I suspect your A8 and CTS had features that fell short (as do all vehicles). So, selective highlights are to be expected.
At this point in the game, the highlights, lowlights, mediocre-lights, etc. are well known. The criterion for me is the total owner experience, regardless of acquisition...
There are NUMEROUS posts about wind noise on the driver side (along with cold air infiltration during winter months) since the beginning of Air's launch. Several solutions have been suggested and tried (by owners and service centers) with varying degrees of success (sustained and unsustained)...
In the States, these arrangements often have joint IP ownership provisions of some sort (specific details are often confidential). If Lucid was paying the university for access to their resources, retaining IP would be more likely. Collaborative "partnerships", however, open the door for...
A major question for me is ownership of new IP from this relationship. There's no free lunch to be had in this deal. Will leveraging Lucid's tech IP in the future be diluted, as a result?
Lucid's Release was more descriptive:
https://media.lucidmotors.com/en/newsitem/1020-lucid-and-saudi-arabias-kaust-announce-strategic-partnership-to-advance-ev-technology-leadership-and-grow-autonomous-driving-and-advanced-driver-assist-system-capabilities
So, one could see this as a welcomed...
Wildly speculative?
I made no declarative statement, just posed a question. Our forum is replete with questions to which most of us have no confirmatory answers. Yet, we ask them for insight, perspective, or context.
What is Wall Street reacting to this morning? Is that not an appropriate...
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/LUCID-GROUP-INC-112589428/news/Lucid-Group-Inks-EV-Tech-Tie-up-with-Saudi-Arabian-University-49827991/
His technology going directly to the KSA via an academic partnership?
A "hug" in the form of timely and definitive information of status and delivery might have reduced the angst you are experiencing. That's what I meant. :-( So, sorry.