WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.560 concept cars always look Wicked and then they become production cars and they 00:00:04.859 --> 00:00:12.120 look like not Wicked the ionic 5 though looks freaking sweet Honda has barely 00:00:10.380 --> 00:00:16.560 changed it I've seen lots of people compare it to alancia Delta and I could 00:00:14.340 --> 00:00:20.880 see no higher praise for their Engineers especially like Lancia Delta and 00:00:18.840 --> 00:00:23.699 cyberpunk combined together freaking sweet let's look at like just the 00:00:22.140 --> 00:00:27.840 headlights the daytime running lights have this really cool Tetris look that's 00:00:25.859 --> 00:00:31.800 just unlike any other car on the market and the whole front end of it I think 00:00:29.820 --> 00:00:35.940 looks great the only thing that kinda doesn't fit really is the Hyundai badge 00:00:33.899 --> 00:00:39.960 it's sort of old school for how freaking modern this thing looks below the badge 00:00:37.800 --> 00:00:44.399 is a vanity plate from open road Hyundai Richmond huge thanks guys for giving 00:00:42.059 --> 00:00:48.840 this by the way and below that is this well right now it's not a duct but it 00:00:46.620 --> 00:00:52.440 opens up and allows for ducting for your radiator for when I'm guessing it opens 00:00:50.760 --> 00:00:56.340 in sport mode it definitely opens when you're charging moving around the side 00:00:54.059 --> 00:01:01.739 we have the 19-inch alloy wheels they're diamond cut and I would just replace 00:00:58.559 --> 00:01:03.660 them they're they look fine they make it 00:01:01.739 --> 00:01:07.799 a tiny bit more efficient than the 20s but I'm just over diamond cut wheels on 00:01:05.580 --> 00:01:12.119 SUVs they just all look the same and kind of blah it's so freaking big look 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:16.380 at this look look at the wheelbase we did this on the ev6 as well but like 00:01:14.700 --> 00:01:22.200 the wheelbase on this thing's longer than like a seven seater Hyundai around 00:01:19.020 --> 00:01:24.720 the back I have to say the ionic 5 has a 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:29.640 fine earth like these little LEDs that are square just look so cool and we've 00:01:27.479 --> 00:01:33.600 got sort of a spoiler I really hope that they do an end version of this with just 00:01:31.500 --> 00:01:36.960 a ridiculous spoiler I would absolutely love that well you know the trunk though 00:01:35.100 --> 00:01:40.920 it's pretty practical we don't have the top range version so we don't have the 00:01:38.340 --> 00:01:45.119 fancy you know open up Auto liftgate whatever this one works great I kind of 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:49.860 like it more than a powered one honestly in the trunk you do get heaps of space 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:56.219 although I did find something really weird down here so first of all if we 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:58.619 remove this so the first weird thing uh 00:01:56.219 --> 00:02:03.360 we have tow hooks but they're just kind of laying in here probably not great for 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:07.560 the trunk what's even worse for the trunk though whatever is on the go down 00:02:05.340 --> 00:02:12.300 here it's soaked like look at this there's definitely a bit of wax but like 00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:17.099 what's on the go here is it drain Port it's not draining very well it's someone 00:02:15.239 --> 00:02:20.220 that knows more about cars than me can tell me what's on the go here it seems 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:24.060 like this is going to be a moldy mess in a couple months it's just so wet like 00:02:22.020 --> 00:02:29.340 this thing's actually drenched like that ugh look at all that water 00:02:26.700 --> 00:02:33.420 Oh weird condensation aside though the trunk is pretty functional they could 00:02:31.620 --> 00:02:37.739 have definitely given you more trunk space if they made it look less cool and 00:02:35.519 --> 00:02:41.760 didn't have like the sloping trunk but then we wouldn't compare it to a Lancia 00:02:39.180 --> 00:02:45.480 and say it looks sweet so whatever there is one cool thing that you can do though 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:50.760 one second you can get a tiny bit more trunk space 00:02:47.640 --> 00:02:52.860 by moving the back seats forward but 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:56.819 it's sort of weird like if you look at it you just get this weird No Man's Land 00:02:55.140 --> 00:03:01.260 it seems like a good spot to just lose your Big Mac 00:02:59.040 --> 00:03:05.700 getting into the rear seats there's so much space back here like we have what 00:03:03.480 --> 00:03:10.260 maybe three fingers of space between my head and the roof I'm six feet tall