plus, and 1st Edition.
Pro S
Pro S models will come in rear-wheel drive (RWD) with a 3-seat second-row bench and a 2-seat third-row bench, meaning seating for seven people total.
Pro S Plus and 1st Edition models offer both rear-wheel- and 4Motion all-wheel-drive configurations. On Pro S Plus rear-wheel-drive models, second-row bench seating is standard, with an available captain’s chair package that lowers total seating capacity to six. Rear-wheel-drive 1st Edition models only offer a second-row bench. On both Pro S Plus and 1st Edition 4Motion all-wheel-drive models, captain’s chairs come standard.
Pro S Plus
The Pro S adds a head-up display, “area view” 360-degree camera system, and a 700-watt Harman/Kardon sound system boasting nine speakers. A manually retractable tow hitch hides behind the rear bumper when not needed. VW hasn’t released towing capacity figures yet.
1st Edition
The 1st Edition will be a limited-run model available only in the first year of production. It gets a two-tone exterior, 20-inch wheels, roof rail cross bars, and First Edition badges inside and out.
