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Tom Voelk travels to Milan, Italy for Design Week to check out what we in the U.S. can't have.   Tom attended a Hyundai sponsored event to produce this video. Opinions remain his own. "},"annotations":[{"startTime":6.84,"endTime":12.44,"type":"car","title":"Ioniq 3","url":"/cars/hyundai/ioniq-3","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Hyundai_Ioniq_9_IMG_5944.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail","quote":"...e at Milan. Hyundai took the raps off its all new Ioniq 3 in Milan, Italy, during Design Greek. This is Hyu...","canonicalId":"car:ioniq:3","priority":0.5,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"The Ioniq 3 is an all-new Hyundai electric model that was unveiled at an event in Milan, Italy, in the podcast context. It’s being discussed as part of Hyundai’s EV expansion, with the emphasis on it being an electric vehicle. 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