In an electrified automotive world brimming with SUVs, we can only be a little more enthusiastic regarding the promise of the imminent arrival of a station wagon. It will bear the Volkswagen crest and will be called ID.7 Tourer.
SUVs have been the gravediggers of several categories of family vehicles, almost burying minivans from their advent and putting a serious blow to station wagons, with the consequences on the efficiency of their high silhouette on legs which we have spoken of many times. . And it’s even worse since the wave of electrical novelties that we have known for a few years. So much so that there are currently only two backpack saloon models on the French market, the MG5 and the Porsche Taycan Sport Turismowhich, with a little over €100,000 difference between the two, does not really offer a choice, you will agree.
These two extremes should, however, see a newcomer come between them in the near future. Volkswagen officially filed the name “ID.7 Tourer” with the European authorities on May 17, following having done the same a few months ago for the entire series ranging from ID.1 to ID.9, which is literally an obsession. Behind this new model, which can be described as an electric Passat SW, hides the production version of the concept ID Space Vizzionpresented at the Los Angeles Motor Show in 2019, and the station wagon version of the ID.7, itself being the producible evolution of the ID Vizzion concept whose marketing will begin next year. That of the Tourer should therefore logically follow, probably in 2024.
A technical sheet probably similar to that of the sedan
Technical information is still rare and imprecise, but should logically be modeled on that of the sedan which will be built on an evolution of the MEB platform with propulsion and four-wheel drive configurations with two engines, up to 700 km of autonomy, a charging power greater than 200 kW and a 0 to 100 km/h that can go down to less than six seconds.
