Thoughts on the Hyundai Ioniq-5
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Besides the terrible moniker that sounds like a discarded nissan/infinity/air purifier name.I really like it, except that ridiculous backwards slash that Hyundai is slapping on the side of all thier cars these days. It actually looks better here than it does on the current Elantra/Sonata, and it still doesn't work. Not (surprise, surprise, I'm posting here) a big crossover fan, but the shape and size of this feels like a thicc hatch as much as a CUV or whatever they are called these days.
I really like the looks from this angle, but unless I get a job on the 2nd or 3rd floor of an office building I will never see one from here.Also, I am totally down for a center console-less interior on a truck, older car, van, adventure vehicle, but on a new car, anything lacking a center console feels cheap looking, unless there is a clever twist to the design. But this one isn't clever and comes off looking cheap, especially with that dumb plastic cupholder just jutting up out of nowhere.
And boy does the interior have the resolute cheapness of a car ready for production-but at least there are a few actual knobs and buttons instead of the all-touchscreen approach that is creeping across the motoring world. I do hope this is a guide for the future of Hyundai design, the catfish face that the Elantra and Sonata have moved to is just painful. This could be the used car I replace my current 2017 Elantra with-in like a decade or so . . . -
The last time my car door looked like that it cost me a $500 deductible to fix it...
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@haplesshatrackhackattack The interior looks decent but lacks some sort of polish to make it high-tech or futuristic. However, this car is WAY more desirable to me than the VW ID series that just looks like a Tesla interior for toddlers.
I love the wheels.
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@trivet It's such a dumb, plastered on design element. It's like Hyundai thinks it has stumbled on the latest Hoffmeister Kink, but it's really just a reverse Bangle Bungle.
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@haplesshatrackhackattack said in Thoughts on the Hyundai Ioniq-5:
@trivet It's such a dumb, plastered on design element. It's like Hyundai thinks it has stumbled on the latest Hoffmeister Kink, but it's really just a reverse Bangle Bungle.
AGREE
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@fractalfootwork Yeah, the interior looks just decent, while on the outside this looks pretty cutting edge, inside if you took the badges off and told me it was a current production Peugot, or Citroen, or some other car maker who's design language I am not familiar with, I would say sure, that makes sense. Not what you would call super futuristic.
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@haplesshatrackhackattack I could get behind the console delete interior (especially since most consoles are so chunky that my knee is jabbed into it everything I sit behind the wheel [I'm glaring at you Honda]), but I think it'd be more desirable if they did a front bench that folded out into a cup holder and tray instead of this..
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I like it, the laceration on the side won't age well but that's fine. I like the overall proportions. I hope it's a decent car.
@haplesshatrackhackattack said in Thoughts on the Hyundai Ioniq-5:
@fractalfootwork Yeah, the interior looks just decent, while on the outside this looks pretty cutting edge, inside if you took the badges off and told me it was a current production Peugot, or Citroen, or some other car maker who's design language I am not familiar with, I would say sure, that makes sense. Not what you would call super futuristic.
Aha! yep nailed it. That's why I like it lol. It looks like a Peugot hatch!
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@haplesshatrackhackattack Styling aside, I have to be honest I was not expecting this part
Per Car and Driver
"The U.S.-market Ioniq 5 will make up to 300 horsepower and 446 pound-feet of torque and has a 77.4-kWh battery. It is slated to go on sale this fall, with other Ioniq models coming in 2022 and 2024."How big is this thing? If it's around the size of my Niro, this is going to essentially be a hot hatch.
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@haplesshatrackhackattack oh, I didn't know this was actually released! I agree that it looks more like a hatchback than a crossover, which I like, as I'm not a fan of crossovers. Not sure I like the interior...
I lose the let's put everything on a touch screen approach that so many companies are taking these days and long for actual physical buttons that I can actually feel what I'm doing rather than having to actually look, as on a touch screen where I have no physical reference. At least glad to see there are some buttons and knobs there...
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@siennaman I agree, this has none of the functionality of a bench seat or a standard center console, a worst of both worlds scenario. I think one thing that colors my opinion of center consoles is that in the mid 90's when I got fully obsessed with cars, the center console was sort of a reflection of a cars quality or class, maybe? The LS400 had a full center console, while the civic had one that was much lower (not above the waist). And it seemed the newer or nicer the car, the console height was creeping up close to where the Lexus was. So in my mind the higher the center console, the nicer and more futuristic the car was. A flawed perception I know, but one that is really drilled into my head, like it or not!
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I love it. It’s retro nerd cool and that’s my jam.
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@haplesshatrackhackattack I hope you can get the silver body cladding in black and not sure how I feel about the white screen bezel. But yea, way better looking than a Bolt. I like it.
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@haplesshatrackhackattack meanwhile, quality or not (not), I pine for the bench seats that had plenty of knee room for me in the '83 LeSabre, '93 Taurus and '03 Taurus that combined I DDed basically in order from 1997-2009..
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@haplesshatrackhackattack this cat would look so boring without that backwards slash.
Without that, it would be indistinguishable from any VW.
And I love the no center console. It’ll make the interior feel more open and comfortable. A major problem in a lot of cars, and something Hyundai seems to be focused on fixing. As long as it’s still has placed to stash stuff, and somewhere to put your drink I'm down for it.Also if that’s a crossover those wheels are HUGE. My brain assumed it was a small hatch with maybe 17” wheels, but I guess it’s a CUV with 22”s
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@siennaman Not sure what the '03 Taurus had, but I will say the flip-up center seat to center console on the 90's Taurus was a pretty sweet trick. 3 cupholders! and one of those change dispenser cars used to have. It's the time of both cupholder and little change holders - a bygone era.
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@haplesshatrackhackattack First thing that came to my mind.
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@musashi66 Absolutely . . . what a sexy car to go copying!
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@musashi66 said in Thoughts on the Hyundai Ioniq-5:
@haplesshatrackhackattack First thing that came to my mind.
yup. dat C Pillar.
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@hfv said in Thoughts on the Hyundai Ioniq-5:
@haplesshatrackhackattack this cat would look so boring without that backwards slash.
Without that, it would be indistinguishable from any VW."Boring" tends to age better; "cutting edge design" tends to look tacky after a few years. Personally, I'd rather they did away with that slash. It looks like the lead designer was critiquing something one of his juniors made, and put a slash thru it to say "no good", but someone misinterpreted it as part of the final design.
Also, the weird pattern on the wheel well surrounds... seems funky for funky's sake, and I'm not sure is really needs that level of funk.
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@haplesshatrackhackattack that arrangement was great, unles you were the youngest of 4 and had to sit there on long trips. That happened to me, thankfully at this point my oldest sibling has his own car so it was a rare occurrence but it suuucked. Especially because we had a station wagon befor that Taurus, and I had the luxury of sitting in the back seat. Hell I’d sit back there even when it was just me and my mom lol.
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@musashi66 Glad to know I wasn't the only one
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@hfv To each his or her own, but I thought about what you said and did an absolute butcher job of a photoshopping. To me at least it looks sleeker, not bland or boring. and I think it looks leaner and faster w/o the slash.
And as far as the interior goes, I have an irrational love for center consoles based on when I came up, I make no defense of my position on that one. -
@haplesshatrackhackattack I think it looks like a VW / Seat product. I plan on watching the fully charged review soon.
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@carbon-fiber-sasquatch said in Thoughts on the Hyundai Ioniq-5:
How big is this thing? If it's around the size of my Niro, this is going to essentially be a hot hatch.
Based on battery size and number of seats, looks like it would be quite similar to the AWD long range Model 3. That one comes in at 4072 pounds and gets to 60 in 4.4s.
I wouldn't exactly call it a hot hatch at that weight, but a warmed over compact electric CUV. Personally, I like the looks better than the Mach E, even with that side slash.
