Hello, Just trying to gain some perspective here as I was at both dealers today and for the first time laid eyes and touched the interior of both the Ioniq 5 and ID4 and I was greatly disappointed with the interior quality of the Ioniq 5 in terms of material choices. Don’t get me wrong, I think the Ioniq looks good, tech is good, and specs are good. It’s pretty much scratchy hard plastic everywhere, even in high touch areas like door armrests. In contrast I checked out 2 ID4s afterwards and was pretty much “blown” away with the materials used - when having just seen the Ioniq 5.
Is this normal? EVs aren’t cheap vehicles and I understand the big part of cost are the electrical components like the battery, but the interior quality alone is greatly steering me towards an ID4 instead of the Ioniq 5… Along with an apparent 3 year wait for the Ioniq 5 AWD in Canada.
Being in Vancouver, Canada I could only lay my eyes on the base model. Seeing a base or ultimate AWD would take 3 years. Are the plastics softer? I have a 2018 Rav4 xle and it’s no luxury car by any means, but the plastics are MUCH better on my 5 year old vehicle than an Ioniq 5…
It was a little confused by your comment because when I shopped the two I found the cabin interior was much better on the ionic. The Volkswagen had a lot of piano black plastic that gets dusty and fingerprinty. The ionic has soft touch plastics at all the touch points. I was looking at the top trim though. Both are good cars but the Volkswagen is probably better value for money.
Unfortunately I never had the chance to check out any higher trim level. The Hyundai salesperson was pretty mediocre at best and wasn’t interested in helping us aside from pushing the base RWD as ANY awd model would be a 3 year wait.
yeah, I have been hearing horror stories about the limited supply of hyundais in canada. I doubt I would wait for the hyundai in that case. In canada you definitely want the AWD.