Volkswagen Offers Wraps As A Cure for Boring ID. Buzz Colors

by Chris Teague

Published: April 14th, 2025

volkswagen offers wraps as a cure for boring id buzz colors

Volkswagen’s ID. Buzz promotions all showed two-tone vans in dazzling colors, but the automaker has struggled to get vehicles in those color combinations to buyers in the United States. Production issues caused VW to build more vans in far less exciting colors like black and silver, and while sales have been surprisingly steady, the company is offering a wrap program that lets buyers add the more desirable colors to the vans already on dealers’ lots.

Hein Schafer, VW’s U.S. SVP of sales, said, “Only in the last month or so have we really got our California dealers properly stocked.” He also told Automotive News that, “The single-tone vehicle doesn’t sell as quick as the two-tone car. As soon as the dealers dress them up and wrap them, we see them moving again.”

The wrap program costs an extra $3,000 for interested buyers, but VW will split that cost with the individuals. That’s about average for a basic automotive wrap job and may even be a little on the low side for a large van, but it’s a bit of a low-rent fix for such an expensive vehicle.

The 2025 ID. Buzz starts at $60,000 for the base Pro S, and getting the top 1st Edition Trim with 4Motion adds $10,000 to that number. That said, not all buyers will have to get a wrap. A quick search of the inventory in and around my home area in New England shows several two-tone vans available, though there are several black, white, and silver Buzzes in between.

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Chris Teague

Chris grew up in, under, and around cars, but took the long way around to becoming an automotive writer. After a career in technology consulting and a trip through business school, Chris began writing about the automotive industry as a way to reconnect with his passion and get behind the wheel of a new car every week. He focuses on taking complex industry stories and making them digestible by any reader. Just don’t expect him to stay away from high-mileage Porsches.

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TheMrFreeze on Apr 15, 2025

For $65,000 I should think that actual color paint would come standard, not a color wrap that I have pay half for.

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Lostboy on Apr 15, 2025

why the hell would someone spend an additional 3K for a wrap when a paint job for 3K would be such a better value?? and seriously, wraps fail all the time.. if you go to a touch-less car wash - watch out!

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