New Kia EV9 review: Cancel your Range Rover!

This is the new Kia ev9 and it's a bit like Adidas' new

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of walking boots. Ultimately, they're supposed to be practical, comfortable, and easy to wear, but they're also very, very stylish. Now in this video, I'll explain exactly what's great about it. this car talking about the exterior CH the interior almost like a small trampoline for

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head look try to answer a little bit of technology come on okay well KY and seeing how practical it is I will also reveal some of the things that are not so Well, it has a big dirty raindrop obviously im going to take it for a spin yeah its breaking down and it warns me and i launch it to see how fast it is from no to 60 MPH which is faster than my 996 Porsche 911 I'm Matt Watson and you're looking at car wax, let's take a look at the design of the Kia ev9.

I am a poet and in fact I know it. You know, for a 7-seat family electric SUV, it actually looks pretty good to be fair, the rear. It's not its best angle, but it's not offensive and depending on the model you choose, you have a slightly different lower bumper design, so the entry level air looks slightly different to the GT line and GT line S versions, you have this big roof. spoiler there to try to make it look sporty and the way these lights are like that reminds me a little bit of a Volvo moving to the side now this is where these kind of thick, blocky wheel arches start to look really good.

Give it a cyberpunk vibe as well as the wheel designs so the entry level car starts at 19 but you can go up to 20 if you have a GT line or a GT S line then you have these 21 inch alloy wheels also the GT line and the GT line. The S's have a black window frame and black roof bars while the air has silver bars, obviously we have some blacked out rear windows to make it look bad and it's mandatory for an electric car. Come on, let's do it, retractable door handles that move down on the side. the doors cover the sills, which is nice, you can see it, but don't look too far in, we'll get to that in a moment, so the GT line, the GT S line has black body-color wing mirrors on the entry level, once again here on the very thick, very square, very cybernetic front.

Punky loves it and the lights on the front are a similar shape to the ones on the back, so moving around the front is very thick, very bulky, very bold but also very boxy and cool looking I think. help with this blue paint, although this car is not cheap, it may be called Kia, but K has gone up in the world, so their prices, so the starting price of this car £65,000, this one is a little more expensive because It's top of the

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Wow, I put a link in the description of this video and the pin comment to take you directly to carwa so you can see for yourself how it can help you or you can just click. on the package banner that should appear there right now or just Google, help me with Carw, my team and I will help you choose your perfect car and get it for a price you'll love. Now with the video of the interior of this ev9. it's quite pretty, it's quite simplistic but it has various outlines and elements so it's interesting, at the same time it has this big digital controller screen through which you can control most of the functions, it has a reasonable response, like you can see there, the graphics are a little bit dark and you've probably noticed that we have our climate control here and it's slightly blocked by the steering wheel, so you have to look around when you're driving to see what's going on, although luckily you have some buttons shortcut here for temperature and fan speed, which are useful and that's what you're going to use while driving, you also have some shortcut buttons that are haptic feedback, the touch sensitive thing is just scrolling through the different menus , but more about the later ones in terms of quality, in general they are pretty good, but as you go down they become less good and, like below, here, less good, up here, nice and squid, but less good, you better know which It is the top of the range of this particular car, it is quite expensive, it costs similar money. a BMW and the BMW feels like a more luxurious product in terms of the quality of the material and if you want to see my full video

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Right now, having said that, although these seats have absolutely lovely abs and I like the headrest, they're almost like a little trampoline for your head, it's a pretty cool design, like the design of the steering wheel, as well as these gauges. You just sit in a pleasantly cushioned seating position, the steering wheel is electrically adjustable and of course the driver's seat. Oh, and there's enough adjustment, whether big or small, you'll be able to get comfortable and get a good view. Adequate storage space here has quite a bit of space. storage, that's your wireless charging for your cell phone, which kind of stores it under there, you have some cup holders under here, look, here we go, it depends on the size of the items that you want to store there so you can use them just to store them there . or for your cup holders, let's see if it fits big bottles, yeah that's good, there's more storage in this bin below.

Can you see then down here you have your USB, so the USB is there, you have another USB there and look, that's your 12V? There, everything perfectly packed, Ed, here you have a glove drawer, I like to call it instead of a glove box, and it's big, look, it's quite deep, very practical, very useful, but let's quickly test whether the glove compartments the door may contain. a big bottle, oh yes you can, another thing to show you is this look, huge sun visors really good at blocking the sun and the biggest vanity mirror I've ever seen in any car which is perfect for the vein, oh , that feels good actually H. soft, smooth roof is a pretty nice place to be like oh, there's one last thing I just want to show you.

