Brilliant car but I don't trust it
The Ioniq 5 is brilliant and a pleasure to drive. Styling is subtle, perfect. We feel grateful to own one.
But it lacks a rear wiper, which is absurd. We carry a towel to clean the rear window. The door handles stick out if the car is unlocked, which advertises that the car is unlocked. The handles also catch the clothes of passersby. (We often are waiting in lines, inside the car, where we don't think to lock the car. People squeezing between cars complain about the handles, so then we lock the car.) We took the only trim level available, and it has neither seat memory nor rain-sensor wipers. These deficiencies are proving to be bothersome because: (1) The headrests are uncomfortable and it takes a lot of adjusting for either driver to get the seats positioned to minimized the discomfort--and then all that adjustment work is lost when the other driver gets in. (2) In rain flurries, the wiper speed needs to be manually adjusted, sometimes every 10 or 20 seconds. The wipers are really loud if the windshield isn't wet enough. Seems to me that a software update could solve the door handle and front-wiper problems.
My biggest reservation about the car is that Hyundai's privacy policy gives the company sweeping powers to spy on you and use that information for their benefit rather than yours. The company is quite opaque about what it actually does with the information from the microphones inside the car, the cameras, the way you drive, where you drive, the data from the phone you plug into the USB port, and so forth. I want my car to serve my needs not Hyundai's. I want Hyundai to make its money selling me the car and servicing it, rather than using my data as a recurrent revenue stream. I don't really know what Hyundai is doing, and that's a problem.
I admire and enjoy this car, but I can't love a car I don't trust.
Verified Owner
