NEW Hyundai Ioniq 5 Review: Tesla FINALLY Meets Its Match? | 4K

in 2021 there's been a handful of cars that have come out of nowhere and shut down the internet tycan cross turismo 911 gt3 ford bronco but top of that list for me was the car some people called the tesla killer the hyundai ioniq 5. [Music] i mean just look at it it looks like a delorean for your mum if they make another back to the future movie marty mcfly has to drive this car kids look it up great movie in terms of appearance it looks like a hatchback but it's actually a crossover inspired by the hyundai pony the company's first car to be mass produced and exported and it has some incredibly funky retro details like the 8-bit arcade game inspired front and rear lights made up of giant pixels the clamshell bonnet that gives it a determined look and active air vents on the front bumper in profile it has an enormous wheelbase of over three meters longer than a range rover sport which gives it plenty of space inside more on that in a second there are huge very interesting 20 inch wheels bodywork slashes that make it look like it was vandalized by zorro kids look it up and even a solar roof which sadly isn't available here in the uk for obvious reasons great design though i don't know if it's just me but i find this thing incredible to look at i am all over this car the interior is quite controversial as well it's got a retro chic thing going on it looks a bit like what you'd get if you asked someone from the 1960s to design a car for 2021 but i quite like it and there's lots going on in here i really like this mercedes-benz inspired display system which has two 12-inch displays one for the driver and one for your infotainment and it's actually really responsive and really quick as well you've also got a lot of physical buttons along the dashboard for your map navigation and media playback and even though the heating ventilation and climate controls are virtual buttons they work quite well and you have a physical volume knob as well check this out in this car you don't have a glove box instead you get a glove drawer you pull it out and it's well it's a draw which i think is a really really good innovation in terms of the platform earlier i said it's got a really long wheelbase it's also got a really flat floor and that's allowed hyundai to make some interesting decisions with the center console look at this it slides back and forward to give you either more space in the back or more space in the front to play ftse with your passenger speaking of ftse these front seats also recline if i press a button on the seat they'll actually recline you've got a leg rest which folds up and then the seat actually falls back a bit like you get in a first class flight for example and if that's not far enough you can make it go back even further look at this that is quite mad i've spent more time napping at motorway service stations and most people have had hot dinners and let me tell you there's not another car in the known universe that reclines as much as this i don't know why that would be useful maybe it comes in handy if you're stuck at a charging station for example and you need to spend a few hours you know while your car charges up in privacy with your passenger but i think i think it's a really cool innovation good on your hyundai it's practical as well with five usb ports loads of space for bits and bobs a 540 litre boot with seats that fold down making it a useful space for large objects or big shopping halls and there's even a front trunk which gives you an extra 24 liters in all-wheel drive versions like this one or 57 liters in rear wheel drive models [Music] so it looks a bit weird but is it weird to drive simple answer is no it's completely normal it's actually a pleasure to drive this thing it's really really simple it's got this little stalk on the right hand side that you twist forward to go forward or twist back to go back and that's about it in terms of the ergonomics of the car well the seating position is lovely also the adjustability in the seats is good as well watch this i'll move the seat up as high as it'll go hopefully my head doesn't get chopped off but it's still going it's still going it's still going it's still going and my knees are now on the dashboard and basically i feel like i'm perched right on top of the car there's a massive amount of adjustability in the seat so if you're vertically challenged shall we say then you'll get a great view out the ioniq five you really will as for the steering well it's nice and light nice and responsive it's accurate the car goes exactly where i want it to go without any real surprises it makes it feel really maneuverable and there are a couple of things that help with it actually one of them is this wicked blind spot indicator system so if i indicate i get a little video feed on my driver display showing my blind spot on my left hand side and on my right hand side so it makes it feel so safe it gives you quite a lot of confidence you don't have to look around to try and figure out whether there's anyone kind of tucked in in a place where you can't see that's really clever i've never seen that before on another car there's also a head-up display that includes your speed limit your current speed your navigation information all projected on the windscreen huge arrows tell you where you should be going and it's also linked to the lane departure warning system so arrows float up like in an augmented reality style that let you know that you're drifting out of your lane it's really clever and really well executed there's one thing i want to try out with the steering though because it's got such a long wheelbase i suspect the turning circle is not amazing i've driven on this road quite a few times so i know that i can normally do it in a five i would be surprised it's got an auto brake feature as well if it thinks you're gonna crash it stops the car but i'd be surprised if i do that in a five that's five there i need two more yeah so turning circle not amazing it's okay not a complete disaster but this is the kind of car that would benefit from having rear wall steering but we can forgive that one of the coolest systems on the ioniq 5 is something called v2l or vehicle to load and it allows you to power external electric devices using the car's battery the original idea behind it was that you could tow a caravan up to 1600 kilos by the way to a caravan park plug it in and have all your devices run off the car but it's still cool even if you don't have a caravan all you got to do is plug in this adapter bosch plug in your external device bosch push this button down here bosch and then go nuts i love gardening i love it it's not even my head you're welcome [Music] and it's not just useful for budding gardeners there's a second three pin plug in the back seat too and because v2l