{"id":396810,"date":"2025-09-04T08:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396810\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:50:15","slug":"volkswagen-confirms-id-polo-name-for-new-22k-ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396810\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen confirms ID Polo name for new \u00a322k EV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buyers will have a choice of four power levels from a front-mounted motor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This will top out at 223bhp in its most potent form, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/new-cars\/vw-id-polo-gti-233bhp-hot-hatch-arrive-2027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">badged the ID Polo GTI <\/a>\u2013 the first time the GTI badge has adorned an EV. It follows\u00a0last year\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/new-cars\/volkswagen-id-2-gti-set-gain-282bhp-clubsport-model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ID GTI concept<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen has also confirmed the ID Polo\u2019s dimensions: it will be 4053mm long, 1816mm wide and 1530mm tall. This makes it only slightly larger than the ICE\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-review\/vw\/polo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Polo<\/a> and nearly identical to the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-review\/renault\/4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Renault 4<\/a>\u00a0EV.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, it will use a\u00a012.9in infotainment touchscreen and a 10.9in digital driver display,\u00a0while adopting physical switches for the audio and climate controls.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen is aiming to eradicate all glue and hard plastics from its next-generation\u00a0interiors, in line with a pledge to boost material quality while reducing its cars&#8217; environmental impacts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload\" height=\"596\" width=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vw_id_polo_front.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The introduction of the ID Polo and ID Cross names brings to an end the numeric naming Volkswagen has used for its ID models since the launch of the ID 3 in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen admits that the system has failed to achieve the clarity it had hoped for, often leaving\u00a0customers confused about how the EVs relate to their ICE counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>While sharing names and being sold alongside each other, Volkswagen&#8217;s\u00a0EVs and ICE cars will be technically unrelated and have separate styles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buyers will have a choice of four power levels from a front-mounted motor.\u00a0 This will top out at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-396810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115145174250526639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}