2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6 - 25 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

What's your favorite thing about the 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6?
See how this Ioniq 6 stacks up against its rivals on Downshift: / @dwnshft
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What is it/ competitors
This being an EV sedan, there actually isn’t much that plays against it
VERY different to the Ioniq 5 we talked about ast week with 6 other competitors
Tesla model 3
Polestar kinda
Range
Up to 360 miles of range
This one is about 270 with dual motor awd
Still 10 more than the 5
Efficiency
103 mpge is pretty good, but less than Model Y
Still top 5 efficient
2 more than 5
Charging
800v architecture - fast charge 10-80% in 18 min
Vehicle to load
Funky door circle with pixels
Frunk
Smaller than 5
No cover unlike 5
Pixels and ioniq embossed in floor
Pixel check
WAAYYYYY more than IONIQ 5
Im convinced you’ll keep finding more for the whole first year
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Speaker covers weirdly not pixels…weird miss
Ribbed
Dash looks ribbed for your pleasure
It’s not
The door card is
Key is Hyundai logo
Kinda cool
Also phone as a key
Key card
Smart park
Performance
Dual motor AWD
320 hp
446 lbft
0-60 in 4.7 sec
115 mph top speed
Window switches
On center console
You see it on bronco and wrangler -why here
Auto up/down in front not back
Front seats
Cool design
Heated and cooled
Heated steering wheel
No recliner like in 5
screens
Totally digital cluster
12 in std
Center screen is usual stuff i like
Great 360 cameras
First hyundai to get OTA updates
Sounds of nature (new sounds)
Quiet mode
WIRED Car play and aa
HUD
No HUD
Can get AR HUD on 5
Antenna
I promise i’ll never talk about an antenna again
But it’s weirdly see through
Steering wheel
Same 4 pixels as 5
BUT these light up
Go red in reverse, blue in drive
Charging indication
Exterior design
Way more swoopy than 5
Dont like this as much but i respect hyundai for sending it
Gear selector
Is a BopIt - twist it, push it
Rear wing
Reminds me of the 911 whale tail
Is the brake light
Ambient light
First time there’s ever been two tone in Hyundai
If you dont count the malfunction from last week
Primary
Secondary
Weird names for presets
Brighter as accelerate, dim as brake
Wide sunroof
No pano like in the model 3
Trunk
No hatch, small opening
Powered trunk is nice
Deep trunk tho
Even smaller frunk than Ioniq5
Reverse camera will get filthy in winter
Regen controls
Steering wheel paddles
Will still regen in level 0 with the pedal
iPedal
Driver assist
HDAS 2.0 is bomb
Rear seats
Good size
Weird door pockets
Window switches on door
Limited gets house outlet back here
No heated rear seats, unlike the 5
Price
As tested 57,425

[@SergiosAutoReviews]

We do get the head up digital display in Canada 😊

[@expresscarreviews]

Great job

[@theshiftlist]

🙏

[@hjs6102]

In Europ there is an HUD

[@cyberchiefx]

so....... wtf are the 25 things that I didn't know??

[@HansProbs]

they dont call it the shifty list for nothin 😜