VW’s New ID. Tiguan Finally Stops Pretending It’s An ID.4

Underpinning the all-electric ID. Tiguan is VW’s updated MEB+ platform. The SUV adopts a classic VW shape and profile, unlike the ID.4 and ID.5. This lightly-camouflaged prototypes includes distinctive front and rear fascias. Like so many other legacy brands, VW has stopped pretending its EVs need to exist as a separate species from the combustion cars parked beside them, with their own naming logic and their own marketing language. That rethink is why the replacement for the ID.4 and ID.5 is expected to show up wearing an ID. Tiguan badge rather than another number, and why the car underneath the badge looks set to change more than the name suggests.…

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