**The Luxury SUV Conundrum**

For someone with a budget of $70 grand, a huge luxury SUV might seem like an attractive option. While there are some downsides to consider, it's definitely worth thinking about if you're willing to spend that kind of money. However, for someone who commutes regularly and needs to think about fuel costs, the premium gas required by these vehicles can be a significant expense.

In fact, commuting in areas with heavy traffic can make owning one of these vehicles less appealing. As our host mentioned, even with minimal driving time, fuel costs can add up quickly. For instance, if you're commuting for 35-45 minutes each way, that's over an hour and a half of daily driving time. At $4 a gallon, premium gas alone would be around $20-25 per day, assuming a fuel efficiency of around 15 miles per gallon. That's a significant expense, especially when compared to more practical vehicles.

**A Shift in Priorities**

Our host recently had the opportunity to drive a Hyundai Ionic N and was thoroughly impressed by its performance and handling. The car made them feel like a kid again, laughing and smiling as they drove around. However, when it came time to test drive their own BMW M3, the experience was vastly different.

While the M3 is an excellent driver's car with a manual transmission, our host felt that it was underpowered compared to other cars in its class. They've considered modifying the engine with a supercharger, but ultimately decided against it. Instead, they opted to sell their BMW and explore alternative options.

One of the main reasons our host feels this way is that the M3 has become less practical for their lifestyle. As someone who often drives friends and family around, they found that the car's manual transmission made it difficult to share with others. Additionally, the high maintenance costs associated with owning a 25-year-old BMW have become too much.

**A New Era of Driving**

As our host moves forward, they're excited to explore new options like the Hyundai Ionic N and other electric vehicles. With more EVs on the market than ever before, it's an exciting time for drivers who value performance and efficiency.

One of the hosts' upcoming projects is restoring a 911, which they're very lucky to own. However, with the rise of EVs, they're also considering alternatives like the Honda Beat. They've expressed enthusiasm for staying tuned for updates on this project as well as their work on repairing the Fisker.

**The Sale of the BMW Z3 Coupe**

Our host has decided to sell their BMW Z3 coupe, which has been sitting for two years. While they had a great time with the car while it was in their possession, they've come to realize that it's not the right fit for their lifestyle.

The Z3 is one of our host's last manual cars, and its sale marks an interesting trend: many hosts have more EVs than gas-powered cars. This shift towards electric vehicles is a significant development in the automotive world, and we'll be keeping a close eye on this story as it continues to unfold.

In conclusion, owning a huge luxury SUV comes with its pros and cons. While it may seem like an attractive option at first glance, the costs associated with fuel, maintenance, and parking can add up quickly. As our host moves forward, they're excited to explore new options like EVs and other alternative vehicles that offer performance, efficiency, and practicality.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys Richard Rich builds here and I wanted to talk about one of the most positively reviewed sports cars in recent history everyone seems to love this thing and I'm actually in the market for a hot hatch so I had to see what all the hype is all about we just finished the electric Honda beat and the parts came in to repair the Fisker so you'd be seeing updates on those cars as well but in the meantime I wanted to see what else was out there back to this thing the car is insane and the accolades it's already won are fantastic it made it up Pikes Peak without overheating and it beat a plaid up Pike's Peak it didn't just beat it the Hyundai came out of nowhere with just 6 months of repar and slaughtered a company that's had years at this with 400 horsepower less this car is no joke whatsoever it has torque vectoring you can dial on your own front and rear bias drift modes a million controls and settings this thing is more fun that might cut up model 3 Performance with track mode I mean everyone loves this thing it's called the Hyundai IC n and it's very cool but is it worth selling my beloved BMW clown shoe for well I guess you'll have to find out at the end of the episode one thing I want to bring to your attention though before I start the review is how many times the letter N is shown in this car like guys we get it it's an N but hold on a second n n n n n n n n n n n n n I'm sure that's more under the car too but today I'm going to review it and by the way I am not a reviewer by any stretch of the imagination so I want to set your expectations to low I know there's lots of videos of people sliding this car around a track but Hyundai did not offer this car to me so I have to borrow from a dealership so someone still owns it so I can't get too crazy I got to bring it back with good tires I reviewed this same car many many moons ago but a lower trim level in bass trim this time I'm doing the N Which is far far more advanced than the regular version of the five it's also $115,000 more and what the n stands for who knows but you know what I do know about I do know about Squarespace and I want to talk about it it has tons of webpage tools to help your needs and all of these awesome page templates to match your style but you can also start a completely personalized website with a new guided design system Squarespace blueprint you can choose from professionally curated layout and styling options to build a unique online presence from the ground up it's tailored to your brand or business and optimized for every device you can launch your website and get discovered fast with integrated optimized SEO tools so you show up more often to more people and grow the way you want they also offer flexible payments make checkout seamless for your customers with simple but powerful payment tools except credit cards PayPal and Apple pay and an eligible countries offer customers the option to buy now and pay later with afterpay and clear pay head to www.squarespace.com Rich rebuild save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using the code in the description box below shout out to Squarespace for making platforms for people people's passions anyways McGovern Hyundai in Wilmington Massachusetts was kind enough to let us borrow their most expensive vehicle on the lot because we look like nice people so make sure you check them out they have a great inventory with friendly and knowledgeable staff again that's mg govern Hyundai in Wilmington let's see if it lives up to the hype and should I sell my BMW for this bad boy let's check it out he was I don't think he knows that like we like do this and stuff right right so I think he was it was interesting him was like let me show you how an electric vehicle works I was like oh fascinating never seen that before as was like I like I just parked the rivan out front I was like oh okay this is really cool what are your initial thoughts so far we've been driving for 11 seconds what do you think I think the seats