1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:08,280 EVS can be many things blindingly fast 2 00:00:06,359 --> 00:00:12,200 quiet and comfortable or for the most part just plain boring but not a single 3 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:17,760 person is going to say that about what we have here today cuz this right here 4 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:20,279 oh my God it's the ionic 5n and it is 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:25,400 the best eveve I have ever driven because it somehow manages to be fun 6 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:30,080 Hyundai's end division is just off the chain insane I don't know what they are 7 00:00:28,199 --> 00:00:34,800 thinking giving this to the public but man am I ever glad that they did let's 8 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:38,960 have a look the ionic 5 was already an excellent looking car we've got these 9 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:44,160 pixel looking headlights here but it's sort of like you take one of those and a 10 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:47,120 gaming laptop and smash them together 11 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:52,719 and this is what you get it's 50 mm wider and just so much fiercer looking 12 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:58,480 we have it in performance blue which I think looks great popping the hood we 13 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:03,440 can see that there is no frunk but just loads of motor on underneath there and 14 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:08,280 also easy access to your 12volt battery which is nice cuz that's just hidden 15 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:14,159 somewhere stupid in some EVS moving around to the side we have 21in forged 16 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:19,159 rims that are wrapped in pelli P0 that are 17 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:21,000 275s they are freaking massive and you 18 00:01:19,159 --> 00:01:24,840 definitely need that given how much power this thing has and of course if 19 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:29,520 you're going fast you need to be stopping fast which is why we have these 20 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:34,040 massive two-piece rotors and some red painted four piston calipers that you 21 00:01:31,759 --> 00:01:38,159 know are going to stop you good moving to the doors the handles will do a 22 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:43,920 little wave to you if you so want but they do have the absolute laziest backup 23 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:48,119 key implementation that I have ever seen I don't know why I can't go in here this 24 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:53,520 thing's absolutely massive but if you need to it can go in right there here 25 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:58,640 we've got a rear air curtain and around the back we have an absolutely massive 26 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:04,439 diffuser it sticks off the back making this thing 4 point 7 m long and popping 27 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:09,560 open the trunk we've got these beautiful cool looking brake lights and a pretty 28 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:14,280 decent amount of storage in here although we don't get any extra bonus 29 00:02:11,959 --> 00:02:20,360 storage because down in here we have the subwoofer for our Bose sound system one 30 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:26,720 place that Hyundai has really enhanced the ionic 5 for 2025 oh my God would you 31 00:02:24,879 --> 00:02:31,879 look at that it has a rear wiper it really needed one before and especially 32 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:36,800 with this massive spoiler that we have here this thing gets really dirty really 33 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:42,120 fast this thing is built on 800 volt architecture which allows you fast 34 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:44,480 charging from 10 to 80% in just 18 35 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:50,319 minutes which you'll probably want to do because the rated range of this thing is 36 00:02:46,519 --> 00:02:52,519 355 km and given how you are going to be 37 00:02:50,319 --> 00:02:58,959 driving it you will be getting less than that I guarantee you also very soon this 38 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:05,319 should be converted to nacs but it is not for 20 25 so maybe you want to wait 39 00:03:02,239 --> 00:03:07,000 a little bit hopping into the rear seats 40 00:03:05,319 --> 00:03:12,640 you can move them forward if you hate leg room you can recline them if you 41 00:03:09,239 --> 00:03:15,200 want to be nice and relaxed overall it 42 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:20,879 is quite nice to sit in here I have plenty of Headroom even though the floor 43 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:22,720 is raised up a little bit so my legs 44 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:28,560 they wouldn't hate being a tiny bit lower we also have two cup holders two 45 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:30,599 USBC Chargers and a manual privacy 46 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:37,040 screen if you want to not see any of your haters hopping into the driver's seat we 47 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:42,239 have shockingly good seats and I mean that in the sense that they are very 48 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:46,280 aggressive bucket seats they have little holes here so you can put a fivepoint 49 00:03:44,239 --> 00:03:51,519 harness in if you are properly tracking this thing they really hold you in Place 50 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:55,519 full manual you do not get any seat memory at all but what you do get is 51 00:03:53,239 --> 00:03:59,920 heated and ventilation the only thing that I wish that they had was some 52 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:04,480 adjustable lumbar support but it's