2025 is going to be a particularly exciting year for the automotive industry.
Let’s have a look (in alphabetical order) at some of the cars you should be keeping your eye out for.
Aston Martin Vanquish Volante
This is going to be a relatively quiet year for Aston Martin, but there is one important vehicle that should be unveiled in 2025 and that’s the new Aston Martin Vanquish Volante.
The third-generation Vanquish (pictured above) was launched last year with a twin-turbo 5.2-liter V12, and the new Volante, the convertible variant, will definitely use the same engine.
It’ll probably be a bit more expensive, though.
Audi
Audi CEO will have to take the stage to talk about a new vehicle quite a few times this year because, if everything goes to plan, the German manufacturer is expected to launch 13 new models this year.
We’ve got the new Q7, SQ7, A6 Allroad, RS6 e-tron and RS6 Avant, RS7 Avant, A6, Q3, Q3 Sportback, RS Q6 e-tron, RS4 and RS5 Avant and ‘normal’ RS5.
For reference, Avant is the designated nameplate for wagons, e-tron is the name Audi uses for electric models, and whenever you read ‘RS’ just remember that’s the exciting one, because those initials are reserved for high-performance variants.
The ‘baby’ Bentley
Bentley is set to launch a newer, smaller SUV – a ‘baby Bentayga’, if you will.
We don’t know anything about it yet apart from the name.
Bentley recently trademarked the names ‘Mayon’ and ‘Barnato’, and one of these two names will (almost certainly) be used for the new SUV.
BMW
Like Audi and Mercedes, BMW is going to launch a long list of vehicles this year.
The most important new model is probably going to be the new electric M3 (above), a first for the brand, and then we’re going to have the new iX3, 3 Series, i4 M EV and the new X5.
Ferrari’s first EV
Ferrari will introduce its first EV on October 9 and, according to rumors based on a trademarked name, it might actually be called ‘Elettrica’, which is simply Italian for ‘electric’.
We don’t know much about it yet but we do know two things.
First, Ferrari will give it a (fake) but convincing exhaust sound and second, it’ll be an SUV, not a supercar.
The super controversial Jaguar EV
Jaguar shocked everyone with its new rebranding in late 2024 and the Type 00 concept car but, at the end of the day, what matters is whether the car sells or not.
We’ll find out more on that front in a few months, because Jaguar is expected to unveil a production model based on the Type 00 (above) in late 2025.
Mercedes-Benz
The German automaker will launch a bunch of different cars across different market categories this year.
We’re going to see the new CLA, the new CLE 63 (which will come with a V8), an electric variant for the AMG GT, and then the new GLB, GLC, new V-Class, C-Class, and the as yet unnamed 1,000-horsepower AMG SUV.
Range Rover EV
The new Range Rover should debut later this year, and according to the pictures, it looks exactly like the ‘standard’ Range Rover.
JLR, Jaguar-Land Rover, said the company already received tens of thousands of orders for the new electric SUV.
Honorable mention: Porsche Cayenne EV
Porsche is working on several new models, but we didn’t include them on the list because they’re expected to come out in Q1 2026 at the earliest.
However, if we had to bet money (not a lot of money, though, just maybe 10 bucks) on one vehicle in particular that could be here before 2026, then we’d bet on the new Cayenne EV.
The vehicle was spotted testing on several occasions, and it’s reportedly nearly ready.
It should use a supersized and pumped up version of the same electric unit that powers the Macan EV.
Stay tuned.