got really nice bolsters in it the seats are awesome I mean I have put on a couple pounds so that could feels a littleit no but it still feels like it to be held by something it feels good don't you know how to tell me twice there's so much going on in this car I'm going to say this right now and I understand Tesla's whole idea about you want to have minimalism right you want to have as few buttons as possible and you want to you know make sure all your life choices are based off of the screen on the right that you hope nothing malfunctions on it but coming in and seeing all these buttons it is a little bit overwhelming but at the same time I I get it like I'm just not used to having all these buttons in the electric car like even the rivan it has let's see there's two buttons on the wheel are they like plastic or metal like they have tactile feel to it yeah no you could you could you could feel them depressed and stuff but but there's a lot like seek and track and home and map and like I feel like this could have been a lot better integrated like on this screen right here like this could have been here somewhere having home map and search Etc that could have been a lot easier but y even still like I still like I still like it and just like anything else you'll get used to it you'll get used to having the just not even look at something push a button and then you know a map gets pulled up or you go to the next track like track forward and back like that should be here it probably is here but again we've been in the car for a total of 1 minute so far so it's it's still pretty damn cool did these twist and why are there two you know what I mean like why is there one with the ends highlighted the other one's not I'm sure if I push them it'll tell me what's going on but you have the lane keep uh you have the phone stuff volume track up and down Drive modes then you have the shift for an EV which is bizarre and then you have three stocks you have the lights you have this it just looks so clunky doesn't it there's a lot going on that's almost that's this is uncomfortably large I'm surprised it doesn't vibrate there are two extremes one extreme is Tesla when you have just a screen and nothing else and this is the other ex extreme where you have every button known to man my initial response is to do this this the first thing you get in the car in reality you push this button oh wait a minute hold on are you serious I'm going to Red Line it okay I want to blow the motor so do it blow it oh what's the other one do whoa o okay who a lot changed on this screen it looks like the car's broken at this point this is what I normally see when when I I start the McLaren up every light is on I'm assuming this like the performance gauge mode it has the uh front motor temp rear motor temp battery the pop and crackle a pop and bang this has an automatic pop and bang tune built into it that is insane I really hope that no one on the outside can hear this yeah that's true if there's an external speaker like this is this is not going to work remember the I8 had that the I8 had that and it wasn't um it didn't sound great but they they tried their best that's cool that is cool that's yeah what's what's Evolution that sounds like a pissed off tiger I kind of like that one too it has Lime Rock Park it has all the that's insane wait a minute that's actually Watkins Glenn that's a cool one that's a fun track oh the different oh different layouts too what's most impressive about this is that Hyundai was never centrally known for making high performance Vehicles yes they had some performance lines of of course but this is like a serious competitor now yeah because Tesla has had like all these years to like activate a lot of these features and listen to feedback from people and Hyundai just came out of nowhere and said yeah okay we have that now too I mean the fit and finish is good and and it's not bad but I mean lot of plasticy stuff it feels very plasticky but you know what that's everything today right but there but there's no like real panel gaps like this material is like that's like recycled tires I'm sure out of like some Korean tires things are in a weird place like parking distance sensors that's kind of an interesting place to put it I thought it'd be more up here or something like that but I yeah you could easily rest your hand on that and then that would that go away but other than that man like this is this is the it's in terms of an attempt to make a performance vehicle I mean in my opinion they kind of knocked it out of the park here the back of the seats are nice and there's decent room back here too there's phone chargers we we are two adult men and we're fitting back here pretty decently look at that we don't normally sit in the back to get we don't nor no not normally but this I mean imagine this being an Uber this isn't a bad Uber ride that's not well you know what I'm not that tall mhm all right yeah average height I would say yeah you're average t y so 5 foot 8 and2 yep oh oh look at this though oh they oh I don't know why oh wait a minute does mine do that mine does not do that no way really does it yeah it does yeah reach reach it right in there little there you go why do you want why oh mine does it why do you want that to happen you know why for more back storage in the trunk sometimes more trunk space than human space yeah this is that's it this is like a spirit airlin this no no no h Spirit does not Recine do they recline on Spirit okay I was going to say what's what Spirit do you fly on mine does mine doesn't and look at this there's actually a lot of room back here that is pretty that is I mean there's a ton of room here yeah there is this is actually really good for space this is this is surprisingly big on the inside right there's no frunk yeah I know I too was surprised looks like an ice engine I don't know how I feel about that I think that's why they gave you so much room in the rear because there's nothing up front so put a junk in the trunk even Tesla managed the way uh to have a frun in their performance models and this is a rather large battery but you know what I could appreciate I could appreciate this being a normal-ish battery Tesla has it's like three AA batteries you put in your back pocket so I'm pretty sure you could actually go to the dealership or be on the road somewhere and have reasonable expectation that you could find a replacement battery for one of these so now we're in I'll tell you the the letter N in front of everything gives me a really tingly feeling why it's just it's just really like n race like you know what I mean race pedal drift Optimizer it just it just feels odd to me H okay that sounds cool it does do we but we didn't go very fast no I don't want oh ready true Monica yeah yeah yeah oh did you feel that yes did shift feeling I feel like a kid driving this thing all right so oh hit the downshift you hit the downshift right so I'm going to turn left now that feels so that shift felt yeah that it felt real didn't it it did that was okay okay okay you did it that is very cool that's a great end mode I want I want you to feel it uh so I'm going to do I'm going to shift manually yeah let's go to oh the down do you think that just turns the regen on harder I don't know what it does maybe it just cuts the motors out yeah but it it that felt real like if I wasn't like if the car wasn't so quiet like if I was listening to the