2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N (drift mode & torque split demo) first drive review

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We've had the chance to drive a prototype version of the 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N. It's going to be launched at the 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed and in this video Paul Maric shows you the drift optimiser, torque split system and runs you through some of the key highlights the car will launch with.  Sorry about the music in the video. Hyundai didn't tell us that we couldn't record video with the engine sound running. As a result they had to dub music over the video to try and conceal it - as a result the sound quality is very bad and there's music in the video, which we didn't put in there.  More Hyundai content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/hyundai More Hyundai Ioniq 5 content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/hyundai/ioniq-5  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 First Impressions 00:38 Sport Mode 01:47 Drift Mode 02:37 Other info 05:05 Verdict 07:55  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #hyundai #ioniq5n #review

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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. Hyundai is just about to launch the new IONIQ 5N.

00:04 They're actually launching it at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

00:06 This here is a prototype version of the IONIQ 5N, and we're in Sweden with Hyundai at the moment because they're doing some

00:13 fine-tuning on the stability control systems, and also giving us a chance to have a bit of a drive of this before we do

00:18 finally get to drive it in dry conditions as well. So this is going to be a first taste.

00:22 I don't have a stack of information, so I'll give you everything that I do have,

00:25 but everything else will come at a later date.

00:28 Now, if you haven't done so already, please subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon as well,

00:32 so you can find out every single time we publish new content. Let's hop inside the car and go for a bit of a spin.

00:36 Okay, so let's do some driving. So I'm going to point out at this stage, this is a prototype still,

00:42 so it's not a complete vehicle. Means some of the materials and stuff inside the car aren't correct.

00:48 And in addition to that, I can't show you the screens here, but I can describe what I'm seeing.

00:52 Now this video, just because we don't have much time to shoot it, we're going to use B-roll,

00:56 which is just footage that I'm probably not in over the stuff that I'm talking about,

01:00 but will give you as much information as I possibly can. So why are they here in Sweden?

01:04 Well, it's all about testing on these icy conditions and then shooting the stability control,

01:09 but there are a couple of really cool features here.

01:11 And we're on this huge sort of big circle on a lake here,

01:14 and I want to run you through the stability control with the drift optimizer.

01:18 So right now everything is on just the normal mode, and when you start turning in,

01:22 it basically will constantly bite, and it will constantly just be keeping the car in line.

01:28 It doesn't give you any fun behind the wheel, and it's designed just like you would expect it to be if you're driving

01:33 to and from work in conditions like this.

01:36 And it means that you can be aggressive with it, and then it will bite and stop the car from sort of doing anything too badly.

01:42 So that's all sort of pretty straightforward.

01:45 But then what you can do is press the ESC sport button.

01:49 ESC sport gives you the ability to add a bit more throttle

01:53 and get the car to go sideways. If you then counter-steer,

01:56 it will wait just a little bit longer before it actually

02:00 brings in the braking to keep the car in line.

02:04 So this is all pretty standard stuff, and there's nothing sort of too

02:07 groundbreaking there in terms of how that works.

02:10 It just does what it says on the box, and it makes you feel like a bit of a hero, but it's pretty safe

02:16 all the time. Now where it gets interesting is the drift optimizer. So I'm going to come to a stop here to activate it.

02:24 Okay, so come to a full stop, switch stability control off by pushing and holding.

02:29 It comes up saying stability control has been switched off. Then we tick

02:34 drift optimizer. It gives you a whole bunch of warnings. Okay, so that is active. It comes up the top here saying drift.

02:40 And in a straight line,

02:43 you can feel that it's kicking

02:45 totally sideways. But with this active, I'm able to lean into the throttle,

02:50 start applying steering lock.

02:53 But what it's doing, it's letting me go all the way to the limits of the car.

02:58 And it means that when you are reaching those limits where typically you would lose control of the car, instead of losing control,

03:05 you just feed in a bit more throttle, a bit more steering angle, watch where you're going, and away it goes. It just basically lets the car

03:14 continue going around in circles all day long. We're on a surface here that is like

03:18 barely any traction whatsoever. I can just stay in it,

03:23 it just feeds in steering lock, and it will just keep going sideways. It is an incredible system, and they've done such a good job

03:29 for you to actually tune it and make you feel like an absolute hero as well.

03:32 Now another cool feature you can do as well here is actually change the torque distribution.

03:38 And with stability control off, we can actually go all the way from

03:43 totally front-wheel drive to totally rear-wheel drive or some variation in between. So right now it's set on 80/20.

