Kia EV9 – Brilliantly Packaged & What The ID Buzz Should’ve Been!
Please don’t adjust your phone or TV set I’ve not shrunk even more this is the actual size of this Kia ev9 it’s colossal but unlike the massively oversized SUVs everybody is rallying against this for me can get away with it to a small extent because
He can get it in seven seats and that for me justifies its existence assuming the person that buys it has actual useful one I told you it was big let’s look around the outside before we go on what is more important for something like this the inside this is a
Surprisingly cool looking car for me it’s like someone’s crossed a Kia Soul with the cyberpunk game it’s the only car which I think would still look cool driving in the background of Robocop as you can see this thing is really long if I went from end to end the video would
Be over by the time I’ve done it but at 5 m long it is quite a size i’ I’ve just written down a few examples just to put it into context the Range Rover V is 20 cm shorter than this the long wheel-based proper Range Rover that’s
About 20 cm longer than this to compare it to something a bit more ordinary the Volkswagen Golf is 4.25 m this is 5 m so it’s not far off pushing a meter longer than your golf now it’s a car of little details that make it easy
To own for example they cover the dorsal so when you get in and out you don’t get filthy pants or ankles or shoes or anything little things sometimes matter and although the doors are quite heavy loads of room getting in and out whilst we’re at the drier side of it let me
Show you the rear entry cuz again this is what’s the most important thing from something with lots of seats huge entry and if you want to get in the back again easy access I uh won’t do it too much because I’ve got muddy feet at the moment uh and you can move these
Forwards and backwards we’ll show you more of that when we go on the inside but effectively you’ll easy get something like a car seat in especially when you can do this it’s like somebody from Kia has children who’s designed this car the back fairly slab-sided Affair but
You got these cool Volvo esque lights and other than that it’s fairly uh inoffensive but it does still have a bit of that kind of cyberpunk appeal that I mentioned earlier and you got a bit of a spoiler as well of course you have a boot that opens itself now the trouble
With seven seaters is that you usually end up sacrificing boot space for the rear bench this though has a perfectly usable boot it’s about the size of a Polo golf it’s kind of in between 333 l so again very usable for doing your daily stuff and if you want to I don’t
Know go camping with five kids you got massive amount of space for a roof box and this thing will T up to 2.5 tons although given the length of it I won’t want a caravan on the back of this personally under here you’ve got the space for the tunnel cover and various
Other things so you don’t have to have it lying on your boot you can take it with you without having to throw it in your garage or whatever now buttons here again the thought about this cuz if you want to put that down if you want more
Boot space then you can do it all from the rear of the car put both seats down they’ll also come back up again so you don’t have to do the old Reaching Forward if you press this button here the middle bench that goes down that goes down and
Then you got a colossal amount of space they’ve actually put some again thought into it for families you’ve even got a plug socket that goes up to 16 amps so if you do want to go camping with a massive family you can power everything even a microwave I mean it is a full
Utility car you would hope you have some sort of fruit or frunk I’ve broken it unlock the car first little tiff there it’s about 90 l so it’s enough for your cables and dirty things so you don’t have to take up even more space in the boot do end up getting trapped
Inside this you can at least open it from the inside so the thought of your safety of here that’s good that’s good right this is the inside of the Kia and I have to say the steering wheel is pretty much standard fair you’ve got the nice feeling buttons it’s not exactly
Highend but it feels comfortable to hold on to and then you’ve got the buttons here for your heated seats your cooled seats and the heated steering wheel and for the driver only massage seats which is very very nice I do like that and you’ve got the materials which I would
Say are slightly better than hardwar in they’re not they’re not cheap you know that’s like a leather SL plastic Affair it fits this cabin which we’ll go more into detail later these feel really sturdy you got some nice feeling Fabrics there half decent doorbin all this sort
Of stuff again solid you got nice materials it’s got the headsup display on this particular one and the massive screen which you’ll be familiar with with K and Hyundai so if you press this button there that turns the vehicle on it’s quick easy to use you’ve got Wireless Apple carplay tons of settings
