holy sexy sedans Batman we've got the
Hyundai ionic six and this thing is freaking fantastic it's one number
larger than the ionic 5 and it's a little bit smaller as well let's have a
look first up the looks I absolutely love it but when I first saw it my
feelings were a bit more tepid over the week though it has really grown on me
what I find it's interesting is that it is very controversial looking but the
bits that everybody likes and dislikes are different like for instance the
rivian lots of people hated the headlights couldn't stand them whereas
this right here it might be like I don't love the headlights some people really
really like them some people don't like the swoopiness others do it's a real
like I think everyone's gonna love it in three years like honestly now I will
concede that the front of this car is not the best in existence but the design
is very intentional this has a drag
coefficient of 0.21 which is the best of any production
car asterisks now in Europe they have not
actual side mirrors just little cameras and in North America because of
regulations and stuff we get actual side mirrors which brings the drag
coefficient to 0.22 tying it with the
Lucid air and Mercedes-Benz eqs coming around the side we've got rims that will
uh look like every single other rim on the market in 2023 and we also have 20
inch tires now this is the ultimate package so we get two four fives on it
and that actually drops your range by a lot so this is 435 kilometers whereas
it's 509 with the ultimate package so
that gets you 225s and 18 inch rims that
is a massive range hit just for
these guys right here fortunately though the charging is fan
fortunately you don't have to worry too much about range anyway because in
Canada no matter what spec you get you get the 77 kilowatt hour battery and 350
kilowatt fast charging that'll take you from zero to eighty percent in just 18
minutes that'll be absolutely fantastic if you can actually find a 350 kilowatt
charger that works moving around back man she's got a nice arse honor two
spoilers absolutely love it now these
are here of course for aerodynamic reasons but that does not stop it from
looking freaking sick speaking of which this pixelated light bar that goes all
the way across the back just looks fantastic in my opinion also if you want
to get into the trunk just press right there on our ultimate package at least
we have a nice power closing and opening trunk and there's a not a whole lot of
space in here it's not quite what you'd expect from a sedan of this size because
normally like there wouldn't be batteries down there so you'd have a
little bit more depth but at the same time it's more than large enough to just
Chuck most of your stuff and if you really need to you can fold the seats
down one final really cool detail is
that this little antenna GPS chummy right here is actually see-through so
you can have a look at all of the insides I actually know if there's
anything of substance in there besides an antenna so I learned something
there we go yeah that's a not a whole lot of space
right there I guess you can like Chuck a wallet if you want that's about it I
don't even think you could fit an LTT water bottle lttstore.com what's
particularly disappointing is that this is an all-wheel drive model so there's
you know crap and a whole motor in the way but in other regions with the rear
wheel drive only model you get a much larger front but uh not in North America
because reasons oh hopping into the back
seat first of all oh my God I am absolutely soaked this is quite a good
spot to be now the rear seat has the same problem as the front seat where you
have absolute gobs and heaps of leg room
but the Headroom is not so great this is just kind of a flaw with the whole
design of a car like this you have a sedan and then you have all the
batteries along the bottom which just kind of moves the seats up or the floor
up and then you don't have as much Headroom as you would normally have in a
car of this size that said though at six feet I am I'm squeaking it I'm just in
here and it is very comfy but if you're like six one six two you are not gonna
be having a good time back here that said for someone who just Yeet the kids
very good like here we also have charging ports there and even heated
seats if you want to well have a hot butt even though we do have white seats
in here which is not my favorite they've given us black floor mats and the trim
around the door is gray so you're not going to get it messy nearly as quickly
as something like the gb60 hopping into the front seat this is a very very
comfortable spot to be these seats even though they aren't super bolstered or
anything are just very comfortable I
quite like them there is a bit of a problem though if you're tall you're
gonna be hitting your head on the ceiling so solve that I'm leaned back a
little bit further than I would like to be but if you're like an actually taller
person like six three or more you're gonna be doing this kind of a thing it's
it's going to be a little bit strange just driving like this everywhere I do
really wish that the seat would go like maybe an inch or so lower because I
think that would make the sort of more like sporty reclined position that I'm
required to do a little bit more comfortable overall this is just a very
nice and comfortable spot to be and like there are a lot of hard plastics like
this right here very hard but at the same time they've
done the molds in such a way that it looks really really good like they have
just a little bit of Rippling that goes up the side that catches the LED lights
down in the bottom and just such a cool way they also have like all of the
fabrics and stuff just feels so nice like it's Squishy in a way where you're
not going to feel uncomfortable after even four hours in here one thing that
Andy doesn't like is uh the hard plastic right here I still kind of dig it it
reminds me a lot of the Acer Vero laptops that use recycled plastic and
I'm sure that's what this right here is too now the locks and Windows are down
here I'm sure that you get used to it but I haven't in a week but I'm sure you
will but at the same time everything in here it's just a nice spot to sit one
change that I really appreciate compared to the ionic 5 is how they've done this
center console now it is pretty neat how the one the ironic 5 kind of moves
forward and backward if you get the ultimate package but I much prefer this
this Center area I think is just so much more usable than having a gap in between
with nothing there I'm always scared that something's going to roll around
and end up under my brake pedal and I die whereas this right here you check
something in that it's not going to be flipping around the steering wheel looks
pretty funky but also is very functional sure we do have glossy black up here
which kind of sucks but the most important stuff is the rocker and the
knobs which feel and look fantastic also
really like these little pixels here drive mode down there and just overall
it works quite well surprisingly it isn't really obstructing my gauge
cluster which was a really big problem for me in the ionic 5. on the back of
the steering wheel we have some Flappy paddles that allow you to choose how
much regen you want of four different levels the fourth being eye pedal which
