hey everyone it's the ionic guy today I'm the Kia guy again today I'm sitting in the 2023 Kia ev6 GT
this is not the GT line which is just a trim of the base ev6 this is the GT top of the line dual
motors 576 horsepower 500 something pound-feet of torque just an absolutely insane amount of
power and this is my first time ever sitting in an ev6 let alone the GT so these are my first
impressions I just got into the car I set up my camera and I'm going to take a look through the
car give you guys my impressions as a long time ionic 5 owner right off the bat I'm going to say
I'm a big guy these bucket seats in the GT trim are a little tight they are definitely
a little tight on my thighs side to side not so bad actually I could live with these
side to side but the seat bottom is just a little too narrow for a big guy like myself
driving position actually feels quite good I'm going to turn the car on I habitually
want to go to this position to turn the car on but on the ev6 it's right here in the center
so let's adjust the co I completely forgot these seats are manually adjustable for
weight savings even though they put a sunroof in it so
you're going to save weight with the manual adjusting seats but then you put in a sunroof
I don't know how how much I believe that it was purely for weight savings um
so I just powered the car on it's at 86 percent state of charge and it's only
showing 171 miles of range so let's see what the efficiency has been on this guy
so this is going to take some getting used to the controls on the steering wheel are
completely reversed from the ionic five cruise control and the driver display are controlled
on the left here and then audio and phone is all controlled on the right so it's reversed
it looks like the guys who drove the car to my house and dropped it off reset all the computers
so I can't see what the latest efficiency actually is but we might be able to go into
the display here and see under Eevee settings what they are okay so here we can see the recent
efficiency of this car between 2 and 2.8 but it looks like it's definitely on the lower side
0.5
yeah so the long drive they did today from somewhere in New York they got 2.6 miles per
kilowatt hour which is a little bit lower than I've been seeing in my ionic 5 this winter but
it's not terribly off maybe about 0.2 miles off so my first impression of this cabin is
it's definitely cozy compared to the ionic 5 this is definitely a cozy space I feel like it's really
intruding in on me versus on the ionic five I feel like it's very open and breathable this
big a-pillar here is really in my face I'm not a big fan of these big thick a-pillars especially
when it's really raked like this I mean it's like what five inches six inches from my eye
kind of feels a little intrusive I am noticing that the sunroof does not have
oh maybe it does have a cover okay the sunroof does have a cover which is nice
and oh and then fully opens
I will say it is kind of nice to see a retractable roof in an EV because it's
just not very common these days the Maki doesn't have it the Tesla doesn't have it the Genesis
gv60 doesn't have it the VW id4 doesn't have it there's more cars that don't have it than
do have it so it is kind of a cool feature to see no don't close that I need the light
I'm not a fan of all the piano black that's not my preference
I really like that the ioniq 5 doesn't have any piano black in it so I do like this brushed metal
looking trim here next to the power button and I like that you have the quick buttons
for heated seats now the GT doesn't come with the ventilated seats but the GT line does have
the ventilated seat buttons and I do really like that's right at your fingertips that's really nice
big fan good job Kia so let's try this rotary shifter foreign
shifter works fine it's just I have built up so much muscle memory to the way the
ionic 5 operates that it's going to take a probably the full week of having this
car to get actually used to using these controls this is definitely going to take
some getting used to the lower display here that swaps between HVAC and media
I like that the Qi wireless charging pad is out in
the open here it makes it really easy to put your phone in there
I will say this this cubby down here this lower one it's not really that convenient to store
things in there because if you're sitting here just trying to reach in this whole portion right
here is right in your line to block getting into it so so I'm not too crazy about that
you have plenty of charging options up front two usbcs a 12 volt 180 watts and a USB a port
so I thought the reach for the glove box and the ionic 5 was really far I think it's even
further here in the ev6 I oh my God I'm at least 18 inches from the furthest corner of that glove
box in the driver's seat I would have to really climb over this center console to get to it
but it looks about the same size as the ionic fives
now something with the GT line is that you have fixed headrests so you can adjust these
forward or aft so they are what they are and if they don't work for you they don't
work for you but they actually do feel pretty good here I will say I do actually like the
the positioning of them the amount of cushion they provide but I'm going to
be doing a lot more driving in this car over the next week so I'll let you know in my final
review this is just a first impressions video for those of you who missed that
so we've got Auto wipers in this car which my ionic 5 SEL does not have
going through the drive modes here Eco normal sport
and there's no snow mode in this car so if you hold down the drive mode button like in
the ionic 5 you don't get snow mode but there is another button on the steering wheel and that's
the GT button and that's where we're going to have some fun this car does have the vehicle
to load in the back seat oh I also completely forgot this car has a heads up display so I just
noticed now and I saw that in the settings that I can make some adjustments to that
this car also does have ambient lighting throughout the cabin which is nice it's a
nice blue color right now the door pockets are padded also a nice touch this is like a suede
probably not Alcantara material on the doors but it does feel nice I like it but I'm really excited
to test out the sound system in this car because the sound system in the ioniq 5 is pretty lacking
I have heard from a lot of ev6 owners that the Meridian system may have more speakers but it
doesn't necessarily sound all that fantastic so we'll give that a test this week I'll come back
and let you guys know how I like the sound system so I've got the seat adjusted for me so I'm going
to go ahead and pop in the back seat and we'll see how much leg room I have compared to my ionic five
so leg room back here in the ev6 is actually really good it's better than I was expecting
because the ev6 has a shorter wheelbase than the ionic 5 but it is a little bit longer overall
so nice to see that there is a lot of space back here uh looks like for those of us who are really
annoyed with the bouncing Buckle in the back seat of the ionic five it looks like you might not
have that issue in the ev6 because you have this really wide seat here there's not a whole lot of
c-pillar here for this to actually bang against but there is that little bit of fabric on the
back which kind of leads me to believe that there might be a rattling issue but we will find out
no pass through or anything but the seats do not
slide forward and backward like in the ionic five do they recline
they definitely fold flat
yep they do recline just a little bit not a ton yeah all around a pretty comfortable back seat
at least the ev6 has adjustable headrests here unlike the ioniq 5 in my SC Ultram
this little window is kind of hilariously small but I guess whatever helps with visibility a
little bit's better than nothing got some dome lights back here I'm happy to see there's air
vents back here for the rear occupants some more ambient Lighting in the doors
oh wow heated seats in the back you don't even get that on the ionic 5 limited so nice touch Kia
back seat passengers also get two USBC charging ports but other than the door
Pockets there is no storage for rear seat passengers there's no map pockets on the
back of the seats there's not even one on just one side let's take a look at the trunk
okay it's not as small as everyone makes it out to be but it's definitely not as useful as the ionic
5 in terms of just how much this cargo area slopes but I am happy to see that you can fold down
seats from a handle on the back that is something that is desperately needed in the ionic 5.
you can see two more speakers in the trunk for the 14 speaker sound system
subwoofers under the floor here
Subs down there cross car beam for added rigidity
foreign here's the charging port
this car looks really good in this red I think it's called Runway red looks really good
especially on these 21s with these lime green calipers really cool look
so anyway guys thanks for joining me on this first impressions video of the Kia
ev6 GT we'll do some longer distance efficiency testing some comparisons to
my ionic 5 and I'll give you a full review of the car at some point in the near future
so thanks for watching if you enjoyed the video give it a thumbs up subscribe if you
haven't already done so and I'll see you guys in the next one take care everybody
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