Please tell me again the advantages of owning a gas car again?

My healthy ID.4 is good for maybe 170-180 miles on the highway on a full charge. And there are damn near no chargers on a lot of my vacation routes. I bought it fully knowing it would be tethered to about 100 miles from home

I love my ID4 but lets not pretend EVs are completely perfect without fault

It really depends on what you are comparing. Plus comparing specs on a spreadsheet doesnt give you the full picture. I have an ID.4 and recently had a Tiguan loaner. On paper the ID.4 is just an electric Tiguan. IRL it feels like the more expensive car it is. I would easily put it on par with similarly priced luxury ICE SUVs like the X3/Q5. And the price difference between an ID.4 and Tiguan is probably smaller than ever.

Plus there are other reasons to get an EV like the environment, the much nicer driving experience, not having to go to gas stations (if you can primarily charge from home) etc. If you have the right life parameters there are quality of life improvements you can’t put a price on.

I might be biased as I just bought one and a bunch of my neighbors have them, but I see ID.4s everywhere, whereas I rarely see Ioniq 5s. If anything, recently at least I have seen more Ioniq 6s. So it’s probably just a regional thing.

I never sat in/test drove an Ioniq 5, but I did test drive some luxury crossovers and to my undiscerning eye the ID.4 is a lot closer to an Audi than a Tiguan for example. I guess Hyundai spent its money on the electric hardware rather than the interior.

E92 DCT for me. E46 is peak BMW but I feel like the E9x is more sorted