2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Full Review: Stylish and Very Quirky

this is the new 2022 Hyundai ioniq 5. and it's a rather quirky electric vehicle you can tell that it's quirky from the moment you first look at it because the styling is a little unorthodox and there is more Quirk you discover as you poke around further and today I'm going to review the ioniq 5 and show you everything before I get started be sure to check out cars and bids which is my Enthusiast car auction website for cool cars from the modern era now with free listings you can list your cool car for free and auction it on cars and bids and we've had some great sales recently including this E39 BMW M5 brought thirty four thousand dollars this fantastic Audi R8 V10 plus sold for over a hundred and twelve thousand dollars and this wonderful Subaru Impreza WRX STI hatchback brought almost thirty thousand dollars those are excellent cars if you're looking to buy or sell a cool modern Enthusiast car from the 1980s and up cars and bids is the place to do it with daily auctions and great selection at carsandbids.com so let's talk ionic five like I said very quirky fully electric and even though it has kind of a hatchback look this is intended to be a crossover a rival for the Tesla Model Y and Ford Mustang Mach e now pricing starts for around forty thousand dollars in Horsepower ranges from 170 in the base model to 320 in this version with dual motors and all-wheel drive as for driving range Hyundai says base model ionic fives will do about 220 miles of range while the top version is a little bit over 300 and as for the quirks well they're still to come and today I'm going to show you all of them first I'll take you on a thorough tour of the ioniq 5 and show you all of its quirks and features then I'll get it out on the road and drive it and then I'll give it a Doug score all right I'm gonna start the quirks and features the ionic 5 by discussing the way it looks because it looks strange the overall shape of this vehicle is not really that unusual but the lines like this giant diagonal side line the entire side of the car just gives it a very strange and very distinctive shape compared to other electric vehicles and frankly other vehicles in general now I recently reviewed the Kia ev6 which is Kia's version of this car same platform same powertrain same size but the ev6 has a far more traditional look if you want to go weird you go ionic five I will say most of the people I've talked to like the way this looks a lot of Daring car designs are not well accepted but this one has generally been pretty positively received but it certainly is strange now beyond the general weirdness to the shape and the look of the ionic 5 there are also some very strange details like for instance the tail light situation you have a light bar going across the entire rear end and it's pixelated it's made up of these little squares and the light bar itself is rectangular one of the strangest vehicle lighting things I have ever seen in any car you can see when the turn signals come on same deal they blink in large rectangular pixelated form of very very strange look from the tail lights contributing to the strange overall look of this car and if you thought the tail lights were weird how about the running lights up front which are even stranger again squares or at least rectangles these white bricks basically coming towards you and when you turn on the turn signal they flash as orange bricks again very strange this weird sort of pixelated almost 1980s video game look really contributes to the strangeness of the ionic 5. and there's more strange still to discuss on the outside how about the wheel arches that have this sort of cyclone pattern coming out from the wheel very unusual can't just have a normal wheel arch in this bizarre vehicle and how about this color Hyundai calls it cyber teal and I think it's excellent most of the original press photos of the ionic 5 were shown in this gray color but personally I like this better sort of blue sort of green depending on the light very interesting and very unusual which fits with the whole theme of this car frankly and if you want weird on the outside of the ionic 5 we are not done yet let's talk about charging or at least the charge port door which is right here now to open it you tap on these little pixels five of them as you can see arranged in a square of course or you can hold down a button on the key fob which I will you hold that and then the charge door pops open revealing more pixels this time a series of squares arranged in almost like a triangle pattern this shows your charging status when you have the car plugged in and you're charging but the weirdest part of this charging situation is the car comes with an adapter that you can plug in and it has a regular household Outlet on the end meaning that you can use the car to power stuff when you're out doing things for instance right now I will use it to charge my cell phone making the ionic 5 the world's largest portable cell phone charger and frankly the world's most expensive too now I did an earlier video like a preview video with the ionic 5 where I use this adapter to power an air compressor that I used to blow up a beach ball and that's something you can do as well anything that plugs into a household Outlet you can plug it in here and use some of your Ionix charge to power your device or whatever it is anyway you want to close this port you just tap on the pixels on top and it closes up automatically very nice but anyway next we move on to the inside of the ionic 5 which is arguably even weirder than the outside we start on the door sill where you can see it says ionic 5 and there's like a little square of pixels you also have these pixels on the door panel this like long row of pixels and that is only a preview of the weirdness that's to come in this interior now you Prime in and the first thing you notice is this dashboard long and flat it doesn't have any like swoops or Curves or really that much style to it like most modern vehicle dashboards instead very simple very flat and it has two big screens mounted on it