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.
I test drove both recently at top trims ID4 is missing a bit in US, there is no HUD, no ventilated seats (the trim with HUD is impossible to find). Also the small driver display was hard to use without a HUD. Generally the display interface was worse. The trunk space was also less usable since id4 trunk was narrower and 2nd row wasn’t as comfortable.
Also VW didn’t adopt NACS in US as the only remaining company so that plays a role too.