is one pedal driving so you don't need to be using your brake to come to a full
stop the problem though is that whenever you switch to park or reverse it turns
eye pedal off so I just leave it on level three and deal with hitting the
brake it's fine but I do really wish that ipedal didn't just disable itself
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for horsepower and torque Hyundai has given us
446 foot-pounds of torque and 320 horsepower which means if you're going
onto a highway like we did right now oh it is pretty freaking quick it's not
insane like some of the electric cars that we've been reviewing but at the
same time it is gosh darn good now you
don't get quite that electric snap back
like gives you a good push but it isn't jarring but then again nothing about
this really is jarring we're going around a corner right now
it handles it well it's not doing anything that you wouldn't expect it to
compared to other electric cars like I don't know how they've made this so
comfortable but we're going over bumps right now it's not crashy at all it
feels like the suspension is just set up well for a sedan which is kind of for
electric cars the biggest praise that you can give it that said for the most
part while I've been driving the ionic six I haven't been thinking about things
like how fast it is or how well it
handles Corners because it just very simply does those things very well in
such a way that you just sort of relax you sort of sit back hang out and just
sort of let the car take you from place to place particularly because it is just
so quiet in here when you're on the highway they have done an exceptional
job with the sound isolation in this just like they did on the Ionic 5. one
thing that I really do not like about this car is that there is a fair bit of
like latency in the gas pedal so even in
the sport mode when you get off the gas it can take a second for it to figure
out what the heck is going on and this can lead to being really difficult to
properly balance the car while in Corners because like off the gas now
we're decelerating it's just it doesn't have that quick connected feel that I
would want and like it's extra annoying because they are electric motors there
is no response time for them it's just simply what Hyundai has decided to tune
in the infotainment in here is great and it's great mostly because it is purely a
vessel for Android auto or apple carplay you just plug in your phone which you do
have to plug in no Wireless Android auto but once it's plugged in it just comes
up here nice big screen it all looks great and it all functions fantastic the
problem is it's a little bit of a reach so everything is sort of out here and I
have to be forward to hit all of it also like we do have climate controls down
here but pretty much all of that is also just done on the top touchscreen like uh
here's the seat heater so you hit that and instead of it you know just changing
your seat heating it brings up a screen for your seat heating it's it's not
terrible like some of the cars have been so that's pretty good one thing this
infotainment does make me really miss though is the dial that you get in
Genesis Vehicles so like this whole thing feels like it's set up to be
operated with a dial and it makes so much more sense when you have one in
your hand like I don't need some fancy Crystal or anything like that just give
me something simple down here that I can turn and go through all of that and I
would be way happier Hyundai that said this is still really quite good it's all
logical and you'll get used to it in a week or two one thing I really like
about the ionic six is just how little wind noise there is in here like it
makes sense the aerodynamics of this car are exceptional but you can just be
going down the highway and it is barely different than where you're just going
down like a 50 kilometer per hour road excellent job there what also really
helps with the feeling of just easily getting to and from work or whatever
destination you have is the sound system it is pretty much as bog standard as you
can get so it's from Bose you have six and a half in the door one inch Tweeter
eight inch sub on the parcel shelf but at the same time they haven't ruined it
around fifty thousand dollars I feel like is the danger zone for sound
systems because sometimes like in here
you get just a very simple setup nothing too fancy and it sounds good other times
you'll get menu factors that try to use really fancy surround stuff or put all
of the bass in the door speakers and they just sort of ruin it by trying to
make it sound better play crab rave
describe the Brave by DragonForce
yeah it's pretty good nothing exceptional but they haven't ruined it
and that's kind of the most important thing I would listen to the sound system
every day just go into and from work like this
pretty good now unfortunately our Labs audio guy wasn't in this week so we
didn't actually get to test it but my ears say it is quite flat but there is a
lot of volume dependent EQ so you get a lot of bass at lower volumes which is
good because the sound of like the road and crap masks it and then as it gets up
it becomes more and more flat and I think somewhere around 80 85 decibels
Maybe it's about Perfect all right let's do an
actual launch oh
it is pretty good one thing I really like about this is that it has enough
power that you can feel very confident when there's like a gap in traffic you
just be like all right you don't have to worry about it putting too much power
down and you like ending up in the ditch or something like that but at the same
time you can just scoot out it's perfect for that of course this being a Hyundai
it has all of the assistance features that you would expect and they all work
really really well like adaptive cruise really good job of just slowing down you
feel confident with it I just sort of let it do its thing even in pretty heavy
traffic also the lane centering is not
quite as good as what you might find in like Mercedes-Benz or BMW but in this
kind of a price tier it is as good as you can get fantastic job there overall
I just really really like this car like we're on a bumpy road right now and it
is not too harsh they have an excellent job of just playing to all of the
strengths of an electric car and really like massaging out a lot of the
downsides it's super comfy it's super quiet and it's just a very pleasant
place to be for like 45 minutes or so as
you go to and from work Andy just said the speed is not intimidating but you
are able to chop on almost everyone and that is a perfect way of putting it like
you can probably make your mom go whoa but it's not gonna like Snap someone's
neck your mom's probably not gonna kid you yeah I should be like instead of
like stop it stop it stop it now the final bit the price it's a very
complicated so in the U.S It lines up almost perfectly with the ionic five but
in Canada it is quite a bit more and this one that we have right here the
ultimate package is 65
000 now that's um a little bit rough but
at the same time this is one of my favorite electric cars that I've ever
driven and for the price probably my
favorite like this is an exceptionally just comfortable nice spot to be with
enough pep to get a little bit of excitement in you so
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