Hyundai’s Concept Three Examin the smallest Ioniq so far with the best interior of all time – Jalopnik

It is 2025 and we have all kinds of neat electric cars. We have fast EVs, capable EVs, luxurious EVs, even EVs with beds. But despite all those options, American buyers still get only one electric hatchback in the Fiat 500E – the rest of the market is all crossovers, trucks or luxury sedans. Now, finally, Hyundai teases us with a Hatch-Sizch-Sizch from Volkswagen that promises to become a practical daily driver in the concept of three. It also promises the coolest interior of perhaps every car, ever.

The concept three is the newest and best of Hyundai from the IAA Mobility Show in Munich. The name positions it as slightly smaller than the existing IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 6, and the specifications are similar to dimensions always somewhat from concept to production, but the length of 168.8 inches, 76.4-inch width and 56.2-inch height puts it right in Volkswagen Golf area. It provides a sleek look, especially when those dimensions are interpreted by what Hyundai calls his “art of steel” styling language, which first appeared on Hyundai’s Boxy -Hyundy concept, the FCEV Initium. The satin finish “anodized look” paint does not hurt either, although Hyundai here really the waters can no moderize steel, making this really more the art of aluminum. Anyway, in general we would not expect a concept of hatchback to be so low and wide to enter production without being regulated in a little, but Hyundai is now the king of design. If a company is possible, it is this one.

However, the real treat of the concept three comes in. The exterior criticizes the existing IONIQ line styling, but the interior is absolutely Buckwild-a Peeps-style Purple and yellow Cyberpunk Extravaganza, with the most interesting seats that every car manufacturer has compiled for a long time. Who else puts a seat belt through the headrest? Who would design more front seats to look like Papasans? Nobody does it like Hyundai.

Het interieur voelt echt als een mengelmoes van invloeden, met de jaren ’80 uitziende hoofdstoelen bovenop de jaren 60-stijl stoelen achter een offsenter dash- en middenschermopstelling bestaande uit aanpasbare widgets die rechtstreeks uit het transparante plastic tijdperk van het begin van de jaren 90 en vroege ’00s worden geclaimd, die in het begin van het begin van het begin van de vroege aughts in het begin van het begin van The start of the early Aughts is claimed. This is how Peak Interior Design looks like, and I hope that at least some of these massive stylistic fluctuations will continue to a final production version.

In addition to the styling and size, Hyundai is light on details for the concept of three and what it could mean for a future electric hatch. The company likes to talk about ‘Mr. Pix ‘, the pixel -related character that appears in the interior of the car, but less enthusiastic to say when we can get our dirty small mittens on the car he occupies. Yet there is a terrible warning for Americans in the press release: Hyundai says that the concept of three “the planned expansion of the brand in the European Compact EV market indicates”, but emphatically does not think any other locations.

Americans do not like small hatchbacks, so a new electric part of a company whose employees we have just completed and held it is probably not quickly on the menu in the United States. Perhaps, however, we will be lucky to be the best looking interior of every car can still adorn our coasts when we begged and beg enough. We can only hope.