Thanks for sharing. I should be the last person to love this car. I've only wanted to own the smallest gasoline driver's cars that serve my daily needs, and thought it very important a driver's car is light. In also hated the fake engine noises my cars were delivered with the last 12 years already, switched that all off and tinkered a whole lot with aftermarket exhausts to get the sounds I wanted. Reviews that claimed I was wrong and a test drive to see what it's all about changed all that. Ive owned my 5N half a year now and still love it. Not tired of the fake gears + ignition yet, still hate the fake sound without the gears. Don't use the ICE mode on boring drives with too much traffic, but as soon as the road opens up... Perfect combination. The chassis is great, much work has been put in I can really feel that, without that I would not like this car.... It replaced my fun gasoline cars, not only that it also took the role of the main family car. Didn't think any car could be good at being both a great driver's car and a great family car, this one pulls it of. Hats off Hyundai N! Will be interesting to see how you get on, and hopefully we'll learn from each other.
Brilliant video Mark. I've had a KIA EV6 GT for 2 years and as you say, these EV's handle far better than the weight would suggest. I daily drove a Porsche 997 before that and even next to that the KIA is great fun (and a LOT faster). I'm very tempted to try an Ionic 5N or the revised EV6 GT which will apparently have the same tech. Like you, I actually enjoy driving the EV6 GT with the low centre of gravity and immense punch out of corners. I even took it to Brands Hatch when it was too wet for my usual track car and it was brilliant. My track machine of choice is a BAC Mono, so the fact that I'm impressed by the EV6 says it all really. The naysayers on Pistonheads and elsewhere need to get over their prejudices and just try one! Great channel, I've subscribed! Like you, I like petrol cars (have a BAC Mono, Ferrari 355, Honda NSX and McLaren 12c) but that doesn't have to mean you can't like EVs as well for what they do well (and better)! (Oh and after 24,000 miles my average is 2.8m/kWh, brake pad wear is 5% and my battery wear is 1.5%)
Love the video Mark and looking forward to any future videos you make with the car. Hopefully i get to experience one myself as i am still very much on the fence with anything EV related but have not driven one of these. Looks like a lot of fun too!
I've been watching your content since the Fiesta ST days because i had one. Now, a couple of days after i purchase an Ioniq 5, you post about a 5N. Amazing! looking foward to your future content.
This is my first time watching and I enjoyed your appraisal. The colour is awesome ( Im a KTM bike fan so Orange is my favourite colour) . I am holding off till I can get similar performance on a smaller chassis. Was really looking forward to the Alpine A290 but it just isn't quick enough . Thanks
Mark is clearly a petrolhead but I reckon he’s going to be a convert to a Duracell man too! What a car; great noise especially as you have many choices and a great colour too.
Watched your Videos since the Focus/M140i times when i also decided between both cars. Got a M140i, a Fiesta ST after that and now cross shopping the Ioniq 5N with a M2 G87 as my next car. Nice to see you in the Hyundai now, love your opinion on it. I knew the range would be bad, but your estimated range is shocking me. 😅 Do not have home charging at the moment, at least 150miles from 20-80% would be nice. I also checked the insurance, which unfortunately is extremely expensive even compared to the M2. Also there are some reliability concerns. Really like this car and will give it a test drive in spring. But I am leaning towards the M2.
Oh great!! A new car, Mark. And one that’s on my radar. I’ve got a Tesla model 3 performance as a daily now. Sold my RS when you did. Just sold my Cayman a couple if months ago and thinking of the N for when the Tesla goes back. I don’t know about you but I still miss the Focus RS rawness and theatre, if not the issues! The N could have all the benefits of EV with a touch of RS’ ness about it. Will look forward to future videos.
