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In one of the test drive videos it was mentioned that the 909 lb-ft of torque in the GT is only available in Launch Mode, with the torque in Sprint Mode being somewhere around 880 (I forget the exact number.) I wonder if the same is true with the DE? This also makes we wonder about the range...

Whether it was selfish might depend on the circumstances. I booked a slot, and my partner, who is also getting a Gravity Dream, booked a slot. As they are at the same time, I assume there must be at least two test drive cars. And we are taking a third person with us who is also interested in...

That's actually good news for me. I had been trying to figure out the best place to put a radar detector display without interfering with the operation and looks of the dashboard, particularly as the unit I'm using has a separate control module which also needs to find a place. It turns out...

It does if you're down south. We have a saying about the indispensability of two things: duct tape (or duck tape down here) and WD40. "If moves and shouldn't? Duck tape. If it doesn't move and should? WD40."

The more we thought about this, we decided to rearrange our schedule. We grabbed the last Friday slot available (4:20). Means a nighttime drive back across rural south central Florida. That's always interesting.

Thanks for the heads up. I was limited to Thursday because of other commitments. We're waitlisted for 10:40 a.m. I hope you'll report your impressions.

I took delivery of an Air Dream Performance in late 2021 and now own a second Air Dream P after the first one was wrecked. And I also have two Gravity Dream Editions on order. When reservations for test drives opened up at the West Palm Beach studio where I would prefer to do the test drive...

It's hard to tell from the photo whether the paint surface has been broken. If it hasn't this is something a dent repair service should be able to fix. Most localities have at least a few such services. Also, most body shops either do dent repair themselves or have an arrangement with a local...

A couple of test drive videos with Lucid chassis engineers revealed that the Gravity uses separately-controlled independent actuators on each wheel as the location of the rear motor precluded the use of the single rack most other systems use. When it came to the question of whether Lucid makes...

I have not seen similar reports of tears in the leather interiors, either on this forum or in cars in showrooms, which presumably would see the same level of use and abuse. There have been some forum complaints about wrinkling or creasing of the leather, but the photos didn't show much that...

That's worrisome. This is a shot of a passenger-side seat from one of the Yosemite interiors at the NYC studio: I'm beginning to regret my choice of the Yosemite interior for our Black GDE. I was already a little leery after seeing a video where one of the Lucid designers described the...

Wouldn't the rear steering actuators have position sensors so they could deflect the wheels to the angles dictated by the computer algorithm? And wouldn't there be a reference point from which the actuators deflect that could be set at the zero toe point for each suspension height?

We were going to trade our Tesla against a Gravity but lucked out. A tennis league acquaintance who knew the car and how we maintain it wanted it enough to pay the trade-in quote from KBB plus the sales tax credit we lost out on by a private sale. The money was a wash, but we were saved the...

I'd be really surprised if Lucid didn't cover that base with their focus on efficiency and range.

If you mean the federal EV tax credit, it did not affect it. I traded an Audi R8 on our first Tesla and got the full tax credit. If you mean the state sales tax credit (for those states that have it), it requires a trade-in to get that credit.