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.
Vancouver here. I finally got a call back from Hyundai after waiting 19 months with them. However, at 16 months I put my name in with Volkswagen and literally 2 days previous I picked up my ID.4. 3 month wait for the ID.4.
Honestly, aside from the wait, it came down to sales experience. Hyundai would have likely made a sale with me if they told me where I was in line, but all I was told was a very large dealership was getting 3 I5s total for September. VW then sent a marketing email with 12 on the lot and I signed for a short range RWD one the next day.
Love it. Charging comments here are something I thought about, but the fastest I’ve charged in these 2 months is 0.7kW and I drive over 1000km a month. It’s a car car. Nothing too flashy, comfortable, excellent turning for driving in a city and underground parking garages.