03:50 So this is not drift optimizer. This is actually stability control being entirely off, and it's up to the

03:55 driver to figure out how it all works.

03:58 But there's another cool system where you are again in control of the car, you're able to set the settings yourself

04:04 and tell it exactly what you want to do.

04:07 And again, it's something that you can't do in a lot of cars. Tesla tried to do it with the Model 3 and it works well there,

04:12 but here they kind of give you that extra granular control we don't quite get in the Model 3 as well.

04:19 So even with everything off, I'm able to just feed in throttle and steering lock,

04:24 and it will just do everything that it needs to do, and then we can go all the way to...

04:28 Let's go just to rear-wheel drive.

04:31 And in rear-wheel drive, it is literally just driving a rear-wheel drive car on ice, which is

04:42 hilarious fun. This car is genuinely unreal. I think what they've done here is something to be sort of pretty impressed with.

04:47 So let's head over to the ride and handling track,

04:49 and I'll just run you through a couple of the other features that they've got going as well.

04:52 Okay, so we have moved over to the handling track,

04:57 and I'll just run you through some of the other stuff that we've learned about this. Again,

05:00 we don't know all of the information. I'm just going to feed you as much as I do know.

05:04 So basically this sits on a wider track. It's lower. It's got different camber to a regular IONIQ 5.

05:11 It also has adaptive damping as well. So you'll have different modes that you can run through

05:15 to adjust how the ride feels behind the wheel.

05:18 In addition to all of that, it uses an ELSD on the rear axle. So the ELSD is effectively

05:24 mimicking a full mechanical LSD, but it's electronically controlled,

05:28 and it means that they can snap it open and close so that when you do

05:32 sort of get into a condition where you do want to be feeding

05:35 torque to that rear axle, it's going to act like a regular LSD. That also gives you the ability to do

05:41 torque vectoring as well, because you can open and close that as required.

05:46 I'm getting really switched off here. This is so much fun. The other interesting feature they've got as well...

05:52 Scanning click through here...

05:56 The other cool feature they've got as well is

05:59 fake gear shifts. So with the pedal shifters on an 8B, typically what's being used for is adjusting how much regen you have.

06:07 Whereas here in the...

06:10 (laughs)

06:12 Out of the side window...

06:14 (laughs)

06:16 Yeah, so typically with EVs, the

06:19 pedal shifters are used for controlling the amount of regen that you have.

06:23 Whereas here, what you're able to do is actually use the pedal shifters to simulate gear shifts,

06:27 and that gives you a tacho here on the screen.

06:30 And

06:32 the tacho is basically like an RPM gauge, and obviously

06:36 this isn't like an internal combustion car, but they wanted to mimic it for customers so they would feel comfortable with

06:42 a rev gauge for the head of the driver. And then when you do pull the pedal shifters, you're actually simulating gear shifts.

06:52 So then the car is basically, you know,

06:55 shifting gears, which is just a weird phenomenon, but it's something they're trying to do to bridge the gap between an internal combustion car and

07:02 the end vehicle.

07:05 So look, Albert Biermann, the bloke that's responsible for engineering all this stuff,

07:08 he's saying that this is capable of doing two laps of the Nurburgring without any degradation, which is pretty incredible for an EV.

07:14 They're also talking about a new battery chemistry as well

07:17 that hasn't been available on previous versions of the ioniq 5 that is fitted to this.

07:22 So that means they can get better current draw and also means that

07:25 that's a track mode available to you that you're able to engage to give you that better life on the tracks that can really hammer it.

07:30 Yeah, look, it is all pretty impressive. We do have such limited information,

07:34 so I haven't been able to give you a great deal of detail or show you what any of this stuff looks like.

07:37 But look, the first glance here is this is pretty unreal.

07:41 It's been awesome to be able to come to Sweden and actually test it out on these surfaces and get a

07:45 much better feel for how this goes. Like earlier,

07:48 we did some split view testing as well to see what stability controls were like and how it accelerated

07:52 using that ELSD and everything was really impressive. So look, I think they've done a great job.

07:57 If you do have any questions about it, let me know in the comments section below.

08:00 I'll answer as much as I possibly can, keeping in mind I don't have much information.

08:04 I've just been told what I've been told and yeah, I'll answer whatever I can answer for you without getting into trouble.

08:10 If you did enjoy this video,

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08:17 down the track when it is finally released because it should be amazing fun.

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