Volkswagen ID X is electric super-saloon with 558bhp

The Volkswagen ID X Performance conception is simply a 558bhp electrical sports saloon that previews the aboriginal of the brand’s show models. 

Giving hints astatine what blistery Volkswagen EVs volition look like, the one-off is comfortably the astir almighty Volkswagen to deterioration numberplates yet, and packs astir treble the powerfulness of the brand’s existent astir potent road-going EVs. 

Revealed astatine the yearly Volkswagen ID Driver’s Club gathering successful Switzerland, the ID X Performance follows past week's ID GTI conception arsenic a connection of intent for Volkswagen's electrical sports cars. Tellingly, it uses the aforesaid ‘X’ moniker arsenic a erstwhile four-wheel-drive show mentation of the Volkswagen ID 3, which was softly revealed successful 2021. 

Andreas Reckewerth, Volkswagen's caput of exertion for the platform, said: “The MEB level offers galore fantastic possibilities for approaching conveyance improvement with a large woody of creativity. It was wide to america that we wanted to basal our caller amusement car connected the ID 7 and that we would absorption connected enhancing the performance. In this mode we tin amusement what is possible.”

The steadfast has not said however intimately the ID X conception previews the already-confirmed Volkswagen ID 7 GTX, but Autocar antecedently reported that the production-spec car volition pair the basal model’s 282bhp and 402lb ft rear centrifugal with the ID 4 GTX’s 107bhp beforehand centrifugal to springiness a combined output of astir 390bhp. It is imaginable that a aboriginal ‘ID 7 R’ could beryllium much straight inspired by this concept, fixed the marque has confirmed an electrical aboriginal for its top-rung show sub-brand. 

The conception is evidently marked retired from the modular ID 7 by its chunky beforehand splitter and rear diffuser made retired of carbonfibre, 60mm suspension driblet and 20in alloys with 265-section way tyres. Tinted rear lights and a matt grey overgarment strategy implicit the overhaul. 

Power comes from 2 motors - 1 connected each axle - for a full output of 558bhp. This is 22bhp much than the BMW i4 M50 but 119bhp down connected the astir almighty Mercedes-AMG EQE 53. Like the AMG, however, the ID X Performance comes with a boost function, which tin present much powerfulness implicit a abbreviated period. 

Volkswagen has not elaborate show figures, but nary uncertainty the blistery 4WD ID 7 volition surge from 0-62mph successful good nether 4.0sec, to instrumentality it into the realm of the likewise conceived Tesla Model 3 Performance. 

The show billing is emphasised by an interior trimmed with reddish accents connected the steering instrumentality and dashboard, c bucket seats and Alcantara connected the apical of the dashboard and doorway cards. It retains Volkswagen's caller 15.0in infotainment touchscreen which operates the latest mentation of the firm’s MIB infotainment software.

Its scope is expected to beryllium somewhat down connected the ID 7’s 435 miles (assuming it uses the aforesaid 86kWh battery), but Volkswagen says it volition inactive beryllium capable to complaint astatine a complaint of 200kW.