Reminder: Hyundai motor company donated $1 million to the orange MAGAt king’s inauguration.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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name a car maker that has not contributed to MAGA. That's how business is done in US.
Companies always have a choice, and the choices that we do know about should be highlighted.
Do you have a citation for this claim?
FEC Form 13 filing that lists all donors: https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00894162/1889684/f132
“HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA” is listed as having donated “$1000000.00” on 2026-01-06.
There are a lot of other companies that donated similar amounts to which people should pay attention.
Ford, Toyota, Caterpiller, FCA, GM....so why focus on Hyundai? GM also donated $1M.
so why focus on Hyundai?
- From my comment that you replied to:
There are a lot of other companies that donated similar amounts to which people should pay attention.
- Highlighting a fact about Hyundai, to the crowd who is quite likely to care about such things, in a post about Hyundai.
worth noting, Hyundai is also classified as a war profiteer in both Ukraine and Palestine. you will find me in another comment praising the Ioniq 5. This is in contrast to Tesla, bear in mind
they don't sell as well in Australia because, well, we have lots of competition I guess.
I have an Ioniq 5. It’s great. Highly recommended.
Can it finally do one pedal driving and keep it between drives? Last time I drove one I had to enable it every time I went into drive. I've been driving one pedal for almost 10 years now so I don't want to go back.
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Their most recent OTA update also allows you to disable location sharing, presumably to conform to California law.
Likely to disable it for other users mostly for in a domestic abuse situation (not the OEM) for a new York law. https://opdv.ny.gov/nys-connected-vehicle-service-laws
Any idea if this is true outside the US?
Just cover up the sharkfin with aluminum tape.
Those are mostly for GPS and AM/FM. The antenna for the connected services is likely in the dash.
I would definitely have gone for an Ioniq 5 as well if money was not a question. But at the end of the day, the Ioniq 5 was overkill for my use case so I ended up going for a used Hyundai Kona. Still very happy with my choice, even if I would've loved an Ioniq 5. But it did save me like 60.000 DKK.
Same here. I tried a couple Ioniqs and some KIA's. Went with a 2024 Kona. It's been great!
I bought one last year and it’s been a delight.
I have many complaints about it and they’re all incredibly petty.
Man I love mine but I do have a lot of complaints. Like a bunch of things that just don’t make any sense, like the doors unlock when you walk up but don’t lock when you walk away? You also can’t lock the doors using the door buttons if you want to lock and walk away, so fucking annoying. There’s a lot of small things, but it charges so fast and it’s so nice inside.
You can disable the "unlock on approach" in the settings. I did on mine because that annoyed me the same way.
I also turned off lock when walking away. Sometimes I just forget something and have to run back for it...
Car now only locks or unlocks if I push buttons on the fob. That's what I prefer!
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