2022 Hyundai IONIQ 5 Review // Full Of Surprises

it's cool that's a lot of freedom no it is cool i will say that but obviously blinds you you're actually you're actually considering it though like you i i can tell you actually it's definitely it's a weird move for sure but it's electric it's comfy you're gonna give up an audi s4 for this this ride's better that's true and it's almost as quick what about what about the crew the boys right the audi crew you know yeah what about them not like the bmw bunch they're much more understanding like they'll get that this is it still looks good first of all the audi s4 isn't going anywhere someone else will buy it someone else will benefit from it james what's that there's a thing it's a thing yeah you got bogey you're watching throttle house i'm thomas and i'm james [Music] and this is the hyundai ioniq 5. it's easy for the expensive evs to grab attention a thousand horsepower this two seconds to 60 that honestly who gives a split if they are all totally unaffordable the ioniq 5 alongside some of its ford and kia and vw peers is attempting to champion a relatively affordable electric solution starting at 45 grand canadian and fully loaded at 60 before rebates it might just be the funkiest most spacious most sensible ev purchase this side of a tesla model y and you know what that has us very excited so let's find out if it is if you're new to farmhouse we do car reviews track tests and quite a lot of messing around so subscribe and hit the bell okay in the ionic five now this is the all-wheel drive big battery motor in the front motor in the back setup so even though you lose some range with the all-wheel drive i think it's 414 kilometers instead of 488 which is the rear wheel drive big battery it's pretty quick this has 320 horsepower 448 pound-feet of torque and if i switch it from eco to normal to sport the cluster goes red the speakers down there go red and i put my foot on the brake form the accelerator and it launches me to 60 miles an hour in the same amount of time as a golf gti a new golf gti it weighs about a thousand pounds more that makes this an actually quick vehicle and even though range is the goal i'm seeing right now in sport mode i have 199 miles until it's empty and i actually get an extra four miles it graciously tells me i get an extra four miles if i don't use air conditioning and that gets better if i switch it back to eco it goes to 211 and 215. but yeah if i don't use aircon i get more range but i will turn up to the next place it's a soggy sweaty mess it might actually be an improvement in sport mode they've kind of made it more aggressive the steering gets heavier the throttle gets more aggressive i floor it it throws me back it's still smooth we're not talking about groud jewels of power don't know if that's a word but it's very quick and it's very smooth but most of the time realistically you're going to be driving this in eco because even though it isn't range anxiety inducing range i still feel like i need to make it last as long as possible a familiar goal immediately upon getting in this car everything's easy it's familiar you're going to drive and you just drive there's no learning curve to the way this drives it in that way the electric cars kind of always feel a bit like a toy because there's nothing to get used to there's just this perfectly immediate level of torque and then you can just ride it to the speed you want or you can use regenerative braking and you can change that with the paddles here and i can make it more aggressive so i'm now in my pedal which is basically one pedal driving so it breaks the moment i come off the thing but you can be in level three or level two and kind of make it less aggressive i'm ready to move to electric for my daily this is not going to match the fun of my mazda miata but as far as a daily have you ever filled up a car at a gas station in -25 as your handshake i don't want that throughout the whole winter and i really have loved the look of this and everything i've heard about it's been very exciting so driving it now this is gonna be interesting it doesn't matter what mode you're in if you floor it there's no exciting acceleration sound they've kind of just gone with the nor it's kind of like a tesla model 3 it just goes and they've done what they can to reduce the road noise and the wind noise they they've they boast that on a decibel meter it's slightly quieter than a model y i mean it's just it just feels the same it feels the same even with the special tyres and the special dampers and the carpet thing that they've done for acoustics it is a perfectly acceptable sound for a car of this price range i can take a phone call no problem and if i want to listen to music this is optioned with the fancy bose sound system which is perfectly average what's not average is the way this car a hyundai looks ah not bad right i think this is the best looking uv on sale oh it is definitely the best um it's almost had you almost had yours is it because there's the losers there's my car there's really cool stuff okay how about this i'm gonna rephrase the best under sixty thousand dollar eevee on sale yes that makes the marquee is pretty good looking the monkey is very good looking yeah but it's like it looks it looks like a bastardized mustang this is its own thing and it's unique i like it speaking of bastardized by the way why have you copied me no no no you've copied me and i have proof because you have a tendency to do this for some reason i have a picture of you from yesterday with greg our production administrator you're standing beside him and you're wearing the opposite of him you keep doing we're even wearing the same shoes for god's sake james you never wear these shoes you knew these were the shoes i was bringing on this trip and this is these aren't fans he does it on purpose i swear to god it literally is opposites anyway speaking of opposites this has an ev6 sister yes it does how's that for a segue that's a great one and it's it's a sportier looking thing but i think the way this looks like kind of delta integrale look yeah oh it does look very much like a like it's got like the fender flares kind of thing going on but with like with like 80s gaming lights yeah yeah yeah no i love the retro vibe oh look at that it's like don't put any rain on my face it's not raining don't even fit i think um no i really like look at this i will say it is very big yeah it's deceptive in photos it just looks like a hatch but it's like it's the full suv size well but you know it does have a long wheelbase as i mentioned but the overhang on each side is not a lot right it's great approaching departure angles then it's not for off-roading obviously but no you know it's really