Hyundai Ioniq 6

Hyundai Ioniq 6

Hyundai

MarqueHyundai
ProductionJuly 2022 – present

This is the catalogue record of the Hyundai Ioniq 6, one of 150 models Hyundai has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2022. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Hyundai Ioniq 6 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Nissan Nissan Z, the Kia Kia EV6, the Tesla Tesla Cybertruck — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Hyundai Ioniq 6 reads like this: the record lists its engine as electric motor; kerb weight is recorded at 1800 –; the layout is Rear-motor, rear-wheel-drive / Dual-motor, all-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Hyundai story

Within Hyundai's own catalogue the Hyundai Ioniq 6 sits alongside the Hyundai Accent WRC, the Hyundai Accent, the Hyundai Aslan, the Hyundai Atos. Design is credited to Under the lead of SangYup Lee. Assembly is recorded at South Korea: Asan (Hyundai Asan Plant / Asan Plant) / Singapore: Jurong (List of Hyundai Motor Company manufacturing facilities#Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center in Singapore /.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Hyundai Ioniq 6 was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.

Specifications

LayoutRear-motor, rear-wheel-drive / Dual-motor, all-wheel-drive
Body style4-door fastback sedan
Kerb weight1800 –
Wheelbase2950 mm
Length4,855 mm
AssemblySouth Korea: Asan (Hyundai Asan Plant / Asan Plant) / Singapore: Jurong (List of Hyundai Motor Company manufacturing facilities#Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center in Singapore /
DesignerUnder the lead of SangYup Lee
Catalogue IDQ112577811

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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