radio and I was just jamming out and I was going through gears like I would have thought that was real yeah that is amazing I will say one thing though acceleration wise and maybe there's a different mode that's this is Super End mode oh I don't know if you can say that that's it's very uncomfortable this this super end mode where it's highlighted it didn't feel I can't say that well no I think you I think well Hyundai made it okay yeah they they gave gave everyone the card apparently to say that you know what I mean it'll let you hold the gear as long as you want and then ready watch shift do you how do you think the performance is compared to the I8 to the I8 yeah oh it's not even close the I8 was it was a dog this is I mean this is fully electric 600 horsepower the I8 had I think 300 60 on like a really really good day with like another model as pulling it pretty much that feels cool Josh I want you to drive it doesn't that feel cool that does feel cool that feels awesome that that got me this is this is a a really good execution of like I said before a Gateway in between Gas and Electric the only problem is the price this is the literal only problem with this vehicle the price I think the price is insane well the base one he said was what 44 or something like that no one wants that one you want you want the N yeah the n's the that letter I just something about it let's switch off I don't know what it is man you have the end like it just feels like it doesn't feel right so the funny thing is uh it when I got into the car the the guy the dealership said you know we already have it on Hip Hop Nation I am not making this up I did did I change any of this you did not change it I don't want to really delve too far into that I don't want to think about it too much but he said those two things to me yeah he said is it is already in Hip Hop Nation edit end mode widgets this the letter N must be in this car a lot I think that's the main reason why I wouldn't purchase it cuz that and oh and last thing n pedal n race that's imagine that yeah yeah see I don't this just seems really really strange they had like a regen feature that was like n it's powerful it actually almost sounds more motorcycl is it does yes I had a Jer 750 you rode bikes I didn't know you were motorcycle before a little bit of everything really you never asked okay that's true I I don't generally like to talk to people about what's going on their personal lives so that's a good point that is true okay um but yeah it feels like feels very much Snappy like like a motorcycle in it feels good it you know I like the Driving Experience does it not fool you it kind of fools you in a little way into thinking it's actually making that noise it's doing a pretty good job of it o now we're yeah now we're talking this is the car I want see if thing that looks amazing what do you think who's driving this car what do you mean who what do you mean who's driving the car what does that what does that mean I um are you like what profession do they do or what for work yes yes yes yes uh probably a finance manager at a bank you think so I would say yeah that definitely looks like finance manager yeah I don't yeah what what were you thinking finance manager it's also very quiet it's extremely quiet once you take it off that noise mode that's what n stands for it's n for noise mode yeah it sounds the mvh is just as good as like any other EV it's very quiet do your launch so ready so can I I don't think I can't launch ready ready ready ready Monica yeah I mean it steps on the brake it's it's crazy it gives you that like gas engine feel you know with that like throttle drop for a second yeah it it simulates you losing losing power because of the transmission it simulates like you know like drivetrain losses through the transmission I would rather have this over a model 3 if it was free uh because it cost so much money yeah uh I think if I would probably end up if if I was in the market for an electric vehicle right now an electric sports sports car sporty car and both of these were side by side I would have a hard time spending the extra premium for this however if both options were given to me at no cost I would definitely pick pick this one for sure I'm just going to put in shift mode ready so first gear DSG fart DSG fart oh my goodness and you know you know what that tells you that tells you that sound and feedback are incredibly important you know everyone has been talking about this car and how it gives you the sound and the feedback that people have been missing out of EVS for a very long time but it shows you that something is in fact there a lot of people have purchased this these cars already and they absolutely love them and I I I'm starting to see why oh look there's a there's a Bas model over there see the Basse model oh I want to I enjoy pulling next to the bass model to say this could have been you that is how is that not cool yeah it's right it's cool not one no but you think you pick up more chicks in this car compared to a model 3 oh good point you know that's oh my gosh what a question this model 3s and this is a known fact they're very curvaceous Vehicles there there we go oh yeah but they're extremely feminine they're very feminine they're small they're curvy they're not aggressive looking all my favorite features they yeah right they are but you can't engage for feminine things okay yeah so they're small like they're they're very they're non-threatening uh they're they're curvy and like they're cute and the front end looks like a frog like they're not they're not AGG they're not very masculine cars this is a known fact so like what most men will do is they'll change the wheels they'll they'll wrap it a different color to pretend it's a different car but it's not uh this one is more like a performance hatchback and I think what might turn some people off is the BR branding seeing like the Hyundai badge on it might turn some people away uh and they'll just think it's one of those like throwaway cars so I really don't know back in like 2006 I never would have owned a Hyundai ever but now they make a lot of cars where I'm like all right a Hyundai Excel like you pay like two grand for it and then when you're done with it you sell it for a grand and you call it a day like a Hyundai XL Hyundai Accent those cars are just like you don't want these but now look how far they've come now they're competing with real people and they have real designs too like the designs of these cars now are are Second To None like they feel great they look great I don't know man this is uh I'm I'm very very proud for how far they've come I think they slightly missed a mark when it comes to uh the the pricing but other than that man this is I mean what price point would make this more attractive like if it was was 56 or would it have to be in the 46 range I think 56 would make it more attractive cuz you got to think that you know the model 3 I think uh having it just slightly below the price point of a model 3 Performance because remember Hyundai at at this current moment aren't really known for that level of prestige just yet which is why they come with their Genesis brand I think if it was just uh placed or priced right below the model performance showing hey you know you can get a lot of car for your money which is what Hyundai was known for now they're kind of they've kind of placed themselves on average like this is this