Exceeded my expectations
I am pleasantly surprised with my 2025 Ioniq 5. It has, mostly, exceeded my expectations in terms of comfort, driving, and quality. After purchasing my new Ioniq 5 my wife and I drove it nearly 4000 miles on a cross country road trip. During that trip I found several issues with the tech that bothered me. I am hoping that the software update that is to be available in a couple days is going to remedy the problems I have with some of the vehicle operation and navigation technology. The thing that bothers me most in my vehicle is the constant warnings about taking a break and keeping eyes on the road. This is maddening and goes off far too often and for no reason whatsoever. It is worse with sunglasses on, but even with them off it warns me if I so much as turn my head to look at something in my blind spot or out the window. I should be able to disable these systems, they are incredibly annoying and actually detract from safety rather than aid it. They also detract from the overall experience of driving in the car. I leased my Ioniq 5 for 3 years thinking I may buy the car at the end of the lease. But I will not buy this car, or buy another Hyundai if it has these systems and they cannot be disabled. It is especially annoying on long trips when you want/need the vehicle to be comfortable. One other problem that I have heard will be fixed in a coming update is that the Hyundai navigation system does not allow me to specify the SOC I want to arrive at a charger with. It also does not allow me to choose my route, it always routes me on a highway, even if I want a different back road route. Our road trip was on (mostly) Route 66, the Hyundai nav app was completely useless. I ended up using the app called ABRP (with an OBD dongle) instead. My "Comfort" rating of 4 out of 10 is due to the f'ing safety warnings!! If not for them the comfort of the vehicle would be 8 or 9. My reliability rating is 5, but only because I don't know what the car's reliability is yet, time will tell on this. So far so good, but there are some people having issues (I hope I don't!)...