concept cars always look Wicked and then they become production cars and they
look like not Wicked the ionic 5 though looks freaking sweet Honda has barely
changed it I've seen lots of people compare it to alancia Delta and I could
see no higher praise for their Engineers especially like Lancia Delta and
cyberpunk combined together freaking sweet let's look at like just the
headlights the daytime running lights have this really cool Tetris look that's
just unlike any other car on the market and the whole front end of it I think
looks great the only thing that kinda doesn't fit really is the Hyundai badge
it's sort of old school for how freaking modern this thing looks below the badge
is a vanity plate from open road Hyundai Richmond huge thanks guys for giving
this by the way and below that is this well right now it's not a duct but it
opens up and allows for ducting for your radiator for when I'm guessing it opens
in sport mode it definitely opens when you're charging moving around the side
we have the 19-inch alloy wheels they're diamond cut and I would just replace
them they're they look fine they make it
a tiny bit more efficient than the 20s but I'm just over diamond cut wheels on
SUVs they just all look the same and kind of blah it's so freaking big look
at this look look at the wheelbase we did this on the ev6 as well but like
the wheelbase on this thing's longer than like a seven seater Hyundai around
the back I have to say the ionic 5 has a
fine earth like these little LEDs that are square just look so cool and we've
got sort of a spoiler I really hope that they do an end version of this with just
a ridiculous spoiler I would absolutely love that well you know the trunk though
it's pretty practical we don't have the top range version so we don't have the
fancy you know open up Auto liftgate whatever this one works great I kind of
like it more than a powered one honestly in the trunk you do get heaps of space
although I did find something really weird down here so first of all if we
remove this so the first weird thing uh
we have tow hooks but they're just kind of laying in here probably not great for
the trunk what's even worse for the trunk though whatever is on the go down
here it's soaked like look at this there's definitely a bit of wax but like
what's on the go here is it drain Port it's not draining very well it's someone
that knows more about cars than me can tell me what's on the go here it seems
like this is going to be a moldy mess in a couple months it's just so wet like
this thing's actually drenched like that ugh look at all that water
Oh weird condensation aside though the trunk is pretty functional they could
have definitely given you more trunk space if they made it look less cool and
didn't have like the sloping trunk but then we wouldn't compare it to a Lancia
and say it looks sweet so whatever there is one cool thing that you can do though
one second you can get a tiny bit more trunk space
by moving the back seats forward but
it's sort of weird like if you look at it you just get this weird No Man's Land
it seems like a good spot to just lose your Big Mac
getting into the rear seats there's so much space back here like we have what
maybe three fingers of space between my head and the roof I'm six feet tall I
also have like two hands worth of space between my knees and the front seat
there's heaps of space back here you also have two charging ports some vents
you can even recline all right also the floor back here is
completely flat so if you're an Andy and you want to put a tripod in the center
you can moving into the driver's seat the first
thing that I noticed in here is that whoever does the plastic finishes at
Hyundai deserves a huge raise like look at this this is hard plastic this is
hard plastic we've got hard plastics all
around here but all of them feel super premium and look awesome we also have
some what was this like fake leather of sorts Andy it feels nice it's a good
spot to rest your arms my only complaint about the driving position really is
that this center console is just higher than the armrest on the side here it's
kind of this weird like I feel like I'm leaning sideways one a
minute as you probably noticed we don't have the top spec option this right here
is the long range rear wheel drive preferred and so that's five thousand
dollars less than the fancy version that you've probably seen all the reviewers
have I personally think that this is what you're going to want to go for now
you don't have the lounging seats that are super fancy and this thing
doesn't move you also don't get a piano roof but like none of that really
affects your day-to-day drive and these cloth seats right here they are very
comfortable the only thing that I wish that they had was seat memory that's
unfortunately not an option all that said the layout up here is not perfect
the storage is kind of strange we have phone chargers here and here but the one
that you need to use for Android auto for whatever reason is up in the front
so that's where your phone has to go every single time that you get it at
least if you have a purse though instead of just chucking in the passenger foot
well you can put it right here they have this cool kind of little area for your
purse to go I like it you can also open up this it's where I've been storing my
