► New spyshots of VW ID.7 Tourer
► Volkswagen’s first electric estate
► Winter tests ahead of 2024 launch
The new Volkswagen ID.7 Tourer is undergoing final winter tests ahead of its launch in summer 2024 – and VW’s first electric estate car is shaping up nicely, as our spyshots in a wintry Scandinavian streetscape prove.
VW promises the ID.7 Tourer will be one of the most aerodynamically efficient wagons on the market, citing a 0.24 drag coefficient, only marginally behind the slippery ID.7 saloon at 0.23.
Trick aero is important with electric cars; managing airflow carefully is known to extend range and make every valuable kilowatt hour go further…
The styling is very in keeping with the ID family look, just metamorphosed into a sleek estate silhouette. Note, also, the full-width lighting bars front and rear.
Volkswagen ID.7 Tourer: what we know
These are not the first pictures of the electric estate car: Wolfsburg has already shown its newcomer wearing a psychedelic disguise, but our new spy photographs taken in December 2023 show the car in near-production spec, as engineers test late-stage validation prototypes in the extremes of an Arctic winter.
VW has long pedigree in estate cars, especially the heartland of Passat, Golf and Arteon model lines in recent years. The ID.7 Tourer is its first foray into electric wagons, and the company has confirmed it will have 545 litres of loadspace, rising to 1714 litres with the rear seats flopped forward.
Furthermore, the loadbay stretches to nearly two metres long, when formatted as a two-seater with the rear bench folded flat.
Tech specs
You won’t be surprised to hear that the ID.7 Tourer is based on the group’s MEB electric car architecture. This brings front-wheel drive as standard, with all-wheel drive, twin-motor potential and a choice of 77kWh or long-range 86kWh batteries. The latter brings the promise of 400-mile range, according to Volkswagen and battery charge preconditioning means the EV will be ready to accept 200kW rapid charging when you roll into a charging bay.
It will be built alongside the ID.4 at the Emden factory in north-west Germany. No word yet on prices, but we expect a couple of thousand pounds will be added to the saloon’s RRP, pointing to a punchy starting price of around £58k at launch.
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