I 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:14.220 also have like two hands worth of space between my knees and the front seat 00:03:12.180 --> 00:03:17.959 there's heaps of space back here you also have two charging ports some vents 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:22.739 you can even recline all right also the floor back here is 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:25.680 completely flat so if you're an Andy and you want to put a tripod in the center 00:03:24.659 --> 00:03:29.940 you can moving into the driver's seat the first 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:35.040 thing that I noticed in here is that whoever does the plastic finishes at 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:40.200 Hyundai deserves a huge raise like look at this this is hard plastic this is 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:42.780 hard plastic we've got hard plastics all 00:03:40.200 --> 00:03:48.299 around here but all of them feel super premium and look awesome we also have 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:52.739 some what was this like fake leather of sorts Andy it feels nice it's a good 00:03:50.519 --> 00:03:58.080 spot to rest your arms my only complaint about the driving position really is 00:03:55.379 --> 00:04:02.159 that this center console is just higher than the armrest on the side here it's 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:06.840 kind of this weird like I feel like I'm leaning sideways one a 00:04:04.739 --> 00:04:10.620 minute as you probably noticed we don't have the top spec option this right here 00:04:09.060 --> 00:04:15.540 is the long range rear wheel drive preferred and so that's five thousand 00:04:13.140 --> 00:04:19.199 dollars less than the fancy version that you've probably seen all the reviewers 00:04:16.739 --> 00:04:23.639 have I personally think that this is what you're going to want to go for now 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:29.100 you don't have the lounging seats that are super fancy and this thing 00:04:26.580 --> 00:04:34.020 doesn't move you also don't get a piano roof but like none of that really 00:04:32.100 --> 00:04:37.620 affects your day-to-day drive and these cloth seats right here they are very 00:04:36.180 --> 00:04:41.400 comfortable the only thing that I wish that they had was seat memory that's 00:04:39.300 --> 00:04:46.020 unfortunately not an option all that said the layout up here is not perfect 00:04:43.740 --> 00:04:49.800 the storage is kind of strange we have phone chargers here and here but the one 00:04:48.419 --> 00:04:54.840 that you need to use for Android auto for whatever reason is up in the front 00:04:52.380 --> 00:04:58.500 so that's where your phone has to go every single time that you get it at 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:02.759 least if you have a purse though instead of just chucking in the passenger foot 00:05:00.180 --> 00:05:07.259 well you can put it right here they have this cool kind of little area for your 00:05:04.919 --> 00:05:11.580 purse to go I like it you can also open up this it's where I've been storing my 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:16.740 sunglasses what I find really shocking about the interior of the ionic 5 and 00:05:13.919 --> 00:05:22.500 how the infotainment works is just how similar it is to the ev6 but how not 00:05:20.100 --> 00:05:27.780 annoying it is to use and it's not like they've done an incredible job of it 00:05:24.960 --> 00:05:33.180 either we do get a dedicated volume knob and a couple hard buttons and like a 00:05:30.660 --> 00:05:39.080 little tune switch but at the same time like the climate controls kinda suck at 00:05:36.539 --> 00:05:43.560 least we do have dedicated up and down for the temperature and it works pretty 00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:48.060 great I do wish that you could like swipe it and get larger increments but 00:05:45.900 --> 00:05:54.120 whatever it served its purpose but like where's my seat heaters you have to hit 00:05:50.520 --> 00:05:56.400 warmer and then go in here and swipe up 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:59.940 and then you're gonna go and go to like Android auto or something so if you want 00:05:57.900 --> 00:06:03.720 to do it again you have to press warmer and go there it's not a huge deal but it 00:06:02.100 --> 00:06:08.220 just seems like they probably could have just put another little capacitive thing 00:06:05.460 --> 00:06:12.900 like there and there or something I think the biggest reason though that 00:06:09.840 --> 00:06:15.060 this hasn't annoyed me when the ev6 just 00:06:12.900 --> 00:06:18.780 made me go Bonkers is that you're able to develop a muscle memory even for 00:06:16.919 --> 00:06:22.979 stuff on touch screens so you're able to come in here hit this and it's totally 00:06:21.060 --> 