I quite like it, so when you turn off the car it makes this noise. The K v9 comes with seven seats as standard, but you can pay an extra $000 for this six-seat arrangement with these two individual chairs instead of a bench in the middle row and then you'll have a little more functionality, like comfortable armrests and you'll be able to recline these seats individually like a model so that's really really comfortable and you can slide them back and forth you can also do this with them if I open this door I pull a lever here I can do this I can turn it right here we go I'm not not at all sure why do this because there's not much you can do in this position look because these are the seats that are adapting to the way you can do it if you really want let's put it in the back come on where's the lever?

The car is beeping at me for some reason, it's probably because I have the accessories on so I can show you things like this. See, the rear windows roll down completely, which is good news. And you have to look for some blinds if you want to use the ones you also get on the top-spec version, the GT. Line s now in the front the blind is manual but in the rear it is electric unfortunately you can't operate it from back here so you have to ask the driver for help but it's very good to have this sunroof, it's a shame. you can't get it in the lower trim levels, it's very spacious, although doesn't there seem to be a lot of headroom and obviously in this configuration there is also a lot of shoulder room?

It's quite practical. We have two cup holders here, which is quite useful because it doesn't fit in the door, look, what does fit is just your normal sized bottle. You've also got some pockets on the backs of the seats, they're like airline style folders, they feel quite expensive, so you've got this drawer system here, so pull this out, push that in. back, although this top here look, this actually extends further for some reason, I don't know why that is, we just have some climate control there, so you have climate control here in the middle row, you have your air vents up there like Well, your reading lights up your Hawks, all your parts and the quality back here is practically identical to the front, so you don't feel like in the cheap seats, in fact, they feel very luxurious.

I would definitely choose this six seater. setup I like it anyway, let's look at the space in the back, so if I press a button up here I can slide it forward. Oh, I better clean up the dirt I put on the seat, just wipe it off, sorry, I have to clean this up. then now when I pull this back, come on, let's get into position. I'm going to put this in a position that's right for me, James, can you come and sit down and get comfortable? I'm going to move this one. Out of the way so you can see what's going on, I have my beautiful assistant to help me here so you can get comfortable so you have enough knee room and we'll see if I'm okay so look at you there James so James. okay, look, I have enough knee room.

I can shuffle my feet under the chair in front of me and the nice thing about this six-person version is that I can put my other foot in there and actually because the base of the seat is quite high. from the ground I don't feel like my knees are around my ears like they do in the back of other SUVs and the head ring back here is good too, it's actually fine for adults here in the back there are cup holders there like this like a USBC, yes, everything is pretty good. I want to show you this, although one of the things I particularly like about this car here on the back is what it's, ah, yeah, I just drew a completely blank look down here, isopix anle dots. here in the third row and there's also isopix down here there's something else I need to show you too look, look at these buttons.

I can use them to alter the backrest in this third row and see how far back you can go. Wow, it's really surprisingly comfortable. I'm very impressed, it's really comfortable in the back seats. Now let's check the trunk. With all the rows of chairs in place, you now have 330L of cargo space to give you an idea of ​​how big it is. it's almost the same as what a Volkswagen Polo has so it's pretty good with these rear seats in place, as you can see there's no cargo lift as there's almost no bumper sticking out, it's pretty easy to then slide things in and outwards, that's really nice and if you look down here, you'll see there's a place to store the Loc cover.

I like that too. Now you have other features back here. Look, you've got a 12V plug in there and you've got some Poky stuff in there. What I'm going to do now is put these rear seats down, here we go, now with the rear seats down you have 830L of space which is pretty good, however a Tesla Model on the popup button. our banner in the upper right corner of the screen or follow the QR code that should appear on the TV screen right now. You can see my video review of that car. If you look here the cargo space is completely flat which is really really nice if I press these buttons I can fold them down and I really wish we moved the driver's seat forward a little bit because that would have been perfect but unfortunately we don't. we did, so I'll have to do this. like the cameraman is as confused as me about where to go, sorry anyway lets see how much room there is under the hood.

