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concept cars always look Wicked and then they become production cars and they

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look like not Wicked the ionic 5 though looks freaking sweet Honda has barely

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changed it I've seen lots of people compare it to alancia Delta and I could

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see no higher praise for their Engineers especially like Lancia Delta and

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cyberpunk combined together freaking sweet let's look at like just the

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headlights the daytime running lights have this really cool Tetris look that's

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just unlike any other car on the market and the whole front end of it I think

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looks great the only thing that kinda doesn't fit really is the Hyundai badge

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it's sort of old school for how freaking modern this thing looks below the badge

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is a vanity plate from open road Hyundai Richmond huge thanks guys for giving

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this by the way and below that is this well right now it's not a duct but it

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opens up and allows for ducting for your radiator for when I'm guessing it opens

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in sport mode it definitely opens when you're charging moving around the side

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we have the 19-inch alloy wheels they're diamond cut and I would just replace

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them they're they look fine they make it

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a tiny bit more efficient than the 20s but I'm just over diamond cut wheels on

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SUVs they just all look the same and kind of blah it's so freaking big look

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at this look look at the wheelbase we did this on the ev6 as well but like

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the wheelbase on this thing's longer than like a seven seater Hyundai around

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the back I have to say the ionic 5 has a

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fine earth like these little LEDs that are square just look so cool and we've

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got sort of a spoiler I really hope that they do an end version of this with just

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a ridiculous spoiler I would absolutely love that well you know the trunk though

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it's pretty practical we don't have the top range version so we don't have the

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fancy you know open up Auto liftgate whatever this one works great I kind of

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like it more than a powered one honestly in the trunk you do get heaps of space

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although I did find something really weird down here so first of all if we

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remove this so the first weird thing uh

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we have tow hooks but they're just kind of laying in here probably not great for

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the trunk what's even worse for the trunk though whatever is on the go down

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here it's soaked like look at this there's definitely a bit of wax but like

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what's on the go here is it drain Port it's not draining very well it's someone

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that knows more about cars than me can tell me what's on the go here it seems

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like this is going to be a moldy mess in a couple months it's just so wet like

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this thing's actually drenched like that ugh look at all that water

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Oh weird condensation aside though the trunk is pretty functional they could

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have definitely given you more trunk space if they made it look less cool and

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didn't have like the sloping trunk but then we wouldn't compare it to a Lancia

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and say it looks sweet so whatever there is one cool thing that you can do though

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one second you can get a tiny bit more trunk space

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by moving the back seats forward but

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it's sort of weird like if you look at it you just get this weird No Man's Land

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it seems like a good spot to just lose your Big Mac

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getting into the rear seats there's so much space back here like we have what

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maybe three fingers of space between my head and the roof I'm six feet tall I

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also have like two hands worth of space between my knees and the front seat

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there's heaps of space back here you also have two charging ports some vents

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you can even recline all right also the floor back here is

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completely flat so if you're an Andy and you want to put a tripod in the center

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you can moving into the driver's seat the first

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thing that I noticed in here is that whoever does the plastic finishes at

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Hyundai deserves a huge raise like look at this this is hard plastic this is

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hard plastic we've got hard plastics all

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around here but all of them feel super premium and look awesome we also have

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some what was this like fake leather of sorts Andy it feels nice it's a good

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spot to rest your arms my only complaint about the driving position really is

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that this center console is just higher than the armrest on the side here it's

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kind of this weird like I feel like I'm leaning sideways one a

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minute as you probably noticed we don't have the top spec option this right here

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is the long range rear wheel drive preferred and so that's five thousand

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dollars less than the fancy version that you've probably seen all the reviewers

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have I personally think that this is what you're going to want to go for now

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you don't have the lounging seats that are super fancy and this thing

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doesn't move you also don't get a piano roof but like none of that really

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affects your day-to-day drive and these cloth seats right here they are very

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comfortable the only thing that I wish that they had was seat memory that's

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unfortunately not an option all that said the layout up here is not perfect

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the storage is kind of strange we have phone chargers here and here but the one

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that you need to use for Android auto for whatever reason is up in the front

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so that's where your phone has to go every single time that you get it at

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least if you have a purse though instead of just chucking in the passenger foot

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well you can put it right here they have this cool kind of little area for your

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purse to go I like it you can also open up this it's where I've been storing my