you can see a gauge cluster screen directly in front of the steering wheel and then a center infotainment screen now strangely to the left of those screens you have this little pad area looks like a speaker but it isn't it's actually a magnetic panel where you can mount magnets that's what you want if for some reason you want to stick a magnet on your car's dashboard this thought has never occurred to me but if it's occurred to you well the ionic 5 is the car for you because you have a magnetic panel next to your screens now the gauge cluster screen is very bizarre you don't have traditional dials instead you can see it's just weirder which fits perfectly with the rest of to this car you can see a theme going on here you have your speed on one side and the power that you're using over on the other side and again displayed in a rather unorthodox manner one thing I love about this gauge cluster when you change the drive mode sport Eco normal it changes the display but none of the drive modes have a traditional display they all just have their own weird version of the weird cage clusters playing the ionic 5 which is just so perfect but drive modes we're getting ahead of ourselves a little bit let's talk next about the steering wheel which is certainly kind of strange you can see just two spokes in the center sort of flat you have no upper or lower spokes like most cars steering wheels and while that is certainly weird weirder still is the center you don't have the Hyundai logo it doesn't even say ionic 5 instead just four pixels again you can kind of see a theme here now coming off the steering wheel bottom left you have this little circle dial this is your drive mode selector and it's actually not a dial it's a button you push that to change between your different Drive modes also on the steering wheel you have these little panels and switches which control various functions like in most cars like your stereo that sort of thing here they also control your driver assist system which works fantastically it's really really excellent it will steer for you break for you and accelerate for you and it does a great job of all of those things very simple very easy to use and great benefit the steering wheel is capacitive touch meaning that you don't have to like jiggle it to let the car know that you're paying attention you can just rest your hand on it and that's all the input that it needs couple little drawbacks one capacitive touch wheel actually requires a little bit more of a grip than I would like you can't just put your hand on it you kind of have to grab and also this system will change lanes for you which is excellent put on your signal and it will change lanes most Vehicles don't offer that at this price point the problem is it's unbelievably conservative you put on your signal and it flashes like seven times before it even begins to make a lane change which is just disappointing it works but you could do it faster you yourself and I suspect most drivers probably will but moving on to more quirks of this interior another one is the gear selector coming off the steering column down here which you can see is rather strange looking and the operation is strange as well in order to get it into drive you twist the end of the gear selector upwards and then you're in D for reverse you twist the end downwards and then you're in R neutral is in the middle and if you want to go into park there's a big p button at the end of the stock you press that and then you're in park rather strange and frankly it just looks like a big turn signal or wiper stock coming off the column but that's actually your gear selector now speaking of the turn signal and wiper stocks I must say I love that they have these little silver caps on the end it's a really fantastic touch so many of these stocks are cheap crappy plastic which is annoying because you touch it all the time but automakers that really pay attention to detail will put on like a little silver cap like this in the spot where you touch and that way it feels more premium which I love to see here it really is good attention to detail then by the way speaking of the stocks the turn signal stock has a fantastic function you turn on the turn signal and simultaneously a camera pops up in the gauge cluster showing your blind spot which makes Lane changing tremendously easy to do and it works on both sides shows exactly what they are high resolution a really really good feature that a lot of Hyundai and Kia models have and frankly I wish a lot of other cars had it too it's fantastically useful but anyways speaking of screens let's move on to the center screen the infotainment screen in this car which is pretty good it's excellent it's very large very wide and it's intuitive it's easy to use it responds quickly to your touch all those things are important to make systems like this good and it has it it also has the ability to display multiple things at once so you can have like the map and the radio in one screen meaning you don't have to go between screens to make adjustments which is nice to see and not all cars offer that also another thing I love about the infotainment system is the surround view k camera or the perimeter camera whatever you want to call it this thing that like monitors the car from the outside you can position it exactly where you want like a little hovering helicopter showing precisely what's around you makes parking really easy driving in tight spaces fantastic great resolution one of the best of these cameras I've seen there are however a few drawbacks to this infotainment system one is that the home screen is just not very good you can see it here and they clearly went with more of an artistic approach rather than a functional one and it doesn't give a lot of great info or allow you to make any real adjustments on the home screen you have to swipe over to the menu screen in order to actually really do much also another drawback of this infotainment system is they've integrated the heated seat control into the screen and accessing it is surprisingly difficult in order to turn on your heated seat in this car you first have to press this