Really interesting to see if you think the 5n is actually "more fun" than the i3s? I have test drove the 5n, and yes, it's balistic, grippy, and handles brilliantly, but, but, honestly, for the driving i do, it's TOO Fast, and TOO grippy, and handles TOO well! What makes the i3s so fun is it has low limits, its incredibly narrow and nibble, and at just around 1300kg, when you overcook it, you have room to gather it all up before you hit something. The 5n, sure on track the i3 wouldn't see which way it went, but on the road, nah, you simply can't drive it hard enough (leagally and sensibly speaking) to actually make it fun. The other thing was the ability to accurately read the amount of grip you have from the handwheel, ie the feedback from the front tyres. The i3s, with it's narrow tyres and modest grip is a car that you can use 100% of the grip all the time, in fact, ime, it's even better when it's wet and slippy because it doesn't actually loose much grip as it never had that much when conditions were perfect, the 5n on the otherhand, well i drove it in 3 to 5 degC and honestly, it could be a bit of a handful, and miss a braking point (mostly because it's really really blinking fast!) and several times it felt like "is this thing going to stop" whereas i never get that in the i3s? I'd love to make some mods to my i3s, an LSD (initaly googling suggest the mini LSD might actually fit as apparently the trans might use this diff??), spacers on the back, or another way of getting about 10% more rear roll stiffenss, and some better quality dampers, and i suspect it would actually become a bit of a sleeper. Anyway, enjoy the 5n, let us know how it goes and how it compares to your previous i3 🙂
Had mine for just over a month, same colour, mine looks more 'blood orange' in real life.. I hadn't thought about using e-gears as usual brakes + a bit fun, I will use and abuse that when the summer tyres are back on.
It’s hilarious to see this thing going sideways around roundabouts with the fake noise but almost feels like you’re not breaking the law because it’s silent outside!! Glad you’re enjoying it, looking forward on videos to come. The “manual” box seems like an epic idea, just hearing what the car is doing adds so much more involvement. Having the sound on without the gears just sounds like you’re driving an ICE car in 1st gear all the time haha Can you have the “gearbox” but have it shift automatically if that makes sense like a normal auto? Enjoy and happy new year!!
Can choose if it makes sounds outside, it has speakers under the hood and under the rear bumper. Haven't heard it myself, but my friends tell me it sounds just like a real car, just not obnoxiously loud. Totally in sync with the inside sounds so can only just barely hear it in e.g. a tunnel. I leave it making sounds as it appears to fullfill expectations something is coming at speed, and people don't even look up. I think I get more looks when going silent and a little tyre screetch as people get more surprised/startled and threathened as a result. Since the noise on/of is just a press away with the right N button, I think my experience is quite well verified. What I will do is before entering inhabited areas I know are sensitive to disturbance, like passing a little village at night, is switch to silent but continue to carry appropriate amount of speed. Situations where I would have to slow down excessively in an interesting sounding ICE car to not disturb... Yes a considerate driver, shocking. In Pikes peak, the public knows to go out of the way when the roaring engines approach. Silent EVs were required to run an annoying siren, the 5N on its runs had a roaring engine instead. Much more as expected and similar to my experience in daily traffic life...
It will be fascinating whether you keep using the gear mode over time as you say. I’m equally interested having had the EV6 GT for 2 years to test drive one to see whether the gears and noise have the same effect for me or if I find them unnecessary now. I suspect my brain has calibrated itself not to expect the noise now but we’ll see!
I would have loved them to build a golf sized one and called it the 3. I'm not a fan of huge cars. I went with the born instead. I must admit, I'd like the fake gears, but then my "mog" ml/kW would be just as bad as yours. 🙈
My girly is like you mark ………had loads of cars over her 30 yrs of driving In no particular order ( cos I can’t remember!!) V6 calibra, M135i, VW polo, Toyota RAV 4, 3 different smart cars (one of which was battery powered !!!) plus others I can’t remember at the mo !! At present she’s driving a fabia VRS and totally dislikes my cayman as she says it’s a pain in the arse to get in and out of !!!! It’ll be interesting to see how you get on with the high n dry Looking forward to it
I owned the I30N in various guises DCT and manual from launch in 2018 until 2023. Fantastic cars. Nothing but praise for the cars and the N division. I’m not there though in any way, shape or form in terms of EV’s though. So this car does nothing for me. Nice video all the same.
I got it through a local Hyundai dealership funded by Hyundai Capital UK. The lease deals they offered were directly comparable with anything offered by the multitude of lease brokers out there, and I got to have a showroom collection which is always a nice thing 😃
@@MarkCup70 Many thanks for taking the time to reply with the Info , currently looking at one to replace the current daily -, a M140i with mods of course ;) Great videos - have been following for quite a while now :)
@@michealofloinn2539you're missing the point, it isn't JUST another car with a different engine, it's the slow death of what I've loved all my life. The ban of ice cars will make travel a lot more hassle in the future. Ice cars will be maintained but they will get ever more expensive as garages switch. Ice engined cars have fire in their belly, EVs do not which is why they fake it. And imagine being in a car crash with one of these the forces will be immense. It's all a scam to remove cars from the roads and you're all being fooled.