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sunglasses what I find really shocking about the interior of the ionic 5 and

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how the infotainment works is just how similar it is to the ev6 but how not

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annoying it is to use and it's not like they've done an incredible job of it

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either we do get a dedicated volume knob and a couple hard buttons and like a

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little tune switch but at the same time like the climate controls kinda suck at

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least we do have dedicated up and down for the temperature and it works pretty

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great I do wish that you could like swipe it and get larger increments but

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whatever it served its purpose but like where's my seat heaters you have to hit

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warmer and then go in here and swipe up

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and then you're gonna go and go to like Android auto or something so if you want

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to do it again you have to press warmer and go there it's not a huge deal but it

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just seems like they probably could have just put another little capacitive thing

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like there and there or something I think the biggest reason though that

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this hasn't annoyed me when the ev6 just

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made me go Bonkers is that you're able to develop a muscle memory even for

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stuff on touch screens so you're able to come in here hit this and it's totally

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fine I don't need to look at it after a day or two same thing with like in the

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ev6 I didn't have to look at the climate

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controls that were there but half the time when I didn't look there are the media controls and it was just

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infuriating I'm flabbergasted at how much more I like this even though it's

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so similar up front we have two 12-inch

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displays and they look pretty great they have this iMac like white bezel around

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them and I think it looks pretty good we've seen so much piano black and this

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is just better like look at this I'm touching it and you're not able to see

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that I have just a whole bunch of smudges there it's great unlike the

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steering wheel which is smudge City right now because these are buttons that

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I press all the time they look horrible and they're always going to look

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horrible another mild annoyance is that some of the buttons here that I pressed

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the most are Android auto and setup and

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those are pretty far away so you're kind of reaching and especially on a bumpy

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road you can accidentally just swipe it instead of clicking the thing that you

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wanted overall though my first couple days with this were very painless it

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just comes with the settings pretty much how you want it unlike the ev6 where I

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had to change a bunch of things and turn a bunch of things off to make it like

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Hyundai just gets it to you the gear lever is um

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it's very phallic and you just give the tip a little bit of a Twist and you're

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I'm gonna get some nitpicks out of the way here first this screen that's in

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front of me it's 12 inches and I can't

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get over how dumb the way this is arranged pretty much my entire seating

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position is dictated by being able to see how fast I'm going and how much my

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charge is those are all locations where it's very easy for your steering wheel

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to cut it off if you're sitting just a little bit too high okay yeah just move

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that thing into the center and move the uh whatever the car thing to the side I

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don't need to see my car all the time right it's so dumb because this big

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Center area that's the majority of the display does not show me any useful

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information we have a car that's right there now that'll tell me if there's

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like someone in front of me like I can't see it or like let's see what else we

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have nothing of use oh shut up I can

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check my tire pressures great I'll do

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that once every now and then I don't know it

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just seems like a waste every single other electric car or car with a digital

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dash has just had a reduced mode where it's pretty much just you know your

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speed in the center and that's it love that in my opinion driving the ionic 5

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is great now it's not particularly sharp

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and the suspension setup is not the best

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if I'm honest it's this weird combination of wallowy and harsh at the

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same time because you know it's an electric car and it weighs 4 500 pounds

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or whatever you need to have pretty stiff suspension but at the same time

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they've wanted this to be a comfort orientated car so they've loosened up

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the dampers a bit it's the setting where like the ev6 had adjustable dampers and

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I wanted like a softer setting this is the softer setting but I still want the

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option to have those stiffer settings as well also the rebound on these dampers

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are it's just terrible rebound is when your spring compresses how bounces back

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and in this you kind of get a two for one on big bumps like

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you get the first bump and then you get a bump after that bump and it's pretty

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crap same thing where like if you Huck it into a corner it'll load up and then

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rebound and then load up again in this way that's really just kind of

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concerning and doesn't allow me to go very fast I

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High into this car I personally don't like the suspension because it's like a

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little stiff but when you try to Corner

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it does not have enough support like the body roll control on this car it's not

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great now we do have the rear wheel drive model so it's a little bit on the

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slow side but you wouldn't really know if you just step on it so I'll put it in

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sport mode here and just floor oh yeah

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that initial electric hit is really good

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and then after that it kind of just tapers off but you can destroy basically

