Hyundai has revealed full prices and specs for its streamliner saloon – the Hyundai Ioniq 6 - which boasts a range of up to 379 miles from a charge.
Hyundai Ioniq 6: price and release date
The Hyundai Ioniq 6 is available to order now with prices starting from £46,745 for a Premium rear-wheel drive model. Exterior kit includes 20-inch alloy wheels, electrically adjustable and folding wing mirrors, LED exterior lights, tinted windows and a rear spoiler. Inside, you get kit like electrically controlled and heated front seats, heated rear seats and a 12.3-inch infotainment screen with Apple CarPlay/Android Auto and built-in sat-nav.
A Premium-trimmed car with all-wheel drive costs from £50,245 which, incidentally, is the same as you’ll pay for a rear-wheel-drive model in higher-spec Ultimate trim.
Ultimate models add kit like a faux leather interior, a memory function for the electrically adjustable driver’s seat, ventilated front seats, electrically operated sunroof, a blind spot monitor, head-up display, 360-degree parking camera, auto park, remote parking and a Bose sound system with seven speakers and a subwoofer. Ultimate models also get a steering wheel with LED lights – that communicate things like the car’s charging status – and have Active Sound Design technology that produces a unique sound under hard acceleration. Unique models are also available with digital side mirrors, which essentially replace traditional wing mirrors with cameras.
Adding four-wheel drive to Ultimate spec increases the price to £53,745.
The Ioniq 6 will sit at the top of Hyundai’s pure electric line-up – which already includes the Kona Electric and Ioniq 5 – and compete with the Tesla Model 3 by offering a 379-mile range, which is five miles more than the Tesla can manage. As well as taking on the Tesla, the Ioniq 6 will also do battle with the likes of the Polestar 2, Nissan Ariya and Kia EV6.
Hyundai Ioniq 6 exterior and interior design
The Hyundai Ioniq 6 was nicknamed the Electric Streamliner by the engineers that built it and it’s easy to see why. Everything from the Ioniq 6’s blunt nose to its recessed door handles, cameras in place of wing mirrors and steadily sloping rear end are designed to help the Ioniq 6 cut through the air as easily as possible.
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It’s packed full of neat touches, too, like a large ducktail spoiler that rises out of the back of the car and pulses with light like the LED strip on Knight Rider.
Inside, the Ioniq 6 will make full use of its electric underpinnings to give you a flat floor and a floating centre console that combine to make the car feel light and airy inside.
Hyundai hasn’t revealed the interior’s dimensions, but you can expect the Ioniq 6 to have more back-seat kneeroom than any of its aforementioned rivals. At 4855mm long, the Ioniq 6 is about the same size as a BMW 3 Series saloon but – thanks to a colossal three-metre-long wheelbase – it has room inside to match family car royalty like the Skoda Superb.
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You can also expect the cabin to feel very high-tech. Two huge infotainment screens will be used to control most of the car’s systems – allowing for a clean design – and they’re bookended by a pair of screens that beam back images from the car’s wing-mirror-replacing cameras. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will be fitted as standard.
As well as being packed with tech, you can choose to have the interior finished in one of four colour packs including olive green, black, two-tone black or brown.
Hyundai Ioniq 6 batteries, range and performance
You’ll be able to specify your Ioniq 6 with a 58kWh or 77.4kWh battery and both come as standard with 350kW fast charging which means you can charge the car’s battery from 10-80% in under 20 minutes. You’ll also be able to choose from single-motor (long-range) and twin-motor (performance) models.
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Hyundai has yet to reveal figures for the rear-mounted, single-motor model, but expect it to have around 225bhp and to get from 0-62mph in under eight seconds. Fitted with the larger battery option, this configuration will give the Hyundai a range of up to 379 miles. Stick with the 58kWh battery and you can expect a range of about 250 miles.
The dual-motor model has a clearer focus on performance. With 316bhp and superior traction off the line, it should be good for 0-62mph in 5.1 seconds and a range of around 300 miles.
We’ll have a full review of the Hyundai Ioniq 6 in the coming months.