I love everything about this car! Except 2 things....
I have loved owning this car! It is silent, comfortable, spacious, stylish, and customizable. I absolutely love that there are interior lights that you can change the color of! I've been able to make this car mine and I can't sing my praises for it enough! The sticker milage is like 320, but on average, I get a solid 450-430 mi on it per full charge. Sometimes, it even gives me MORE miles as I drive-- I love that I barely need to worry about charging it.
IT COMES WITH A CHARGER!! Which is amazing. The charger has 4 different adaptors, each will take a certain amount of time to charge the car, but that means you can charge it anywhere. I recommend buying a good charger on Amazon for $200-$300, if you get an adapter for it to fit in weird outlets like a dryer outlet, it charges MUCH more quickly (charging in a regular outlet takes like 80 hours vs 8 hours with a third party charger).
Smoothest drive of my life, I've never driven a car that felt like literal BUTTER while driving-- I don't think I can go back to other cars because its HEAVENLY to drive. I get compliments on it all the time and people stop me on the street to ask me questions about it.
The amount of camera POV's there are on the car is incredible. There's at least 8-10 different ways to look at the car-- EVEN a bird-eye view perspective where you can look at the car as if you are 10 feet away and up high, which is REALLY trippy. It also have the regular perspectives-- front, back, and sides! Theres a camera that turns on the side mirrors every time you use a turn signal. It helps you to see cars if they're in your blind spot.
The amount of charging ports inside the car is INCREDIBLE! They're everywhere! In the places you'd expect but also on the sides of both front seats. IN THE SEAT. And the charging ability? Speed of light. It also comes with a USBC charger that charges things almost from 0-100% in minutes (like 30 minutes)!
The amont of extras this car comes with is truly incredible. There's also extra storage in the front under the hood (it's minimal, but it's there!).
I really thought I would have a harder time getting used to not having a normal gear shift in the center console. But it is SO easy to get used to the little stick that you twist to go into D/N/R and the P button is very easy to get used to pressing.
The SCREEN! Absolutely INCREDIBLE how many features are on this car. The way you can customize the screen and the spedometer is so cool.
There are just a few things that prevent me from giving it a 5 star review...
1. Sometimes, when I turn off the car, THE AC STAYS ON?! It's so weird! I've had to resort to turning off my car, seeing whether or not the AC is somehow still on, if it is, I have to turn the car back on and then turn the AC off manually, THEN when I turn the car off the AC stays off... It's really weird! It only happens occasionally, but it's really annoying when you get home, think your car is off, only to find the AC has been going inside of the car all night...
2. The front plate mount comes with the car, but you have to figure out how to install it yourself... unless the dealer does it for you. Otherwise, you drive without a front plate (not advisable for Californians) or, you do what I did, and get super strong hook and loop (industrial strength velcro made of plastic), and mount it to the front that way. I'm not brave enough to drill it into the car-- there are WAY too many sensors to worry about accidentally knicking.
3. This car beeps at EVERYTHING. Its depth perception isn't the best... Which wouldnt be a problem, except if theres a car like 30 feet away, but the car perceives it as closer, THE CAR WILL BRAKE FOR YOU... While I appreciate this when trying to squeeze in and out of a tight paralell parking situation, its really stupid when I'm just trying to back out of my driveway and theres PLENTY of space... and yet... it still stops because it perceives whatever object as being closer than it is.... It also corrects it's position if another car gets too close... Again, shouldn't be a bad thing, but if it mis-perceives the distance between you and another car, it can overcorrect VERY suddenly. It has only happen to me once, but it scared me!
4. Why is every seat and row electrically handled, but the third row isn't?! But.. To put the third row down, you just press a button. To have the seats back up, you have to pull them up by a strap the old fashioned way. Seems really strange that the third row is only half electric?!
5. This, I will say, has only happened to me twice. It scared the daylights out of me each time, but I'm thankful it hasn't happened more often. Again, this only happened twice. I was stopped at a red light, flat street, green light turns, I let off the brake aaannnddd.... the car reverses slightly! Once you hit the gas, it goes forward, but I can't tell you how scared I was that I was going to back into the car behind me while I was IN DRIVE....
Overall, this is an incredible car with other worldly features. The cons of it are small... but mighty, and honestly, probably fixable as they continue to develop the tech in the car. I never-not want to drive an Ioniq 9, I will be upgrading the model every few years because the pros FAR outweigh the cons. It's like driving a spaceship-- so if you aren't tech savy, this is NOT the car for you. If you're willing to learn, it is absolutely worth it.
Recommended
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