Summary
The Volkswagen ID.7 is a large all-electric saloon that arrived in the UK in late 2023, effectively an electric alternative to the company’s own Passat – just as the ID.3 is an electric alternative to the Golf.
The ID.7 has received a warm welcome from the British motoring media, mostly due to its comfortable ride, long range between charges and its well-mannered driving dynamics, as well as its five-star Euro NCAP safety rating.
Carbuyer’s Charlie Harvey notes that the ID.7 is comparable in terms of size to the BMW i5 and Mercedes-Benz EQE, and while those models “offer a much more premium package”, the ID.7 is considerably cheaper. In reality, its rivals are slightly smaller saloons like the Tesla Model 3, BMW i4 and Hyundai Ioniq 6.
The saloon’s most frequent criticism is a common theme across the ID range – fiddly touch-sensitive controls. “The ID.7 continues a concerning trend of making drivers spend more time using a touchscreen instead of buttons and knobs they can locate and twist without ever taking their eyes off the road”, says Dave Humphreys of The Sunday Times.
As of February 2026, the Volkswagen ID.7 holds a New Car Expert Rating of A with a score of 76%. It scores top marks for its strong media review scores, excellent safety rating and zero tailpipe emissions, while its overall running costs are also good. However, Volkswagen’s new car warranty cover is only average.
ID.7 highlights
- Impressive battery range
- Great safety rating
- Relaxing long-distance cruiser
- Spacious interior
ID.7 lowlights
- Rather dull inside
- Fiddly touch-sensitive controls
- Not very fun to drive
- Expensive to buy
Key specifications
Body style: Large saloon
Engines: electric, battery-powered
Price: From £55,870 on-road
Launched: Winter 2023/24
Last updated: N/A
Replacement due: TBA
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Media reviews
Highlighted reviews and road tests from across the UK automotive media. Click any of the boxes to view.
Featured reviews
“The Volkswagen ID.7 is pricey but of high quality – comfortable, well-built and will go a long way before needing to be plugged in.”
Model reviewed: Pro Match 77kWh liftback
Score: 7.6 / 10
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The Car Expert
Andrew Charman
“Long-range EV with plenty of space and a posh interior – just don’t expect it to be exciting to drive.”
Model reviewed: !D.7 saloon
Score: 8 / 10
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Carwow
Tom Wiltshire
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Auto Express
Model reviewed: Liftback range
Score: 8 / 10
“The Volkswagen ID.7 is the brand’s best EV to date, offering plenty of range and tonnes of practicality.”
Author: Shane WIlkinson, Richard Ingram
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Model reviewed: Estate (Tourer) range
Score: 8 / 10
“The Volkswagen ID.7 Tourer is a highly practical electric estate that majors on refinement and comfort.”
Author: Max Adams
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Model reviewed: GTX liftback
Score: 8 / 10
“The new Volkswagen ID.7 GTX is the most polished and refined model yet from Volkswagen’s fully-electric ID. family. Indeed, thanks to its impressive ride and refinement, spacious well-built cabin and generous performance, the recipe has never felt more desirable.”
Author: Jordan Katsianis
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Auto Trader
Score: 8 / 10
“Volkswagen stretches its electric ID platform into a luxury model, the ID.7 impressing for range, comfort and refinement.”
Author: Erin Baker
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Car
Model reviewed: GTX
Score: 8 / 10
“The Volkswagen ID.7 is unquestionably the best GTX model yet as it brings a small dose of extra sportiness without sacrificing the standard car’s key talents. It’s a pleasantly quick, well-built and practical EV that would slot easily into family life, whether you opt for the fastback or Tourer estate.”
Author: Ted Welford
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Model reviewed: Tourer (estate) range
Score: 8 / 10
“Spacious, well-built and with a superb electric range and efficiency considering its weight, the ID.7 is the best electric car Volkswagen has made to date. Though the pricing puts it in a slightly odd middle ground next to other electric estate cars, in many ways that could work to the ID.7’s advantage as a cut-price alternative to what Audi and BMW have to offer.”