not you're going to be sitting in these 53 00:04:01,079 --> 00:04:07,200 particularly long given the range of it 54 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:11,280 that said though overall I am super impressed with these seats and I very 55 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:16,040 happy that they put them in even if it does feel kind of weird being in this 56 00:04:13,159 --> 00:04:20,040 like hardcore bucket seat and then looking around and being like oh wow I 57 00:04:17,919 --> 00:04:23,600 on an SUV that the passengers like a whole Arms Reach away for the center 58 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:27,759 console they seem to have just completely given up on the idea of 59 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:31,759 having a bunch of space in the center cuz probably no one used it anyway we've 60 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:37,160 got two cup holders down here that you can disappear if you don't want them we 61 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:41,479 have heaps of chargers three of them and 12vt Supply one thing that is rather 62 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:47,199 annoying is that down here we have a button to change this USB port on the 63 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:49,440 left from data or tojust power and I 64 00:04:47,199 --> 00:04:52,919 just hit it all the time by accident like look you are putting your phone in 65 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:57,360 here and it's just so easy to be like Boop and if you do that or just break 66 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:01,600 really hard your Android auto gets turned off unless you have wireless 67 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:05,440 enabled which I do now but it was really annoying until I did that extra step if 68 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:11,560 you don't want to be plugged in though there is a wireless charger that I've 69 00:05:08,479 --> 00:05:13,639 never seen work what does work well is 70 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:18,479 this little storage compartment right here and we also have a fully functional 71 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:24,759 glove box featuring nothing dumb which for whatever reason is a plus in an EV 72 00:05:21,759 --> 00:05:27,120 what is kind of dumb though is 73 00:05:24,759 --> 00:05:33,199 everything here but dumb in the best kind of way this steering wheel and kind 74 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:35,759 of just the entire car is incredibly 75 00:05:33,199 --> 00:05:40,840 confusing there are so many modes so many different things to try out but now 76 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:44,960 I just have it all dialed in and oh my God is it ever good we have our end 77 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:49,080 gauge cluster up here there are different options but just use this one 78 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:53,759 it is by far the best we have our drive mode select which you are just probably 79 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:58,319 never going to use because we have our end mode select down here which gives 80 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:02,720 you all of the modes that you actually want cuz we have our end mode then we 81 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:07,400 have our custom one and custom 2 having two Customs is great because you can 82 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:11,919 just tell it turn off my traction control when I press this button this 83 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:17,160 thing is pretty wild especially when you have so much power it will turn those 84 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:22,240 tires into rubber on the road on the right side of the steering wheel we have 85 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:24,720 NGB which stands for nrin Boost gives 86 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:28,520 you an extra 40 horsepower for 10 seconds and if I am honest I don't 87 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:33,240 really notice the difference cuz you are so traction Limited it anyway and down 88 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:40,880 here we have a second end button which enables our fake engine 89 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:42,840 which is really quite a good bit of fun 90 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:48,039 also what is quite fun is just playing with the obscene number of settings that 91 00:06:45,759 --> 00:06:52,360 they have in their custom menus one of the things that has really annoyed me 92 00:06:49,919 --> 00:06:58,160 with electric cars is the fact that an electric motor is incredibly easy to 93 00:06:55,240 --> 00:07:01,919 change how it reacts you can very easily just go in change some numbers and be 94 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:07,199 like wow the whole feeling of driving is completely different now but for the 95 00:07:04,039 --> 00:07:10,400 most part everyone is just like here's 96 00:07:07,199 --> 00:07:12,840 one drive mode maybe you get to enable 97 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:17,080 creep or not it is very disappointing that they go with it just being super 98 00:07:15,039 --> 00:07:22,759 easy when it could be incredibly customizable for the people that want to 99 00:07:19,479 --> 00:07:25,280 and oh my god do they ever give you a 100 00:07:22,759 --> 00:07:29,160 lot of options in here so looking at the main menu we have end torque 101 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:33,720 distribution that allows you to change how much of the power is being sent to 102 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:40,199 the front and the back we also have our n pedal which allows you to have up to 103 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:42,400 0.6 G's of regenerative braking now this 104 00:07:40,199 --> 00:07:47,400 right here does have a little warning on it saying to only use it on the track 105 00:07:44,919 --> 00:07:52,680 and for the most part I have gotten very used