If you have the rear-wheel drive version of this car, you have 90L of trunk space under the hood. However, if you have the four-wheel drive version because there is a motor underneath, it eats up the space and now you only have 50 L if you compare it to a Tesla Model Cargo space in the fruit, yes this Kia is a little out of place and that brings you up to five annoying things about the ev9. I find the entertainment screen is a little too far away so you have to reach for it totouch it to finish You're stabilizing your hand on this ridge here and then you accidentally activate the shortcut button, so you're a little bit like this, you want to press something and then, ah, it went to another screen, let's press that and then okay, there Come on, oh no, he's gone. on another screen again no, no, no, it's annoying in some cars, the middle seats, when they slide forward to give access to the back, have a memory function, so they go back to where you actually had them placed, but not in this car, so go.

Like outside, you push it in and then when you pull it back it stops in the exact same position. No, it's back up here now, so I'll have to get someone to adjust it for me. You would think that a car like this with this much technology would have a rear view camera with a little washer to keep it clean, but it doesn't and the camera is mounted so low that it gets covered in Rog gri, so you often have to take it out and clean it. with your thumb so you can see what's behind you.

This car has a lot of safety systems, which is good, but by default it always has lane assist and speed limit warning and warning on. you have to turn them off if you want to turn them off because they are bothering you and to do that it's a few steps so you have to go to settings, let's go to vehicle, let's go to driver assistance, let's go to speed limit, turn it off, let's turn that off. turn off and then let's go back and turn off the Lan keeping Shenanigans turn it off so everything is set up exactly how I want the car;

However, if I go out, turn it off and on again, those two functions will be back on by default, so I have to go through the whole procedure and you usually don't realize until you're already gone, so that you do it while driving, which is not safe; However, it is a problem that occurs with many cars these days. This care has something special down here, see, which is a fingerprint reading sensor, so you can set the crib exactly how you want and you touch this and it will restore it to your settings, like the seat position and things like that, without However, this is not linked. to the security systems so you can understand why they are on by default because it is possible that someone else gets into the car so it is better to have the security systems on, but if you have your fingerprint, you touch it, you are basically saying I want it set up the way I want this car set up please set everything up including safety it's a missed opportunity when you're coasting in traffic on the brakes they make a weird growling noise listen listen come on do it.

Again, that doesn't sound very expensive, right? It's all bad because, actually, if you look and take a look inside, there's no one driving the car. I'm actually driving this car by remote control using the key fob, come to me, don. Don't be shy, I'll forgive you for that noise because this is great, come on, keep it coming, come on, come on, come on, don't be shy, come on, let's go this way, come on, come on, okay, let's go there. Well, KY, you can get this car with some great seats. First up is the Ergo motion seat, so in addition to the usual heating and cooling function and a massage, it has something called comfort stretch, so when you're on a long trip, run a program to help stretch your back muscles. the back to reduce fatigue.

There's also postural assist that will help improve your posture while driving and a lumbar stabilization system that alters the amount of lumbar support you have so you don't put on too much. pressure on the lower part of the spine if you are in the seat for a long time, but that's not all, you can operate the front passenger seat from this row to have a little more knee room if the person in front just he jumped and didn't do it. Reset your seat and simply use these buttons here to alter the reclining function and move it back and forth.

It might get problematic if you have naughty kids and they like to play with it while you're in front of them, but it's still useful for Also, these two seats here in the middle of the row are heated and cooled, and another feature is the sleep mode. relaxation, so if I press this button here, it will move the front passenger seat to the ideal position to just relax, there's even this little one underneath carve a support there to lift my legs up aw, that's a very nice position. I think it's perfect for your posture. You will also do it in the driver's seat, but it doesn't seem to lift this part because then obviously you would.

I can't operate the pedals and that would be dangerous. There's one more thing, although I can drop from the third row of seats through the entertainment screen just by pressing these buttons, here we go, that's handy if you've just taken the kids. to school they jumped, they didn't put the seats back and now you have to throw some things in the trunk and obviously once you've done your errands and need to go back to pick up the kids you can just press the buttons and they'll come back up , although it's not perfect, you'll see that the head doesn't actually go back up as well, but I guess it's not too hard for kids to go back up once they go back up as long as you have the key in your pocket, let's say You jump out, you went shopping, you picked up some stuff that you have complete, you want the tailgate to open automatically, don't you?