Author: Ted Welford
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“While the design looks like a committee effort by Hertz, Avis, Sixt and Europcar, the ID.7 may well be the perfect clean-air taxi. It’s roomy, comfortable, refined and hugely economical around town.”
Author: Georg Kacher
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Carbuyer
Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 7.8 / 10
“With a long range and good drive, the Volkswagen ID.7 could be the brand’s best EV yet, but its high price holds it back.”
Author: Charlie Harvey, Alastair Crooks
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Carwow
Model reviewed: ID.7 Tourer (estate)
Score: 9 / 10
“The Volkswagen ID.7 Tourer is a fantastic large electric car that’s good to drive with a long range – the button-free interior might frustrate, though.”
Author: Tom Wiltshire
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Driving Electric
Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“Volkswagen has almost nailed the brief of the electric saloon, with only a small handful of foibles keeping the ID.7 from the top of the class.”
Author: Tom Jervis
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Electrifying.com
Score: 8 / 10
“Estate cars have lost ground to more fashionable SUVs in recent years. It’s why you’ll see a whole load of electric high-rider EVs but only a handful of estates. That’s now changing and we think the Volkswagen ID.7 Tourer is the best choice if you’re after a spacious, executive estate that looks classy in the corporate car park yet is also relentlessly brilliant for ferrying kids, dogs and paraphernalia.”
Author: James Batchelor
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“The elements of ID that needed fixing – primarily the infotainment system – have been overhauled while the new motor and improved suspension give the ID.7 a genuinely luxurious feel. Our only quibble is the efficiency, which seems a long way off the official figures.”
Author: Mike Askew
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Evo
Model reviewed: GTX Tourer (estate)
Score: 8 / 10
“The largest EV in Volkswagen’s ID range receives the GTX treatment, and while it’s hardly a driver’s car, it’s our pick of the lineup.”
Author: Sam Jenkins
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Green Car Guide
Model reviewed: Pro Match 77kWh 286hp
Score: 9 / 10
“The Volkswagen ID.7 has an impressive 383-mile official driving range, it’s a very refined motorway cruiser, it offers lots of space, and it features a significantly improved infotainment system.”
Author: Paul Clarke
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Heycar
Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 9 / 10
“The Volkswagen ID.7 is the largest car in the electric VW ID range – and the best, most complete model that has been launched to date. It has a good range, ultra-refined performance and drives in a sophisticated, able way.”
Author: Richard Aucock
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Honest John
Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“The Volkswagen ID.7 aims to take on the top-selling Tesla Model 3 at its own game, with a long range, classy driving dynamics and latest generation tech. It is spacious and refined, although the launch edition isn’t cheap.”
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Parkers
Model reviewed: ID.7 saloon
Score: 8.6 / 10
“The ID.7 emerges as a suitable flagship for Volkswagen’s fast-growing range of electric cars. Slotting effortlessly into a crowded market, the ID.7 offers an appealing mix of comfort, serenity and efficiency to become one of the front-running cars in this class.”
Author: Keith Adams
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Model reviewed: ID.7 Tourer estate
Score: 8.8 / 10
“It has many highly desirably family traits of a family car – including spaciousness, safety and comfort – and wraps them together in a package that looks good and feels upmarket. It’s a family car you’d want to buy, rather than feel like you need to buy.”
Author: Ted Welford
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The Sunday Times
Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“Sure, it’s more relaxing than thrilling, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. It feels like a car its owners will enjoy driving day in, day out because of its quietness and comfort.”
Author: Dave Humphreys
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The Telegraph
Model reviewed: GTX Tourer (estate)
Score: 8 / 10
“As comfortable and rapid as the range-topping Volkswagen ID.7 GTX Tourer 4×4 version is, the supposedly inferior model below it is actually the better all-round car.”