sunglasses what I find really shocking about the interior of the ionic 5 and
how the infotainment works is just how similar it is to the ev6 but how not
annoying it is to use and it's not like they've done an incredible job of it
either we do get a dedicated volume knob and a couple hard buttons and like a
little tune switch but at the same time like the climate controls kinda suck at
least we do have dedicated up and down for the temperature and it works pretty
great I do wish that you could like swipe it and get larger increments but
whatever it served its purpose but like where's my seat heaters you have to hit
warmer and then go in here and swipe up
and then you're gonna go and go to like Android auto or something so if you want
to do it again you have to press warmer and go there it's not a huge deal but it
just seems like they probably could have just put another little capacitive thing
like there and there or something I think the biggest reason though that
this hasn't annoyed me when the ev6 just
made me go Bonkers is that you're able to develop a muscle memory even for
stuff on touch screens so you're able to come in here hit this and it's totally
fine I don't need to look at it after a day or two same thing with like in the
ev6 I didn't have to look at the climate
controls that were there but half the time when I didn't look there are the media controls and it was just
infuriating I'm flabbergasted at how much more I like this even though it's
so similar up front we have two 12-inch
displays and they look pretty great they have this iMac like white bezel around
them and I think it looks pretty good we've seen so much piano black and this
is just better like look at this I'm touching it and you're not able to see
that I have just a whole bunch of smudges there it's great unlike the
steering wheel which is smudge City right now because these are buttons that
I press all the time they look horrible and they're always going to look
horrible another mild annoyance is that some of the buttons here that I pressed
the most are Android auto and setup and
those are pretty far away so you're kind of reaching and especially on a bumpy
road you can accidentally just swipe it instead of clicking the thing that you
wanted overall though my first couple days with this were very painless it
just comes with the settings pretty much how you want it unlike the ev6 where I
had to change a bunch of things and turn a bunch of things off to make it like
Hyundai just gets it to you the gear lever is um
it's very phallic and you just give the tip a little bit of a Twist and you're
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let's drive her
I'm gonna get some nitpicks out of the way here first this screen that's in
front of me it's 12 inches and I can't
get over how dumb the way this is arranged pretty much my entire seating
position is dictated by being able to see how fast I'm going and how much my
charge is those are all locations where it's very easy for your steering wheel
to cut it off if you're sitting just a little bit too high okay yeah just move
that thing into the center and move the uh whatever the car thing to the side I
don't need to see my car all the time right it's so dumb because this big
Center area that's the majority of the display does not show me any useful
information we have a car that's right there now that'll tell me if there's
like someone in front of me like I can't see it or like let's see what else we
have nothing of use oh shut up I can
check my tire pressures great I'll do
that once every now and then I don't know it
just seems like a waste every single other electric car or car with a digital
dash has just had a reduced mode where it's pretty much just you know your
speed in the center and that's it love that in my opinion driving the ionic 5
is great now it's not particularly sharp
and the suspension setup is not the best
if I'm honest it's this weird combination of wallowy and harsh at the
same time because you know it's an electric car and it weighs 4 500 pounds
or whatever you need to have pretty stiff suspension but at the same time
they've wanted this to be a comfort orientated car so they've loosened up
the dampers a bit it's the setting where like the ev6 had adjustable dampers and
I wanted like a softer setting this is the softer setting but I still want the
option to have those stiffer settings as well also the rebound on these dampers
are it's just terrible rebound is when your spring compresses how bounces back
and in this you kind of get a two for one on big bumps like
you get the first bump and then you get a bump after that bump and it's pretty
crap same thing where like if you Huck it into a corner it'll load up and then
rebound and then load up again in this way that's really just kind of
concerning and doesn't allow me to go very fast I
High into this car I personally don't like the suspension because it's like a
little stiff but when you try to Corner
it does not have enough support like the body roll control on this car it's not
great now we do have the rear wheel drive model so it's a little bit on the
slow side but you wouldn't really know if you just step on it so I'll put it in
sport mode here and just floor oh yeah
that initial electric hit is really good
