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Gravity Delivery Discussion

I have been browsing inventory cars for the past several days and have not found one I like near my location (New Jersey) yet. I have seen ones in other locations, such as Miami, San Francisco, but don't want to pay the extra shipping. Not sure why they don't list cars that are still in the factory for people to browse and order. This way, they can ship the cars to locations with guaranteed buyers. Also, not sure why they shipped cars with summer tires to the north when Winter is just around the corner. You would think a startup company would have good customer service and do smart things, buy my experience is the opposite. My order, placed last December, is still in order confirmed state and my SA is extremely hard to get hold of. Sigh...
 
EVCar said:
I sort of knew it when I saw all the forum's Air Dream owners went for the Gravity Dream.
But it's all relative.
My first car was a beat-up Plymouth Fury, about the size of a small boat, with 300 hp if and when all cylinders fired correctly, and I still enjoyed it.
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My first car was a Mazda 3, so I get it. :)

(I loved that car)
 
EVCar said:
I was goaded by the forum's luminaries into ordering a Dream edition :) .
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Mission accomplished!

EVCar said:
. . . I actually now believe the extra HP is nice because for the Gravity is 800 lbs heavier than the Air. So if one is used to the agility of the Air, the Gravity ought to feel slower, having the same horsepowers with the Air GT.
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We have an Air Dream Performance and, of course, it's noticeably quicker off the line than the Gravity Dream. What so astonishes me, though, is how strongly the GDE sings in the upper register. It actually seems to get more powerful with speed, more like high-performance ICE cars than an EV, including our Tesla Model S Plaid of yore.

I'll never get to those speeds, but Drag Time's finding that it gets to 150 mph 3 seconds faster than a Corvette Z06 is completely believable.
 
Ron_Burgundy said:
It’s a want, not a need.
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It’s a luxury car. That’s true for all Lucids, heh.

Anybody would do fine with a used Civic, myself included. That would satisfy “needs”
 
EVCar said:
My first car was a beat-up Plymouth Fury, about the size of a small boat . . .
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Oh, the memories. I worked my way through law school as a policeman in North Carolina. I kept myself mobile by buying used Highway Patrol cars at auction for $1200-2000. They were sold at 40,000 miles or 2 years, whichever came first. (Many supervisor cars, which didn't have to be repainted, were in the latter category.) Not only were the cars well-maintained, but they were very well-equipped: 440 engines, 160-amp generators, oil and steering fluid coolers, upgraded interiors, etc.


borski said:
My first car was a Mazda 3, so I get it. :)

(I loved that car)
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I was a big Mazda fan back in the day. Got started with a 626, then a 626 Turbo, then two RX7's (the first one a second-generation model that I traded a year later when the turbo version came out), a 929 sedan, finally ending with a Miata. They were all great cars that almost never gave me any trouble.

In fact, my first experience with rear-wheel steering was the RX-7's which had a novel passive system that changed the steer angle based on suspension compression. Not until I got the Miata some years later had I ever had a car respond like that.

We ended up in a rental Mazda CX-90 when our Gravity failed on the trip to Atlanta. The heritage was still intact; it was a nice ride home.
 
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hmp10 said:
That may be a reason to recommend them.
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I was told that the original plan for the Gravity was actually without any key fob.
Lucid only added the fob sort of at a late stage, in response to inputs perhaps from focus groups?
 
EVCar said:
I was told that the original plan for the Gravity was actually without any key fob.
Lucid only added the fob sort of at a late stage, in response to inputs perhaps from focus groups?
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That doesn’t really make much sense or PaaK would’ve been available at delivery. No way they intended for it to be key card only for a while…

Teslas don’t come with fobs anymore. But you can buy one after. I think Lucid should provide the fob as some folks really love it. But they need to provide PaaK too. Hopefully soon.
 
Ron_Burgundy said:
That doesn’t really make much sense or PaaK would’ve been available at delivery. No way they intended for it to be key card only for a while…

Teslas don’t come with fobs anymore. But you can buy one after. I think Lucid should provide the fob as some folks really love it. But they need to provide PaaK too. Hopefully soon.
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The Model 3 never came with a fob, a fob wasn't available until a year into production. I guess Lucid decided to do the opposite. Hopefully they tested the hardware enough to make sure it will work when they get around to writing the software!
 
Ron_Burgundy said:
That doesn’t really make much sense or PaaK would’ve been available at delivery. No way they intended for it to be key card only for a while…

Teslas don’t come with fobs anymore. But you can buy one after. I think Lucid should provide the fob as some folks really love it. But they need to provide PaaK too. Hopefully soon.
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Given the status of Paak at delivery, I was also skeptical of what I was told and that's why I didn't post 2, 3 moths ago.
But the source has always been un-impeachable.
One day, someone could write a book about the behind-the-scenes at Lucid and it'd be a best seller in the forum.
 
Xminus6 said:
My experience with very early 4WS systems was dramatic. It actually felt like if you didn’t adjust to the swing of the rear of the car you could actually oversteer and have the rear rendered bang into something. It was like drifting in slow motion.
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This is what happened to my wife the first time (and only time) she drove my CyberTruck. She made a right turn past our driveway as she was passing the Mail Box Monument. I had to grab the steering wheel and correct the turn, as the rear end would probably have clipped the monument. We turned around and headed back, with the CyberTruck not being a vehicle she wants to drive.
 
Alex said:
I was told by my SA that it was all the cars at the Scottsdale service center that were put on hold to check for safety issues – not just my car. Maybe some of them have been released by now, but mine has not yet.
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Which SA if you don’t mind me asking?
 
Elfin said:
Mount it in front of an AC vent and it will charge super fast.
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Yes there is where I mount my phone, never get hot lol
 

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Just got word from my SA in WPB that our Gravity that left Arizona on 10/1 has arrived at Riviera Service today.
Changed our order to a car already in production on 8/30.
CGT, AG,Tahoe,stealth, 20/21,7 seats,Dreamm Drive 2 Premium, Dynamic Handling, power.
And my dash just changed to Preparing for Delivery today.
 
Alex said:
This is what happened to my wife the first time (and only time) she drove my CyberTruck. She made a right turn past our driveway as she was passing the Mail Box Monument. I had to grab the steering wheel and correct the turn, as the rear end would probably have clipped the monument. We turned around and headed back, with the CyberTruck not being a vehicle she wants to drive.
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if you haven’t already seen it:
 
hmp10 said:
That's interesting. I switch drive modes much more often than I open or close garage doors and love having that button set to switch drive modes without having to take my eyes off the road. It's one of my favorite UI upgrades over the Air.
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I originally had mine set to do that before they repaired (activated?) my HomeLink transponder. My commute to work is 45 miles each way, and a chunk of that is in traffic, so I generally leave the drive mode in Smooth on those days. Having said that, whenever we get reliable geo-located garage activation, I’ll probably switch the configurable steering wheel button back to being able to cycle through drive modes again.
 
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