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.

  • M0U53YBE94@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    So here’s an angle. In my area vw sells at about 5% below MSRP. With not dealer add one. Kia sells at about 5.5k over MSRP as does Hyundai. I’m seeing kias move quicker than vdubs. The Ford dealer also sells at same 5% under MSRP as well. And they are stacked up not selling at our dealer. IMHO kia/Hyundai made a stellar e-gmp platform. Vw has made an EV boring and clunky. The mustang is also no better.