Which even though there is a lot it can be quite busy you can find pretty much everything you want the haptic feedback is how these buttons operate the only trouble is sometimes when you’re balancing your hand on there when you’re driving you sometimes catch it and that
Has this just going nuts that’s the efficiency of the car we’ll talk about it more later but it gives you lots of details and the map’s quite effective but to be honest I’m just sticking with the old uh Apple carplay because that’s quite frankly the best set have around
This is easy to use and you’ve got the drive modes there for sport your personal one and Eco the usual stuff and a Terrain mode so if if you want for some reason to take it into the snow the mud or the sand you can do similar the
To the ionics you’ve got the you know drive and neutral reverse sort of uh stalk sticking out here and you press the end there to put it into pack down in the middle we have cup holders and not just every cup holders cup holders that do this oh yeah downhill brake
Control if you wish you’ve got the auto hold and the camera buttons If you want to see all around which is very handy because as we’ve said before this is is a very very big car so that’s quite key down here you have your phone charging wireless charging of course and a little
Bit of storage there we’ll show you what this does later on once we get into the much more important back seats first though glove box time how is it oh look at that cavernous that that wow that is actually quite huge we’ve even got an actual unusually fully opening sunroof
You can close that at the back as well I’ll leave it open just for light purposes um so it’s there’s a lot of glass it feels like we’re in a an very airy spacious spit is it worth saying as well visibility it is excellent it is I
Mean we can you can start to see what I’m talking about and if you look around the back you can see where the car is it’s an easy car to know where your Corners are so even though it’s massive and we’ll come to that again later you
Can place it yeah you can place it quite easily especially with the cameras helping you out and the one thing that I find that is premium are these lovely seats I know these this must be an option well I think they are on the GT
Line yes um and the B spec will still come with comfortable seats but these are very very nice that’s specially but it’s just super comfortable I found on Long Journeys I’ve done long Journeys in this and if I just press that for you it has the usual Kia hyundi when you’re
Charging why did you chill out Harry and just even even the seats come out for your feet I mean it is that’s just too nice isn’t it it is really good so again this is a car to be driven in isn’t it now I should point
Out that this here this seat is in the farthest it could possibly go for somebody that even Jack from fully charged would be happy with and look at the amount of space it’s got please open up the thing you’ve got a table and not just a
Table storage that goes all the way down so again anyone in the back or kids that’s it get you you switch in there there are your picnic got a bit of stories there heated seats if you want them on and coold seats and uh yes and
Cold seats as well in the middle bench not in the rear up here is one of my favorite features look it’s the vent for the you don’t often get vents for people in the uh wow back as well you could fit your luggage down here if if if you
Didn’t need to use the boot even with a three-seater bench here well yeah yeah cuz this is where the three- seated would normally be so these are an optional extra you can go from three- seated and pay more for these two uh chair yeah you pay more for these but
I guess heated and cool seats in the rear bench and that’s before we get to those do you want to see if you can jump in the back I will so that’s in the position that was in before that’s in the position you were in before lots of space and how’s that
That’s unbelievable you’ve also got cup holder cup holder and US recharging yeah yeah so effectively your kids are taken care of in in the even the third bench which is often forgotten about look vents in the back as well yeah usually the further you get back the Lesser is
Yeah and these seats are really comfy as well shall I show you something even cooler than that go for it it’s a little tight when you initially do it but you could do it before you got in and you can do that for this one as
Well it’s a business meeting you can you can face each other right there’s one thing you have to do first before you set off in this so I’ve been driving all week I’ve done a lot of miles uh some long Journeys even uh and unlike quite a
Few other reviews I’ve seen out there you don’t have to go and bury yourself through the menu to turn things off because it’s a bongy c the annoyances yes the annoyances all you have to do is hold the scroll wheel button down it goes straight to the menu and then what
You need to do is turn off the speed limit warning ah is that way it reads the signs yes and then the driver retention warning turn that one off as well and thankfully we’ve got a button for the lane assist because on the country lanes we have here it’s going to
