1 00:00:00,079 --> 00:00:05,700 holy sexy sedans Batman we've got the 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:10,800 Hyundai ionic six and this thing is freaking fantastic it's one number 3 00:00:08,340 --> 00:00:15,299 larger than the ionic 5 and it's a little bit smaller as well let's have a 4 00:00:13,139 --> 00:00:19,980 look first up the looks I absolutely love it but when I first saw it my 5 00:00:17,940 --> 00:00:24,900 feelings were a bit more tepid over the week though it has really grown on me 6 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:30,480 what I find it's interesting is that it is very controversial looking but the 7 00:00:28,439 --> 00:00:34,320 bits that everybody likes and dislikes are different like for instance the 8 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:38,040 rivian lots of people hated the headlights couldn't stand them whereas 9 00:00:36,180 --> 00:00:41,820 this right here it might be like I don't love the headlights some people really 10 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:47,219 really like them some people don't like the swoopiness others do it's a real 11 00:00:44,579 --> 00:00:50,640 like I think everyone's gonna love it in three years like honestly now I will 12 00:00:49,079 --> 00:00:55,980 concede that the front of this car is not the best in existence but the design 13 00:00:52,860 --> 00:00:58,039 is very intentional this has a drag 14 00:00:55,980 --> 00:01:03,440 coefficient of 0.21 which is the best of any production 15 00:01:01,739 --> 00:01:09,180 car asterisks now in Europe they have not 16 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:13,619 actual side mirrors just little cameras and in North America because of 17 00:01:11,340 --> 00:01:18,420 regulations and stuff we get actual side mirrors which brings the drag 18 00:01:14,820 --> 00:01:21,180 coefficient to 0.22 tying it with the 19 00:01:18,420 --> 00:01:26,100 Lucid air and Mercedes-Benz eqs coming around the side we've got rims that will 20 00:01:23,820 --> 00:01:31,500 uh look like every single other rim on the market in 2023 and we also have 20 21 00:01:29,159 --> 00:01:35,579 inch tires now this is the ultimate package so we get two four fives on it 22 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:42,720 and that actually drops your range by a lot so this is 435 kilometers whereas 23 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:46,200 it's 509 with the ultimate package so 24 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:49,259 that gets you 225s and 18 inch rims that 25 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:51,899 is a massive range hit just for 26 00:01:49,259 --> 00:01:57,119 these guys right here fortunately though the charging is fan 27 00:01:55,380 --> 00:02:01,680 fortunately you don't have to worry too much about range anyway because in 28 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:07,740 Canada no matter what spec you get you get the 77 kilowatt hour battery and 350 29 00:02:05,340 --> 00:02:12,720 kilowatt fast charging that'll take you from zero to eighty percent in just 18 30 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:17,520 minutes that'll be absolutely fantastic if you can actually find a 350 kilowatt 31 00:02:15,180 --> 00:02:23,819 charger that works moving around back man she's got a nice arse honor two 32 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:25,800 spoilers absolutely love it now these 33 00:02:23,819 --> 00:02:30,180 are here of course for aerodynamic reasons but that does not stop it from 34 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:34,319 looking freaking sick speaking of which this pixelated light bar that goes all 35 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:38,040 the way across the back just looks fantastic in my opinion also if you want 36 00:02:36,660 --> 00:02:42,720 to get into the trunk just press right there on our ultimate package at least 37 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:47,459 we have a nice power closing and opening trunk and there's a not a whole lot of 38 00:02:45,180 --> 00:02:50,879 space in here it's not quite what you'd expect from a sedan of this size because 39 00:02:49,260 --> 00:02:54,300 normally like there wouldn't be batteries down there so you'd have a 40 00:02:52,500 --> 00:02:58,379 little bit more depth but at the same time it's more than large enough to just 41 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:03,000 Chuck most of your stuff and if you really need to you can fold the seats 42 00:02:59,819 --> 00:03:05,459 down one final really cool detail is 43 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:09,120 that this little antenna GPS chummy right here is actually see-through so 44 00:03:07,379 --> 00:03:12,959 you can have a