Munich Motor Show 2025 live: latest news and every IAA car that matters
Munich 2025 is primed to be the biggest motor show for Europe’s car brands in years, or even decades
The 2025 Munich Motor Show is underway. All of Europe’s biggest car brands will be showing off their new metal and the Auto Express team are out in force to tell you all about it.
This year is different to most recent shows. Munich hasn't just got one or two big new model reveals, but one from most of Europe's major car manufacturers. Market forces, the EV imperative and competition from China are sending the legacy car brands into a flurry of innovation.
BMW, Volkswagen and Mercedes will be on home turf and pulling the covers off some crucial new models, including the next-generation BMW iX3. As well as road cars, Hyundai, Skoda and even Vauxhall will offer us a glimpse of the future with some imaginative new concept cars.
From affordable EVs to track-focused performance cars, there should be something for everyone. Let's get stuck in...
Munich 2025 news headlines
There's a lot of news coming out of Munich in addition to the big new car reveals below. Here are the highlights so far.
- New Mercedes GLA SUV to launch in 2026
- Vauxhall Manta delayed by slow EV uptake
- Remember SEAT? Ibiza and Arona facelifts to thaw frozen brand
- Volkswagen boss says switch to EVs is "complicated"
- Volkswagen ID.4 to become ID.Tiguan in 2026 with huge update
- New Mercedes C-Class EV teased with striking illuminated grille
- Mercedes A-Class to die at the end of 2026: no successor confirmed
- Baby Mercedes G-Class will take boxy G-Wagen attitude to a wider audience
- New Polestar 7 and 2 get top priority in big push for more sales
- New 2027 Smart #2 to feature bespoke chassis, with help from Mercedes and Geely
- Want a £13k electric car? EU must change the rules, say carmakers
- New Vauxhall Corsa will be electric only
Munich Motor Show 2025: all the big car reveals A to Z
Below you'll find all of the major new car reveals at Munich 2025 along with information on what the top brands are up to at the show.
Audi Concept C
Audi has already revealed its Concept C in private events this week, but will show-off its critical show car to the public at the show. This isn’t just some fanciful concept, but a preview of the new design language that’ll be introduced by Audi’s new chief creative officer Massimo Frascella. Even better, the striking two-door sports model isn’t just a design exercise, but a direct preview of a new model it’ll bring to market in 2027.
BMW iX3
BMW’s up for its own revolution with the first of its Neue Klasse models revealed in the form of the new iX3. This mid-size electric SUV will break boundaries, with a clever new interior interface, big efficiency upgrades and a world-leading 500-mile range.
This model is just the start, too, as a new 3 Series-sized i3 saloon will be next up, and will be previewed hiding underneath camouflage at the show for eagle-eyed patrons.
Cupra
Cupra is having a particularly busy show with the new Raval and the Tindaya concept making an appearance.
Raval
The Cupra Raval has been a long time coming, because we got our first look at the sporty electric supermini back in 2021 – at that year’s Munich Motor Show in fact. Rather than a wild concept, this time the actual production model is going to be in attendance, but covered in some amount of camouflage to keep us guessing before the big reveal in the coming months.
Instead of having rear-wheel drive like its larger Born sister, the Raval will be front-wheel drive and it’ll sit on Volkswagen’s new MEB Entry platform for EVs. We expect a hot Raval VZ to join the line-up later on.
Tindaya concept
Cupra’s new Tindaya concept will showcase the evolution of the firm’s design language and has been inspired by the notion of “no drivers, no Cupra”. Exactly what that means is still unclear, but we expect the focus will be on the interior and how Cupra plans to deliver exciting driving experiences in the all-electric future. It’s possible the concept may offer some hints about the brand’s future flagship SUV, but we’ll have to wait and see about that.
Hyundai Ioniq 3 concept
Hyundai will reveal a design study that foreshadows the new Ioniq 3 hatchback, an all-electric c-segment hatchback that’ll rival the VW ID.3 and other similarly-sized EVs.
It’ll be closely related to the upcoming Kia EV2, which we’ve already seen in concept form, so the Ioniq 2 will use the same E-GMP architecture as the larger Kia EV3. Expect the Hyundai Bayon-sized EV to kick off at around the £25,000 mark when it launches next year as a rival to the new Renault 4.
Leapmotor B05
Leapmotor is wasting no time in expanding its range of vehicles here in the UK and joining the tiny T03, C10 SUV and B10 will be the B05 hatchback. We expect it’ll continue with Leapmotor’s keen pricing strategy, starting from around £30,000 while offering up to 400 miles of range thanks to Leap 3.5 architecture and a design heavily influenced by aerodynamics.
Mercedes
Mercedes has teased its electric C-Class and the baby G-Class while casting doubt over the future of the A-Class hatch. It told us more about the new GLA SUV and is using Munich to show-off the future of AMG performance models with the GT XX concept...
AMG GT Track Sport
Mercedes got our minds racing recently when it released several images of a cloaked sports car. Called the AMG GT Track Sport, this concept will stay true to its name with performance dedicated to lap times rather than on-road thrills. It will “preview a possible expansion of the GT series with a V8 engine” according to Mercedes-AMG, which we think will be an indirect successor to the old AMG GT Black Series.
