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I've had the Gravity a little over a week now...and frankly this thing freaking boogies. Are there weird random error message here and there, yup. Does it stop you from driving the car, absolutely not. So far, I haven't run into anything that stop me from enjoying the Gravity as an insane driving machine. There has been enough talk about the small error messages here and there, so I'll skip it and just discuss driving dynamics.
The Gravity freaking boogies.
I've been playing with it on freeway cloverleaf onramps and exits and I'm impressed. The steering wheel loads up nicely, and really communicates what is going on at the front end of the car. It has good weight and great feel, especially for an electric box, dare I saw Porsche-esque. However it is the way the Gravity moves that really impresses me. Accelerate with lightning speed heading into the cloverleaf, then simultaneously come off the gas and turn in, and the Gravity pivot around its nose. The first time it happened, I was shocked. The pivot is progressive, and consistent. It makes the Gravity feel incredibly nimble and very playful. Then you roll into the throttle, and it grabs like an AWD but it doesn't really claw like one. It doesn't push, like an AWD or at least I don't know yet because I haven't had the balls to hammer down harder; respect the power this thing possesses. As the cloverleaf opens to a straight, roll deeper into the throttle and by the time you reach the freeway, you're in excess of 100+.
I currently have the reg set to high, and I suspect this is what helps this pivot on the nose feeling. It fells like it would be wonderful to play with on an autox course. It is so easy to do. I wonder how long you can hold this sensation on longer corners and how easy it is to balance on throttle. Once or twice, I turned in too aggressively, and the Gravity rotated more than the traction control liked, power was pulled and probably some other fancy TC stuff kicked in to stop the rotation. The high reg also makes it feel like mid corner adjustments are easier to accomplish. Instead of lifting, and waiting for the car to tightening up its line, the moment you lift slightly to the top of the pedal, the reg kicks in the Gravity responds in kind.
As for mid corner to exit, it feels like the car is controlling its power output and only giving me what it thinks I can used based on the turn. Its hard to describe. I feel like I could just peg the gas pedal, and the car will just give me whatever power I can have to make the corner. I don't dare to peg the throttle like this on a freeway cloverleaf but at a track sure. On one or two instances, I felt like my foot was buried deeper than normal but the power wasn't insane as if the car was saying, nope this is all you can have otherwise you'll just AWD push/understeer to the outside of the corner. I guess I feel this way because the Gravity doesn't have the AWD push/understeer feeling, or perhaps I have a lot of respect for its power and haven't done anything too dumb....yet.
It feels like the Gravity is damn near idiot proof. You have to completely just steer it in the wrong direction like you don't want to make the corner, in which case the computer has no clue. My biggest fear is corner entry speed. No matter how good the TC is, it can't save stupid from trying to enter a corner +20mph over the corner speed, which in the case of something that is so fast is easily possible. The Gravity accelerates so fast, that in the distance between me making a right turn at the light and actually hitting the start of the cloverleaf turn, I can be carrying so much stupid speed that its difficult to calibrate my brain to knowing how fast I'm going and what speed I can take the corner at. Definitely a huge potential for error here.
It's honestly shocking a car this big, and this heavy can have dynamics like this. It's so fun!
Hats freaking off to Lucid, BRA-FUCKING-VO. The entire team over there knock this out of the park. I can't wait to see what you cook up next with mid size.
Oh and I can't see it, but I imagine people's jaws drop when this thing passes them around the outside of cloverleaf and then takes of like a freaking rocket onto the freeway.
The Gravity freaking boogies.
I've been playing with it on freeway cloverleaf onramps and exits and I'm impressed. The steering wheel loads up nicely, and really communicates what is going on at the front end of the car. It has good weight and great feel, especially for an electric box, dare I saw Porsche-esque. However it is the way the Gravity moves that really impresses me. Accelerate with lightning speed heading into the cloverleaf, then simultaneously come off the gas and turn in, and the Gravity pivot around its nose. The first time it happened, I was shocked. The pivot is progressive, and consistent. It makes the Gravity feel incredibly nimble and very playful. Then you roll into the throttle, and it grabs like an AWD but it doesn't really claw like one. It doesn't push, like an AWD or at least I don't know yet because I haven't had the balls to hammer down harder; respect the power this thing possesses. As the cloverleaf opens to a straight, roll deeper into the throttle and by the time you reach the freeway, you're in excess of 100+.
I currently have the reg set to high, and I suspect this is what helps this pivot on the nose feeling. It fells like it would be wonderful to play with on an autox course. It is so easy to do. I wonder how long you can hold this sensation on longer corners and how easy it is to balance on throttle. Once or twice, I turned in too aggressively, and the Gravity rotated more than the traction control liked, power was pulled and probably some other fancy TC stuff kicked in to stop the rotation. The high reg also makes it feel like mid corner adjustments are easier to accomplish. Instead of lifting, and waiting for the car to tightening up its line, the moment you lift slightly to the top of the pedal, the reg kicks in the Gravity responds in kind.
As for mid corner to exit, it feels like the car is controlling its power output and only giving me what it thinks I can used based on the turn. Its hard to describe. I feel like I could just peg the gas pedal, and the car will just give me whatever power I can have to make the corner. I don't dare to peg the throttle like this on a freeway cloverleaf but at a track sure. On one or two instances, I felt like my foot was buried deeper than normal but the power wasn't insane as if the car was saying, nope this is all you can have otherwise you'll just AWD push/understeer to the outside of the corner. I guess I feel this way because the Gravity doesn't have the AWD push/understeer feeling, or perhaps I have a lot of respect for its power and haven't done anything too dumb....yet.
It feels like the Gravity is damn near idiot proof. You have to completely just steer it in the wrong direction like you don't want to make the corner, in which case the computer has no clue. My biggest fear is corner entry speed. No matter how good the TC is, it can't save stupid from trying to enter a corner +20mph over the corner speed, which in the case of something that is so fast is easily possible. The Gravity accelerates so fast, that in the distance between me making a right turn at the light and actually hitting the start of the cloverleaf turn, I can be carrying so much stupid speed that its difficult to calibrate my brain to knowing how fast I'm going and what speed I can take the corner at. Definitely a huge potential for error here.
It's honestly shocking a car this big, and this heavy can have dynamics like this. It's so fun!
Hats freaking off to Lucid, BRA-FUCKING-VO. The entire team over there knock this out of the park. I can't wait to see what you cook up next with mid size.
Oh and I can't see it, but I imagine people's jaws drop when this thing passes them around the outside of cloverleaf and then takes of like a freaking rocket onto the freeway.
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