If the chassis is good enough, its method of propulsion is an irrelevance. This is the first of many planned videos, let me know what you think of it!
Great video mark! Love the 987 videos also!
Method of propulsion will never be irrelevant.
Thanks for sharing.
I should be the last person to love this car. I've only wanted to own the smallest gasoline driver's cars that serve my daily needs, and thought it very important a driver's car is light.
In also hated the fake engine noises my cars were delivered with the last 12 years already, switched that all off and tinkered a whole lot with aftermarket exhausts to get the sounds I wanted.
Reviews that claimed I was wrong and a test drive to see what it's all about changed all that. Ive owned my 5N half a year now and still love it. Not tired of the fake gears + ignition yet, still hate the fake sound without the gears. Don't use the ICE mode on boring drives with too much traffic, but as soon as the road opens up... Perfect combination. The chassis is great, much work has been put in I can really feel that, without that I would not like this car....
It replaced my fun gasoline cars, not only that it also took the role of the main family car. Didn't think any car could be good at being both a great driver's car and a great family car, this one pulls it of. Hats off Hyundai N!
Will be interesting to see how you get on, and hopefully we'll learn from each other.
Great to see a different colour to the usual light blue 😊
The colour is fantastic
Very glad we'll get to watch you enjoy this over the coming months!
What a brilliant video Mark, I really hope it gets the views it deserves.
Just absolutely love your new car looking forward to future vids.👍👍👍
Love it in Orange!
yes mark! been waiting for this for ages, happy new year to you pal!
Great review! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series
Brilliant video Mark. I've had a KIA EV6 GT for 2 years and as you say, these EV's handle far better than the weight would suggest. I daily drove a Porsche 997 before that and even next to that the KIA is great fun (and a LOT faster). I'm very tempted to try an Ionic 5N or the revised EV6 GT which will apparently have the same tech. Like you, I actually enjoy driving the EV6 GT with the low centre of gravity and immense punch out of corners. I even took it to Brands Hatch when it was too wet for my usual track car and it was brilliant.
My track machine of choice is a BAC Mono, so the fact that I'm impressed by the EV6 says it all really. The naysayers on Pistonheads and elsewhere need to get over their prejudices and just try one!
Great channel, I've subscribed!
Like you, I like petrol cars (have a BAC Mono, Ferrari 355, Honda NSX and McLaren 12c) but that doesn't have to mean you can't like EVs as well for what they do well (and better)!
(Oh and after 24,000 miles my average is 2.8m/kWh, brake pad wear is 5% and my battery wear is 1.5%)
Love the video Mark and looking forward to any future videos you make with the car.
Hopefully i get to experience one myself as i am still very much on the fence with anything EV related but have not driven one of these.
Looks like a lot of fun too!
Great video, we have a blue one in the family. Great car, seriously quick.
I've been watching your content since the Fiesta ST days because i had one. Now, a couple of days after i purchase an Ioniq 5, you post about a 5N. Amazing! looking foward to your future content.
This is my first time watching and I enjoyed your appraisal. The colour is awesome ( Im a KTM bike fan so Orange is my favourite colour) . I am holding off till I can get similar performance on a smaller chassis. Was really looking forward to the Alpine A290 but it just isn't quick enough . Thanks
Mark i love these cars , would really like one when they come down a bit in price . Also cracking colour . Enjoy
Mark is clearly a petrolhead but I reckon he’s going to be a convert to a Duracell man too! What a car; great noise especially as you have many choices and a great colour too.
Watched your Videos since the Focus/M140i times when i also decided between both cars.
Got a M140i, a Fiesta ST after that and now cross shopping the Ioniq 5N with a M2 G87 as my next car. Nice to see you in the Hyundai now, love your opinion on it.
I knew the range would be bad, but your estimated range is shocking me. 😅 Do not have home charging at the moment, at least 150miles from 20-80% would be nice. I also checked the insurance, which unfortunately is extremely expensive even compared to the M2.