cool i think the the front quarter down low looks so good on this and the rear like this this here this is very delton degali this bit right here that's where that comes from i'm not i'm not big on the wheels i think they fit but like it's they're kind of ev looking still yeah i don't like the like i want to know the numbers like how many miles like how much you're actually getting with these ugly wheels they keep putting on evs yeah because i just i want to go with a cool i would totally put my own wheels on this but there are interesting things about this like the marquee looks like more of an suv yeah but it sits lower to the ground than this yeah so that's kind of cool that this has a bit more clearance and still looks like a hatchback no i think that they nailed the styling of this can we it's starting to rain now i'm getting peppered in the face the one day a year it rains in san diego and here we are can can we go inside and take a look yes okay okay rain's getting serious well it's actually good that we're in the star striking gray or whatever it's called shooting star grey is that what it is now we've got a bunch of shooting stars above us beautiful in that in the in the vision glass roof there's names for it everything names for everything why wouldn't you name it that vision is a pretty obvious name really vision i feel like everyone else has named glass roofs incorrectly yeah and this is because we've got the the ultimate package extra thing right this is a fully optioned out thing which that package gives you like the 20-inch wheels and the sunroof and the head-up display okay and the blind spot stuff like yeah which is good now i i like all the all the little like extra safety features they're nice to have especially like this is this is the car where you want all the features yes right because it's like the ultimate commuter cruiser thingy yeah right you want this to be the tetris piece that just the four square piece that just fits into your life and just destroys four rows yes is it five it might be five oh dear even better the ionic five you can tell that they've done everything in the name of passenger space here yeah absolutely like this is i love this this space here and this center console slides back and forth yeah you can slide it back and go into a full like gangster position yeah this this reclines well it's so that when you're charging i get to revisit my old life you know yeah when you lived on the street yes yes yeah yeah he's born really really really rough near the street in a house yeah um yeah yeah this there's a little under leg padding down here so when you're charging you can just like chill out i kind of like that idea i like that they've gone like okay it's an eevee charging times still aren't amazing so why not give you a place that is comfortable to sit well with a fast charge of this i think this does like 10 to 80 in 20 minutes or 18 minutes if you can find one of those if it's not already being used true because it's not a tesla and there isn't a supercharger yeah the c goes for relax and they they actually use some really funny marketing pictures of like all different people using it to relax i'll throw a few of them up there they're really they're like oh okay you did that you posted that okay um the steering wheel is cool two spoke i like the look of this two spoke because it doesn't look like it didn't they like the genesis whatever they are they're like very much owning the two spoke because it's like this weird shape but this is a normal kind of airbag it has a drive mode button that looks like you should be able to spin it yeah and you can't it's just about it's weird i was trying to figure out why it wasn't working yeah um speaking of like buttons and stuff this is how you select the gears and i actually really like this yeah i don't mind it i find this very useful because you just kind of your hands on the wheel you reach down you flick it one way or the other push for park it makes perfect sense what doesn't make sense is why they've given us this lovely climate control lots of buttons but the the the second most used button on a climate control yeah this in this spec we have heated and ventilated front seats and heated rear seats and if i want to get to them i have to go to the menu so out of my apple carplay or whatever into warmer ventilation and then click this i'm glad it has it but that should be easier to access it's true i mean he's just doing well as well like it hurt yours was on i don't know being ventilated it was lovely um i think i think a big thing for people is you know getting into this car is is it a model tesla model y fighter as far as like the interior because the model wise gone for that minimalist look yeah and this this is definitely more car like yeah this is a well i like that this has got an actual gauge cluster even if i don't really love the design of it it's still got all the information right in front of me when i'm driving which makes more sense but yeah i like this interior better than the model y yes and i think the fit and finish is increased i mean there's fun styling elements yep it feels really well built like it still feels hyundai yes like we were wondering we were worried that this was going to get to her price point that should have been genesis level that they should have just shoved the genesis badge on it and it is not genesis level in here no it's not it's knocking on the door of it but it's definitely not there but there's definitely like they get their plastics from a plastic factory and it's the same plastics that are used in all but even these surfaces are all covered this isn't scratchy plastic no no no no it's nice there's no there's no hard plastics or anything i really like it just there there's some back seats by the way are are very roomy yeah i fit very comfortably i'm five foot ten i've got plenty of knee room i've got plenty of headroom yeah harrison our sound engineer and tall man tester it's six foot six and he just yeah this is something you're gonna put all the lads in who are seven foot rugby players basketball players rugby players who are other tall things climbers they have to reach they have to it is a thing they might not fit but in the front plenty of room yeah and honestly though i think they should just lean into this and make it a bench seat i think this should be a console that folds into eventually with an extra seat belt like an old pickup truck i think that'd be really cool right yeah i'm trying to i guess this is just leg room by moving it backwards yeah i like this i i like i hate when stuff digs into my knee when i'm driving and there's nothing to dig into my this doesn't hit here no no it doesn't hit when i when it's like just it's like just