Remember when Hyundai first teased the 45 EV Concept back in 2019, the car that would go on to become the Ioniq 5?
Yeah, we didn’t think the production car would look anything like that, but here we are.
Styling aside, how well does the Ioniq 5 do daily driver things? We drove one for a few days to find out.
Other Staff Views
David S. Wallens
Editorial Director
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is everything the Ford Mustang Mach-E wants to be. There, I said it.
Where the Mach-E’s styling looks forced and saccharine–and even a bit bloated–the Ioniq 5 delivers crisp, refreshing and upmarket lines.
Look at the Hyundai’s nose. Clean, elegant, subdued. Instead of a caricature of something else, the Hyundai is a futuristic styling exercise brought to life.
Inside, the Hyundai delivers soft, upmarket touch points and a stylish, integrated wide-screen display. The experience is calming and curated.
The Mustang? Here, we’ll just bolt this iPad to the dash, and hope you don’t mind hard plastic.
Let’s compare seats: comfortable and supportive (Ioniq 5) vs. flat and blah (Mach-E).
Even outside door handles? Smooth and integrated (Hyundai) vs. just weird and awkward (hello, Mach-E).
Where the Mach-E felt a bit like a novelty rushed to market (look, an electric Mustang) the Ioniq 5 delivered a more developed experience, from walking up to driving off.
J.G. Pasterjak
Production ManagerArt Director
The Ioniq 5 basically settles the argument—if it were even still ongoing—over whether mass-market electric vehicles are “there” yet. Yeah, we’re there, and the Ioniq 5 is brilliant, unique, useful and interesting in all the right ways.
But the Ioniq’s goodness just underscores the badness of pretty much EVERY other factor surrounding EVs at the moment. The public charging infrastructure is hot garbage, with too few stations, charging too much money, for too slow charging, and that’s even if they function when you arrive on e-fumes to begin with. Compound that with predatory dealers and supply chains still reeling from peak pandemic-era slowdowns, and you end up with amazing vehicles being inserted into a turbulent world that refuses to let them shine.
And that’s a bummer, because while Hyundai in general is killing it these…
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