2023 Volkswagen ID.4 electric SUV arrives in Australia

The much-anticipated Volkswagen ID.4 has arrived in Australia for customer previews and dealer training, ahead of deliveries due in late 2023 or early 2024.

The 2023 Volkswagen ID.4 electric SUV has arrived in Australia for training and public previews, ahead of a planned official launch in late 2023 or early 2024.

Caught on camera in Sydney, the white ID.4 – the electric equivalent of a Volkswagen Tiguan medium SUV – shown is one of two examples coming to Australia for Volkswagen dealer training and customer/media test drives.

While the vehicles will be overseas-market models, it’s believed they will be close in specification to the models bound for Australia – suggesting some of the larger battery packs available overseas, more powerful motors, and higher levels of standard features.

As reported by Drive earlier this month, production of the Volkswagen ID.4 for Australia – alongside its sleeker ID.5 ‘coupe’ sibling – is currently slated to commence in late 2023, for first customer deliveries in early 2024.

However, Volkswagen Australia says it is working “hard” to bring the start of production date forward to the middle of 2023 – in order to deliver the first cars to customers before the end of the year.

The ID.4 and ID.5’s Australian launch will occur up to three years behind Europe – which VW Australia attributes to its global head office prioritising production for markets such as Europe with stringent emissions targets, rather than Australia, which currently has no such regulations.

Set to follow the SUV pair is the ID.3 hatchback – a similar size to a Golf, and based on the ID.4/ID.5’s ‘MEB’ electric-car platform – sometime in 2024, after it receives a mid-life facelift in Europe.

No date has been announced for the ID. Buzz – Volkswagen’s modern electric reimagining of the iconic Kombi – nor any of VW’s other upcoming ID. electric cars.

In the meantime, fellow Volkswagen Group brand Cupra plans to bring its Born electric hatchback – a twin to the ID.3 – here in early 2023, while Skoda is due to launch siblings of the ID.4 and ID.5, the Enyaq iV and Enyaq Coupe iV, in 2024.

Further Australian details of the 2023 Volkswagen ID.4 are expected in the coming months, ahead of first deliveries in late 2023 or early 2024.

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