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everyone off the line what I cannot excuse as easily though is the steering

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they have four and a half degrees of casters basically the more Caster means

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it's going to physically lift up your car as you turn the steering wheel four

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and a half degrees isn't a whole lot instead they've kind of just added in

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some weight into the steering wheel for you and it takes way more effort than

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you would expect in a car like this that's so easy to drive otherwise I

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don't really like the weight it feels a little heavy even though it's just like

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in the drive mode but it still feels like a lot of time I'm using a lot of

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force on here upper ARM and like the upper

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ARM here the handling is pretty good it has the

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rear wheel drive type of feeling

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but like even in low speed you see like the body roll is

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yeah like if you like a tail happy car get this one because the rear-wheel

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drive Works after a review of the ev6 I

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had to like reflect on why I was so annoyed while driving it it really

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didn't ride all that bad I should have been just fine driving it but the reason

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that I wasn't was that it was just really loud in that car like you're just

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driving down the road and you can hear the tires and maybe part of that was

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that they were on Winters but I don't think it was a whole lot there just wasn't the sound isolation that there is

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in this and it makes the whole thing feel so much more premium especially in

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an EV where you don't have the engine noise to drown out the tires and the

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creaking and so on and so forth you need to put so much more effort towards sound

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isolation and Hyundai has done that like it's not silent but it's more than

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usable in here and much better than like your typical car in this price range at

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least in Canada but we'll get to that later

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we need to move that bottle what I do like though is that Hyundai has

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understood the assignment this is never going to be a sports car no matter how

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much Kia stiffens up the chassis it's going to be something that Millennial

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moms take their kids to soccer practice in and feel kind of cool while they do

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it it is not going to become like an RS4

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or something like that is This SUV though is it an SUV

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we call it a mega hatch Mega hatch is cool I like that now the range in this

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is excellent and our long range rear wheel drive you get 480 kilometers of

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range and I've found that you're able to do the better part of 400. now if I had

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the all-wheel drive it probably would be the same as ev6 not so much because on

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paper it's different but just because the all-wheel drive has more power and

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my right foot has no self-control okay there must be a cop up here

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everyone's just blinking their lights at me

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oh they got a lot of people now we don't have the Bose premium

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system in here but from what I've heard that's not fantastic and uh neither are

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these there's a lot of mid bass and no sub bass and the whole thing kind of

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lacks the richness that I really want

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from a car stereo but at the same time like if you're coming from a base Civic

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you'll be pretty impressed

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one other thing a lot of people got really mad at me after the ev6 video

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because I didn't talk about charging and after doing some more research they

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aren't right in Canada I could not care less that this does 350 kilowatt

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charging there are some 50 kilowatt and some that in theory do like two or three

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hundred but those are mostly from Petro Canada and they're always broken they've

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left me stranded before awful time if you're here and in basically all of

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North America you need to have at home charging because it's just such a bad

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time doing it elsewhere if you're in Europe though and hopefully here in the

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future having a 350 kilowatts in this is

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gonna be Wicked you can go from 10 to 80 percent in just 18 minutes that is

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freaking awesome and I should have brought it up in ab6 video to be fair

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what's extremely compelling about this

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car though is the price at least in Canada in Canada this car right here is

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53 000 dollars the only two things that

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I really miss that are options in The Limited package are memory seats and

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auto wipers all of this means that in Canada at least the Onyx 5 just takes a

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dump on the model wise face that thing starts at 82 000 here the value

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proposition is just not there in the US it's a little bit more interesting I

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think there's only a three grand price difference between this and the model y

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down south so

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ah try them both see which one you like more I guess but yeah if you're in

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Canada get on that wait list now this thing's freaking sweet I like it so the

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ionic 5. it's a car that understood the assignment if you want to get from your

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house to your job in a fairly comfortable very nice looking car this

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is what you want to get and if you live in British Columbia especially with like

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the tax rebates and the fact that electricity is cheap here because it's

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all hydro and the gas price yeah and the current gas prices it's hard to justify

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not getting one of these really geez huge thanks to open road Hyundai in

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Richmond for hooking us up with this thing it's been very difficult to get

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cars because it's very difficult for anyone to get cars right now so if you

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want one of these hit them up get on the wait list actually do they even have a

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wait list right now Andy they passed away list they pause so get on the list

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to get on the wait list I guess