• ddkman@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Did your car have a factory tow hook option? Because on many cars the “tow hook” option, makes the car come with a bunch of stuff. A strengthened rear bar, often auxillary oil coolers for the gearbox, sometimes different final drive, restriction to only a MT, or a completely different gearbox alltogether. So maybe for some reason the US ioniq didn’t have the parts available that made the ioniq be safe to tow with…

    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      No, it definitely wasn’t an option. If you see a hitch on small cars here in America, is usually just to mount something like a bike rack. Our cars just aren’t rated to tow.