YouTuber Hagerty has posted a video from a competition between the all-electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 N and some of Europe’s four fastest and performance-laden SUVs. The footage does a good job highlighting the most thrilling parts of the race, but rest assured: that EV won’t be taking any prisoners.
The electric ride approached the starting line packing two motors and a combined 650 PS (641 hp / 478 kW). The gas-powered opposition also has AWD at its disposal, but the engine specs are all over the place. The Maserati Grecale and the Porsche Macan both pack turbocharged V6s, but while the former gets 530 PS (523 hp / 390 kW) out of its mill, the latter gets 440 PS (434 hp / 324 kW).
The Jaguar F-Pace SVR and the Lamborghini Urus each bring a V8 to the fight. The Jaguar squeezes its five liters of displacement for 557 PS (550 hp / 410 kW), and the Urus manages to extract a superior 666 PS (657 hp / 490 kW) from its four-liter block.
Everyone but the Lambo driver participated in the first race. The Ioniq got a neat head start straight away and had only proceeded to increase the gap afterwards, crossing the quarter-mile line in 11.1 seconds. The Macan looked like it would come second for a while, but eventually fell behind both the Grecale and the F-Pace SVR, coming last.
All gas-powered cars came at least a full second later to the finish line than the Ioniq, meaning they were approximately 12 body lengths behind.
The showdown with the Urus was deliberately postponed until the end. The Hagerty crew pointed out that, despite their different size and weight categories, the Urus and the Ioniq 5 were actually rather evenly matched in terms of their hp-per-weight ratio. As the race started, the Italian soft-roader blasted off to a confident start but soon proved unable to keep up with the EV. In the end, the Ioniq scored a 11.1-second run and the Urus a 11.6-second one, coming roughly five body lengths behind.