warmer button in the climate controls below the screen and then that pops up like your heated seat controls and from there you then turn on the heated seat it's a two-step process in this car some Vehicles integrate the heated seat into the screen but it's always sitting there you just tap it not here you gotta go through two steps and it's just not that good same deal with the heated steering wheel First Press warmer and then you can go and actually turn on your heated steering wheel I wish they hadn't done it that way and frankly they didn't have to The Climate controls as you can see are separate from the screen below which is a good thing very nice easy to use but there's space there where they could have put the heated seat and steering wheel controls but they chose not to and put it in the screen instead especially disappointing because the Kia ev6 which like I said is Kia's version of this car basically it has distinctive buttons in the center console for the heated seats in the steering wheel you just tap them and they're on no going into the screen for that stuff but anyway next I want to move on to more interesting interior quirks and there are many for one thing you have this strange pattern on these speakers on the door you can see here tiny little speakers with this odd pattern and that pattern is carried on to other places for instance the center console storage area the surface at the bottom also has this bizarre and unusual pattern as you can see and it's the same deal with the base of the cup holders again this rather strange rather quirky pattern to go along with the crookiness of this vehicle now speaking of the center console should be pointed out this can move forward or backward you reach your hand sort of under the cup holders and then you can move it forward or backward depending on like what's most comfortable or most convenient for you can't move far but it can move a little bit which I guess is kind of useful and rather interesting also worth noting about the center console you have a wireless phone charger in here which is of course nice to have and you have a couple of USB ports it's rather strange to see USB a ports in this car instead of USBC this futuristic weird Advanced Hyundai doesn't have the latest in USB technology but at least there are ports and by the way let's talk seats for a second you see the little pixels in the leather integrated into the design kind of quirky and interesting same deal with the pixels on the back rest here right below the headrest more pixels for this very pixel themed vehicle and also with the seats rather interesting kind of notable is this you can see here this is a lower leg support I guess or like a thigh support and you can extend it somewhat far out maybe for extra Comfort on road trips although it doesn't come far enough to really support your thighs and I'm not sure exactly how it would help your lower legs but it's there in case you want it for some reason but anyway next we move on to the back seat in the ionic five and I gotta say it is huge back here impressively massive I have the front passenger seat about where I would sit and I have a ton of space back here it really is big and this is a big advantage to an electric vehicle because you don't have a massive engine up front to take up space so you can move the wheels further forward and thus create a larger passenger compartment which is exactly what they've done here big up front and big in back as especially for a vehicle this size although even compared to other EVS this has more rear seat space more than model y more than id4 more than Mach e it really is an impressively large back seat with that said not an especially quirky back seat you don't have climate controls back here just a little bit of a disappointment although you do have climate vents which is nice and you have more USB ports in back which is of course also nice I also like to see the sun shades built into the rear doors just pull on this tab and then you can clip them into place to block out like an infant from the Sun nice to see and there are a few rear seat quirks that are brought back from the front for instance the little pixels on the door panel as you can see and little pixels on the door sill as well just a reminder of the weird and quirky vehicle that you're in but anyway next up we move on to the cargo area and the ioniq 5 you pop open the tailgate you can see the cargo area which is I would say okay it's not especially huge it's deep it goes pretty far back but it's not very low and also the sloping roof design the ionic 5 certainly robs space for larger or taller items so you get good practicality back here but not huge now it's worth noting you can get more cargo room if you remove the floor the load floor actually pulls out completely which gives you a larger space back here and that's nice or you can keep the floor in place and then you have like a space where you can put smaller items underneath the floor if you don't want them rolling around in the general cargo area but that's what the cargo area is like in the ionic 5. and next up if you're interested in more cargo space you can get it up front there's a little additional cargo compartment up here now to access this front panel there's a latch in the driver footwell just like a hood latch in most Vehicles you pull that it pops open and then you can open it up the rest of the way and reveal this this big plastic box that says EV on it yes reminding you that this car is Electric in case you couldn't figure it out since you were accessing a cargo compartment where the engine should be but anyway you open up the EV box and you can see a little compartment up here not very big not very deep doesn't have room for a lot of stuff but but you can put your charging cables and that sort of thing up here if you don't want them taking up space in the back now since we are up front let's talk about powertrains with this vehicle there are three different horsepower options with the ionic 5. base model is rear wheel drive with 170 horsepower that version isn't out yet but when it comes out soon it'll cost around forty thousand dollars