duPont Registry test drive: Sapphire fails to outrun Gravity GT on winding mountain roads

[Lucidicrous]

“….on a winding mountain road chasing Lucid’s Senior Director of Chassis & Vehicle Dynamic Engineering, David Lickfold, proved that not even a $249,000 Air Sapphire with 1,234 hp can leave the Gravity behind….”

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[borski]

I need more context than that one sentence lol wat

 

[SaratogaLefty]

Sorry but no way.

 

[hmp10]

“….on a winding mountain road chasing Lucid’s Senior Director of Chassis & Vehicle Dynamic Engineering, David Lickfold, proved that not even a $249,000 Air Sapphire with 1,234 hp can leave the Gravity behind….”

Lickfold had a cold in a recent test drive video. Maybe it got worse?

 

[flarbear]

... on a public road where he was likely not pushing the car to its limit anyway ...

 

[Cosmo Cruz]

Sorry but no way.

 

[Neurio]

... on a public road where he was likely not pushing the car to its limit anyway ...

I have driven those roads in my Air a few times for fun. They are barely travelled wine country roads, so you can definitely crank it. Probably not to the limit of the Sapphire as you said, but you're definitely not driving Miss Daisy.

 

[Cosmo Cruz]

I need more context than that one sentence lol wat

this is an old car sales trope ...

"This Pontiac Mini Van

is built on the same platform as the legendary Le Mans GTO "

horsepower differs,

but the brakes are the same.

As beautiful and coveted the cars of my youth ... nice to look at...nice to listen to. nice that someone else is responsible for it.

 

[Jomsh]

“….on a winding mountain road chasing Lucid’s Senior Director of Chassis & Vehicle Dynamic Engineering, David Lickfold, proved that not even a $249,000 Air Sapphire with 1,234 hp can leave the Gravity behind….”

Gravity Shifts: First Drive In The 2026 Lucid Gravity

We can argue forever about what exactly was the world's first luxury performance SUV, but I make the case that the Mercedes-Benz ML55 AMG of the early 2000s brought the concept to life. Powered by a 5.4-liter V8 developing 342 horsepower, it represented the first attempt to meld three opposing...

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This just means the next generation Air Sapphire will have some crazy technology borrowed from the learnings of the Gravity