Review of the Munich Motor Show 2025
The Munich Motor Show 2025 was a good year, with many new products on display.
Three distinct groups could be discerned within this Salon.
- First group: the three major German carmakers (Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes).
• The Volkswagen Group has made a special effort by introducing battery electric B-segment cars: VW ID Polo (ex-ID2), VW ID Cross (ex-ID2X), Skoda Epiq, CupraRaval. These four models could boost the battery electric market in Europe, which has not yet reached 18% of the European passenger car market.
• Porsche (a subsidiary of the Volkswagen group), BMW and Mercedes have each unveiled a battery electric SUV: the Porsche Cayenne EV, the BMW iX3 and the Mercedes GLC EV. The particularity of which is to have an exterior design different from that of their thermal equivalent models, the Porsche Cayenne, BMW X3 and Mercedes GLC currently sold on the European market.
- Second group: a set of representative Chinese brands.
Thus, we could see the Polestar 5, Deepal S05, Xpeng P7, GAC Aion, Leapmotor B05 and NIO Firefly.
- Third entity: non-German and non-Chinesecarmakers such as the French Renault which unveiled the new Clio VI marketed from the beginning of 2026, the Korean Hyundai which unveiled the concept car of what will become the Ioniq 3 and the Turkish Togg present for the first time at a European Motor Show.