1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,080 You guys keep on asking us to cover less expensive EVs, 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:10,960 so here it is, the new Keanuero EV, and it is, it's, it's, uh, it doesn't look too bad. 3 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,960 With the limited edition, you get this gray C-pillar here that has actual venting, 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,960 I don't know if it's functional, and I've had so many people coming up to me on the street 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,880 being like, is that the new R, right? Jokes aside though, I do think it looks good, 6 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:29,640 kind of like a rally car from the 80s that's just gotten a little bit bigger. 7 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:34,300 I particularly like the DRLs that they have here. It sort of looks like a little heartbeat. 8 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,560 Let's see if it has a little bit of a frunk here. 9 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:44,440 Oh, okay, that's not too bad. In here we have enough space to store like a couple valuables, 10 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:49,160 maybe your drugs, but not a whole lot. Coppers can't get my Advil now. 11 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:52,520 Down under the car, we have a 64.8 kilowatt hour battery 12 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,800 that Kia says is good for 407 kilometers of range, 13 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,800 and if you want to charge it up, you can do so right here. 14 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:05,040 Here we've got up to 350 kilowatt fast charging, which will take you from 10 to 80% in 43 minutes, 15 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,840 which I have no clue what the charging curve this looks like, 16 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,040 but you can go from 10 to 80% in 45 minutes 17 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,480 with 100 kilowatt charging. So the math doesn't really math. 18 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:23,560 That said though, I've had very little trouble. This is a much smaller battery than we see in a lot of EVs, 19 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,800 and it is just an efficient little car. So even with level two, 20 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:31,760 I have not had much trouble taking this all the way to 100% daily. 21 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,680 Around the side, we've got 17 inch aero rims that are diamond cut 22 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:40,560 that look like every single other diamond cut rim that you can buy in 2023, 23 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,360 as well as winter tires. Kia Canada, what were you thinking? 24 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:48,840 Like I know there's snow on the top of that mountain, but that doesn't mean that we're gonna go there. 25 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,800 These poor things, geez. This video was filmed back in July 26 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:58,080 when winter tires weren't necessary. We've also just got normal everyday door handles, 27 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,560 very nice. The design of this makes me just really think 28 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,720 that your cool gym teacher is the person that would want it, and the space back here 29 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:10,360 means they will want it even more. So many EVs and hybrids will just give you 30 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,320 so little trunk space as they try and just cram batteries wherever. 31 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,240 Here that is not a problem. You can throw your volleyball, your pylons, 32 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,440 your baseball bats, whatever you want back here. It is excellent for the segment. 33 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,600 Hopping into the rear seat, it's really quite good back here. 34 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:34,200 There's enough room for real adults, I'm six feet and can easily fit behind myself. 35 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,240 There's plenty of headroom. This armrest here feels excellent. 36 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:45,400 We've also got heated seats on this trim, USB-C charging, and a little spot to rest your other ARM too. 37 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,320 Hopping into the driver's seat, this is sadly where things start to fall apart. 38 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:54,240 The materials in here, like guys, Kia, what were you thinking? 39 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:58,960 There is piano black all up along the door, all along the front. 40 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:05,600 There's just so much piano black in here and all of it is in places that you're going to touch. 