The Volkswagen model is giving its electrical offensive an extra increase: by 2027, Europe’s largest automotive producer will launch eleven new all-electric fashions and thus provide the widest electrical automobile vary of all producers – from a compact automobile priced as lower than 25,000 euros by way of to a household saloon. Sooner or later, there may also be sporty and emotive GTI variations of chosen fashions from the all-electric ID. household.
The ID. GTI Idea present automobile offered for the primary time on the IAA Mobility in Munich supplies a concrete perception into how Volkswagen will transport the enduring GTI label into the electrical future. On the worldwide motor present, the brand new orientation of the model might be seen in all areas for the primary time.
There’s a new, highly effective GTI feeling in the way in which the primary electrical GTI unleashes its dynamic capabilities. It’s because the utmost energy and most torque can be found with the lightning-fast pace typical of electrical autos. The worlds of the electrical ID. GTI Idea and turbocharged Golf GTI meet up on the subject of energy transmission to the entrance axle. It’s because a front-axle differential lock – electronically managed by a Automobile Dynamics Supervisor – is used identical to within the present technology of the sports activities automobile icon.
The Golf GTI and Golf GTI Clubsport had been the primary Volkswagen fashions with this traction management system. With the ID. GTI Idea, an electrical Volkswagen now has this clever system on board for the primary time. Following on from this, the letter “I” for injection within the GTI title now additionally stands for intelligence – within the type of high-performance drive and chassis intelligence.
With the ID. GTI Idea, Volkswagen is presenting a brand new evolutionary stage of those electronically networked driving dynamics programs. Right here, the Automobile Dynamics Supervisor of the ID. GTI Idea integrates the powertrain into the management system to a good larger extent than on the petrol fashions. That is doable as a result of the set-up of the electrical drive motor, as an electrical system, could be diversified virtually infinitely. This allows realisation of a variety of various GTI profiles.
Utilizing a newly developed GTI Expertise Management on the centre console, the motive force can select which traits the powertrain of the ID. GTI Idea ought to have. For the primary time, it’s subsequently doable to regulate the drive system, working gear, steering, sound expertise and even the simulated shift factors within the type of one of many historic GTI fashions – such because the Golf GTI I from 1976, the primary Golf GTI II 16V from 1986 or the legendary Golf GTI IV ‘25 years of GTI’ from 2001. This makes the ID. GTI Idea a extremely dynamic time machine.
Thomas Schäfer, CEO of the Volkswagen model, sums up the fascination of GTI automobiles: “The proper mixture of driving pleasure and on a regular basis usability – that’s what the three letters GTI have meant for many years. With the ID. GTI Idea, we’re transporting the GTI DNA into the electrical age. It stays sporty, iconic, technologically progressive and accessible, however now has a brand new interpretation for tomorrow’s world: electrical, absolutely linked and intensely emotive. Right here, driving pleasure and sustainability are an ideal match. This implies GTI has a future – for our model and for the followers. Manufacturing has already been determined as a part of our electrical offensive. A Volkswagen sports activities automobile for the electrical age that’s appropriate for on a regular basis driving: 100 per cent electrical – 100 per cent emotion.”
Andreas Mindt has been Head of Design of the Volkswagen model since 2023. Earlier than his time as Chief Designer at Bentley and Head of Exterior Design at Audi, he had already been one of many groundbreaking designers at Volkswagen and created best-selling fashions equivalent to the primary Tiguan and the seventh-generation Golf. “With the ID. GTI Idea, we’re displaying what an incredible future the GTI philosophy has at Volkswagen,” says Mindt. “For my part, the highly effective ID. 2all is the proper foundation for an electrical GTI. I already had the GTI in thoughts after I first put pen to paper for the ID. 2all. It’s now turning into actuality and permitting us to venture the GTI concept into the brand new age of electrical mobility.”
Sep 4, 2023