next up on the model line is the mid-tier version which has 225 horsepower and also rear wheel drive this starts around 45 46 000 and it has the longest range of any of the ionic 5 models a little over 300 miles on a charge which is pretty good if you want all-wheel drive or if you want extra power you got to step up to this one the top power version in the range this has 320 horsepower which is pretty healthy and like I said all-wheel drive thanks to dual motors although it has slightly less range than the middle version it's about 260 miles of range pretty good but not exceptional in this segment but 320 horses is pretty strong and it sends us from 0 to 60 in the low five second range which is a pretty good performance number for like a little mid-size compact crossover one of the reasons for that great acceleration number is the torque figure if you get the 320 horsepower model you also get 450 pound-feet of torque which is real performance car levels now speaking of the battery in the power Trans in this vehicle I do want to talk charging for a second because one of the benefits of the ionic 5 is fast charging Hyundai says if you can find a charger capable of it it can go from 10 to 80 percent charged in under 20 minutes that is a really exceptional figure can basically add most of its chargeback under 20 minutes not really all that long so that's another good benefit the Onyx five it can charge a lot faster than most of its Rivals if you can find the right charger and so those are the quirks and features of the new Hyundai ioniq 5. now it's time to get it out on the road and see how it drives all right driving the ionic five now I did do like a little preview video before with the ionic 5 but I didn't have the chance to drive it or get quite as in depth as I did in this video it was like a pre-production car not everything was functional but now I am here I am driving the ionic 5 and it drives fine actually the quirks and features is probably the most interesting part of this car the way that it drives is less interesting and I say that even in spite of the fact that it has 320 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque those are really substantial numbers and yet it's just not as thrilling as some other vehicles when you floor it pretty quick especially from zero it's quick this car does have a little bit of a it's not that fast when you're in the mid-range I'm actually surprised by you press your foot down at 60 and it feels quick but not like insanely fast or exceptionally fast or anything like that but it's relatively fast when you floor it from a stop the real problem though is steering and handling it's not a problem steering and handling is not as good as like what you'd expect from like a performance vehicle the Ford Mustang Maki just drives better it's more engaging more exciting more thrilling more fun to drive and I think that that's just sort of a truth this car isn't necessarily pitched that way though so it's not necessarily a bad thing about it it's not intended to be like a high performance electric crossover it's just like an electric Crossover with some power and so just like model y it feels relatively quick from a stop but not particularly like exciting or thrilling in terms of handling but with that said there are some great benefits about the ionic 5 in terms of the Driving Experience for one thing it's nice and quiet in here it feels you don't hear my much going on the outside which is nice and a lot of people like that about Vehicles it also sits up higher than you might think which was also true the Kia ev6 on the outside these look like little hatchbacks but when you're sitting inside it it doesn't feel like that has kind of a crossover field now it doesn't sit as high as some crossovers or SUVs it certainly doesn't but it sits higher than like sedans and that sort of thing and I think that's what a lot of Shoppers are interested in is just sitting up a little bit higher it doesn't have like a full High seating position but given the way that it looks on the outside it has more of like an SUV kind of feel to it than you might expect it's also relatively comfortable in here now it's no like high-end super crazy luxury car but it's nice and comfortable the seats are comfortable the ride is compliant and soft it feels good truthfully though the real thing about the ioniq 5 is it's weird on the outside it's weird on the inside but the Driving Experience is kind of ho-hum and that's sort of the point of this vehicle it's not really intended to be some crazy car Enthusiast car it's I think for people who want to stand out want an electric car that's a little different a little weird a little special but not necessarily people who are going to focus on like steering handling acceleration characteristics like car enthusiasts might and I'll tell you it does stand out this is a weird interesting and quirky vehicle and I think for people who you know electric cars in general are a little sort of weird and on the frontier and this car takes it to a different dimension and strange and I think there's going to be a lot of EV Shoppers who like that even though this may not offer like the most engaging or thrilling Driving Experience and so that's the Hyundai ioniq 5. this is a very interesting and unusual vehicle to be sure but there's a lot to like here good technology great interior room surprisingly decent performance and styling that's well unorthodox but it's generally been well received if you're looking for an electric crossover this one should certainly be on your list and now it's time to give the ionic 5 a Doug's score and the dog score is here 65 out of 100 which places the ionic 5 here against other electric Rivals the ionic 5 beats out its sibling the Kia ev6 by two points the Hyundai is better looking and frankly cooler and it wins on those merits but more impressively the ionic 5 is tied the Mustang Mach e which is an excellent gold standard in this segment both cars are exciting and high tech the Maki is a bit more engaging to drive but the Hyundai has a cooler look but both cars make me more excited about the electric car future [Music]

