Hey folks. Just wondering if we should expect similar production issues that the Air went through in its earlier years? It's a pretty expensive car to be riddled with problems as an early adopter.
I think it's going to be a mixed bag. Some things Lucid learned from Air production will probably not repeat. Examples might be the adhesive failures in early Air trim pieces on the trunk and frunk lids, the loss of chrome paint on the night-lit Lucid logo on the leading edge of the frunk lid, the warpage of the trunk lid due to errors in curing the composite material, the issues with the key fob hardware (although there have been a few reports of fob issues with early Gravities), imprecise detents on the A/C toggle switches, rotary switch failures on the steering wheel,
etc. In fact, I would say it would be almost inexcusable for these issues to repeat in any significant numbers with the Gravity.
However, the Gravity has virtually zero parts in common with the Air, so I agree with other posters that there will certainly be some new problem areas. But, as
@hydbob pointed out, this is the case with new models from virtually any carmaker. I have always been an early adopter of cars, and I have lived through such issues with Mercedes, Jaguar, Corvette, Audi, and even Honda. And compared to the issues I had with a new-generation Mercedes SL55 AMG and a new-generation Corvette, the Air was a cakewalk.
I bought one of the early Air Dreams (number 154). I'm buying two of the Gravity Dreams. I certainly think about what early-production woes I might live through again (to the point of annoying some others on this forum), but Lucids are so far ahead of any other EV on the market in so many important aspects -- range, efficiency, space engineering, power, handling dynamics -- that I have no hesitation about plowing right into another round with them.
