Start with what the Hyundai i-oniq is: a car with 1.0 , built from 2012, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer.
The background
The Hyundai i-oniq (also known as the i.oniq and HED-8) was a concept sporty three-door hatchback designed and built by Hyundai Motor Corporation that featured a battery electric powertrain supplemented by a range extending gasoline engine, introduced in March 2012 at the Geneva Motor Show.
Its name is a portmanteau of the words "ion" and "unique", which was later reused in 2016 when Hyundai began selling the Hyundai Ioniq. Hyundai subsequently launched the sub-brand Ioniq in 2020 to market electric vehicles built on the E-GMP architecture.
The engineering
The engine is 1.0 . On the scales it comes to NNN -. The wheelbase is 2650 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Hyundai line-up the Hyundai i-oniq has a clear place: it handed the line to the Hyundai Ioniq. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Tesla Model X, the Peugeot 208, the Mazda CX-5. Its Hyundai stablemates include the Hyundai Accent WRC and the Hyundai Accent.
Owning one today
Buying one now means $9,700–$22,000 for a typical example, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $1,740–$3,285 a year. Insurance sits around $1,160–$1,970 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.