@@chloscorner same here im in Australia i watch em cause we get cars a year or 2 after they release them over there so I can see em before they are even announced here
I had it on the Ioniq Hybrid and it was pretty poor. Seemed pretty inconsistent and the lane centering couldn't hold itself properly in the centre, ping-ponging between the lines.
@@warrior8154 no, he didn't *mention* the windows going all the way down, which is the whole point of the comment, as Matt always likes to point that out.
I feel if this had a vw badge on it they would praise it massively but are much harsher on it being a hyundai, great little car and it makes the golf redundant.
I own Passat now after some Peugeots and Citroens, never going back, it’s german from now on, probably VW! I’ve sat in a Kia & Hyundai, feel a bit cheap and not solid.
@@millmoormichael6630 Too bad German cars are some of the most unreliable out there. Wouldn't exactly say they're "quality" when you could get a Japanese car with 90 percent of the interior quality of a German car but 10 times more reliability
I think Matt hasnt considered the price. Yes its only average compared to its rivals but you can get the top spec version for less money than lowest spec Golf. And if you compare similar spec you can get it like 20% cheaper. Suddenly its a great value for money.
It is definitely a great car. No question about it. You cannot just say "aaaaa" when you get so many things at that price. In Greece at this moment it costs 19000 euros for the 1.0T 120ps premium version, and you can get a VW golf with the same features with at least 25000. If you want to pay for the logo do it.
Seen one and sit on one years ago in a Motorshow. I loved the interior, but also 395 liters of charge capacity on the trunk is the same as a Seat Arona (a SUV) so that is brutally good. And the octavia is on a bigger segment of cars so you should not even compare it. But man even being an average car still looks brilliantly beautiful, and now they have micro hybridation which helps a lot on city restrictions. Brilliant car I'd say.
No you're not alone, I love analogue dials, that's why I'm happy that Toyota deliberately put analogue dials in the GR Yaris and not a stupid screen, will age far better 👍
@@kristians2704 No... They aren't... People talk about all the praticality shit and forget the most important. Driver experience and the overall mechanical and technological parts of the car. The VWs (be it seat golf, skoda golf or vw golf) have among the worst petrol engines I've ever driven. I work in a car logistics company and I've driven every single seat of it's lineup (past and current) and drove a few golf and polos as well as T-Rocs that sometimes came by. The diesel engines... meh, I don't really care about them, but at the very least, I can say they are very good. The petrol engines though? Horseshit... a car with 90-100 horsepower that handles and accelerates like it has 60-70... Gear level also pretty mediocre. Drove all hyundais so far as well, even the i30N. The i20 had very good engines but yes... It was pretty cheaply and not that decently looking. By the way, what's a scala?
@@grimm6jack hi, i have an I-30 1.6 turbo diesel , and its engine never faulters , its roomy, very economical , & £ 20 a yr road tax , no reason to get rid , although 110 bhp is a bit lacking
@@grimm6jack i’m not talking about the 90hp engine. The 150 and 190hp petrol engines are very good and you can get GTI/R/cupra models. Also the Hyundai isn’t avaliable as a PHEV
@@JYMAHJAMES that's laughably ignorant since right after the MK3 Focus brought around Ford's new design language Hyundais suddenly started looking like them. Then the facelift came to make those headlights even more like the Focus. Less delusions please. The i30 has always followed the Focus design language, and this current generation looks more like it than ever.
I have the current 1.4T version and it is just as good as a Golf MK7 but with better spec and much cheaper!! Drives brilliantly and the only issue is the dull acceleration when setting off. Seems to be an 'eco' thing.
I drove the i30N... Well, lets say they come closer. They try... but, for the same money you buy an 125i or a a250 Mercedes-Benz with all options.. also, those just drive TONS better. I am not impressed by the i30n even when M BMW folks helpt them with development
@@sander5457 Who cares about a 125i or a a250 Mercedes-Benz? What you are saying makes no sence at all, all the journalist say the i30n is probably the best car value/perfomace wise, but you mentioned a e250? Following the same logic no one would by a focus st, gti and the list go on.
I don't understand this obsession with the wobbly center console. Have you considered the fact that it's intended like that to make it less prone to rattles over time? And his car's interior quality is similar to the last gen i30 and hence perfectly comparable to the Focus, I've driven both. I don't know why some of you Hyundai fannies pretend like the interior is better than it is. Be objective.
@@xIcarus227 not a Hyundai fan wtf? Dont own one and don’t know a single person who does. But Fords interior quality is quite shit in my mums focus titanium. Very plasticy for a £25k+ car. Might as well spend a little more and get a 1 series
@@youraveragejoe1 'a little more' for a 1 series with nothing on it. If it's the MK3 or 3.5 Focus then I agree, that interior is way too plasticky for what it is. But the new one is pretty much the same as what you see on this i30.
@@xIcarus227I’d rather have a base model 1 series personally. Just not a manual because I hate BMW manuals. I mean I have a 120i Sport myself and it’s decently equipped. But anyway that was just a very nitpicking comment... as you said the centre console moves a bit for a reason so it doesn’t rattle with age **cough cough VW group**. Not a Hyundai fan really, honestly don’t like them that much. Just was commenting on that moment of the video. Edit: spelling
1:54 what about that door sound, love it! And digital dash look nice too, love the combination of classic dials and screen. Buttons of climate controls are better solution that one of WAG vehicles.
