Car of the Year Awards 2025: Best electric estate car
While estates lack the fashionable status of SUVs, they’re more practical. But an estate also needs to be a pleasure to spend time in, and easy to live with beyond the simple virtue of space...
Volkswagen ID 7 Tourer 77kWh Pro Match
Rewind the clock a few years and estate buyers after pure electric power had few prospects to pick from. Fortunately, there’s noticeably more choice now, including the Audi A6 Avant e-tron, BMW i5 Touring and Peugeot e-308 SW. But we’d point you towards the Volkswagen ID 7 Tourer over any of those models.
In our favourite Pro Match guise, it’s much cheaper to buy than the A6 Avant and i5 Touring, and, with its 77kWh (usable) battery, the ID 7’s 373-mile official range eclipses its rivals’, too.
Although the i5 is more enjoyable to drive, the ID 7 is composed and reassuring, with accurate steering. It’s no slouch, either; 0-62mph is dispatched in a swift 6.6sec.
And, of course, the ID 7 Tourer delivers all the space and practicality you’d expect from an estate, including generous passenger space; two pairs of six-footers will fit just fine.
There’s also 605 litres of boot space with the rear seatbacks up, beating the A6 Avant (502 litres) and i5 Touring (570 litres). The Volkswagen Passat is cheaper to buy, but as electric options go, the ID 7 is the estate of the art.
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