How do you follow on from the incredible design of the Ioniq 5? Hyundai's done exactly that with its new, streamliner-inspired Ioniq 6 - TimPollardCars tells all...
► ‘Aero streamliner’ style for e-saloon
‘There’s nothing wrong with a Russian doll design strategy, but we wanted a chess piece look,’ design director Lee tells CAR. ‘All Ioniq models will look different, but when you see them together, they make sense.’The 6 was previewed by 2020’s super-slick Prophecy concept car, a slammed and streamlined four-door like an early Mercedes-Benz CLS on steroids.
The Ioniq 6 hides its technological chops with ease. We find an attractive, low-slung four-door, measuring 4855mm long and 1880mm wide – a footprint shadowing a 4-series’, but with a super-stretchy wheelbase a whisker under 3m for exceptional cabin space. It’s roomy in there, matching Skoda Superb accommodation for legroom in both rows, though the arcing roofline means headroom is merely decent rather than exceptional.
It comes with 800-volt rapid charging, two- or all-wheel drive and clever V2L energy management to allow the car to consume or provide electricity. Which is why you’ll find countless journalists and bloggers boiling kettles plugged into their Ioniq 5 on social media. Might seem frivolous today, but smart domestic power broking could become a major selling point for electric cars in an energy-challenged world.
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