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I snagged a 2025 Ioniq 5 to replace my 2021 Chevy Bolt yesterday and already put 150 miles on it. I'm kind of blown away and wanted to share some things that stood out.

  1. The car is wide. Much wider than the Bolt. Gonna take some getting used to.
  2. Not sure how I lived without a power lift gate until now. It was great when loading laundry and groceries into the trunk.
  3. The driver seat can lay completely flat - flatter than the zero gravity mode that you may have seen. Perfect for napping while waiting at the laundromat, and I'm looking forward to trying it while car camping.
  4. You can pull the car forward and backwards with the keyfob while standing outside of it. Already used it twice - once to pull out of a tight parking spot, once to center myself after street parking a bit crooked.
  5. The surround view is incredible. It made parallel parking an absolute breeze.
  6. Autopilot is scary but works. I was only brave enough to use it on the highway with no other cars around.
  7. Auto-parking doesn't seem to work very well, but I'll have to play around with it.

Overall I'm super happy with the car and keep looking for excuses to go somewhere. Happy to answer any questions.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All great and none of it matter if this car (well, it's real owner) is selling my personal data to 695826 different data brokers

If it's listening in on everything I say and selling it, I'm out

If it's selling all my location data, I'm out

I'm assuming it does sell, so I'll never own one of these

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You could always just pull out the fuse on the GPS/network module, or remove the module itself. When my eye tracker in my car annoyed me, I just pulled the unit out and put the cladding back. It fixed the false positive issue it kept having with sunglasses.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

.... You have an eye tracker in your car wtf?

Why?

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