# Volkswagen replaces ID.4 with ID. Tiguan

> VW's bestselling Tiguan name now badges its successor to the ID.4 electric crossover, with a premium interior and physical controls.
- Title: Volkswagen replaces ID.4 with ID. Tiguan · Ars Technica
- Summary: VW's bestselling Tiguan name now badges its successor to the ID.4 electric crossover, with a premium interior and physical controls. Volkswagen has replaced…
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- Source: Ars Technica — https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10/volkswagens-replacement-for-the-id-4-crossover-is-here
- Published: 2026-10-09T10:00:59+00:00
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- Topics: volkswagen, id.tiguan, id.4, electric vehicles, crossover, ev platform, technology, science
## ID.4 production ends after five years
Volkswagen's ID.4 midsize electric crossover debuted in 2021 as one of the company's first new EVs after dieselgate. The Chattanooga, Tennessee plant stopped making it earlier this year.
## Meet the ID. Tiguan replacement
Having sold almost a million ID.4s and near-identical ID.5s globally, Volkswagen has decided to replace the model. The new car adopts the Tiguan nameplate, VW's best-selling model worldwide.

> The Tiguan is our best-selling model worldwide, and the ID.4 and ID.5 are among our most successful electric cars. The ID. Tiguan brings these two success stories together.
## Updated platform with two battery options
The ID. Tiguan uses an updated version of Volkswagen's mass-market EV platform, now called MEB plus, with either fifty-eight kilowatt-hour or seventy-seven kilowatt-hour battery packs.
## Three powertrain configurations available
The smaller battery pairs with a one hundred eighty-seven horsepower rear motor. The larger battery offers either two hundred eighty-one horsepower rear-wheel drive or two hundred ninety-five horsepower all-wheel drive.
## Range reaches three hundred seventy-three miles
The ID. Tiguan achieves up to three hundred seventy-three miles of range according to the European WLTP test. The car debuts a new design language called Pure Positive.
## Physical controls return to the interior
Volkswagen has restored normal door handles and added real buttons on the steering wheel, real switches for climate control and windows, and physical air vents instead of computer-controlled ones.
## Retro dials show power deployment
The optional ten-inch digital instrument display offers six retro dial designs from Volkswagen history, including Mk1 Golf, Mk2 Golf Country, Mk4 Golf, first-gen Tiguan, racing Toureg, and Beetle.
## European sales start next week at forty-two thousand euros
Pre-sales for the ID.Tiguan begin in Europe next week with a starting price in Germany of forty-two thousand six hundred ninety-five euros.US timing and pricing will follow the European launch in early twenty twenty-seven.
## Key takeaway

Volkswagen has replaced the ID.4 electric crossover with the ID. Tiguan, combining the Tiguan nameplate with updated EV technology and a more premium interior design.