41 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:11,080 It's frankly unforgivable. Speaking of unforgivable, these seats, 42 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,240 they're, I don't like them at all. 43 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:20,520 I've had a couple of people try them out and they've rated them from fine to absolutely horrendous 44 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:25,600 and I'm sadly in the later of those. I have a lot of trouble getting comfortable 45 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:31,880 because it feels like they're made for kind of being up in that SUV sort of seating position 46 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:36,440 but then your arms don't hit the armrests so instead you kind of have to go down 47 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,480 and the lumbar support feels weird and there is adjustment for that 48 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,720 but even all the way in it feels like there's too much. 49 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,960 I just don't like them at all. I doesn't say that everything in here is bad. 50 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,040 There's lots that's great actually. These seats are heated and ventilated. 51 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,160 The armrests are nice and squishy and very comfortable 52 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:58,720 even if I wish this one did come out a bit. The steering wheel is really good 53 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,920 and even though the buttons are piano black, they're at least real buttons 54 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,160 and we have nice little toggle switches for volume and such. 55 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,680 There's also plenty of stuff that's pretty medium tier in here. 56 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:13,920 Like we do have actual climate controls. They're just hidden behind the media controls 57 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:18,560 so you can only see one at a time. This touchscreen's a little bit of a reach 58 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,040 but at the same time it's Kia and Hyundai's basic system 59 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:27,760 and it works well enough. You're not gonna complain and we do have Android Auto and Apple CarPlay 60 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,240 but you do need to plug in. No wireless available. 61 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:36,440 Rounding out the media mesh quality stuff in here is the storage and here's the only spot 62 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:40,800 that you can put your glasses. There's no like dedicated spot for them. 63 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,840 The cup holders are kind of weird, kind of fun. 64 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:47,840 They can fit a water bottle from lttstore.com. Only the little one. 65 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,240 And that's about it. You have a glove box, I guess. 66 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:56,360 Can't take it off or granted. All right, let's torture some winter tires. 67 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:04,440 We have traction control all the way off and it is clearly still intervening 68 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,560 because good God, this thing drags ass. 69 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:13,800 Like I realized that it will be improved if you have actual summer tires on this 70 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,160 instead of the winters that we have for some reason. 71 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:22,840 But God, it is slow. We have 200 horsepower, 188 foot-pounds of torque 72 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:26,560 which should be pretty reasonable in a 3,800 pound car 73 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:31,560 but it can just not put any of that down whatsoever. 74 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,400 It is disgusting. 75 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,240 Now I wasn't able to find an official zero to 60 time from Kia. 76 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,760 It seems to range from about six and a half to 7.8 seconds 77 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:48,880 but what I do know is that I was at a red light yesterday beside a last gen Kona EV 78 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,520 and that thing destroyed me. I could not keep up at all. 79 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,100 Also getting destroyed. These poor tires in any corner. 80 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:03,720 Oh! There is no limited slip differential in this thing 81 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,160 and you go into a corner, you hit the gas 82 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:12,160 and that inside tire is just getting punished. 83 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,220 Oh my God, this thing does not handle very well. 84 00:06:16,220 --> 00:06:20,260 There are three versions of this car, gas, hybrid and electric 85 00:06:20,260 --> 00:06:24,740 and it really feels like that the suspension was tuned around the gas version. 