allows for 3.6 kilowatt charging it will power nearly anything so if you have a friend that's running low on juice you can connect your v2l adapter connect that external gadget and off you go and yes this electric car can even charge other electric cars [Music] let's talk about these pedals i really like them they've got these plus and minus icons on them really nice and also there's a footrest down here on the left hand side and it's massive maybe that's the consequence of having more floor space to play with normally in most cars the footrest is tiny and a bit awkward but in this it's enormous and that combined with the amount of space you get on the right hand side just makes it feel like you're sitting in a lounge it makes the driving feel exceptionally comfortable as for the brakes well there's a lot going on there there's normal and sport braking modes for some reason and different levels of brake regeneration which you control using the paddles behind the steering wheel so you pull the right paddle and that will decrease the amount of regen you get and the car will float along as if there's no braking going on and on the left hand side the more you pull the left paddle the more regen you get you've got four different levels and a fifth level called ipedal which turns it into a one pedal car so you accelerate with the accelerator and when you lift off it breaks the car all the way down to a complete standstill that's the theory will it stop yep so you don't actually need the brake pedal at all there's more as well because it has an auto setting if you pull the right pedal and hold it it'll go into auto mode and then use the cameras to sense the road ahead if it detects the car in front of you it will automatically increase the amount of regen you get and if that car pulls out the way or accelerates away it will reduce the amount of regen you get so you don't have to think about it it's nice that you've got all these options with the braking system a lot of electric cars give you one or the other but this gives you everything in terms of raw performance it's really good as well this is the top model the all-wheel drive version and hyundai say it will do naughty 62 in 5.2 seconds which i think we should probably try and verify actually so let me pull to a stop there's no fancy launch control in this you literally stop mash the pedal release oh oh she's quick that is quick that is that is quicker than i expected you can actually have fun in this guy surprising how rapid it is and then when you get to a corner what happens you chuck it in body control is really good it stays nice and flat all the way is low down in the chassis so the center of gravity is really low no surprises whatsoever it handles beautifully i like it so the ioniq 5 handles itself really well when you take it by the scrap of the neck but it can also drive itself it's got a really cool self-driving feature a bit like on a tesla and it also has a summon feature a bit like a tesla except in this case it's called remote parking to use it i press the lock button on the remote and press the bottom button on the remote hold that for a couple of seconds the car will then wake up and press the forward button and that is should in theory yep it's off look at that it's going to park itself in a narrow gap between these two cars i have to follow along with it slightly so that it knows i'm not too far away but it's doing it pretty much by itself i mean it's doing a bit of steering there to make sure that it gets in there without crashing it's also really really convenient for people who end up in a parking space where it's just a bit too narrow to do themselves it's also great if he's really lazy as well there she's in plus if you want to get it out again you press the reverse button and the car should take care of absolutely everything for you there it goes in reverse it's a robot car genuinely that's impressive like i said i've seen this feature in tesla's before but you got to control it through the app and it's all a bit of a faff you even have to walk along with the car really really closely especially in the uk i know us rules are different but here no bother [Music] the range in the ionic 5 is pretty good as well there are two battery options a 58 kilowatt hour battery and a 72 kilowatt hour battery and the range in the smaller battery is around 238 miles the range in this 72 kilowatt hour battery pack is around 300 miles now normally you have to take those figures with a pinch of salt but hyundai's cars are massively efficient i did a journey yesterday my school run i averaged around 30 miles an hour and by the end of it i was getting 5 miles per kilowatt hour if you multiply that by 72 it works out to be 360 miles now obviously that's at the top end of what you can expect from this car and it's affected by things such as weather and speed etc but i tested it again i did another journey and got four miles per kilowatt hour so i mean it's gonna do pretty much what hyundai say you can expect 300 miles from this thing all day long if you're wondering what the solar roof does not a massive amount but it does help if i go into the solar roof setting here it'll show me the state of charge from the solar roof and also exactly how much juice it's managed to harvest over the lifetime of the car now this car has done about 1 300 miles and during its life on the road that roof has managed to generate just short of 24 kilowatt hours so sort of roughly half of a tank of battery over its lifetime if that's the figure you're gonna get every sort of 1300 miles i think that's pretty decent although of course it does depend a lot on where you live if you live in the uk maybe it's not so much use hyundai have a pretty strong history when it comes to electric cars we've seen the kona which was lovely we've seen the ioniq which was great but it seems like they've taken the learnings from its previous endeavors in the electric space and just stepped it up a gear with the ioniq 5. it's just a brilliant all-rounder it's really relaxing and simple to drive it's comfortable it's quiet it's got terrific performance and the packaging is absolutely spot on this i'm gonna say it this is a better packaged car than you will get in any internal combustion engine vehicle of a similar size they just use the space so well they've also thought long and hard about how to apply clever little touches all over the place you know the v2l charging the blind spot monitor that make this car just an absolute joy to drive every single day i think it's brilliant obviously some people aren't going to appreciate the exterior design but i love that and i love to see companies like hyundai experimenting with new designs and being brave with their decisions the ioniq 5 is just a brilliant piece of kit i can't i can't recommend it enough go buy one before i do [Music] you

