► CAR’s A-Z guide to IAA 2025 show
► Munich’s predicted stars revealed
► Plus your guide to entry times and tickets
This year’s Munich motor show – officially named IAA Mobility 2025 – is shaping up to be one of the biggest and most important in recent history.
All of the big car makers are turning out this year – perhaps more than most have since the pandemic knocked the industry’s confidence and budgets – with major announcements from the likes of BMW, Volkswagen Group, Mercedes-Benz and Polestar.
Keep scrolling for all we know about the cars expected to make their official debut at the 2025 Munich motor show.
Design concept
A statement of intent from the Four Rings, designed to show off the brand’s new design direction. Our intel sources suggest it comes in the shape of a sports car, and is new chief creative officer Massimo Frascella’s north star project that aims to make Audi’s look cleaner and less complicated in the future.
iX3
A new generation of BMW’s high-selling electric SUV, but there’s far more to it than that. The new iX3 is the first car from BMW’s ‘Neue Klasse’ project, meaning it’s been engineered, designed and developed from the ground up with new tech, more efficient batteries and motors as well as a new design language. We’ve already driven a prototype – and it’s rather good – but the covers finally come off at IAA.
Design concept
A surprise, this one. Cupra’s growing confidence, as well as its continuance for stealing Seat’s lunch money, means another show car for us to gawp at. Cupra says the show car will ‘embody the brand’s vision and its future design language,’ giving us a clue as to how future models will look.
Raval
The sporty Spanish brand has also confirmed that the Raval will be at the show this year, albeit under camouflage. This is part of the wider VW Group’s plans for all its ‘Core’ brands to unveil their ‘Electric Urban Cars’ at the event – albeit seemingly at different stages of readiness.
Ioniq 2
Our first nod to Hyundai’s next car came earlier in the summer, with Hyundai’s Xavier Martinet giving us clues to the new model. The new Ioniq 2 will be the first Hyundai to use the Group’s new Pleos software, as well as the now well-established E-GMP architecture.
GLC
One of Mercedes’ best-selling cars will launch with a new generation that will include an electric variant. We’ve already driven a prototype of the new model and gotten more details out of CEO Ola Kallenius, with this being the first of a new era of Mercedes models to feature both combustion and electric models that run in parallel with the same name.
AMG GT Track Sport
Affalterbach calls this ‘a preview of a possible expansion of the GT series with a V8 engine,’ hinting that the high-performance arm of Mercedes isn’t done with engines just yet. A massive rear wing and what looks like a sharp front splitter could imply a new Black Series model.
AMG GT XX
AMG’s show car for its new generation of electric performance car technology. Some of the design elements will be toned down for the eventual production car – the next AMG GT four door – but the extreme power from the axial flux electric motors and new high-capacity, high-charging batteries certainly won’t.
5 four-door
Finally – Polestar’s long-drawn-out rival to the Porsche Taycan and Lotus Emeya makes its official debut at the Munich show this year. Plenty is already known about the new model, with Polestar promising an 800-volt electrical architecture, max power north of 850bhp and the brand’s first dedicated platform underneath.
Cayenne Electric
Like a Cayenne, but electric. Follows on from Porsche’s strategy of offering a Macan… but electric. Porsche has already given us a few details about the new model, since it’s been rather busy invading the Shelsley Hill Climb and tackling the Goodwood Festival of Speed as part of its testing rotation.
Clio
Renault has confirmed it intends to launch an all-new generation of Clio at Munich. Little is known so far, but we expect this to be a proper all-new generation (unlike the last one) which will be available with combustion and hybrid power to keep it separate from the 5 electric car.
Epiq
Skoda’s version of the ‘electric urban family car’ tagline the VW Group is busy pushing out. While VW and Cupra will offer a proper supermini, Skoda is sticking to SUVs at this size to differentiate it more from the other ‘Core’ brands.
Space SUV
Designed to be the flagship of the brand’s electric range, Skoda is primed to unveil a seven-seat SUV to sit alongside the Kodiaq, with heavy design cues based off the Vision 7S concept car.
ID.2
Like the other ‘Core’ VW Group brands, Volkswagen is expected to show us something more tangible about its Polo-sized electric car that’s been heavily inspired by the ID.2All concept.
ID.2 X
A crossover version of VW’s smallest electric car yet has already been confirmed, with the brand outlining a silhouette of the upcoming new baby SUV. We could find out more about the
T-Roc
A massive seller for Volkswagen. We’ve spotted it testing and wrapped up in camouflage, with those mules hinting at a conservative design with a stretched bonnet and the latest version of VW Group’s electrified engine range.
Where is the IAA Mobility 2025 Munich motor show held? The Open Space is in central Munich; the IAA Summit is held at Messe München Exhibition Center
Munich motor show 2025 dates: Press Day on 8 September, IAA Summit between 9 – 12 September 2025; IAA Open Space between 9 – 14 September
Opening times: Summit between 09:00 and 18:00; Open Space between 11:00 and 21:00
How much are IAA Mobility 2025 Munich motor show tickets? Entry into the Open Space is free between 5-10 September; tickets from €64
Munich motor show website: https://www.iaa-mobility.com/en
Jake has been an automotive journalist since 2015, joining CAR as Staff Writer in 2017. With a decade of car news and reviews writing under his belt, he became CAR's Deputy News Editor in 2020 and then News Editor in 2025. Jake's day-to-day role includes co-ordinating CAR's news content across its print, digital and social media channels. When he's not out interviewing an executive, driving a new car for review or on a photoshoot for a CAR feature, he's usually found geeking out on the latest video game, buying yet another pair of wildly-coloured trainers or figuring out where he can put another car-shaped Lego set in his already-full house.
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