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Published: Tue Mar 29 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/pryan886]

The headlight and taillight design is very 1980s. The rectangular headlamps and pixelated taillights specifically remind me of DeLoreans, Camaros, and Porsche 944s.

[u/madevilfish]

I saw one of these in person. It looks very good and I am all about the styling. But it is a larger car than photos of it suggest.

Hyundai, please say you are coming out with an N version even though that's a silly thing to do.

[u/andrew_a7]

Doug using an Anker cable…man of culture

[u/[deleted]]

This is a CUV? I deadass thought this was a hatchback 💀

[u/pryan886]

The long wheelbase enabled by a battery-electric powertrain gives a lot of these new EV “crossovers” hatchback-like proportions. And I like it. I personally think this is way more stylish than the Fiat 500L or Mini Cooper Countryman which look like inflated versions of their inspiration. I’m excited to see the new and unique ways designers make use of these new architectures.

[u/doug910]

u/Doug-Demuro, you opened the trunk storage compartment and there was another handle in there that said “open”. What does it open?? I’m dying to know!

[u/biggsteve81]

Two things

1) The "thigh support" is a leg rest for when you are charging. The whole seat will lay back like a recliner.

2) How on earth does the Model Y Performance have a higher "Cool Factor" score than the Model 3 Performance? A fast crossover is not exactly "cool."

[u/nukelauncher95]

I love this car's styling. Although I'm already a Hyundai fan, I honestly have to say this is the best looking car they've ever made. Nothing they've previously made has ever looked amazing, but this does. And I agree with Doug that the blue/teal color is perfect and the color I'd have it in. I think retro futuristic styling is the absolute best thing happening in the car industry. I hope more brands go forward with styling like this. A few things I'm not crazy about are the wheels, but of course that's for aerodynamics. I also don't like the gauge cluster and infotainment display. They should have made one giant screen or significantly shrink the bezels.

I will be in the market for an EV pretty soon, but I just can't justify spending so much on something that isn't a Tesla and it pains me to say that because I don't even like Teslas that much. If I were to own an EV as my olny vehicle, Tesla is the only practical option. If I were to buy another brand's EV, I'd have to keep my Elantra for long distance trips.

Other brands need batteries as big as if not bigger than Tesla's since nationwide fast charging for non-Tesa vehicles is such a convoluted mess.

[u/limitless__]

Of all the strange shit Doug has seen over the years I'm not sure why he's so hung up on the square pixel design detail. It's really not that outlandish?