Hyundai's Concept Three Previews The Smallest Ioniq Yet With The Best Interior Of All Time

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It's 2025, and we person each kinds of neat electrical cars. We've sewage fast EVs, capable EVs, luxurious EVs, moreover EVs pinch beds. But, contempt each those options, American buyers still only get one electrical hatchback successful nan Fiat 500e — nan remainder of nan marketplace is each crossovers, trucks aliases luxury sedans. Now, finally, Hyundai is teasing america pinch a Volkswagen Golf-sized hatch that promises to beryllium a applicable regular driver successful nan Concept Three. It besides promises nan coolest interior of possibly immoderate car, ever.

The Concept Three is Hyundai's latest and top from nan IAA Mobility show successful Munich. The sanction positions it arsenic thing smaller than nan existing Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6, and nan spec expanse matches — dimensions ever displacement somewhat from conception to production, but nan concept's 168.8-inch length, 76.4-inch width, and 56.2-inch tallness put it squarely successful Volkswagen Golf territory. It makes for a sleek look, peculiarly erstwhile those dimensions are interpreted done what Hyundai is calling its "Art of Steel" styling language, which first appeared connected Hyundai's boxy hydrogen concept, the FCEV Initium. The satin-finish "anodized-look" paint doesn't wounded either, though Hyundai's really muddying nan waters present — you can't anodize steel, making this really much nan creation of aluminum. Regardless, mostly we wouldn't expect a conception hatchback this debased and wide to participate accumulation without those numbers being reined successful a bit, but Hyundai is king of creation correct now. If immoderate institution tin do it, it's this one. 

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The existent dainty of nan Concept Three, though, comes inside. The exterior hews adjacent to existing Ioniq statement styling, but nan interior is perfectly buckwild — a Peeps-style purple and yellowish cyberpunk extravaganza, pinch nan astir absorbing seats immoderate carmaker has put together successful rather immoderate time. Who other is putting a seatbelt done nan headrest? Who other would creation beforehand seats to look for illustration papasans? No 1 is doing it for illustration Hyundai. 

The interior really feels for illustration a mishmash of influences, pinch '80s-looking headrests atop '60s-style chairs down an offsenter dash and halfway surface setup made up of customizable widgets that look consecutive retired of nan transparent integrative era of nan precocious '90s and early '00s — though Hyundai says this interior is made pinch sustainable materials, which fewer toys successful nan early aughts claimed. This is what highest interior creation looks like, and I dream astatine slightest immoderate of these monolithic stylistic swings transportation done to an eventual accumulation version. 

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Beyond nan styling and size, Hyundai is ray connected specifications for nan Concept Three and what it mightiness mean for a early electrical hatch. The institution is happy to talk astir "Mr. Pix," nan pixelated characteristic that shows up successful nan car's interior, but little eager to opportunity erstwhile we tin get our grubby small mitts connected nan car that he occupies. Still, there's a dire informing to Americans successful nan property release: Hyundai says that nan Concept Three "signals nan brand's planned description into nan European compact EV market," but pointedly does not mention different locations. 

Americans don't traditionally emotion mini hatchbacks, truthful a caller electrical hatch from a institution whose workers we conscionable rounded up and detained is astir apt not connected nan paper successful nan United States immoderate clip soon. Maybe, though, we'll get fortunate — nan best-looking interior of immoderate car could still grace our shores if we request and plead enough. We tin only hope.