is kind of what you'd expect a car like this to cost yeah whereas before you get a Hyundai Accent or Hyundai whatever for dirt cheap placing it right under an actual Honda this is kind of up there in terms of pricing so if they reduce the price a little bit I think this is could to be a real show stop for a man the only competitor close to it I would say is a model 3 because the Audi rron is like what 90 but if you wait a week it'll be back down to 50 don't get me starting the rron I sold my rron for $35,000 I didn't want to talk about it I want to talk about it I still have for 35,000 and that was a deal of the century I kept asking people who wanted it no one wanted it I sold it to a guy and he loves it he drives it every day he hasn't had a single problem with it so except every time he turns on the heat a piece of rice pops out of besides that besides you know rice running around the door cards he he he loves the car so you guys lost out um so thank you for not buying the car anyways but yeah no I think if it was like price right below it it would have been great just to show people this is a bargain however in my opinion let's just ignore uh what vehicle and what brand if these were two Anonymous boxes and you look at the spec for each one I think that people would probably choose this over absolutely yeah I really do think so there are a lot of model 3 people that enjoy upping the performance of their cars right they enjoy you know they want to lower it they want to put this stuff on it they want to do all these visual things they want to add a better uh a better braking system big brakes they want to add uh new coilovers uh you know hot roding model 3s is the thing uh performance can't do much about it but handling they could do a lot and I think this is a great car for that I I could see people online saying okay well what settings do you have what are the ideal settings for performance in the track what are the ideal settings here and to watch this car absolutely Ace Pikes Peak and for the Teslas to not really make it out so well it it shows you this is a serious performing vehicle so my one concern at a track day with any EV car and I haven't done one yet with an EV mhm is that so when I take my car to the track I drive it I bring extra fuel yep I feel now I do trailer my car there oh okay so I'm I'm a little bougie but it is uh uh but if you were to go I mean how many tracks have a charging station so do you drive there a couple hours charge it up fully and then I mean I guess there's usually waves where you'll go 20 minutes and then the next driving group will go so maybe between those you're you're charging and maybe it's not a problem if if they are I mean I don't know I'm thinking of the CH the the tracks up in this area do they have well some some tracks have supercharges that are pretty close by okay so I talked to a few friends of mine and um what they'll normally do is they'll normally come off track uh charge the supercharger for x amount of time and they'll go back on the track or sometimes they'll have if they know there's going to be an EV perform perance track day they'll bring their massive generators there and they'll uh and they'll plug the cars in during the cool down laps so but yeah you you can get a decent amount of laps out of the car uh before you're it's fully depleted but I mean knowing myself if I really want to you know wind out the day I'm not going to I mean our nearest decent track is a couple hours away right so that's the problem if you leave your house fully charged before you get to the track you have to charge uh then you have to go on the track and then during breaks you should probably charge again because the lower your state of charge the worse performance is going to be well it's probably just like with anything it's just pre-planning some of the stuff right like you know my friends they take their cars that have race fuel so they've got a plan all right can I go buy race fuel in the way usually you can't find it can I buy it at the track but with this um you know hey I just got to leave an extra 20 minutes early make sure there's a charger in that area so now it's in a different performance mode where you don't feel the shift to the next gear it just makes the sound you notice that didn't do the cut I do kind of like that cuz it does get a little tender on the back it does we are we are aging there's no there's no easy way to do it too unless you I don't know if it's set to Old Man mode yeah old man mode where like you have to like be at the right RPM to be into a good gear uh to get into a good gear confidently but it's just really it's just so interesting oh if you hold the downshift button let me see if if it does it this time hold on oh that wasn't that as aggressive okay would you buy one of these I so I've got three kids y so it does have ample space to put kids in the back amp's a tough word Supple space I mean while ample it's it's okay this is a hot hatch remember it's not exactly a uh you know a huge luxury SUV so there are some downsides to it but would you would you consider this as an option I would yeah I would if I had you know extra 70 grand laying around yeah I mean I think for me for 70 grand I'd probably get a couple year old M3 M4 yeah something you take the track um but in saying that like it depends on what my date my job is commuting to if I had to commute somewhere and I'm hey I'd rather not spend the money on fuel maybe I would think about it cuz obviously spending on a M3 or an M4 you're putting premium fuel which is over $4 a gallon commuting they say 35 45 minutes to work mhm and the reality is like how especially in these neighborhoods that we drive in around here like you can't really get on it no you really can't we just drove for 20 minutes in a 25 mph speed Zone this isn't like the Fisker there's no guy that comes up and say hey thanks for buying this car sorry about that sorry about the car not working and everything but I got your money it just stops sorry about we have no parts guys I'm going on my nature walk right now it's been exactly one week after I drove the Hyundai ionic n for the first time and I have to say I will be selling the BMW clown shoe for the Hyundai ionic uh the BMW clown Sho is officially for sale one thing I want to say about the Hyundai ionic n it definitely made me feel like a kid again I laughed I smiled I giggled uh Josh and I had a great time shout out to Josh uh and McGovern Hyundai uh for letting us use their car uh for that few hours and when I drove the clown shw for the first time I didn't quite exactly have that same excitement uh it's great because it's a driver's car it's manual uh you feel very connected to the road but for me I always felt that it was underpowered severely underpowered uh I had ideas of putting a supercharger on it and uh then I drove a supercharged one and I was still kind of underwhelmed with it I don't think it's the kind of car that you should supercharge the inline six for some reason I didn't really enjoy the driving experience as much I feel bad for saying that in a way you know at the end of the day while it's a great driver's car it is a 25-year-old BMW and I think it's time for a change when uh when friends and family come into town it's a car that I can't exactly give to people the Clown Shoe most people in my Family actually don't know how to drive manual so it's a car that kind of sits there until I'm