And you get this feature on a lot of cars and you end up sliding your foot under the bumper and sometimes it opens and sometimes it doesn't. It's a real travesty with this key, although all I have to do is stand near the trunk like that and it knows I want to get in. away and opens smoothly and always works which is a winner if you get a four wheel drive version of the EV9. It comes with terrain mode so you can cycle through different settings and adjust the traction control to keep moving through the snow. mud or sand, there's also heel-descent control to help you descend a steep grade safely, and for an electric car, this four-wheel drive version has impressive towing capabilities - it has a maximum capacity of 2500 toone, which is the same as a BMW iix and almost as good as Right now coming to the electrical world, this car comes with a three pin plug.

Now you can get other cars with a three prong plug and they will be able to charge a laptop. However, this one is 250 volts and 16 amps, which means look. In this case, you can actually boil a k while it boils, it's a kettle of boiled water, which is a waste. You can get two different power outputs from the k e v9. The entry-level air car has a single electric motor driving the rear wheels with 203 horsepower, then the GT line. The versions have four-wheel drive, so one motor on each axle and a combined output of 385 horsepower. Also, when it comes to range, the rear-wheel drive car has a slightly better range, although both cars have a 100 kwh battery, the rear-wheel drive car will deliver 350.

Mi on a full charge, while the versions with Four-wheel drive delivers 350 M on a full charge, in terms of charging, you have a charging capacity of 210 Kow in DC and also 11 Kow of charging in AC. Now, which version of the K ev9 do I recommend? Get well, I'm going to configure my perfect car using the car configurator and if you want to see what that car is and exactly how much you can save through carw, just click on the pop-up banner that appears in the top right corner. from the screen or follow the QR code that should appear on the screen right now, let's see what it's like to drive this ev9 and I'm going to start in the city, just carrying things in general to start with the driving position is great, sit well. and tall you have a big square hood but it's easy to tell where the corners are if you're in the rear window, it's good considering how far away that window is, the steering is nice and light for city work, the brakes don't grab too much like they can be on some electric cars so you find that they are a little inconsistent so you press them and it's quite soft and suddenly you get to a point where they actually hit the anchors it's like they have some sort of exponential thing going on. happening with them in terms of suspension.

I'm very impressed with this car, it's super super comfortable now, if we compare it to something like a high-end Mercedes SUV that has air suspension, this one doesn't have that. They feel a little posh in the way they go down the road, but that's just to make motoring journalists worry about this car, it's very comfortable, it just rides on really thinner surfaces, it rides a bit like if it were a really elegant Mercedes. Anyway, we won't check it. Outside the turning circle I will have the help of the surround view cameras to be able to see what is happening.

It has a big dirty colored raindrop over the 12.3M turning circle which is actually quite big for a car like this, in comparison the VW Buzz has a 11M turning circle, now click on the banner pop-up to see my fun review video of that car, but luckily the camera saw me around well and I could see where the curve was, so I didn't worry about taking the curve. My wheels I hope I can do this curb and I have to point this out. I really love that feature. The fact that in the direction you point it shows you what is happening on the camera that is in each door mirror.

It's really good so you can check it out. Your blind spot visually when you maneuver. This car is full of technology. We have a little more technology for you. Actually, just get out of here. Follow my path. You can use these paddles to change the amount of regeneration effect. when you lift off the accelerator, there are two modes, there is a normal mode and you can put it in full manual mode and run it with just one pedal, so when you lift off the brake it stops it completely or you can reverse it so that it is much smoother the effect of regen deceleration, however what I do is put it in auto mode and then what the car will do is use its radar that it uses in the adaptive cruise control to determine how far you are from the car in front.

So now what I'm going to do is reverse the regen effect and go towards the car in front and it's actually slowing me down using regen because it's measuring that distance. It is brilliant. Here's something else that's brilliant. Look at the car in front of me. I stopped at the traffic light. Turn on the turn signal. I'm going to let him walk away. Imagine I'm daydreaming. We will chat. You know, when you're at an intersection and the person in front is clearly not paying attention. Those kind of lights that are just. in green for a shorter period look at this oh I'm just daydreaming.

I get a little warning and then that beep says the vehicle in front is driving. It bothered me that the front of the car had moved away and I hadn't. I think all cars. You should have that, that's brilliant, clever, clever, clever, well now I'm going to show you the benefit of automatic regenerative braking. You are more efficient if you have regen braking disabled when the car is coasting because you are not losing energy while regen braking is occurring. because apart from putting it back into the battery there are losses so you might as well just coast, that's the best you can do but obviously you don't want to get into the car in front of you so now I'm accelerating .