close but like when i'm in my driving position i've got fully clear legs i know it's really really nice so our frunk is small there isn't even really if you have yeah if you have like an assignment you want to hand in to university you can put it you can put it in the front the trunk is good plenty of room we got a couple of suitcases in there it is but it's not as an ev it's not one of those where they packaged it like unbelievably well yeah this is a passenger prioritized car yes passenger first it's got it's got an absolutely normal amount of storage see it's a comfortable yep yeah they're fine i like it good i i think in all in all things ergonomics and looks this is probably the best that we've tried in the price range i would say so can i go take it for a little rip on the back road i kind of want to see what happens when you drive a little bit harder okay okay heading out onto a back road i'm gonna click it into sport mode here it really does feel like you're supposed to spin this but you click it all right sharpens everything up shortens the throttle a little bit tightens the car up right now initial assessment of this car is it is not a sport i want you see it and you want it to be a sporty little ev hatchback it's not it's big and the seating position here makes me feel like i'm in a crossover which is it's almost a bit of a bummer i get it there's tons of space it's very utilitarian but at the same time it just looks so damn cool from the outside i want it to be a little eevee hatchback but it's not that this is driving right now like a really good suv there's no escaping the fact that while it does indeed look small it still drives fairly big and there's a reason for that it is big you know the hyundai palace their big three row suv the wheelbase of this is a hundred millimeters longer but that has some good things because stability improves that increased distance between the axles means that when these front wheels go over a bump it gives the suspension more time to settle before it hits the rear wheels so less happens to the car overall and honestly first and foremost in a car that you're just gonna live with every day since we've now established this is not a sports car or a hot hatch is the ride the ride needs to be good or you just hate yourself and the ride is good now that doesn't help with side to side motions that's more to do with track but speaking of side to side motions there kind of aren't any this has multi-link suspension in the rear mcpherson strut suspension in the front kind of you know go-to stuff right but it's tuned very well this is a heavy car and it doesn't feel like it's fighting itself in the corners i'm not i'm not dealing with that this is what i hate about evs is that when you break and turn into a corner you deal with this huge pitch of mass to that outside front tire like when i dive in here to a right-hander the weight feels like it's settled back with me it doesn't feel like it's trying to torture that front outside tire that's what a model 3 does this feels much more controlled this feels actually closer to a mock e than a model three and the maki handles very well i don't think this is quite on the same level as the maki in terms of handling but the steering at least is real steering it's not steer by wire it's a proper steering rack electrically assisted obviously but it's very intuitive kind of light in sport mode i wouldn't mind a bit more weight but the way that the the amount of turning builds as you turn the wheel matches with what my brain is expecting the steering ratio is very predictable but back to the ride now as i'm realizing something this is kind of doing i don't know if this is the fact that it's just how the suspension is dealing with all of the weight but it deals with bumps very well but it's doing this wafting thing we talk about wafting a lot in in luxury cars like the s-class or rolls-royce they kind of when we say that basically it means that the car doesn't necessarily stop moving after a big undulation it kind of moves a little bit just to kind of soften it out i'm not really a fan of that i kind of like the the german style of like one and done punchy with the damper just get the bump over with i like that better than what i'm feeling here because this kind of feels like it it almost doesn't stop moving it's not so soft that it's making me sick or anything but i wouldn't mind it to be a little bit more and the last thing is the brakes what you don't want is a brake pedal that feels like you're pushing your foot into a soggy pillow that's not fun nor is a brake pedal that is too stiff or unintuitive and how much pressure it needs to stop this is somewhere in the middle tuning ev brakes is hard you got to give these engineers credit because they have to deal with the regenerative braking they want to try and make the car efficient so they're doing stuff with the brake pads probably this seems to be tuned in a way that it just feels like good conventional brakes on any car you can come to a stop smoothly when you hit the pedal there's not an extra long throw it's kind of just getting the job done you know james is actually considering buying one of these it's a real thing and if there's just one thing that puts you off is it here's a miati as a sports car that's not the right word for it whatever he has a car that is for fun he now needs a car for comfort usability efficiency and that's currently his s4 which don't tell him i said this the ride in that car not very good it's really bad on fuel so he's thinking about one of these and if there's even one thing that kind of puts you off that you feel like you have to deal with or figure out or blah blah blah whatever it is he's not going to buy it but if he somehow finds a way to get along with all aspects of this car which i think he's going to then it might actually be a car that he'll buy because it is not offending me in any way it just kind of feels like it feels like this you know it's just it's just this that's what you want in an everyday ev a mustang mock e is more nimble a tesla model y has the supercharger network at its disposal and the upcoming kia ev6 looks to be a little bit sleeker but the ioniq 5 with its retro looks comfy ride and spacious cabin kinda has its own flavor going on it's cool this along with newcomers like the maquis suggests that the future for everyday affordable evs is pretty bright even if they're not all that affordable yet for our own science though we do need to find out if owning one is idiot proof because mass adoption of evs will only occur when the most feather brained of our society can manage living with one and to test that enter james yeah wait what 2022 is going to be an interesting one thanks for watching