look at all of the insides I actually know if there's 45 00:03:10,739 --> 00:03:18,360 anything of substance in there besides an antenna so I learned something 46 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:23,400 there we go yeah that's a not a whole lot of space 47 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:26,879 right there I guess you can like Chuck a wallet if you want that's about it I 48 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:31,739 don't even think you could fit an LTT water bottle lttstore.com what's 49 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:35,879 particularly disappointing is that this is an all-wheel drive model so there's 50 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:40,200 you know crap and a whole motor in the way but in other regions with the rear 51 00:03:38,340 --> 00:03:48,599 wheel drive only model you get a much larger front but uh not in North America 52 00:03:43,980 --> 00:03:50,340 because reasons oh hopping into the back 53 00:03:48,599 --> 00:03:54,060 seat first of all oh my God I am absolutely soaked this is quite a good 54 00:03:51,959 --> 00:03:59,280 spot to be now the rear seat has the same problem as the front seat where you 55 00:03:55,860 --> 00:04:02,159 have absolute gobs and heaps of leg room 56 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:06,540 but the Headroom is not so great this is just kind of a flaw with the whole 57 00:04:04,260 --> 00:04:09,900 design of a car like this you have a sedan and then you have all the 58 00:04:07,799 --> 00:04:13,739 batteries along the bottom which just kind of moves the seats up or the floor 59 00:04:11,939 --> 00:04:18,120 up and then you don't have as much Headroom as you would normally have in a 60 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:23,880 car of this size that said though at six feet I am I'm squeaking it I'm just in 61 00:04:21,479 --> 00:04:28,080 here and it is very comfy but if you're like six one six two you are not gonna 62 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:31,860 be having a good time back here that said for someone who just Yeet the kids 63 00:04:29,759 --> 00:04:36,660 very good like here we also have charging ports there and even heated 64 00:04:34,139 --> 00:04:41,460 seats if you want to well have a hot butt even though we do have white seats 65 00:04:39,060 --> 00:04:46,320 in here which is not my favorite they've given us black floor mats and the trim 66 00:04:43,740 --> 00:04:50,340 around the door is gray so you're not going to get it messy nearly as quickly 67 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:55,500 as something like the gb60 hopping into the front seat this is a very very 68 00:04:52,919 --> 00:05:00,419 comfortable spot to be these seats even though they aren't super bolstered or 69 00:04:57,419 --> 00:05:02,280 anything are just very comfortable I 70 00:05:00,419 --> 00:05:05,940 quite like them there is a bit of a problem though if you're tall you're 71 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:10,380 gonna be hitting your head on the ceiling so solve that I'm leaned back a 72 00:05:08,699 --> 00:05:14,520 little bit further than I would like to be but if you're like an actually taller 73 00:05:12,780 --> 00:05:19,620 person like six three or more you're gonna be doing this kind of a thing it's 74 00:05:17,699 --> 00:05:24,300 it's going to be a little bit strange just driving like this everywhere I do 75 00:05:22,380 --> 00:05:28,320 really wish that the seat would go like maybe an inch or so lower because I 76 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:33,120 think that would make the sort of more like sporty reclined position that I'm 77 00:05:31,259 --> 00:05:38,039 required to do a little bit more comfortable overall this is just a very 78 00:05:35,759 --> 00:05:41,699 nice and comfortable spot to be and like there are a lot of hard plastics like 79 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:45,780 this right here very hard but at the same time they've 80 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:49,800 done the molds in such a way that it looks really really good like they have 81 00:05:47,820 --> 00:05:54,180 just a little bit of Rippling that goes up the side that catches the LED lights 82 00:05:52,020 --> 00:05:58,680 down in the bottom and just such a cool way they also have like all of the 83 00:05:56,039 --> 00:06:03,600 fabrics and stuff just feels so nice like it's Squishy in a way where you're 84 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:09,000 not going to feel uncomfortable after even four hours in here one thing that 85 00:06:06,419 --> 00:06:12,960 Andy doesn't like is uh the hard plastic right here I still kind of dig it it 86 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:16,860 