Cost of maintenance at dealership is high
Other than the cost of maintenance at MY dealership, the car is fantastic! It's comfortable, zippy enough to put a smile on my face, good looking and overall, I think it's a good value so far.
We're at almost 1 year of ownership and have turned 15000 miles. We did a road trip and made a loop from Washington to Arizona, New Mexico and back via Colorado, Utah, Oregon and Idaho. My wife and I, all of our stuff and 10 days of travel and it did excellent. Super comfortable and something like $170.00 in fuel cost. For the whole trip!
In Colorado we experienced a little snow and quite a bit of ice. I was wary not knowing how it would handle on the ice and it did just perfect. In about 100 miles of icy road, not a slip and I don't use chains or have snow or studded tires.
The only two things I don't like about the Ioniq are how dirty the back of the car gets from just everyday.driving, but especially in rainy conditions, and how dirty the door aprons (the plastic part that covers the rocker panels) get. It's almost impossible to not wipe the back of your pant leg on this and transfer the dirt to your pant leg.
We like this car a lot! It's my wife's daily driver to work and back, about a 65 mile round trip. She loves it! If I didn't work so close to home, less than 2 miles, we would buy a second one for me.
We bought the SEL. I wish we had spring for the limited for the additional features.
Now that we've owned for about a year, we've figured out that here in Washington at least, seasonal fuel blends have played a big role in our mileage. One tank last summer and we ended up at 63mpg for the tank. That was meticulous driving using the adaptive cruise control the whole time. During our road trip in February we had tankfuls as low as 44 mpg. MPG figures increased a lot in April however, and I think seasonal blends or the gasoline glut may have something to do with it. Who knows, it's just rationalizing differences...
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