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Length: 21min 2sec (1262 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 29 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Asteradragon]

If nothing else, I love this car for emphasizing the new layout possibilities with EVs (beeg beeg hatchback anyone?) and for the pixel lighting.

It doesn't look weird for the sake of looking distinct, nor does it look particularly bulbous for aerodynamics (looking at you, ID4).

Now here's to hoping this one doesn't catch fire. Hyundai/Kia, and the auto industry as a whole, need this generation of EVs to sell and maintain good public perception.

Edit: heated/cooled seat controls that require using the infotainment is a trend that needs to die immediately.

[u/GnuRomantic]

We ordered one in November and managed to test drive one a week ago on a snowy day in eastern Ontario.

It was a RWD model on all seasons and I was very impressed with how well it tracked on the snow covered roads. We had no issues.

We are concerned about the lack of rear wiper on days with lots of road spray. And the pop out door handles didn’t close all the way when snow got in the recess. I posted some pics on the EV channel and will try to figure out how to share the link.

In Canada we are not getting some of the cool features that we see in European reviews, including the drawer glove box, reclining passenger seat, power rear seats, and some of the interior/exterior colour combinations, and the nicer headrests.

We’re in the same headspace as James: we’re looking for a daily driver to complement our sporty cars. We crossed shopped against the Model Y (no heads up display, $$$, less attractive); Q4 eTron (range not as good, 18 month wait); and MachE (charging port location an issue for us).

EDIT: link to my test drive: https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/rjkgnu/test_drove_an_ioniq_5_today_in_blustery_snowy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[u/madevilfish]

I love the styling. I just want it in like GTI size.

Though I understand that SUVs are what is selling and what most people want.

Edit: I stand corrected, the IONIQ 5 is slightly larger than a GTI. Now give me an N version, Hyundai.

[u/Quaiche]

Wow an EV that looks good from another brand than Audi or Porsche ? Finally.

[u/WorldlinessCrazy2324]

While the car is good, I can't say the same about where prices of normal cars are heading with the electric revolution... the ex crossover/entry-level segment (at least in North America) used to be ~25k, now with electric cars it's jumped almost 15-20k.

Is it only because batteries are expensive or are manufacturers essentially using it as a scapegoat to squeeze higher margins? Who knows, but R.I.P. affordable prices

[u/ikilledtupac]

$15,000 dealer markups.

[u/SyChO_X]

Right now, this would be the EV that i would buy before any other.

Love the look of this car!

[u/s_0_s_z]

I have to give Hyundai and Kia a ton of credit for this car and the Kia equivalent.

Every body panel is unique. The interiors are different, and they don't look anything alike.

This is how you do platform sharing. To average consumers they wouldn't know these are essentially the same car underneath.

Subaru and Toyota, I'm looking in your direction.

[u/BannedFromRcars]

It’s really exciting to see even more entries into the EV segment and as James & Thomas said this is probably the most attractive offering in the “affordable” range. The interior looks cleanly laid out and intuitive, although I’d prefer knobs for climate control and buttons for heated seats.

I am hoping in 5~ or so years we see similarly sized EVs with 300+ miles of range in the $45k realm. My SO & I are picking up a RAV4 Hybrid soon as that has all the features we want and should get 40~ mpg for $35k.

For us right now we regularly take trips that are over 200 miles and the tax credit wouldn’t work for us. Maybe down the line there will be an offering that fits the bill but she’s hell bent on never getting another Kia/Hyundai for herself…

Edit: with AWD. Yes I know it’s a big ask but definitely necessary for us with where we travel.