reminds me a lot of the Acer Vero laptops that use recycled plastic and 87 00:06:15,180 --> 00:06:20,820 I'm sure that's what this right here is too now the locks and Windows are down 88 00:06:19,199 --> 00:06:25,740 here I'm sure that you get used to it but I haven't in a week but I'm sure you 89 00:06:23,039 --> 00:06:29,940 will but at the same time everything in here it's just a nice spot to sit one 90 00:06:28,380 --> 00:06:33,840 change that I really appreciate compared to the ionic 5 is how they've done this 91 00:06:31,979 --> 00:06:36,660 center console now it is pretty neat how the one the ironic 5 kind of moves 92 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:41,160 forward and backward if you get the ultimate package but I much prefer this 93 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:44,940 this Center area I think is just so much more usable than having a gap in between 94 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:48,240 with nothing there I'm always scared that something's going to roll around 95 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,660 and end up under my brake pedal and I die whereas this right here you check 96 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:55,919 something in that it's not going to be flipping around the steering wheel looks 97 00:06:53,639 --> 00:07:00,360 pretty funky but also is very functional sure we do have glossy black up here 98 00:06:58,259 --> 00:07:06,300 which kind of sucks but the most important stuff is the rocker and the 99 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,740 knobs which feel and look fantastic also 100 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:13,259 really like these little pixels here drive mode down there and just overall 101 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:16,740 it works quite well surprisingly it isn't really obstructing my gauge 102 00:07:14,940 --> 00:07:20,220 cluster which was a really big problem for me in the ionic 5. on the back of 103 00:07:18,780 --> 00:07:23,699 the steering wheel we have some Flappy paddles that allow you to choose how 104 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:28,860 much regen you want of four different levels the fourth being eye pedal which 105 00:07:26,220 --> 00:07:32,580 is one pedal driving so you don't need to be using your brake to come to a full 106 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:37,259 stop the problem though is that whenever you switch to park or reverse it turns 107 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:41,580 eye pedal off so I just leave it on level three and deal with hitting the 108 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:46,199 brake it's fine but I do really wish that ipedal didn't just disable itself 109 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:51,660 all the time I think this is where we finally go and drive it but first a word 110 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:55,080 from our sponsor Vistaprint thanks to Vistaprint for sponsoring this video are 111 00:07:53,639 --> 00:07:58,500 you looking to print some personalized products with your own design or logo 112 00:07:56,639 --> 00:08:01,620 Vistaprint can help with that it's as simple as uploading Your Design 113 00:07:59,699 --> 00:08:05,759 selecting your product and checking out you can even create your own designs 114 00:08:03,479 --> 00:08:08,880 with their online easy to use tools have an idea but aren't much of an artist 115 00:08:07,020 --> 00:08:12,360 their professional designers will help you bring 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expect it to 126 00:08:53,220 --> 00:08:59,279 compared to other electric cars like I don't know how they've made this so 127 00:08:56,399 --> 00:09:03,540 comfortable but we're going over bumps right now it's not crashy at all it 128 00:09:01,140 --> 00:09:08,339 feels like the suspension is just set up well for a sedan which is kind of for 129 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:12,120 electric cars the biggest praise that you can give it that said for the most 130 00:09:10,260 --> 00:09:17,760 part while I've been driving the ionic six I haven't been thinking about things 131 00:09:14,220 --> 00:09:20,580 like how fast it is or how well it 132 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:24,660 handles Corners because it just very simply does those things very well in 133 00:09:22,740 --> 00:09:30,660 such a way that you just sort of relax you sort of sit back hang out and just 134 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:34,980 sort of let the car take you from place to place particularly because it is just 135 00:09:32,820 --> 00:09:38,820 so quiet in here when you're on the highway they have done an exceptional 136 