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Length: 14min 38sec (878 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 19 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/TechnoProdigy]

As a Hyundai fanboy, nobody will talk about this car in 100 years.

It’s a great car don’t get me wrong but let’s not exaggerate.

[u/SchnitzelTruck]

"this is the car people will talk about in 100 years"

*aggressive eyerolling*

[u/bandito-yeet-dorito]

I still cant wrap my head around the fact that this is the size of a RAV4, not a golf.

[u/xtremepsionic]

No one's gonna talk about this car in another 5 years. When people go back and talk about the beginning of the EV evolution, it'll be the GM EV1, Tesla Model S 2012, and whatever successful mass market cheap EV that'll dominate the market like the original VW Beetle did (don't think we've seen that car yet).

[u/Bluenevolent]

People will talking about it after they dredge one out of a river in 100 years.

[u/[deleted]]

Brah what sort of title is that. Calm down.

No one will talk about this car in 100 years. They’ll mention Tesla if anything since they’re the ones that pushed for the current EV trend.

[u/krisfratoyen]

Norwegian here. Everyone's shitting on the article that OP quotes, so i would just like to provide a bit of context.

EVs are a very big thing in Norway, as you're all probably well aware. 7 out of 10 new cars sold in October were pure EVs. We have them all in abundance, Teslas, Taycans, E-trons, as well as an influx of Chinese brands (BYD, Maxus, Hongqi etc.).

The title of the article was obviously hyperbolic, but i guess the point the writer wanted to make is that this car is the first of the legacy car makers to really include so much of what the Norwegian car buyers want in an ev, correct size for a family of 4, dedicated EV platform, good range, lots of equipment as standard, competitively priced, basically it checks all the boxes, combined with a striking design. Hyundai has also, up until the Ioniq 5, been seen as an also-ran in Norway (perhaps with the exception of the Kona EV).

I definitely don't agree with the quote in question. I drive one of this car's main competitors (XC40P8) so I was in the market for a car like that and actively chose a different model.

So for all US based people commenting that the GM EV1 or Tesla or whatever is the car we'll be talking about in 100 years is kind of missing the point, or not realizing the premise for the article. The statement obviously doesn't hold true for the US market, and not globally either, but the Ioniq 5 is very significant in its own way, at least for Norway.

[u/HoveringPorridge]

This car looks like it was designed by Harris Mann in an alternative Cyberpunk universe.

[u/mellofello808]

The presenter of this video was the only good thing about the Top Gear reboot. Glad to see him still presenting car content.

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He has a great energy.