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 love my Ioniq 5, but yeah… we got shafted on interior quality in Canada.
We had a Golf before the hyundai, and would have looked at the Id.4 first, but at the time the Golf died, VW canada wouldn’t sell the ID.4 on the east coast.
The base model City Golf we had had more soft touch plastics and less of a cheap feel than the like $50k hyundai that replaced it. Also had paint that didn’t chip off if you looked at it funny.
The hyundai wins in charging speed I suppose, and V2L is awesome. Run my fridge, fish tank, and wifi in power outages. Have also run tools like grinders and tablesaws when not near an outlet.