I think now have more personality with that new front. But in the rear, I really liked it the fog lights above the bump. Now it's seems like any another car who have that lights in the rear bumper. And if you want a flat floor, you have to lift the bench first and then fold the back seats. I don't know why always every car tester forget that thing! That mechanism exist from years Hyundai's at the very funcional for a daily use. Look all that storage places in the interior and in the trunk ! And they always have better numbers in comfiability. I think is a very very good buy
Mat: "Who wants to drive around in Eco mode? Pointless!" Well Mat, not all of us are given G63 AMGs and RS6s to drive around for 6 months ;) And on a more serious note, if I there is traffic and highly enforced speed limits I would love to drive in Eco mode. If the drive is already boring why not save some money and extend your range? And I think Hyundai is reminding you that this is not a sports car when it starts in Eco mode
@@sahirdiesh6386 Mat makes a lot of funny jokes. One of the reasons I have been watching him since the Carbuyer days. He has risen in popularity in Carwow and brings us a lot of interesting content which is nice but maybe all the AMGs, BMW Ms, RSs, Lambos, Porsches etc are starting to get to hi head. However this particular line was not really a joke and sounded like a spoilt child of a millionaire. "Eco mode? Pointless" I can understand to be pissed off if it was a Lambo but on a sensible Hyundai i30? People that buy the i30 are cost sensitive so Eco mode makes perfect sense in it.
OH MY GOD! I am soo excited that you finally made a video about the Hyundai i30 facelift, cuz I am considering that car the last mounth and I really wanted to hear your opinion about it. Thank you a lot!
The 2011 Hyundai Sonata has a problem where the engine seizes without warning. The average repair cost is about $5,000 and the average mileage at the time of seizing is around 90,000 miles. A class action lawsuit in 2015 found the 2.4-liter engine to be defective.
@@factsmatter6980 Struggling a bit to see the relevance of a problem on a 10 year old model. By that logic nobody should buy a VW because of Dieselgate. Or a Toyota because of the accelerator issue.
Matt points out that it doesn't have a space to store the parcel shelf, but at 6:38 when he gets out of the back seat, by the time he opens the tailgate, the parcel shelf has disappeared. Magic!
I feel like this video he really had his decision made beforehand already. He kept explaining how most things were pretty good, but then adding that it's average afterwards. And then eventually give it a 'consider' after it seemingly being pretty damn good. Odd.
In his "Carbuyer" days he loved Hyundai/Kia but now seemingly despises them and ass kisses anything German. While the i30 doesn't blow you away in any one particular area it does everything well so for it to only get a "consider" rating is pretty damn harsh.
He was negative about the car the whole time (saying the centre console wobbled when it didn't etc) and you're shocked he said "consider it"? Ever since he left Carbuyer its obvious he hates Korean cars and ass kisses German ones.
I got this car in November, unfortunately in my country the highest trim level is "Highway" which comes with halogen headlights, the old infotainment and no digital driver's display. However I have it with the 1.5L Turbo. That being said, this is probably the best value for money car out there, for 17.2k euros that I paid for it, it offers more than a Ford Focus, VW Golf or Skoda Octavia to the point that my only regret is that I didn't get the automatic gearbox and that there isn't a higher trim level here cuz I would've gone for the Executive spec which is the highest spec with all the kit at 20k euros. My only complaint with the car is the manual gearbox, like Matt said, it's really weird with the bite point on the clutch, however you get used to it after a while and it's an amazing car.
A better way to judge i30 vs Golf is to source 5 year old cars & 10 year old cars and review them head-to-head. Any car is nice when it's brand new, but the longterm owner review would speak volumes for the actual car.
This is a really good car for the money. It looks REALLY good on the outside as well. But that interior is just so dull. Even the new Kia Ceed and SEAT Leon feel like a work of art inside compared to this. Hyundai really needed to overhaul that.
New i30 (with older front grile) is on sale since 2016, while Focus mk4 since 2018. So who copied who?! ;) Or maybe Hyundai owns a time machine. Next time do your homework, you, people who like to talk nonsense ;)
The interior of the Hyndai i30 is undoubtedly more interesting than that of the Golf but Matt called the Golf interior design minimalistic and called the i30 boring
I know it is just your opinion but.... What? This interior is more interesting than the Golf's? Sorry but I have to disagree on that. The interior of the Golf actually looks new, and conceptually cohesive, while the I30's interior looks like a 2015 car with a stuck on new screen. The colors are bland, the shapes are bland. And that whole middle part of the dash is actually really hard and scratchy (the part around the vents). No decor elements, no interesting texures, no lines that perfectly line up for style, just funcion, no design at all.
Interesting comment about the radar (or lack thereof) cruise control - in Australia it's only available with automatic transmissions, the manual transmissions only get normal cruise control. Looks like it's the same the world over.
Fun fact: on hyundais with radar cruise control, you can only use the cruise with radar, which can be annoying as its braking and at the same time, the people hogging the middle lane drives one mad. Other cars have radar cruise with the option to switch off the radar
thank you thank you thank you! :) I'm getting mine without the adaptive/radar option, just the simple cruise control, and was a bit jealous of those with the adaptive. But not after your comment. :D Do you know how the adaptive works in a corolla or auris? Are they better?
But the current hyundai I30 is not on sale in SA...They only brought the limited version of the I30 N last year and stopped sales of the normal I30 with that last hideous generation.
I have an i30 2011 with a manual shifter and a 1.6L diesel engine producing an astronomical 115hp, all I can say that it is a very reliable and very economical car to own...
