Recent content by Steveinarizona

I agree. Unfortunately, there are many, many instances of this out there. I owned a BMW PHEV. BMW had promised that a charging mat to place on the garage floor to allow untouched battery charging would be available. I think they are still talking about it six years later. Tesla, of course...

I ml also a senior citizen (just entered my eighth decade). The problem I have with the Tesla system is that it causes the driver to constantly take his eyes off the road ahead. Since the display is in the middle of the dash, the driver is turning away from the road to see it. My current...

Many new luxury cars come with several years of "complimentary" maintenance and recalls also should go through the dealership. I don't care about low or high class but do want the facility to be clean, the staff to be helpful and loaners to be roughly equivalent to my car and available. I also...

Very definitely. The dealership model, on the other hand, provides local service options which are not available except via field visits in many, many locations. I am fortunate that I live in a city where there is both a Lucid design center and a service center around ten miles away from my...

I agree. The secret sauce, IMO, is having sufficient working fast chargers that one can do a quick ten minute stop and substantially recharge the battery similar to how one does a ten minute stop to gas up an ICE vehicle. If working fast chargers become ubiquitous, a range of 250-300 miles is...

A few days ago I parked next to a woman driving a R1S and I asked her how she liked it. I expected to hear her gush about the car and its features. Instead she told me she hated it and wished she never bought it. She said it was way to harsh a ride. I asked if she off-roaded it and she said...

autonomous driving components according to the article.

To me, how a company responds to a problem is at least as important as the problem itself. IMHO Lucid has been terrific in how it has handled these battery issues. Proactive and providing a quality loaner. I don't know how anyone could ask for more.

From this post it appears that a trade might be in order. In school they teach the concept of a win/win. This sounds like it could be something like that with each side getting something it wanted but still being very, very different.

I was an early RWD Pure reservation holder and I gave up and got the GV60P in December of 2022. What got me was not only the waiting but they didn't even release the specs. Lucid announced in the summer of 2022 that it was releasing the specs on the Pure in the fall. I waited expectantly and...

Actually, I think it was brilliant of Lucid to create a dead zone in the cup holder. Whenever I picked up my BMWs after service, the key fob was always left in the cup holder. By making it a dead zone Lucid has created a safe spot for the fob. Kudos to Lucid.

Even the worst parallel parker could park without the feature when there are several empty spaces together. No need for the car to be able to do that.

Not in Scottsdale. I see at least one every day when driving around. To be fair, I do go to the mall where the Lucid design studio is located to walk and my golf course is only minutes away from there. I also see a similar number of Rivians and lately I am seeing some Taycans. I also have...

That would scare the crap out of me but out here we call them mountain lions or pumas.

I had it on my BMW 5 series and sort of on the GV60P. Sort of in that one doesn't have to put the left foot in and take right foot out/ one merely has to stand behind the vehicle. I sit on the edge changing my golf shoes several times a week and have never had it try to move while I was there.