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.
It isn’t more popular looking at the sales figures. ID.4 and Ioniq 5 both sold 10-11k units last quarter in the US, in Europe the ID.4 is the third best selling EV this year, the Ioniq 5 is about the 15th.
There are plenty of good reasons to prefer the Ioniq 5 to the ID.4, but the ID.4 gets excessive criticism online and by reviewers, I think because it is a less exciting design and appeals to ordinary people, because people dislike VW because of dieselgate, and because VW were seen as challenging Tesla, so Tesla fans got defensive. The software also was not very good, and these perceptions remain even though the issues seem to have been solved. The new version of the ID.4 actually has software features that I’d like to see others adopt, like an ability to manually precondition the battery, and an ability to see the car’s current maximum charge speed potential.
If you’re looking at the ID.4 I’d make sure to get the new version with the v4 software. The worst issues with the ID.4 are that the OTA system hasn’t worked, and the old cars can’t get the new software.