to just ignoring warnings like that 106 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:56,400 but man you have to be careful when nend pedal is on they are not kidding that it 107 00:07:54,759 --> 00:08:01,039 really transfers the weight to those front wheels and if you're not paying 108 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:05,479 attention it will catch you out we also have n race right here which provides 109 00:08:03,199 --> 00:08:10,520 better cooling to the batteries and more current duration although it might cause 110 00:08:07,919 --> 00:08:15,120 a bit of degradation to your batteries oh well and we have n drift Optimizer 111 00:08:13,479 --> 00:08:20,440 which I have not been playing around with CU we have not been on a track in 112 00:08:17,919 --> 00:08:24,400 here we also have N battery which allows you to have drag mode which will 113 00:08:22,479 --> 00:08:28,919 increase the temperature of your battery a little bit so that it is absolutely 114 00:08:26,639 --> 00:08:33,320 optimal for just ripping down the straights we also have track mode which 115 00:08:31,319 --> 00:08:38,839 is more for cooling your battery so you can be on the gas really hard for longer 116 00:08:36,919 --> 00:08:42,640 coming into here we have two custom modes where you can just change all 117 00:08:40,680 --> 00:08:47,920 types of things we also have launch control which we will see in a second 118 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:53,360 this being a very silly car you're able to choose what type of a sound you want 119 00:08:50,640 --> 00:09:00,240 your fake engine to have so here it's kind of like a normal Hyundai 4cylinder 120 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:02,920 in their end Vehicles evolution 121 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:08,519 is more like a Strange Electric race car and Super 122 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:11,920 Sonic is an even stranger electronic 123 00:09:08,519 --> 00:09:14,040 race car of sorts it is all very good 124 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:19,399 fun but if you don't want it yeah there it is completely gone also in here the 125 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:22,160 infotainment is just typical Hyundai Kia 126 00:09:19,399 --> 00:09:26,600 sort of stuff and very easy to use for the most part I am just slapping an 127 00:09:23,959 --> 00:09:31,399 Android auto we've got a nice big 12.3 in screen rate here and it all works 128 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:35,120 great we also have not physical climate controls but they all stay in the same 129 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:40,839 place so you can get used to it well enough and plenty of physical controls 130 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:43,720 for volume tuning setup all that sort of 131 00:09:40,839 --> 00:09:49,440 stuff I have had no problems with just using this car overall it is excellent 132 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:54,320 for just daily use if you want to be an absolute hooligan or just comfortable on 133 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:58,959 your way to work oh Andy do you know I think the business team would really 134 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:01,920 love if this is how we segue to our 135 00:09:58,959 --> 00:10:06,200 spawn answer drop thanks to drop for sponsoring this video their hex gaming 136 00:10:03,839 --> 00:10:10,600 headset in collaboration with epos is a budget friendly option that works with 137 00:10:07,959 --> 00:10:15,440 PCS and consoles it's closed back build treats your ears to a clean 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--> 00:11:03,760 641 horsepower 4 six of which is 150 00:11:00,639 --> 00:11:06,920 directed just to the rear wheels let's 151 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:12,560 just have a little taste of this orange 152 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:15,279 NGB button and just oh my God I really 153 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:20,959 like the sound of this thing it's like a Dremel or an electric toothbrush on 154 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:24,560 steroids when you hit it like that's the 155 00:11:20,959 --> 00:11:29,360 actual sound of the electric motors it's 156 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:31,279 just this thing is brutally fast it is 157 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:36,040 quite funny because when you don't have a whole lot of grip on the road that you 158 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:40,360 in it feels a lot like a high power front-wheel drive car you kind of get 159 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:46,399 torque steer and it's trying to steer you off into the ditch it is 160 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:49,720 hilarious speaking of very funny let's 161 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:53,079 just dip into the gears here this has a 162 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:56,440 simulated 8-speed dual clutch so we can 163 00:11:53,079 --> 00:11:59,040 come in here and drop into second gear 164 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:05,519 and go all the way down turn my cap around around and I am now a Honda 165 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:08,959 driver I am driving my Honda excellently 166 00:12:05,519 --> 00:12:13,279 and this is exactly how you do 167 00:12:08,959 --> 00:12:17,680 it for real though this this a lot of 168 00:12:13,279 --> 00:12:21,880 fun it is shockingly convincing that you 169 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:25,639 have an actual engine and exhaust and 170 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:27,680 stuff like I know that it is not real 171 00:12:25,639 --> 00:12:33,839 but at the same time I don't particularly care like have you ever had 172 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:38,120 fun in a racing game before it is a very 173 00:12:33,839 --> 00:12:40,760 similar thing to this and it is quite a 174 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,760 bit of 175 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:52,279 fun now of