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.
I hated the ID4 when I test drove it. The dash was awful, the handling was clunky. Granted I had driven the XC40R right before so maybe not fair comparing Volvo to VW.
Hard to compare most against Volvo imo.
I also did a back to back with ID4 and Ioniq 5 (Pro S RWD vs Limited RWD) and my wife really didn’t like the ID4 even though the price was favorable. She didn’t like the seating comfort/ergonomic of the ID4, she’s short (4’11”) so getting high enough made her very close to the steering wheel and sun visor. And second the accelerator on the ID4 feels mushy like it’s on Eco mode. The 5 felt the same mushiness on Eco as well but a touch of a button to normal made it much snappier which she prefers.