Go in mental yeah it does not work and before anybody says you know some smart ass in the comments section right now well stop speeding it reads the wrong signs it does yeah that’s the problem it reads A Sign that’s for a side road and all of a sudden it thinks you’re doing
20 and a 30 I just wanted to remember the last setting it turns back on every time I know it’s an EU thing it’s annoying isn’t it and all of C do it’s not unique you would think that there’ll be a man with a a dongle shall we say
That could program that hour at some point you got a fingerprint Center there to remember your personal settings why can it not remember that um so yeah I’ve done quite a few miles in this so if I go to this one here it’s been averaging about 2.5 miles per kilo hour 2.6 wow
The longer Journeys look at that yeah yeah 90 odd miles 80 odd miles obviously with the short Journeys in the cold weather it’s been literally what two degre snowy couple of inch of snow um a couple of days ago so I would say that puts us in the realm of
210 on the worst winter to 26070 nothing else about there’s a real world range of this I mean bear in mind it’s got nearly just shy of 100 Kow battery so it’s going to it’s going to hit 200 miles unless you’ve got everything turned up to 100 easy yes and
I’ve had people in it I’ve had weight in it uh it’s got 96 usable oh well so so even if you had two miles per Kil still 180 odd nearly but you’ll get more than that so comparing it to something like the ID Buzz which is a smaller car with
A slightly smaller battery I think it’s 70 oddd anyway and only five seats that’s not as efficient as this is we’ve been chatting a bit of camera what do you compare this to there’s no there’s only one other EV yeah uh that will come with seven seats soon it’s not even out
Yet and that’s the Volvo ex90 and that’s going to be a lot more expensive this starts at 65 Grand yep for two wheel drive two wheel drive the all-wheel drive uh is 73 and then I think 76 for the one wearing and there’s not really any options other than color
So you know it’s well speec so it’s not cheap but when you’re looking at the Volvo starting at 96 wow it does give you yeah save you 30 grand 7year warranty and get this you get the warranty the one thing that we really do need to hammer home
Because do we Dare Drive it this way out of here well yeah we live in rural environment and these I won’t say the single track well this car yeah it it if you make something coming one of you is moving to the side and stopping whereas
Even in my Tesla you can sort of creep past each other but if we see another car of equivalent size someone isn’t getting past that’s the trouble you can place it as we said earlier you I know where my Corners are the cameras are great you know it’s a big car you know
Yeah it’s like driving a van you know when you see yeah people driving a van a very comfy van a very very com I mean have you got the massage on in fact I haven’t got massage seats on I’m just going to turn on whole body setting it’s
Quiet there’s a bit of road noise I would say from the tires you’re going to get that the big big tires are they well what other car makes 21in Wheels look tiny that that is going to annoy people that especially I mean it’s I’ve already put on Twitter and it’s like oh these
Massive cars we need to ban them from the road and I get that I absolutely agree with it but if you do need six or seven seats in electric car World especially I mean this package in non electric car yep if you’ve got the 6 seven kids and you would utilize that I
Have seen no problems with the the size no trouble is everyone buys one people will be buying it with two kids yeah or even less W that that’s what will happen because it’s a big cuz look at the Range Rovers on the road oh yeah yeah well
Most of them you see just one person sting it yeah and that will annoy people and I get that but the trouble is you never know why that person’s bought it I think it’s a bit like if anyone’s ever owned a a lowered car you find yourself
Going different ways cuz you’re like the speed bumps over there I’m not going to go that way I think if I own this I’d be like well I can’t really go over the tops I mean talk about an example this is a bus unfortunately you’re going to
Have this so if I was in a smaller car this I wouldn’t need to do this i’ just pulled up up there yeah yeah sorry I mean ironically there’s only two people three people in that bus yeah to mention the performance this is the four-wheel drive version close to 400 390 380 cost
Power lots of talk of course cuz it can tore as we said earlier 2 and A2 tons what’s the combined weight could we could we do that on our l No 2 and 1/2 ton look at the size of it and it does not 60 in 5.3 seconds I mean
That’s just insane isn’t it but you know what that’s not enough for me Harry no no no I was just saying that earlier if if you wait a year is they’re bringing out apparently a GT version like the ev6 GT of this go like this why the two