ready to drive it and uh truth be told after that video was made uh two years ago about restoring that that BMW clown shoe that that BMW has actually been sitting ever since then I haven't touched it since then so it's the kind of car I don't really see myself driving much in the future again I have the 911 the 720 I'm very lucky to have those things the clown shoe was just unfortunately something I didn't drive as much one of the reasons why I do feel extra bad about it is because it's one of my last manual cars that I own the last manual vehicle that I own is a Corvette c66 so the clown shw is going to be probably the second to last one that I have fun fact I actually have more manual EVS than I have gas cars I have more manually shifted EVS than I have manually shifted gas cars which is a crazy place to be at this point but uh I had a really good time with the BMW uh Z3 coupe it was great uh while I had it while I drove it didn't really drive it as much again it's sat for 2 years but I think the Hyundai ionic if it's anything like the rivan which I put you know 40,000 Mi on already and 40,000 mi in 2 years might not seem like a lot but I'll tell you that I have several other cars to drive so if me to put that many miles on a single vehicle with all the other cars I have to drive that's absolutely amazing I think so it's for sale drop me an email at uh Rich rebills gmail.com if you're interested again it's a 99 has about 150k on it uh I'm hoping to get somewhere in the uh the low 20s or shoot me an offer look it up see what they're worth uh but other than that I'm excited to start the Hyundai journey and stay tuned for the electric Honda beat as well as the repairing of the Fisker I'll see you guys next weekhey guys Richard Rich builds here and I wanted to talk about one of the most positively reviewed sports cars in recent history everyone seems to love this thing and I'm actually in the market for a hot hatch so I had to see what all the hype is all about we just finished the electric Honda beat and the parts came in to repair the Fisker so you'd be seeing updates on those cars as well but in the meantime I wanted to see what else was out there back to this thing the car is insane and the accolades it's already won are fantastic it made it up Pikes Peak without overheating and it beat a plaid up Pike's Peak it didn't just beat it the Hyundai came out of nowhere with just 6 months of repar and slaughtered a company that's had years at this with 400 horsepower less this car is no joke whatsoever it has torque vectoring you can dial on your own front and rear bias drift modes a million controls and settings this thing is more fun that might cut up model 3 Performance with track mode I mean everyone loves this thing it's called the Hyundai IC n and it's very cool but is it worth selling my beloved BMW clown shoe for well I guess you'll have to find out at the end of the episode one thing I want to bring to your attention though before I start the review is how many times the letter N is shown in this car like guys we get it it's an N but hold on a second n n n n n n n n n n n n n I'm sure that's more under the car too but today I'm going to review it and by the way I am not a reviewer by any stretch of the imagination so I want to set your expectations to low I know there's lots of videos of people sliding this car around a track but Hyundai did not offer this car to me so I have to borrow from a dealership so someone still owns it so I can't get too crazy I got to bring it back with good tires I reviewed this same car many many moons ago but a lower trim level in bass trim this time I'm doing the N Which is far far more advanced than the regular version of the five it's also $115,000 more and what the n stands for who knows but you know what I do know about I do know about Squarespace and I want to talk about it it has tons of webpage tools to help your needs and all of these awesome page templates to match your style but you can also start a completely personalized website with a new guided design system Squarespace blueprint you can choose from professionally curated layout and styling options to build a unique online presence from the ground up it's tailored to your brand or business and optimized for every device you can launch your website and get discovered fast with integrated optimized SEO tools so you show up more often to more people and grow the way you want they also offer flexible payments make checkout seamless for your customers with simple but powerful payment tools except credit cards PayPal and Apple pay and an eligible countries offer customers the option to buy now and pay later with afterpay and clear pay head to www.squarespace.com Rich rebuild save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using the code in the description box below shout out to Squarespace for making platforms for people people's passions anyways McGovern Hyundai in Wilmington Massachusetts was kind enough to let us borrow their most expensive vehicle on the lot because we look like nice people so make sure you check them out they have a great inventory with friendly and knowledgeable staff again that's mg govern Hyundai in Wilmington let's see if it lives up to the hype and should I sell my BMW for this bad boy let's check it out he was I don't think he knows that like we like do this and stuff right right so I think he was it was interesting him was like let me show you how an electric vehicle works I was like oh fascinating never seen that before as was like I like I just parked the rivan out front I was like oh okay this is really cool what are your initial thoughts so far we've been driving for 11 seconds what do you think I think the seats got really nice bolsters in it the seats are awesome I mean I have put on a couple pounds so that could feels a littleit no but it still feels like it to be held by something it feels good don't you know how to tell me twice there's so much going on in this car I'm going to say this right now and I understand Tesla's whole idea about you want to have minimalism right you want to have as few buttons as possible and you want to you know make sure all your life choices are based off of the screen on the right that you hope nothing malfunctions on it but coming in and seeing all these buttons it is a little bit overwhelming but at the same time I I get it like I'm just not used to having all these buttons in the electric car like even the rivan it has let's see there's two buttons on the wheel are they like plastic or metal like they have tactile feel to it yeah no you could you could you could feel them depressed and stuff but but there's a lot like seek and track and home and map and like I feel like this could have been a lot better integrated like on this screen right here like this could have been here somewhere having home map and search Etc that could have been a lot easier but y even still like I still like I still like it and just like anything else you'll get used to it you'll get used to having the just not even look at something push a button and then you know a map gets pulled up or you go to the next track like track forward and back like that should be here it probably is here but again we've been in the car for a total of 1 minute so far so it's it's still pretty damn cool did these twist and why are there two you know what I mean like why is there one with the ends highlighted the other one's not I'm