Fast Volkswagen ID.3 GTX to debut in 2023
Dual-motor all-electric hot hatch to arrive along with mid-life tweaks to the entire ID.3 rangeVolkswagen has confirmed it will launch the hot Volkswagen ID.3 GTX in 2023, with its debut announced to coincide with the arrival of mid-life tweaks for the core Volkswagen ID.3 hatch.
Confirming the ID.3 GTX will land next year – the same year both the Volkswagen ID.4 and ID.5 will go on sale in Australia – VW's product manager Martin Hube confirmed to Auto Express in the UK that the ID.3 GTX would come equipped with all-wheel drive.
When it arrives, the 2023 Volkswagen ID.3 GTX will be the third high-performance take on the German car-maker's ID sub-brand, with both the ID.4 GTX and ID.5 GTX already available in some European markets.
In a previous interview, Volkswagen's CEO Ralf Brandstätter warned the production ID.3 GTX wouldn't be quite as powerful as the ID.X concept, which featured a 245kW dual-motor set-up that included a 77kWh battery pack.
The VW chief didn't say how powerful the upcoming ID.3 GTX would be, but the safe money is it will come with the same 220kW peak power as the bigger ID.4 GTX.
This should ensure the hot ID.3 is still capable of a sub-6.0sec 0-100km/h dash.
“The ID.X concept was to show what’s possible,” Brandstätter said. “We had the MEB toolbox in the beginning, we added all-wheel drive with the GTX. We will add a performance engine on the rear axle [of the ID.3] to give the car more acceleration, more speed. We are preparing an ID.3 GTX; it will come to life.”
The original ID.X concept could launch itself from 0-100km/h in just 5.3 seconds. As well as its extra power, the concept slashed an incredible 200kg over a standard ID.3.
It's understood that some of the original concept's liberal use of carbon-fibre could be introduced on an even faster R version also in the works.
As well as a hot hatch battery-electric version of the ID.3, Brandstätter has also previously hinted heavily that he wanted an all-electric cabriolet to be part of the Volkswagen ID strategy.
However, there's no new announcements on whether an ID.3-based drop-top is any closer to reality.
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