00:06:27.840 fine I don't need to look at it after a day or two same thing with like in the 00:06:24.780 --> 00:06:29.220 ev6 I didn't have to look at the climate 00:06:27.840 --> 00:06:34.560 controls that were there but half the time when I didn't look there are the media controls and it was just 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:39.240 infuriating I'm flabbergasted at how much more I like this even though it's 00:06:36.060 --> 00:06:41.699 so similar up front we have two 12-inch 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:46.199 displays and they look pretty great they have this iMac like white bezel around 00:06:44.100 --> 00:06:51.720 them and I think it looks pretty good we've seen so much piano black and this 00:06:49.139 --> 00:06:55.740 is just better like look at this I'm touching it and you're not able to see 00:06:53.940 --> 00:06:59.819 that I have just a whole bunch of smudges there it's great unlike the 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:04.500 steering wheel which is smudge City right now because these are buttons that 00:07:01.919 --> 00:07:08.460 I press all the time they look horrible and they're always going to look 00:07:05.819 --> 00:07:13.500 horrible another mild annoyance is that some of the buttons here that I pressed 00:07:10.259 --> 00:07:15.479 the most are Android auto and setup and 00:07:13.500 --> 00:07:18.960 those are pretty far away so you're kind of reaching and especially on a bumpy 00:07:17.220 --> 00:07:22.800 road you can accidentally just swipe it instead of clicking the thing that you 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:28.020 wanted overall though my first couple days with this were very painless it 00:07:25.860 --> 00:07:31.979 just comes with the settings pretty much how you want it unlike the ev6 where I 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:35.160 had to change a bunch of things and turn a bunch of things off to make it like 00:07:33.419 --> 00:07:40.199 Hyundai just gets it to you the gear lever is um 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:43.919 it's very phallic and you just give the tip a little bit of a Twist and you're 00:07:42.300 --> 00:07:46.979 good to go but not until I tell you about our sponsor grammarly thanks to 00:07:45.599 --> 00:07:50.520 grammarly for sponsoring this video communicating online through email 00:07:48.599 --> 00:07:54.000 slacker Discord can be easily misinterpreted and become a huge time 00:07:52.500 --> 00:07:57.840 block this is why all working professionals need a tool like grammarly 00:07:55.979 --> 00:08:00.960 grammarly is an all-in-one writing tool that helps you with grammar and spelling 00:07:59.460 --> 00:08:04.680 suggestions simply install the free desktop app log in and start typing 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:08.039 there's also grammarly premium which provides you with more in-depth feedback 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00:08:56.100 charge is those are all locations where it's very easy for your steering wheel 00:08:53.279 --> 00:09:00.480 to cut it off if you're sitting just a little bit too high okay yeah just move 00:08:58.380 --> 00:09:03.899 that thing into the center and move the uh whatever the car thing to the side I 00:09:02.580 --> 00:09:09.060 don't need to see my car all the time right it's so dumb because this big 00:09:06.959 --> 00:09:12.600 Center area that's the majority of the display does not show me any useful 00:09:10.860 --> 00:09:16.620 information we have a car that's right there now that'll tell me if there's 00:09:14.459 --> 00:09:21.420 like someone in front of me like I can't see it or like let's see what else we 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:24.600 have nothing of use oh shut up I can 00:09:21.420 --> 00:09:25.380 check my tire pressures great I'll do 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:29.399 that once every now and then I don't know it 00:09:27.839 --> 00:09:34.440 just seems like a waste every single other electric car or car with a digital 00:09:31.920 --> 00:09:38.339 dash has just had a reduced mode where it's pretty much just you know your 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:45.360 speed in the center and that's it love that in my opinion driving the ionic 5 00:09:41.160 --> 00:09:49.200 is great now it's not particularly sharp 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:51.300 and the suspension setup is not the best 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:56.220 if I'm honest it's this weird combination of wallowy and harsh at the 00:09:54.420 --> 00:10:01.079 same time because you know it's an electric car and it weighs 4 500 pounds 00:09:58.860 --> 00:10:04.440 or whatever you need to have pretty stiff suspension but at the same time 00:10:03.060 --> 00:10:09.120 they've wanted this to be a comfort orientated car so they've loosened