sure if I push them it'll tell me what's going on but you have the lane keep uh you have the phone stuff volume track up and down Drive modes then you have the shift for an EV which is bizarre and then you have three stocks you have the lights you have this it just looks so clunky doesn't it there's a lot going on that's almost that's this is uncomfortably large I'm surprised it doesn't vibrate there are two extremes one extreme is Tesla when you have just a screen and nothing else and this is the other ex extreme where you have every button known to man my initial response is to do this this the first thing you get in the car in reality you push this button oh wait a minute hold on are you serious I'm going to Red Line it okay I want to blow the motor so do it blow it oh what's the other one do whoa o okay who a lot changed on this screen it looks like the car's broken at this point this is what I normally see when when I I start the McLaren up every light is on I'm assuming this like the performance gauge mode it has the uh front motor temp rear motor temp battery the pop and crackle a pop and bang this has an automatic pop and bang tune built into it that is insane I really hope that no one on the outside can hear this yeah that's true if there's an external speaker like this is this is not going to work remember the I8 had that the I8 had that and it wasn't um it didn't sound great but they they tried their best that's cool that is cool that's yeah what's what's Evolution that sounds like a pissed off tiger I kind of like that one too it has Lime Rock Park it has all the that's insane wait a minute that's actually Watkins Glenn that's a cool one that's a fun track oh the different oh different layouts too what's most impressive about this is that Hyundai was never centrally known for making high performance Vehicles yes they had some performance lines of of course but this is like a serious competitor now yeah because Tesla has had like all these years to like activate a lot of these features and listen to feedback from people and Hyundai just came out of nowhere and said yeah okay we have that now too I mean the fit and finish is good and and it's not bad but I mean lot of plasticy stuff it feels very plasticky but you know what that's everything today right but there but there's no like real panel gaps like this material is like that's like recycled tires I'm sure out of like some Korean tires things are in a weird place like parking distance sensors that's kind of an interesting place to put it I thought it'd be more up here or something like that but I yeah you could easily rest your hand on that and then that would that go away but other than that man like this is this is the it's in terms of an attempt to make a performance vehicle I mean in my opinion they kind of knocked it out of the park here the back of the seats are nice and there's decent room back here too there's phone chargers we we are two adult men and we're fitting back here pretty decently look at that we don't normally sit in the back to get we don't nor no not normally but this I mean imagine this being an Uber this isn't a bad Uber ride that's not well you know what I'm not that tall mhm all right yeah average height I would say yeah you're average t y so 5 foot 8 and2 yep oh oh look at this though oh they oh I don't know why oh wait a minute does mine do that mine does not do that no way really does it yeah it does yeah reach reach it right in there little there you go why do you want why oh mine does it why do you want that to happen you know why for more back storage in the trunk sometimes more trunk space than human space yeah this is that's it this is like a spirit airlin this no no no h Spirit does not Recine do they recline on Spirit okay I was going to say what's what Spirit do you fly on mine does mine doesn't and look at this there's actually a lot of room back here that is pretty that is I mean there's a ton of room here yeah there is this is actually really good for space this is this is surprisingly big on the inside right there's no frunk yeah I know I too was surprised looks like an ice engine I don't know how I feel about that I think that's why they gave you so much room in the rear because there's nothing up front so put a junk in the trunk even Tesla managed the way uh to have a frun in their performance models and this is a rather large battery but you know what I could appreciate I could appreciate this being a normal-ish battery Tesla has it's like three AA batteries you put in your back pocket so I'm pretty sure you could actually go to the dealership or be on the road somewhere and have reasonable expectation that you could find a replacement battery for one of these so now we're in I'll tell you the the letter N in front of everything gives me a really tingly feeling why it's just it's just really like n race like you know what I mean race pedal drift Optimizer it just it just feels odd to me H okay that sounds cool it does do we but we didn't go very fast no I don't want oh ready true Monica yeah yeah yeah oh did you feel that yes did shift feeling I feel like a kid driving this thing all right so oh hit the downshift you hit the downshift right so I'm going to turn left now that feels so that shift felt yeah that it felt real didn't it it did that was okay okay okay you did it that is very cool that's a great end mode I want I want you to feel it uh so I'm going to do I'm going to shift manually yeah let's go to oh the down do you think that just turns the regen on harder I don't know what it does maybe it just cuts the motors out yeah but it it that felt real like if I wasn't like if the car wasn't so quiet like if I was listening to the radio and I was just jamming out and I was going through gears like I would have thought that was real yeah that is amazing I will say one thing though acceleration wise and maybe there's a different mode that's this is Super End mode oh I don't know if you can say that that's it's very uncomfortable this this super end mode where it's highlighted it didn't feel I can't say that well no I think you I think well Hyundai made it okay yeah they they gave gave everyone the card apparently to say that you know what I mean it'll let you hold the gear as long as you want and then ready watch shift do you how do you think the performance is compared to the I8 to the I8 yeah oh it's not even close the I8 was it was a dog this is I mean this is fully electric 600 horsepower the I8 had I think 300 60 on like a really really good day with like another model as pulling it pretty much that feels cool Josh I want you to drive it doesn't that feel cool that does feel cool that feels awesome that that got me this is this is a a really good execution of like I said before a Gateway in between Gas and Electric the only problem is the price this is the literal only problem with this vehicle the price I think the price is insane well the base one he said was what 44 or something like that no one wants that one you want you want the N yeah the n's the that letter I just something about it let's switch off I don't know what it is man you have the end like it just feels like it doesn't feel right so the funny thing is uh it when I got into the car the the guy the dealership said you know we already have it on Hip Hop Nation I am not making this up I did did I change any of this you did not change it I don't want to really delve too far into that I don't want to think about it too much but he said those two things to me yeah he said is it is already in Hip Hop Nation edit end mode widgets this the letter N must be in this car a lot I think that's the main reason why I wouldn't purchase it cuz that and oh and last thing n pedal n race that's imagine that yeah yeah see I don't this just seems really really strange they had like a regen feature that was like n it's powerful it actually almost sounds more motorcycl is it does yes I had a Jer 750 you rode bikes I didn't know you were motorcycle before a little bit of everything really you never asked okay that's true I I don't generally like to talk to people about what's going on their personal lives so that's a good point that is true okay um but yeah it feels like feels very much Snappy like like a motorcycle in it feels good it you know I like the Driving Experience does it not fool you it kind of fools you in a little way into thinking it's actually making that noise it's doing a pretty good job of it o now we're yeah now we're talking this is the car I want see if thing that looks amazing what do you think who's driving this car what do you mean who what do you mean who's driving the car what does that what does that mean I um are you like what profession do they do or what for work yes yes yes yes uh probably a finance manager at a bank you think so I would say yeah that definitely looks like finance manager yeah I don't yeah what what were you thinking finance manager it's also very quiet it's extremely quiet once you take it off that noise mode that's what n stands for it's n for noise mode yeah it sounds the mvh is just as good as like any other EV it's very quiet do your launch so ready so can I I don't think I can't launch ready ready ready ready Monica yeah I mean it steps on the brake it's it's crazy it gives you that like gas engine feel you know with that like throttle drop for a second yeah it it simulates you losing losing power because of the transmission it simulates like you know like drivetrain losses through the transmission I would rather have this over a model 3 if it was free uh because it cost so much money yeah uh I think if I would probably end up if if I was in the market for an electric vehicle right now an electric sports sports car sporty car and both of these were side by side I would have a hard time spending the extra premium for this however if both options were given to me at no cost I would definitely pick pick this one for sure I'm just going to put in shift mode ready so first gear DSG fart DSG fart oh my goodness and you know you know what that tells you that tells you that sound and feedback are incredibly important you know everyone has been talking about this car and how it gives you the sound and the feedback that people have been missing out of EVS for a very long time but it shows you that something is in fact there a lot of people have purchased this these cars already and they absolutely love them and I I I'm starting to see why oh look there's a there's a Bas model over there see the Basse model oh I want to I enjoy pulling next to the bass model to say this could have been you that is how is that not cool yeah it's right it's cool not one no but you think you pick up more chicks in this car compared to a model 3 oh good point you know that's oh my gosh what a question this model 3s and this is a known fact they're very curvaceous Vehicles there there we go oh yeah but they're extremely feminine they're very feminine they're small they're curvy they're not aggressive looking all my favorite features they yeah right they are but you can't engage for feminine things okay yeah so they're small like they're they're very they're non-threatening uh they're they're curvy and like they're cute and the front end looks like a frog like they're not they're not AGG they're not very masculine cars this is a known fact so like what most men will do is they'll change the wheels they'll they'll wrap it a different color to pretend it's a different car but it's not uh this one is more like a performance hatchback and I think what might turn some people off is the BR branding seeing like the Hyundai badge on it might turn some people away uh and they'll just think it's one of those like throwaway cars so I really don't know back in like 2006 I never would have owned a Hyundai ever but now they make a lot of cars where I'm like all right a Hyundai Excel like you pay like two grand for it and then when you're done with it you sell it for a grand and you call it a day like a Hyundai XL Hyundai Accent those cars are just like you don't want these but now look how far they've come now they're competing with real people and they have real designs too like the designs of these cars now are are Second To None like they feel great they look great I don't know man this is uh I'm I'm very very proud for how far they've come I think they slightly missed a mark when it comes to uh the the pricing but other than that man this is I mean what price point would make this more attractive like if it was was 56 or would it have to be in the 46 range I think 56 would make it more attractive cuz you got to think that you know the model 3 I think uh having it just slightly below the price point of a model 3 Performance because remember Hyundai at at this current moment aren't really known for that level of prestige just yet which is why they come with their Genesis brand I think if it was just uh placed or priced right below the model performance showing hey you know you can get a lot of car for your money which is what Hyundai was known for now they're kind of they've kind of placed themselves on average like this is this is kind of what you'd expect a car like this to cost yeah whereas before you get a Hyundai Accent or Hyundai whatever for dirt cheap placing it right under an actual Honda this is kind of up there in terms of pricing so if they reduce the price a little bit I think this is could to be a real show stop for a man the only competitor close to it I would say is a model 3 because the Audi rron is like what 90 but if you wait a week it'll be back down to 50 don't get me starting the rron I sold my rron for $35,000 I didn't want to talk about it I want to talk about it I still have for 35,000 and that was a deal of the century I kept asking people who wanted it no one wanted it I sold it to a guy and he loves it he drives it every day he hasn't had a single problem with it so except every time he turns on the heat a piece of rice pops out of besides that besides you know rice running around the door cards he he he loves the car so you guys lost out um so thank you for not buying the car anyways but yeah no I think if it was like price right below it it would have been great just to show people this is a bargain however in my opinion let's just ignore uh what vehicle and what brand if these were two Anonymous boxes and you look at the spec for each one I think that people would probably choose this over absolutely yeah I really do think so there are a lot of model 3 people that enjoy upping the performance of their cars right they enjoy you know they want to lower it they want to put this stuff on it they want to do all these visual things they want to add a better uh a better braking system big brakes they want to add uh new coilovers uh you know hot roding model 3s is the thing uh performance can't do much about it but handling they could do a lot and I think this is a great car for that I I could see people online saying okay well what settings do you have what are the ideal settings for performance in the track what are the ideal settings here and to watch this car absolutely Ace Pikes Peak and for the Teslas to not really make it out so well it it shows you this is a serious performing vehicle so my one concern at a track day with any EV car and I haven't done one yet with an EV mhm is that so when I take my car to the track I drive it I bring extra fuel yep I feel now I do trailer my car there oh okay so I'm I'm a little bougie but it is uh uh but if you were to go I mean how many tracks have a charging station so do you drive there a couple hours charge it up fully and then I mean I guess there's usually waves where you'll go 20 minutes and then the next driving group will go so maybe between those you're you're charging and maybe it's not a problem if if they are I mean I don't know I'm thinking of the CH the the tracks up in this area do they have well some some tracks have supercharges that are pretty close by okay so I talked to a few friends of mine and um what they'll normally do is they'll normally come off track uh charge the supercharger for x amount of time and they'll go back on the track or sometimes they'll have if they know there's going to be an EV perform perance track day they'll bring their massive generators there and they'll uh and they'll plug the cars in during the cool down laps so but yeah you you can get a decent amount of laps out of the car uh before you're it's fully depleted but I mean knowing myself if I really want to you know wind out the day I'm not going to I mean our nearest decent track is a couple hours away right so that's the problem if you leave your house fully charged before you get to the track you have to charge uh then you have to go on the track and then during breaks you should probably charge again because the lower your state of charge the worse performance is going to be well it's probably just like with anything it's just pre-planning some of the stuff right like you know my friends they take their cars that have race fuel so they've got a plan all right can I go buy race fuel in the way usually you can't find it can I buy it at the track but with this um you know hey I just got to leave an extra 20 minutes early make sure there's a charger in that area so now it's in a different performance mode where you don't feel the shift to the next gear it just makes the sound you notice that didn't do the cut I do kind of like that cuz it does get a little tender on the back it does we are we are aging there's no there's no easy way to do it too unless you I don't know if it's set to Old Man mode yeah old man mode where like you have to like be at the right RPM to be into a good gear uh to get into a good gear confidently but it's just really it's just so interesting oh if you hold the downshift button let me see if if it does it this time hold on oh that wasn't that as aggressive okay would you buy one of these I so I've got three kids y so it does have ample space to put kids in the back amp's a tough word Supple space I mean while ample it's it's okay this is a hot hatch remember it's not exactly a uh you know a huge luxury SUV so there are some downsides to it but would you would you consider this as an option I would yeah I would if I had you know extra 70 grand laying around yeah I mean I think for me for 70 grand I'd probably get a couple year old M3 M4 yeah something you take the track um but in saying that like it depends on what my date my job is commuting to if I had to commute somewhere and I'm hey I'd rather not spend the money on fuel maybe I would think about it cuz obviously spending on a M3 or an M4 you're putting premium fuel which is over $4 a gallon commuting they say 35 45 minutes to work mhm and the reality is like how especially in these neighborhoods that we drive in around here like you can't really get on it no you really can't we just drove for 20 minutes in a 25 mph speed Zone this isn't like the Fisker there's no guy that comes up and say hey thanks for buying this car sorry about that sorry about the car not working and everything but I got your money it just stops sorry about we have no parts guys I'm going on my nature walk right now it's been exactly one week after I drove the Hyundai ionic n for the first time and I have to say I will be selling the BMW clown shoe for the Hyundai ionic uh the BMW clown Sho is officially for sale one thing I want to say about the Hyundai ionic n it definitely made me feel like a kid again I laughed I smiled I giggled uh Josh and I had a great time shout out to Josh uh and McGovern Hyundai uh for letting us use their car uh for that few hours and when I drove the clown shw for the first time I didn't quite exactly have that same excitement uh it's great because it's a driver's car it's manual uh you feel very connected to the road but for me I always felt that it was underpowered severely underpowered uh I had ideas of putting a supercharger on it and uh then I drove a supercharged one and I was still kind of underwhelmed with it I don't think it's the kind of car that you should supercharge the inline six for some reason I didn't really enjoy the driving experience as much I feel bad for saying that in a way you know at the end of the day while it's a great driver's car it is a 25-year-old BMW and I think it's time for a change when uh when friends and family come into town it's a car that I can't exactly give to people the Clown Shoe most people in my Family actually don't know how to drive manual so it's a car that kind of sits there until I'm ready to drive it and uh truth be told after that video was made uh two years ago about restoring that that BMW clown shoe that that BMW has actually been sitting ever since then I haven't touched it since then so it's the kind of car I don't really see myself driving much in the future again I have the 911 the 720 I'm very lucky to have those things the clown shoe was just unfortunately something I didn't drive as much one of the reasons why I do feel extra bad about it is because it's one of my last manual cars that I own the last manual vehicle that I own is a Corvette c66 so the clown shw is going to be probably the second to last one that I have fun fact I actually have more manual EVS than I have gas cars I have more manually shifted EVS than I have manually shifted gas cars which is a crazy place to be at this point but uh I had a really good time with the BMW uh Z3 coupe it was great uh while I had it while I drove it didn't really drive it as much again it's sat for 2 years but I think the Hyundai ionic if it's anything like the rivan which I put you know 40,000 Mi on already and 40,000 mi in 2 years might not seem like a lot but I'll tell you that I have several other cars to drive so if me to put that many miles on a single vehicle with all the other cars I have to drive that's absolutely amazing I think so it's for sale drop me an email at uh Rich rebills gmail.com if you're interested again it's a 99 has about 150k on it uh I'm hoping to get somewhere in the uh the low 20s or shoot me an offer look it up see what they're worth uh but other than that I'm excited to start the Hyundai journey and stay tuned for the electric Honda beat as well as the repairing of the Fisker I'll see you guys next week\n"