Wheel drive is 200 breake and I think that talk with the talk and everything public the field it’s going to be fine I have not left EC mode on this because I never felt I needed to because I don’t want to drive quick because of the size
Of it it’s not a car that eggs you on is it by any means it’s one of those cars with the massage seat on where you’re just sitting back and just just enjoying it it’s like a like the water bed like the American Cadillac it kind of waffs
But it’s not bad at handling either weirdly in fact unfortunately I can’t tell you what it’s like over speed bumps because every speed bump you come to it just flattens yeah yeah so it doesn’t actually go over them it goes through them you know what you know we said it’s
On its own in terms of seven seater electric car World m there is one there is one the Bingo and the Perse equivalent as well a very different vehicle oh God it’s nearly half the price to be fair yeah one uh fun fact mhm it uh I got back on 7%
After taking it on that trip and it was on8 yard when I set off so I plugged it in I’m on the octopus intelligent so I’ve got six hours to charge it up so after 6 hours it went from 7% to 54% cuz of the 100 K battery when you
Still getting the range on it’s just it reques two octopus intelligent UHS if you will to fully charge it a wow but on the charging front at least if you use a rapid charger 210 KW 800 volt charging same as the other ev6 and ionic 5ivs and that and that means that
You could actually do a long journey in it because if you find a charger that actually matches it anyway it will put it in very very fast I can imagine though as a kid you will love this card with so many little Trinkets and stuff you know play with and yeah and imagine
Going with your mates or your brothers and sisters to uh to a long trip and you’re facing each other in your own car like you do on the train yeah kids love trains don’t look cuz it’s a bit different yeah that’s basically what you got back there oh my
Lord oh God if we’re going on a long journey whoever the passenger that’s perfect is it maybe it’s perfect for kids and adults because apart from the person driving who’s getting massaged yeah actually the passenger is basically asleep while the kids are playing in the back the one
Thing I would say though is that can you see the heater controls easily because it it blocks it from the steering wheel blocks it doesn’t it not when it’s even worse when your hands are and you even got the uh climate control in the rear so that they can have their own
Temperature settings back there wow are we looking at then an month one of these maybe two years are being like 40 Grand wow can you imagine 40 grand for it’s a lot of car is it it’s not it’s clearly not meant for the UK is it it’s
A it’s an American Chinese yeah where where you know in America this isn’t a big car is it it does wallow a bit doesn’t it it wallows but it wow it’s 60 already that’s it 70 you know so we summarize this basically one paragraph if you need the space you can justify
Getting something which everyone else will think is ridiculous even the guy to the side of you thought I ain’t going near him even though you stayed in the lanes he ain’t Chan in it no it’s just that big yeah but if you don’t need the
Space it’s too big isn’t it it really I could not live with this no no no no it’s a daily yeah L as we do with Prescot said do you want to try you want to take it to work it’s not a chance know if I needed it because I
Had three or more kids I think even with three kids you could justify it if they’ve got friends you need to take somebody else well if they’re take the wife and the mistress out if they’re in if they’re in the same uh age range and you’ve got three kids seats in the back
Yeah so even even the the the booster seats you don’t fit them in like a golf deal not three not three in the r you I mean I think you probably get him in something the size of superb wouldn’t you yeah maybe something bit bigger well
You know what they’re not is this an SUV or an MPV I would class this more MPV than SUV it just looks like an SUV yeah it’s got the it’s got the the functionality of a of yeah MPV yeah and people tend not to mind mpvs because it
Tends to be under be bought by people who need it families in the right hands this is a fantastic car again from the south Koreans yeah the Hundai group just to put the that price into context when the Oni equivalent Volvo ex90 which is like the XC90 equ starts at nearly
£1,000 is 65 actually really good value it will it and about it goes further does this as well yeah right well I think we’re done I think we’re lost for words now aren we so if you need seven seats perfect if you don’t leave it alone for me yeah so yeah thanks for
Watching guys I love this in the right hand I would absolutely recommend it yeah um so unless like Lana she said it’s not so much the length it’s the girth as well that’s the problem I would uh I would highly recommend it yeah absolutely we had to stick it in there
Somewhere well oh no [Laughter] I like what you did there yes and that wasn’t pure
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