and then after that it kind of just tapers off but you can destroy basically
everyone off the line what I cannot excuse as easily though is the steering
they have four and a half degrees of casters basically the more Caster means
it's going to physically lift up your car as you turn the steering wheel four
and a half degrees isn't a whole lot instead they've kind of just added in
some weight into the steering wheel for you and it takes way more effort than
you would expect in a car like this that's so easy to drive otherwise I
don't really like the weight it feels a little heavy even though it's just like
in the drive mode but it still feels like a lot of time I'm using a lot of
force on here upper ARM and like the upper
ARM here the handling is pretty good it has the
rear wheel drive type of feeling
but like even in low speed you see like the body roll is
yeah like if you like a tail happy car get this one because the rear-wheel
drive Works after a review of the ev6 I
had to like reflect on why I was so annoyed while driving it it really
didn't ride all that bad I should have been just fine driving it but the reason
that I wasn't was that it was just really loud in that car like you're just
driving down the road and you can hear the tires and maybe part of that was
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
in this and it makes the whole thing feel so much more premium especially in
an EV where you don't have the engine noise to drown out the tires and the
creaking and so on and so forth you need to put so much more effort towards sound
isolation and Hyundai has done that like it's not silent but it's more than
usable in here and much better than like your typical car in this price range at
least in Canada but we'll get to that later
we need to move that bottle what I do like though is that Hyundai has
understood the assignment this is never going to be a sports car no matter how
much Kia stiffens up the chassis it's going to be something that Millennial
moms take their kids to soccer practice in and feel kind of cool while they do
it it is not going to become like an RS4
or something like that is This SUV though is it an SUV
we call it a mega hatch Mega hatch is cool I like that now the range in this
is excellent and our long range rear wheel drive you get 480 kilometers of
range and I've found that you're able to do the better part of 400. now if I had
the all-wheel drive it probably would be the same as ev6 not so much because on
paper it's different but just because the all-wheel drive has more power and
my right foot has no self-control okay there must be a cop up here
everyone's just blinking their lights at me
oh they got a lot of people now we don't have the Bose premium
system in here but from what I've heard that's not fantastic and uh neither are
these there's a lot of mid bass and no sub bass and the whole thing kind of
lacks the richness that I really want
from a car stereo but at the same time like if you're coming from a base Civic
you'll be pretty impressed
one other thing a lot of people got really mad at me after the ev6 video
because I didn't talk about charging and after doing some more research they
aren't right in Canada I could not care less that this does 350 kilowatt
charging there are some 50 kilowatt and some that in theory do like two or three
hundred but those are mostly from Petro Canada and they're always broken they've
left me stranded before awful time if you're here and in basically all of
North America you need to have at home charging because it's just such a bad
time doing it elsewhere if you're in Europe though and hopefully here in the
future having a 350 kilowatts in this is
gonna be Wicked you can go from 10 to 80 percent in just 18 minutes that is
freaking awesome and I should have brought it up in ab6 video to be fair
what's extremely compelling about this
car though is the price at least in Canada in Canada this car right here is
53 000 dollars the only two things that
I really miss that are options in The Limited package are memory seats and
auto wipers all of this means that in Canada at least the Onyx 5 just takes a
dump on the model wise face that thing starts at 82 000 here the value
proposition is just not there in the US it's a little bit more interesting I
think there's only a three grand price difference between this and the model y
down south so
ah try them both see which one you like more I guess but yeah if you're in
Canada get on that wait list now this thing's freaking sweet I like it so the
ionic 5. it's a car that understood the assignment if you want to get from your
house to your job in a fairly comfortable very nice looking car this
is what you want to get and if you live in British Columbia especially with like
the tax rebates and the fact that electricity is cheap here because it's
all hydro and the gas price yeah and the current gas prices it's hard to justify
not getting one of these really geez huge thanks to open road Hyundai in
Richmond for hooking us up with this thing it's been very difficult to get
cars because it's very difficult for anyone to get cars right now so if you
want one of these hit them up get on the wait list actually do they even have a
wait list right now Andy they passed away list they pause so get on the list
to get on the wait list I guess