AMG GT XX
While the AMG GT Track Sport will be a celebration of AMG’s V8 power, the AMG GT XX is a more future-thinking concept. A show car that highlights Mercedes-AMG’s next-generation electric technology, this EV isn’t focused on range and efficiency. Instead, brute power takes centre stage, thanks to four electric motors developed by British company Yasa.
GLC EV
The old EQC never really set the EV world alight with its range, design, practicality or charging capabilities, so in a bid to set the record straight, Mercedes is bringing out a successor that will wear a more familiar name: GLC. It’ll sit alongside Mercedes’ best-selling model globally – the combustion-engined GLC – and serve as an all-electric alternative, but will be based on a brand-new, EV-dedicated platform.
The GLC with EQ Technology, as it’s likely to be called, will look different too. Our first glimpse of Mercedes’ next-generation design language revealed a three-panel light-up grille and an illuminated three-pointed star badge, which is far less subtle than what we’re expecting from the next-gen BMW iX3 that the Merc will challenge.
Polestar 5
The Polestar Precept concept unveiled in 2020 was designed to preview the then-newly established brand’s future rival to the Porsche Taycan and Lotus Emeya. A couple of years later we saw the production version, which by then had been christened the Polestar 5, and we even went for a ride in it. But 2025 is the year things will become real, because the long and low flagship GT is coming to Munich, where we should learn all the final details about the car ahead of its long-awaited launch.
Porsche
Like the other German brands, Porsche is pulling out the big guns for its home show...
911 Turbo S
How is Porsche wowing crowds at Munich? Only with the most powerful 911 ever! The new 911 Turbo S boasts a whopping 701bhp thanks to the brand's new T-Hybrid system. All that power helps propel the Turbo S from 0-62mph in just 2.5 seconds and then on to a top speed of 200mph.
Cayenne Electric
The Porsche Cayenne is going to be available with petrol and hybrid power for a while longer, but for the first time ever there’s going to be an electric version too. The not very imaginatively named Cayenne Electric will use the new PPE platform from the Macan Electric, so expect a battery capacity of around 100kWh, dual motors and active suspension taken from the Panamera. However, don’t expect a full reveal quite yet, as the brand instead focuses on a new 911 Turbo S to keep show fans happy.
Renault Clio
The new sixth-generation Renault Clio has finally graced us with its presence. It sticks with the current model’s five-door-only bodystyle, but with a much more aggressive front-end design unlike other current Renaults.
It's slightly longer, wider and taller than the outgoing fifth-generation car and has new hybrid and pure-petrol engine options. Read all about the new Clio here...
Skoda
It's a big show for Skoda with the Epic and the Vision O concept.
Skoda Epic
The Skoda Epic at Munich is billed as a show car but looks very close to production. It's Skoda's version of the VW ID. Cross, an electric compact SUV that will sit alongside the Kamiq petrol model.
Skoda Vision O concept
Skoda Vision O concept examines the future of the estate car. .The huge yet aerodynamic five-door is a bold design study majoring on autonomous driving, sustainability, an AI-powered digital assistant and a cabin that alters according to your circadian rhythms. It points the way to the future of the Skoda Octavia.
Vauxhall Corsa GSE Vision Gran Turismo concept
One of the more extreme concepts, or just cars in general, that will be at Munich is the Vauxhall Corsa GSE Vision Gran Turismo. It might look like a race car from the year 3000, but this is actually a vision of the next-gen Corsa supermini that’s due to arrive in 2027, and the hot GSE version that’ll come later.
Volkswagen
VW is showing us the future of its small car range in Munich. It also confirmed that the ID.4 will become the ID. Tiguan with the next facelift, but the ID.3 is not inline for an ID. Golf rebrand - yet. The EV transition is 'complicated', said the CEO - he's not wrong.
Volkswagen ID.Polo
Volkswagen isn’t quite ready to reveal its saving-grace EV to the world just yet, but it will show it and its hot GTI sibling under camouflage. The design will stick closely to 2023’s ID.2all concept and pricing is expected to start at around £23,000, setting it up to be a fierce rival to the Renault 5.
Volkswagen ID.2 Cross concept
While it’s not certain that the ID.2 will be at the show, Volkswagen has confirmed it will be unveiling a new small and affordable electric SUV called the ID.2X at Munich. It should serve as the zero-emission alternative to the highly popular VW T-Cross, as well as being yet another rival to the Renault 4.
Volkswagen T-Roc
The new Volkswagen T-Roc is finally here, and Munich will be the first chance for the public to have a look around the second generation of the hugely popular SUV. It has a bold new look that bears a close resemblance to the latest VW Tiguan, Tayron and Passat, while the interior features not only two big screens, but physical buttons as well.
Underneath, the new T-Roc will sit on the MQB evo platform used by the facelifted Mk8.5 Golf, but this is the first VW to feature a full-hybrid powertrain – though it won’t be in showrooms until summer 2026. The hybrid set-up consists of a 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine and an electric motor that allows for zero-emissions driving around town.
Xpeng P7
XPeng is barely a decade old, but it’s partly owned by Volkswagen and has big plans the the UK market. The covers came off the all-electric P7 back in May but XPeng brought its new car to the Munich Motor Show for its European debut ahead of a full launch in 2026.
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