86 00:06:24,740 --> 00:06:29,020 The electric one, you're gonna have those batteries going all the way back, adding weight 87 00:06:29,020 --> 00:06:32,580 to the rear of the car and it kind of just bounces around. 88 00:06:32,580 --> 00:06:36,380 Like you go over bumps and you can feel the rear of the car bouncing up and down 89 00:06:36,380 --> 00:06:40,860 sort of like the rear dampers are shot. It's strange and disconcerting. 90 00:06:40,860 --> 00:06:45,820 Actually the steering overall is just kind of disconcerting. You don't really get a whole lot of feel 91 00:06:45,820 --> 00:06:51,660 through the steering wheel, even though like if you go over some sort of like uneven spots in the road 92 00:06:51,660 --> 00:06:54,780 it'll sort of want to pull to one side or the other. 93 00:06:54,780 --> 00:07:01,340 Once you're about about 80 kilometers per hour if there's any sort of large undulations or bumps 94 00:07:01,340 --> 00:07:07,060 it sort of just does whatever it wants and the suspension cannot handle the weight at all. 95 00:07:07,060 --> 00:07:12,860 It is not a satisfying car to drive. All of that said though, this is not intended 96 00:07:12,860 --> 00:07:16,780 to be a driver's car and it is if nothing else 97 00:07:16,780 --> 00:07:20,940 pretty quiet in here and relatively simple to drive 98 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:25,220 even if, yeah, it kind of sucks. 99 00:07:26,900 --> 00:07:31,700 Of course, this being a Korean car we do have Hyundai slash Kia's safety systems 100 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:36,980 and they are fantastic. This is some of the best adaptive cruise on the market 101 00:07:36,980 --> 00:07:42,980 and the lane centering is okay-ish but really quite good if you're into that sort of a thing. 102 00:07:42,980 --> 00:07:45,980 Also, you're able to fully disable the safety systems 103 00:07:45,980 --> 00:07:49,500 that you don't want to be there so if any of them start annoying you 104 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:52,380 just give them the chomp. Play Crab Rave. 105 00:07:53,380 --> 00:07:59,300 Crab Rave by NoiseStore, sure. One thing they did get right though is the sound system. 106 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:04,220 In here we have the seven speaker system from Harman Kardon, so woof for tweeter center 107 00:08:04,220 --> 00:08:08,020 and two in the back and it is really quite good. 108 00:08:08,020 --> 00:08:12,220 It goes down to about 30 firsts which is really quite good for a system 109 00:08:12,220 --> 00:08:16,020 that doesn't have a subwoofer and there isn't really anything 110 00:08:16,020 --> 00:08:23,060 that is exceptionally strange about it. Like there's a bit of a peak around 40, 50, that's fine. 111 00:08:23,060 --> 00:08:28,620 Bit of a dip around 100, who cares? Overall, I think it's really quite great. 112 00:08:32,740 --> 00:08:36,860 Well, that was fun but this final bit will not be for you at least Kia. 113 00:08:39,020 --> 00:08:44,020 Oh, Kia, why did you give us winter tires in the summer? 114 00:08:45,420 --> 00:08:50,060 And why did you not think through who actually wants to buy this thing? 115 00:08:50,060 --> 00:08:56,180 Like this is an excellent car for someone that just wants a not very expensive EV 116 00:08:56,180 --> 00:08:59,380 that they can cheaply take to and from work 117 00:08:59,380 --> 00:09:04,500 that just simply gets the job done. But what it seems like Kia's gone for here 118 00:09:04,540 --> 00:09:07,540 is just trying to make it cool 119 00:09:07,540 --> 00:09:10,620 in the same sort of way as when your band teacher's like, 120 00:09:10,620 --> 00:09:14,980 today we can play Beverly Hills and you're like, this is cringe. 121 00:09:14,980 --> 00:09:20,820 If they had just very simply pulled it back a bit made the materials in here less fancy looking 122 00:09:20,820 --> 00:09:25,020 and more so just kid resistant and taken the time to have these seats 123 00:09:25,020 --> 00:09:29,060 be actually comfortable then I think this could be a real winner 124 00:09:29,060 --> 00:09:32,620 compared to like the Bolt EUV or the Toyota Prius. 125 00:09:32,660 --> 00:09:36,540 It has way more room in the back and the boot. 126 00:09:36,540 --> 00:09:40,380 Just, it's not comfortable. 127 00:09:41,460 --> 00:09:45,300 With a starting price that's a bit below 50 grand Canadian 128 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:49,340 and with the heat pump a bit above 50 grand Canadian 129 00:09:49,340 --> 00:09:52,940 it's a pretty tough sell. Depending on your province or state 130 00:09:52,940 --> 00:09:56,340 you will have EV rebates that will bring that down 131 00:09:56,340 --> 00:10:00,460 but it is getting dangerously close to the Tesla Model 3 132 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:04,220 especially this 55 grand limited trim that we have 133 00:10:04,220 --> 00:10:09,220 and like I just want the Prius. That really achieves what this car is going for 134 00:10:09,220 --> 00:10:13,260 but just so much better. And this right here, I don't know guys 135 00:10:13,260 --> 00:10:16,860 it needs better seats. Oh, huge thanks for watching. 136 00:10:16,860 --> 00:10:20,940 Hit like, get subscribed and just have a great old day 137 00:10:20,940 --> 00:10:23,740 and maybe treat yourself to a little bit of a stretch.