2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz Safety Rating

Minivans Β· Historical model-year record Β· IIHS data updated 2026-09-04

Provisional record

This is the 2025 record, kept for reference. IIHS no longer lists a newer model year for this nameplate. The 2025 results below are the exact ratings IIHS published for this model year.

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Safety score / 100
Awaiting 6 results
No award
IIHS award
No current award
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NHTSA overall
Reference only, not scored
27
Class driver death rate
per million vehicle-years; all vehicles 38

IIHS crash-test results

Front Crash Prevention: PedestrianAcceptable
Moderate Overlap Front: Updated Test Good
Headlights Acceptable
Seat Belt Reminders Good
Latch Ease Of Use Good
Detailed results by test (19 entries)

IIHS publishes these under the test they belong to, so the same label can appear more than once. Rear restraints and kinematics, rear head protection, structure and safety cage, and front restraints are the four that count toward the score (25%).

Moderate overlap front: updated test

Overall evaluation Good
Structure and safety cage Good
Driver injury measures
Head/neck Good
Chest Good
Thigh/hip Good
Leg/foot Good
Driver restraints and dummy kinematics Good
Rear passenger injury measures
Head/neck Good
Chest Acceptable
Thigh Good
Rear passenger restraints and dummy kinematics Good

Headlights

Overall rating Acceptable
Distance at which headlights provide at least 5 lux illumination:
Overall ratingApplies to 2025 models Acceptable

Front crash prevention: pedestrian

Overall evaluation Acceptable

Seat belt reminders

Overall evaluation Good

Child seat anchors

Overall evaluation Good
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How the score is built

Primary IIHS tests (55%)
76.9
2/4 reported Β· small overlap, updated moderate overlap, updated side, headlights
Occupant-protection details (25%)
0.0
0/4 reported Β· rear restraints, rear head, safety cage, front restraints
Pedestrian front crash prevention (10%)
75.0
IIHS pedestrian AEB result: Acceptable
Class context (10%)
68.1
Damped class-level driver death-rate term; award status is shown above but carries no weight
Injury-measure average (tiebreak only)
97.73
Mean of 11 published injury measures across the three crash tests. Orders vehicles with equal scores; carries no weight in the score.

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NHTSA 5-star rating

2025 Volkswagen ID.BUZZ SUV AWD

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NHTSA stars are shown for reference and carry no weight in the score. NHTSA source. Why the two programs disagree β†’

Real-world context

MeasureResultWhat it covers
Class driver death rate27 per million registered vehicle-yearsMinivans as a class, adjusted for driver age and sex (Farmer, 2023); all vehicles average 38. Class context only.

Our analysis

The 2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz belongs to the Minivans class. This class has a below-average driver death rate compared with the national average of 38 deaths per million registered vehicle-years. The class figure is adjusted for driver age and sex, which removes a large part of the selection effect in raw death rates. It is still a class average, not a measurement of this model.

The Volkswagen ID. Buzz has no IIHS Top Safety Pick award for 2025. That can mean a result below the award threshold in one test, or tests IIHS has not completed. Absence of an award is not evidence that the vehicle is unsafe.

Across the 4 IIHS rating categories reported, the Volkswagen ID. Buzz earned 3 Good ratings. One result sits below Good; the verdict at the top of the page names it.

This analysis is produced independently; we have no affiliation with Volkswagen or any manufacturer. Read the full methodology or learn more about us.

Safety recalls for the 2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz

NHTSA does not yet list this model year in its recall database. That usually means the vehicle is too new to appear, not that it has been cleared.

Questions about the 2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz