Great potential, really annoying extras
I chose this car, not because it is perfect, but because it is the best of very limited choices. The car handles well (side-to-side, not front-to-back). The seats are comfortable. There is enough leg room in the back. Optional towing, though there is no Hyundai brand hitch for this year. The miles-per-kilowatt efficiency is surprisingly good.
First, the only real mechanical problem: This is the only vehicle I have ever driven where coming to a stop causes the car to bobble front-to-back like a bobblehead doll. This effect also happens while going up hill at a steady speed. Avoid if you are prone to sea-sickness.
I wonder about the NACS socket. Any time I leave it to charge in the rain, I find water pooled in the socket. That can't be good. Clearly the non-Musk plug was better.
The speedometer is useless. It took me a bit to realize why. There are no tick marks. Every gauge dating back two hundred years includes tick marks so the user knows where they are on the measured range and the rate of change. Hyundai could easily create a modified instrument panel and offer it for download alongside their other options. I would consider this critical.
Now, the extras: I spent more than the first month of ownership finding and disabling extras. Lane keeping has tried to kill me too many times to leave it on. There are not one, but two different places in the menu where the car will automatically turn on lane keeping for you. Die. It took a while to find and disable playing media automatically after starting the car. Not immediate, but about when you have half backed out of a parking space. The car would unlock any time I walked past it. Since the door handles stick out when unlocked, the car then loudly announced to the world that it was unlocked. Bad. The trunk would open any time I walked past the back of the car. Bad. Very bad. Managed to disable.
*Everything* is motorized. I don't want motorized door handles. I don't want a motorized trunk. I don't want motorized seats. I don't want flaps that open and close several times any time the car is charging. I am seriously concerned that the car will not outlast the batteries.
Unsolved: How do I get it to stop interrupting my music to tell me to keep my eyes on the road? My eyes *ARE* on the road. How do I get it to stop interrupting my music to tell me the car in front of me is pulling away? It is edging up at a traffic light. I feel no reason to do the same.
Verified Owner