Author: Andrew English
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Model reviewed: Pro Match
Score: 8 / 10
“The Volkswagen ID.7 won’t win any beauty contests, but then it’s not as though its rivals are particularly comely either. And when you work out what this car can offer over and above them for barely any more money, its looks matter much less.
This, then, feels like a return to form for Volkswagen or, if not, then something close to it. It’s the best electric car yet to come out of Wolfsburg.”
Author: Alex Robbins
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“The ID.7 quietly brings qualities that were so prized in the Passat to the new EV world.”
Author: Andrew English
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Top Gear
Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 7 / 10
“The ID.7 lacks a bit of style, but at least VW has nailed most of the basics this time around.”
Author: Greg Potts
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Safety rating
Independent crash test and safety ratings from Euro NCAP
Overall score: 5 stars
Date tested: December 2023
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Adult protection: 95%
Child protection: 88%
Vulnerable road users: 83%
Safety assist: 80%
Eco rating
Independent economy and emissions ratings from Green NCAP
Model tested: Pro rear-wheel drive
Overall score: 5 stars
Date tested: March 2024
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Energy Efficiency Index: 9.6 / 10
Greenhouse Gas Index: 9.8 / 10
Reliability rating
Reliability data provided exclusively for The Car Expert by MotorEasy
No reliability rating
As of February 2026, we don’t have enough reliability data on the Volkswagen ID.7 to generate a reliability rating.
The Car Expert’s reliability information is provided exclusively to us using workshop and extended warranty data from our partner, MotorEasy, sourced from both official dealerships and independent workshops.
As soon as MotorEasy has sufficient data on the ID.7, we’ll publish the results here.
Running cost rating
Monthly cost of ownership data provided exclusively for The Car Expert by Clear Vehicle Data
| Battery range | Average | Score | Variation | Score |
| EV models | 396 miles | A |
| Electrical efficiency | Average | Score | Variation | Score |
| EV models | 4.6 m/KWh | A |
| Insurance group | Average | Score | Variation | Score |
| All models | 39 | D |
| Service and maintenance | Cost | Score |
| Year 1 | £248 | C |
| Year 2 | £508 | B |
| Year 3 | £762 | B |
| Year 4 | £998 | B |
| Year 5 | £1,277 | B |
| Overall | £3,793 | B |
The Volkswagen ID.7 should be a cost-effective car to run, according to whole life cost data provided exclusively to The Car Expert by our data partner, Clear Vehicle Data.
Electrical efficiency (the EV equivalent of miles per gallon in a petrol or diesel car) is excellent, which contributes to the ID.7’s excellent driving range between recharging stops.
Servicing costs for the first five years are very low for a car of this size and price, while the only poor result is the ID.7’s high insurance rating. However, this is likely to improve over time as insurers gather claims data from ID.7 customers.
Recalls
Official DVSA safety recalls that have been issued for the Volkswagen ID.7
Date: May 2024
Recall number: R/2024/221
Model types: All ID. 4 and ID.7 models
Build dates: 12/2023
Number of vehicles affected: 27
Defect: On VW ID.4 and ID.7 vehicles of a limited production period, the bolted connection of the front seats between backrest and seat pan may be incorrect. The restraint effect of the seat may be insufficient in the event of an accident. There is therefore an increased risk for occupants.
Remedy: On affected vehicles the bolts on both front seat backrests must be replaced.
As of September 2024 (our last data point), there has only been one DVSA vehicle safety recall on the Volkswagen ID.7, which covers a seat assembly issue.
Not all vehicles are affected by recalls. You can check to see if your car is included in any of the above recalls by visiting the DVLA website or contacting your local Volkswagen dealer.
If your car is affected by a recall, the vehicle must be repaired and you should not be charged for any work required. If you are buying a used ID.7, you should insist that any outstanding recall work is completed before you take delivery of the vehicle.
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