Reminder: Hyundai motor company donated $1 million to the orange MAGAt king’s inauguration.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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name a car maker that has not contributed to MAGA. That's how business is done in US.
Companies always have a choice, and the choices that we do know about should be highlighted.
I agree, but I think their point was more or less, so am i not allowed to buy a new car?
So a more helpful answer would be, buy used and private or used and at a dealership that isn't associated with a brand.
Do you have a citation for this claim?
FEC Form 13 filing that lists all donors: https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00894162/1889684/f132
“HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA” is listed as having donated “$1000000.00” on 2025-01-06.
There are a lot of other companies that donated similar amounts to which people should pay attention.
Thank you for this. I'm making a long list of brands to avoid.
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I have an Ioniq 5. It’s great. Highly recommended.
Those are pretty sweet. Was looking at those before I bought its cousin the Kia EV6. Best vehicle I’ve ever owned.
Can it finally do one pedal driving and keep it between drives? Last time I drove one I had to enable it every time I went into drive. I've been driving one pedal for almost 10 years now so I don't want to go back.
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I bought one last year and it’s been a delight.
I have many complaints about it and they’re all incredibly petty.
Man I love mine but I do have a lot of complaints. Like a bunch of things that just don’t make any sense, like the doors unlock when you walk up but don’t lock when you walk away? You also can’t lock the doors using the door buttons if you want to lock and walk away, so fucking annoying. There’s a lot of small things, but it charges so fast and it’s so nice inside.
Hey bruh, you wanna skip forward a song on this playlist? Toggle down on the steering wheel control.
You. Dirty. Mother. Fucker.
This kinda makes sense because you're going down in the playlist... But other cars use left and right 🤷
Hyundais other cars use up. Even their other brands like Kia use up. It makes no sense.
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You can disable the "unlock on approach" in the settings. I did on mine because that annoyed me the same way.
I also turned off lock when walking away. Sometimes I just forget something and have to run back for it...
Car now only locks or unlocks if I push buttons on the fob. That's what I prefer!
I want an EV and I like Hyundais (having owned one in the past), but reading comments like these reminds me that having a "modern" computerized car would drive me nuts. And that's on top of the surveillance and lack of right to repair being deal-breakers.
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Their most recent OTA update also allows you to disable location sharing, presumably to conform to California law.
Likely to disable it for other users mostly for in a domestic abuse situation (not the OEM) for a new York law. https://opdv.ny.gov/nys-connected-vehicle-service-laws
I would definitely have gone for an Ioniq 5 as well if money was not a question. But at the end of the day, the Ioniq 5 was overkill for my use case so I ended up going for a used Hyundai Kona. Still very happy with my choice, even if I would've loved an Ioniq 5. But it did save me like 60.000 DKK.
Same here. I tried a couple Ioniqs and some KIA's. Went with a 2024 Kona. It's been great!
I think this is what “want an EV, research it heavily” folks tend to end up with, where Teslas leans more “want an EV, don’t research it quite as heavily” crowd.
Not that either brand makes bad cars.
I just mean the Hyundai/Kia EVs are less “sexy” on the surface. Their charge and range is lower, but if you look into it, it’s an engineering compromise for faster charging. Hyundai isn’t a very “glamorous” brand, but their recent cars have been excellent, and if you actually look into Tesla, well… gestures at X. Lower end Teslas are priced somewhat attractively and tend to have better resale value than Hyundai at the moment, and it’s quite rational to assume “well, they’ve been making EVs longer.” But if you research it, Teslas have a more hidden costs over time, and even though some systems like the heatpumps are less refined than Teslas, Hyundai engineered the heck out of the car.
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