Also there are some reliability concerns. Really like this car and will give it a test drive in spring. But I am leaning towards the M2.
New year, new car!
Fascinated to see how this series develops. Thanks, Mark!
Oh great!! A new car, Mark. And one that’s on my radar. I’ve got a Tesla model 3 performance as a daily now. Sold my RS when you did. Just sold my Cayman a couple if months ago and thinking of the N for when the Tesla goes back. I don’t know about you but I still miss the Focus RS rawness and theatre, if not the issues! The N could have all the benefits of EV with a touch of RS’ ness about it. Will look forward to future videos.
As it happens to be, the chassis of the Focus RS and the 5N were both developed under the supervision of the same chassis dynamics guy, Tyrone Johnson
Honestly, if this is the future of performance EV’s and especially hot hatch EV’s, well I can’t see no issues at all! Sublime car.
Great work mate
Really interesting to see if you think the 5n is actually "more fun" than the i3s?
I have test drove the 5n, and yes, it's balistic, grippy, and handles brilliantly, but, but, honestly, for the driving i do, it's TOO Fast, and TOO grippy, and handles TOO well! What makes the i3s so fun is it has low limits, its incredibly narrow and nibble, and at just around 1300kg, when you overcook it, you have room to gather it all up before you hit something. The 5n, sure on track the i3 wouldn't see which way it went, but on the road, nah, you simply can't drive it hard enough (leagally and sensibly speaking) to actually make it fun.
The other thing was the ability to accurately read the amount of grip you have from the handwheel, ie the feedback from the front tyres. The i3s, with it's narrow tyres and modest grip is a car that you can use 100% of the grip all the time, in fact, ime, it's even better when it's wet and slippy because it doesn't actually loose much grip as it never had that much when conditions were perfect, the 5n on the otherhand, well i drove it in 3 to 5 degC and honestly, it could be a bit of a handful, and miss a braking point (mostly because it's really really blinking fast!) and several times it felt like "is this thing going to stop" whereas i never get that in the i3s?
I'd love to make some mods to my i3s, an LSD (initaly googling suggest the mini LSD might actually fit as apparently the trans might use this diff??), spacers on the back, or another way of getting about 10% more rear roll stiffenss, and some better quality dampers, and i suspect it would actually become a bit of a sleeper.
Anyway, enjoy the 5n, let us know how it goes and how it compares to your previous i3 🙂
Lovely car and colour. The sounds are hilarious, great that boy racers can get their crackle and pop fix without annoying everyone else 😂
Happy new year
Enjoy your new car 👍👍👍
An amazing car (mind you I loved the i3s too)
Thank you, i've literally seen this car in another color for the first time.
Had mine for just over a month, same colour, mine looks more 'blood orange' in real life.. I hadn't thought about using e-gears as usual brakes + a bit fun, I will use and abuse that when the summer tyres are back on.
I'm amazed this is the free colour, as it's my favourite too, but I've only ever seen one other, so thought it was an expensive extra.
Will be interesting to see the values of these in a few years when my current EV lease is up. I want one! 😂
It’s hilarious to see this thing going sideways around roundabouts with the fake noise but almost feels like you’re not breaking the law because it’s silent outside!!
Glad you’re enjoying it, looking forward on videos to come.
The “manual” box seems like an epic idea, just hearing what the car is doing adds so much more involvement. Having the sound on without the gears just sounds like you’re driving an ICE car in 1st gear all the time haha
Can you have the “gearbox” but have it shift automatically if that makes sense like a normal auto?
Enjoy and happy new year!!
Yes you can switch back from manual to automatic by holding the paddle 2-3sec. So you have an automatic with 8gears
Can choose if it makes sounds outside, it has speakers under the hood and under the rear bumper. Haven't heard it myself, but my friends tell me it sounds just like a real car, just not obnoxiously loud. Totally in sync with the inside sounds so can only just barely hear it in e.g. a tunnel. I leave it making sounds as it appears to fullfill expectations something is coming at speed, and people don't even look up. I think I get more looks when going silent and a little tyre screetch as people get more surprised/startled and threathened as a result. Since the noise on/of is just a press away with the right N button, I think my experience is quite well verified.
What I will do is before entering inhabited areas I know are sensitive to disturbance, like passing a little village at night, is switch to silent but continue to carry appropriate amount of speed. Situations where I would have to slow down excessively in an interesting sounding ICE car to not disturb... Yes a considerate driver, shocking.