course is it as good as a 176 00:12:49,079 --> 00:12:56,720 real engine and 177 00:12:52,279 --> 00:12:59,639 exhaust no of course it isn't but it is 178 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:04,160 absolutely comical and if you are done having fun like that you can just press 179 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:08,760 this button and wow it just is completely silent in here one of my 180 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:14,360 favorite things about this is that you can soften the dampers up it'll be just 181 00:13:11,959 --> 00:13:21,240 really nice comfortable for your drive to work and then you hit some corners 182 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:25,279 and be like oh look at this it steers so 183 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:30,720 well oh my God for an electric car the 184 00:13:25,279 --> 00:13:33,639 handling of this is shocking oh 185 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:39,079 it is so much more fun than it deserves to be and it is so much more competent 186 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:46,680 at being at being best at both of what it 187 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:50,199 is able to do something like the poar 2 188 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:53,079 is incredibly fast and Incredibly brutal 189 00:13:50,199 --> 00:13:58,759 and Incredibly competent in the corners but it's never able to just be an easy 190 00:13:55,920 --> 00:14:04,240 family Cruiser like we are in right now where this right here I feel like it 191 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:07,560 knows that it is a great big electric 192 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:12,279 SUV it has that sort of luxury feeling 193 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:15,560 to it but it also is just so absolutely 194 00:14:12,279 --> 00:14:18,399 comical drifting the ti can was a whole 195 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:22,519 lot of fun but you can't do that on normal roads that thing is so fast that 196 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:27,680 you just immediately get impounded this is also brutally fast but with the gears 197 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:33,759 and all of that stuff you can have fun on normal roads and like really toss it 198 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:39,240 around I love it I love this thing it has so much personality once you're done 199 00:14:36,279 --> 00:14:44,839 listening to your simulated engine maybe you want to listen to some excellent 200 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:46,959 music and this right here definitely has 201 00:14:44,839 --> 00:14:52,320 that in here we have the eight- speaker sound system from Bose and it sounds 202 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:57,040 really freaking good we've got two speakers in the doors Two tweeters up 203 00:14:54,519 --> 00:15:01,600 there and a center channel you also have that sub in the back and two rear 204 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:05,759 speakers which doesn't sound like a whole lot but it's not the number of 205 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:11,639 speakers that counts it's what they can do and man this sounds excellent I 206 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:16,639 measured it and it goes all the way down to 30 htz so you have plenty of base and 207 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:25,320 even though it does look a bit exaggerated around 100 to 200 htz it 208 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:25,320 sounds very clear and very 209 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:32,440 good now of course if you want to be headbanged to your music instead of 210 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:37,839 looking at the road we have Hyundai's typical Suite of fantastic driver 211 00:15:35,399 --> 00:15:42,639 assistance we have our cruise control here which just works really well like 212 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:46,839 everything else that they make it has excellent ability to just see something 213 00:15:44,199 --> 00:15:51,680 in front of you slow down stop I have plenty of confidence in it it also will 214 00:15:49,079 --> 00:15:56,800 have Lane centering which is pretty good but I personally prefer to just to drive 215 00:15:54,000 --> 00:16:01,240 my own cars and it's going to be safe it has the safety crap and if you don't 216 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:05,319 want it you can just fully turn it off and you can run into the person in front 217 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:11,360 of you on the racetrack if you so choose so overall this thing is just comical in 218 00:16:08,519 --> 00:16:15,800 ways I did not know an EV could be there's stuff like the tie can and the 219 00:16:13,199 --> 00:16:19,759 Lucid air which will scare you with their speed but do you know what you 220 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:25,839 can't do in those have the hilarious little gearbox 221 00:16:23,519 --> 00:16:32,160 that won't let you keep on going even though the powertrain can just because 222 00:16:28,519 --> 00:16:35,399 it's funny this thing is such a great 223 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:38,160 little machine and for 66 Grand US I 224 00:16:35,399 --> 00:16:43,399 think if you have the money just do it it's it's so freaking good like compared 225 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:47,160 to a model wide performance the amount of fun that I have in this thing not to 226 00:16:45,319 --> 00:16:52,720 mention the fact that it's really a more comfortable ride when it wants to be 227 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:54,319 this is the easiest pick ever for me I 228 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:58,920 really wish we could take this thing on track it would be hilarious and I also 229 00:16:57,279 --> 00:17:03,079 wish I could take you to the end of this video wait I did huge thanks for 230 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:06,760 watching hit like get subscribed and just have a great old day