up 00:10:07.079 --> 00:10:14.100 the dampers a bit it's the setting where like the ev6 had adjustable dampers and 00:10:11.579 --> 00:10:18.420 I wanted like a softer setting this is the softer setting but I still want the 00:10:16.079 --> 00:10:23.820 option to have those stiffer settings as well also the rebound on these dampers 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:29.399 are it's just terrible rebound is when your spring compresses how bounces back 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:33.839 and in this you kind of get a two for one on big bumps like 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:38.040 you get the first bump and then you get a bump after that bump and it's pretty 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:44.880 crap same thing where like if you Huck it into a corner it'll load up and then 00:10:42.060 --> 00:10:48.899 rebound and then load up again in this way that's really just kind of 00:10:47.040 --> 00:10:53.579 concerning and doesn't allow me to go very fast I 00:10:51.000 --> 00:11:00.079 High into this car I personally don't like the suspension because it's like a 00:10:55.620 --> 00:11:00.079 little stiff but when you try to Corner 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:07.140 it does not have enough support like the body roll control on this car it's not 00:11:04.980 --> 00:11:12.779 great now we do have the rear wheel drive model so it's a little bit on the 00:11:10.260 --> 00:11:17.640 slow side but you wouldn't really know if you just step on it so I'll put it in 00:11:14.579 --> 00:11:21.180 sport mode here and just floor oh yeah 00:11:17.640 --> 00:11:23.220 that initial electric hit is really good 00:11:21.180 --> 00:11:29.040 and then after that it kind of just tapers off but you can destroy basically 00:11:26.579 --> 00:11:33.480 everyone off the line what I cannot excuse as easily though is the steering 00:11:31.620 --> 00:11:38.160 they have four and a half degrees of casters basically the more Caster means 00:11:35.940 --> 00:11:42.480 it's going to physically lift up your car as you turn the steering wheel four 00:11:40.800 --> 00:11:47.279 and a half degrees isn't a whole lot instead they've kind of just added in 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:51.660 some weight into the steering wheel for you and it takes way more effort than 00:11:49.800 --> 00:11:57.000 you would expect in a car like this that's so easy to drive otherwise I 00:11:54.660 --> 00:12:01.320 don't really like the weight it feels a little heavy even though it's just like 00:11:58.860 --> 00:12:06.720 in the drive mode but it still feels like a lot of time I'm using a lot of 00:12:03.779 --> 00:12:09.540 force on here upper ARM and like the upper 00:12:08.160 --> 00:12:13.200 ARM here the handling is pretty good it has the 00:12:11.579 --> 00:12:17.160 rear wheel drive type of feeling 00:12:14.820 --> 00:12:21.600 but like even in low speed you see like the body roll is 00:12:19.380 --> 00:12:27.600 yeah like if you like a tail happy car get this one because the rear-wheel 00:12:23.579 --> 00:12:30.240 drive Works after a review of the ev6 I 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:34.680 had to like reflect on why I was so annoyed while driving it it really 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:38.519 didn't ride all that bad I should have been just fine driving it but the reason 00:12:36.540 --> 00:12:43.680 that I wasn't was that it was just really loud in that car like you're just 00:12:41.339 --> 00:12:46.980 driving down the road and you can hear the tires and maybe part of that was 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:51.779 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 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:56.040 in this and it makes the whole thing feel so much more premium especially in 00:12:54.240 --> 00:13:00.959 an EV where you don't have the engine noise to drown out the tires and the 00:12:58.740 --> 00:13:06.060 creaking and so on and so forth you need to put so much more effort towards sound 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:12.000 isolation and Hyundai has done that like it's not silent but it's more than 00:13:09.660 --> 00:13:16.019 usable in here and much better than like your typical car in this price range at 00:13:14.880 --> 00:13:20.880 least in Canada but we'll get to that later 00:13:18.019 --> 00:13:24.180 we need to move that bottle what I do like though is that Hyundai has 00:13:22.260 --> 00:13:28.560 understood the assignment this is never going to be a sports car no matter how 00:13:26.339 --> 00:13:31.800 much Kia stiffens up the chassis it's going to be something that Millennial 00:13:29.940 --> 00:13:37.920 moms take their kids to soccer practice in and feel kind of cool while they do 00:13:34.380 --> 00:13:40.019 it it is not going to become like an RS4 00:13:37.920 --> 