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:43,019 job with the sound isolation in this just like they did on the Ionic 5. one 137 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:49,200 thing that I really do not like about this car is that there is a fair bit of 138 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:51,839 like latency in the gas pedal so even in 139 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:56,399 the sport mode when you get off the gas it can take a second for it to figure 140 00:09:53,880 --> 00:10:00,240 out what the heck is going on and this can lead to being really difficult to 141 00:09:58,620 --> 00:10:05,700 properly balance the car while in Corners because like off the gas now 142 00:10:03,420 --> 00:10:09,540 we're decelerating it's just it doesn't have that quick connected feel that I 143 00:10:07,860 --> 00:10:14,339 would want and like it's extra annoying because they are electric motors there 144 00:10:11,580 --> 00:10:19,500 is no response time for them it's just simply what Hyundai has decided to tune 145 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:24,060 in the infotainment in here is great and it's great mostly because it is purely a 146 00:10:21,660 --> 00:10:28,920 vessel for Android auto or apple carplay you just plug in your phone which you do 147 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:33,000 have to plug in no Wireless Android auto but once it's plugged in it just comes 148 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:38,820 up here nice big screen it all looks great and it all functions fantastic the 149 00:10:36,060 --> 00:10:44,700 problem is it's a little bit of a reach so everything is sort of out here and I 150 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:48,839 have to be forward to hit all of it also like we do have climate controls down 151 00:10:46,740 --> 00:10:52,980 here but pretty much all of that is also just done on the top touchscreen like uh 152 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:57,360 here's the seat heater so you hit that and instead of it you know just changing 153 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:01,500 your seat heating it brings up a screen for your seat heating it's it's not 154 00:10:59,459 --> 00:11:05,459 terrible like some of the cars have been so that's pretty good one thing this 155 00:11:03,779 --> 00:11:10,260 infotainment does make me really miss though is the dial that you get in 156 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:14,700 Genesis Vehicles so like this whole thing feels like it's set up to be 157 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:18,959 operated with a dial and it makes so much more sense when you have one in 158 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:23,220 your hand like I don't need some fancy Crystal or anything like that just give 159 00:11:21,420 --> 00:11:27,779 me something simple down here that I can turn and go through all of that and I 160 00:11:25,140 --> 00:11:32,459 would be way happier Hyundai that said this is still really quite good it's all 161 00:11:29,940 --> 00:11:37,320 logical and you'll get used to it in a week or two one thing I really like 162 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:41,940 about the ionic six is just how little wind noise there is in here like it 163 00:11:39,959 --> 00:11:46,800 makes sense the aerodynamics of this car are exceptional but you can just be 164 00:11:43,980 --> 00:11:50,600 going down the highway and it is barely different than where you're just going 165 00:11:48,300 --> 00:11:56,579 down like a 50 kilometer per hour road excellent job there what also really 166 00:11:53,760 --> 00:12:01,260 helps with the feeling of just easily getting to and from work or whatever 167 00:11:58,740 --> 00:12:07,380 destination you have is the sound system it is pretty much as bog standard as you 168 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:11,640 can get so it's from Bose you have six and a half in the door one inch Tweeter 169 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:16,560 eight inch sub on the parcel shelf but at the same time they haven't ruined it 170 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:21,899 around fifty thousand dollars I feel like is the danger zone for sound 171 00:12:18,899 --> 00:12:24,420 systems because sometimes like in here 172 00:12:21,899 --> 00:12:29,160 you get just a very simple setup nothing too fancy and it sounds good other times 173 00:12:27,180 --> 00:12:34,260 you'll get menu factors that try to use really fancy surround stuff or put all 174 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:39,540 of the bass in the door speakers and they just sort of ruin it by trying to 175 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:43,400 