Hyundai has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in California from a disgruntled Ioniq owner.
According to the Ioniq Limited owner who filed the lawsuit, he purchased the vehicle in June 2020 and alleges that, on the window sticker, it was listed as having Blind-Spot Collision-Avoidance Assist and Rear Cross-Traffic Collision-Avoidance Assist when in fact it only came with Blind-Spot Collision Warning and Rear Cross-Traffic Collision Warning systems.
Whereas the Assist systems actively apply the brakes if necessary to avoid a collision, the Warning systems simply act as a warning to alert drivers.
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The lawsuit claims that Hyundai deceptively marketed, advertised, sold and leased the 2020 Ioniqs to customers nationwide with claims of them including these Assist systems when they were instead just Warning systems. The owner claims he repeatedly contacted Hyundai and the dealership over the ‘missing’ features, but to no avail.
A look at the Hyundai website in the U.S. confirms that 2021 models come standard with the Warning systems but makes no mention of the Assist ones. A report about the lawsuit by Car Complaints doesn’t include a photo of the window sticker.
Word of this lawsuit comes right after it was revealed the car manufacturer is being sued over multiple EV battery fires by roughly 200 individuals. Hyundai recently recalled more than 74,000 Kona EVs around the globe following reports of 16 cars catching fire in South Korea, Canada and Europe.