00:13:44.100 or something like that is This SUV though is it an SUV 00:13:41.820 --> 00:13:49.440 we call it a mega hatch Mega hatch is cool I like that now the range in this 00:13:46.560 --> 00:13:54.899 is excellent and our long range rear wheel drive you get 480 kilometers of 00:13:52.260 --> 00:13:59.579 range and I've found that you're able to do the better part of 400. now if I had 00:13:57.779 --> 00:14:03.420 the all-wheel drive it probably would be the same as ev6 not so much because on 00:14:01.860 --> 00:14:08.459 paper it's different but just because the all-wheel drive has more power and 00:14:05.760 --> 00:14:11.760 my right foot has no self-control okay there must be a cop up here 00:14:10.079 --> 00:14:15.420 everyone's just blinking their lights at me 00:14:13.260 --> 00:14:18.959 oh they got a lot of people now we don't have the Bose premium 00:14:17.040 --> 00:14:24.000 system in here but from what I've heard that's not fantastic and uh neither are 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:29.339 these there's a lot of mid bass and no sub bass and the whole thing kind of 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:31.560 lacks the richness that I really want 00:14:29.339 --> 00:14:34.410 from a car stereo but at the same time like if you're coming from a base Civic 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:41.740 you'll be pretty impressed 00:14:43.740 --> 00:14:51.000 one other thing a lot of people got really mad at me after the ev6 video 00:14:48.899 --> 00:14:54.899 because I didn't talk about charging and after doing some more research they 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:59.760 aren't right in Canada I could not care less that this does 350 kilowatt 00:14:57.180 --> 00:15:04.560 charging there are some 50 kilowatt and some that in theory do like two or three 00:15:02.699 --> 00:15:09.360 hundred but those are mostly from Petro Canada and they're always broken they've 00:15:06.899 --> 00:15:13.560 left me stranded before awful time if you're here and in basically all of 00:15:11.220 --> 00:15:18.120 North America you need to have at home charging because it's just such a bad 00:15:15.779 --> 00:15:23.639 time doing it elsewhere if you're in Europe though and hopefully here in the 00:15:20.220 --> 00:15:26.160 future having a 350 kilowatts in this is 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:31.259 gonna be Wicked you can go from 10 to 80 percent in just 18 minutes that is 00:15:28.800 --> 00:15:36.480 freaking awesome and I should have brought it up in ab6 video to be fair 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:39.060 what's extremely compelling about this 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:45.899 car though is the price at least in Canada in Canada this car right here is 00:15:42.540 --> 00:15:47.579 53 000 dollars the only two things that 00:15:45.899 --> 00:15:52.920 I really miss that are options in The Limited package are memory seats and 00:15:50.459 --> 00:15:58.380 auto wipers all of this means that in Canada at least the Onyx 5 just takes a 00:15:56.339 --> 00:16:03.839 dump on the model wise face that thing starts at 82 000 here the value 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:07.800 proposition is just not there in the US it's a little bit more interesting I 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:13.339 think there's only a three grand price difference between this and the model y 00:16:09.779 --> 00:16:16.259 down south so 00:16:13.339 --> 00:16:19.800 ah try them both see which one you like more I guess but yeah if you're in 00:16:17.880 --> 00:16:24.000 Canada get on that wait list now this thing's freaking sweet I like it so the 00:16:21.779 --> 00:16:28.199 ionic 5. it's a car that understood the assignment if you want to get from your 00:16:25.680 --> 00:16:32.339 house to your job in a fairly comfortable very nice looking car this 00:16:30.899 --> 00:16:36.660 is what you want to get and if you live in British Columbia especially with like 00:16:34.740 --> 00:16:41.100 the tax rebates and the fact that electricity is cheap here because it's 00:16:38.220 --> 00:16:45.300 all hydro and the gas price yeah and the current gas prices it's hard to justify 00:16:43.199 --> 00:16:48.420 not getting one of these really geez huge thanks to open road Hyundai in 00:16:46.980 --> 00:16:52.560 Richmond for hooking us up with this thing it's been very difficult to get 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:56.880 cars because it's very difficult for anyone to get cars right now so if you 00:16:54.660 --> 00:17:00.480 want one of these hit them up get on the wait list actually do they even have a 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:06.679 wait list right now Andy they passed away list they pause so get on the list 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.679 to get on the wait list I guess