In Pikes peak, the public knows to go out of the way when the roaring engines approach. Silent EVs were required to run an annoying siren, the 5N on its runs had a roaring engine instead. Much more as expected and similar to my experience in daily traffic life...
It will be fascinating whether you keep using the gear mode over time as you say.
I’m equally interested having had the EV6 GT for 2 years to test drive one to see whether the gears and noise have the same effect for me or if I find them unnecessary now. I suspect my brain has calibrated itself not to expect the noise now but we’ll see!
I would have loved them to build a golf sized one and called it the 3. I'm not a fan of huge cars. I went with the born instead. I must admit, I'd like the fake gears, but then my "mog" ml/kW would be just as bad as yours. 🙈
take the protective plastic pff the N logo on the seat
My girly is like you mark ………had loads of cars over her 30 yrs of driving In no particular order ( cos I can’t remember!!) V6 calibra, M135i, VW polo, Toyota RAV 4, 3 different smart cars (one of which was battery powered !!!) plus others I can’t remember at the mo !! At present she’s driving a fabia VRS and totally dislikes my cayman as she says it’s a pain in the arse to get in and out of !!!! It’ll be interesting to see how you get on with the high n dry Looking forward to it
I owned the I30N in various guises DCT and manual from launch in 2018 until 2023. Fantastic cars. Nothing but praise for the cars and the N division. I’m not there though in any way, shape or form in terms of EV’s though. So this car does nothing for me. Nice video all the same.
Great car. Amazing choice. Do you mind me asking what your paying per month on this lease on 12000 miles and deposit etc.?
The r5 alpine is 500kg lighter so worth a look when you can 👍
Did you get a better deal in December?
Did you overtake on a solid white line? :)
Who was the lease deal with please , if you don't mind me asking . Very interested in one myself .
I got it through a local Hyundai dealership funded by Hyundai Capital UK. The lease deals they offered were directly comparable with anything offered by the multitude of lease brokers out there, and I got to have a showroom collection which is always a nice thing 😃
@@MarkCup70 Many thanks for taking the time to reply with the Info , currently looking at one to replace the current daily -, a M140i with mods of course ;) Great videos - have been following for quite a while now :)
I priced business lease on Hyundai website. 3 months down, 12k miles a year over 48 months was £618 a month plus vat for Soultronic Orange.
I thought it was red ! 😂
Looks red on CS
Did you consider ICE cars at all or it had to be an EV?
I got it via a company salary sacrifice scheme, so it could only ever be a battery electric vehicle.
@@MarkCup70 Understood. Congrats on it, it seems really engaging for an EV! :)
What’s better to drive this or the cayman 😂
For commuting, this. For pure driving, the Cayman.
@@MarkCup70 yeah you have the best of both worlds that’s what I also do commute in a hybrid and then use the 987 for the track/weekend driving!
Why is this car so expensive to insure? 20yrs ncb and um getting quoted 2.5k??
For context the new M3 is £1200 and the new type r £700.
I have 6 years NCB and pay £600 on a KIA EV6 GT which is similar performance/ price
@BAC_Mono now get a quote for the Ioniq 5N, it'll surprise you
Long highway trips... noise off...
Darting through traffic... noise on....
It's a pity that the car doesn't have an engine.
I've yet to see a journalist give this a rubbish review...Cars Mega..Ha! There's a Black one by me,and yeah,they're massive...!
There's a good reason they fake an engine . . . .
You get the fun without the fumes 👍
@@michealofloinn2539 fumes 🙄🥱
@michealofloinn2539 it won't go through tyres twice as fast will it. It's all fraud
@ ah Darren chin up. Mark is a man who drives and races petrol cars but he also enjoys this ev. It’s just another car with a different engine.
@@michealofloinn2539you're missing the point, it isn't JUST another car with a different engine, it's the slow death of what I've loved all my life.
The ban of ice cars will make travel a lot more hassle in the future. Ice cars will be maintained but they will get ever more expensive as garages switch. Ice engined cars have fire in their belly, EVs do not which is why they fake it. And imagine being in a car crash with one of these the forces will be immense.
It's all a scam to remove cars from the roads and you're all being fooled.
Sounds ridiculous
Yawn…….