make it sound better play crab rave 176 00:12:39,540 --> 00:12:50,359 describe the Brave by DragonForce 177 00:12:53,779 --> 00:13:01,079 yeah it's pretty good nothing exceptional but they haven't ruined it 178 00:12:59,339 --> 00:13:05,579 and that's kind of the most important thing I would listen to the sound system 179 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:10,560 every day just go into and from work like this 180 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:15,240 pretty good now unfortunately our Labs audio guy wasn't in this week so we 181 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:21,120 didn't actually get to test it but my ears say it is quite flat but there is a 182 00:13:18,420 --> 00:13:25,260 lot of volume dependent EQ so you get a lot of bass at lower volumes which is 183 00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:29,880 good because the sound of like the road and crap masks it and then as it gets up 184 00:13:27,959 --> 00:13:33,180 it becomes more and more flat and I think somewhere around 80 85 decibels 185 00:13:32,279 --> 00:13:37,320 Maybe it's about Perfect all right let's do an 186 00:13:35,579 --> 00:13:41,760 actual launch oh 187 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:46,079 it is pretty good one thing I really like about this is that it has enough 188 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:50,160 power that you can feel very confident when there's like a gap in traffic you 189 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:53,519 just be like all right you don't have to worry about it putting too much power 190 00:13:51,660 --> 00:13:58,079 down and you like ending up in the ditch or something like that but at the same 191 00:13:55,560 --> 00:14:03,000 time you can just scoot out it's perfect for that of course this being a Hyundai 192 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:07,639 it has all of the assistance features that you would expect and they all work 193 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:13,260 really really well like adaptive cruise really good job of just slowing down you 194 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:19,019 feel confident with it I just sort of let it do its thing even in pretty heavy 195 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:21,360 traffic also the lane centering is not 196 00:14:19,019 --> 00:14:26,579 quite as good as what you might find in like Mercedes-Benz or BMW but in this 197 00:14:24,180 --> 00:14:32,339 kind of a price tier it is as good as you can get fantastic job there overall 198 00:14:29,579 --> 00:14:37,260 I just really really like this car like we're on a bumpy road right now and it 199 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:41,760 is not too harsh they have an excellent job of just playing to all of the 200 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:46,740 strengths of an electric car and really like massaging out a lot of the 201 00:14:44,279 --> 00:14:52,440 downsides it's super comfy it's super quiet and it's just a very pleasant 202 00:14:48,660 --> 00:14:54,899 place to be for like 45 minutes or so as 203 00:14:52,440 --> 00:15:00,540 you go to and from work Andy just said the speed is not intimidating but you 204 00:14:57,959 --> 00:15:05,399 are able to chop on almost everyone and that is a perfect way of putting it like 205 00:15:02,699 --> 00:15:09,839 you can probably make your mom go whoa but it's not gonna like Snap someone's 206 00:15:07,620 --> 00:15:14,100 neck your mom's probably not gonna kid you yeah I should be like instead of 207 00:15:11,940 --> 00:15:22,320 like stop it stop it stop it now the final bit the price it's a very 208 00:15:19,380 --> 00:15:28,139 complicated so in the U.S It lines up almost perfectly with the ionic five but 209 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:32,699 in Canada it is quite a bit more and this one that we have right here the 210 00:15:29,699 --> 00:15:36,180 ultimate package is 65 211 00:15:32,699 --> 00:15:38,880 000 now that's um a little bit rough but 212 00:15:36,180 --> 00:15:43,500 at the same time this is one of my favorite electric cars that I've ever 213 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:45,779 driven and for the price probably my 214 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:51,740 favorite like this is an exceptionally just comfortable nice spot to be with 215 00:15:48,779 --> 00:15:56,220 enough pep to get a little bit of excitement in you so 216 00:15:54,540 --> 00:16:00,120 huge thanks for watching hit like get subscribed and maybe let us know down 217 00:15:58,199 --> 00:16:06,500 below what else you want to see cheaper cars more expensive cars just have a 218 00:16:03,180 --> 00:16:06,500 Fantastical day see you later