I'm taking off and it's braking automatically for that car because I got close to it, I wonder what it's going to do with this broken down car here, yeah it's braking and it's warning me and it did an emergency steering and then to turn it around it has all this. auto anyway let's get back to the demo so now I'm lifting off the throttle and the car in front of me is pretty far away so it's not giving me much brake regeneration but if I get close to it like this you can see it's regenerating Auto . a lot more regeneration because I'm close to the car and it even gave me a warning because I was getting too close.

That's the thing about K, you know, they're packed with kit and you get it as standard depending on which version. At the level you're going, it's not like the German stuff where you know you're paying for a top-spec car and you have to add a lot more stuff. BMWs don't even have adapted cruise control as standard, this has its appearance. I just go. to activate it now here we go there we go Lane keeping assist increase speed to 50 that's what's here L I'll turn around here oh stare and I'm seeing all the pictures on that head-up display Oh look El The car of in front it's stopping what it's going to do it's slowing down I'm going to follow it what's going to happen oh oh oh oh oh oh look look it stops automatically there we go look I wasn't touching any of the pedals and of course, when it pulls away I'll let you know that he has moved away and that I tooI should get moving.

I'm actually waiting while L cleans the camera lenses. Today is a garbage day. Look at it yesterday was nice and sunny. Tomorrow will be nice and sunny. but today, the day we are filming, it is raining. I want to move to California. Is there anyone in the United States who wants to marry me? Okay, let's test the performance, so cruising at 40, let's see how long it takes to get to 70. 3 2 1 wow 70 is pretty fast, not bad considering this thing weighs 2.6 tons, that truck was impressive now Cruising at 70 there are a couple of things I can notice, one, there isn't much road noise, two, there is a little bit of wind noise. from here probably the big door mirrors, but at speed it feels pretty planted, comfortable, a bit of jitter coming out of the rough surface, something you wouldn't get if you had a German luxury SUV with air suspension, but it's just a tiny one. you complain about this car for most people they will find it super comfortable they will find it efficient enough although this one averages 2.3 times per KW hour and if you consider it has a 100 KW battery that means Real world range in this car.

I'm currently achieving 230 Mi, it's supposed to do 313 M on a full charge, so it's a little less than 75% in the stated range. Okay, I'm going to check the handling now, so I'll put the car in Sport Mode Oho, the seats grip my body a little firmer, give me a hug. It adds a bit of weight to the steering, it doesn't do anything to the suspension, but it does make the throttle response a bit snappier, maybe it should. I've done that 40-70 test in this mode and it feels a bit faster, so fast that I got too close to the car in front and it stopped me again.

One thing to note is that while the steering feels nice and light around town, which is a good thing. even in sport mode well it has a bit more weight which I find is a bit unnatural so what you want from a car is the more you turn the steering wheel the more the steering wheel weighs as the load passes through the tires, but in This it doesn't seem like it, it just seems like the same kind of resistance wherever you are, regardless of what you're doing, yet the steering puts the car exactly where you want it to go and considering this.

It's heavy and big, It actually corners very well. I think the only problem I have is the fact that you can't tell how much grip you have with those front tires, but it will easily exceed the speed limit. on a winding road like this, completely unfazed, which is all you can really ask for, isn't it? It handles better than I thought. I'm quite impressed. It's actually a really good car to drive. Anyway, I like it a lot. One last thing to prove is that the gear says that this four-wheel drive version of the ev9 will not hit 60 in 5.3 seconds.

The specific timing gear is primed and ready, let's move on to Auto Hold and then no, that's not Auto Hold, let's move on to Auto Hold Activate now. and floor, look what time we can get there on this horrible miserable wet day, it goes for it, it stops very well too, it's a sub 5c time in a huge Kia electric SUV that's faster than my Porsche 911 996 Bonkers and quite bright, so what is it? My final verdict on the Kia ev9: If you avoid it, consider it a short list or just go ahead and buy it right.

I think you should go ahead and buy the ev9 if you are looking for a stylish, well equipped and very very practical model. Electric SUV Hey if you enjoyed the video please like it it really helps us and let me know what you think of my verdict on this car in the comments below if you click on the Windows video you can see some more videos and if you do click on the carwow logo you can go to car W to see how much money you can save on your next car thanks for watching