I am on the verge of doing an early termination for my Tucson for this car but I’m a bit worried about the comfort of the Ultimate seats and the fact it’s quite low down. Do you all find it easy to get in and out of? I have slightly bad knees and chronic back pain and worry it’ll be a pain to get in and out of and when I did a test drive the firm seat wasn’t as comfortable as my Tucson but I’m not sure if that was just because I didn’t adjust the seat correctly.
Leaving aside the merits of the Ioniq, if you have chronic back pain and dodgy knees I would have thought you’d be daft to move away from an SUV, especially as you need to think ahead as to what you might be like over the next 3 years. If you do an early termination on the Tucson, get a lower car, and then have to do another early termination, you might find yourself in difficulty.
If you want to find out for sure, we had no problem getting 24 hour test drives at our local Hyundai dealership (in fact I had two of them in different cars). That would give you plenty of time to do a long journey, multiple short ones, get in and out of the car lots of times and play around with the seating position.
Out of interest, how long have you had your Tucson? We have a Tucson Ultimate and I found the seats to be uncomfortable at first (the upper backrest seemed to press into my shoulder blades) but, after a lot of tweaking of the electric seats, I have managed to get comfortable in them and now don’t have an issue, even on long journeys. That being said, I don’t think that seats are Hyundai’s strong point. Before getting our Tucson I used to go out regularly in my mates Santa Fe. He had 3 of them in a row and I found every one of them to be ruddy uncomfortable as a passenger!