Search results

That one is already dead to me. A $25K discount is not enough. They were already discounting heavily before the exit was announced. This will be a depreciation event on the order of Fisker - not as bad as Fisker but very unpretty. And support (connectivity, app/server, SW updates, enhancements...

Yes, I am aware. One of the things I try to do is look for the balance of regular lifestyle posts (I did this great trip, how do you do this, I just learned this... etc.) and problem posts. The most interesting to observe was the Lyriq forum, because I was on that wait list for like a year...

Yep, I am here to figure out what car will be the best fit for me. I am on this forum, BMW forums, Polestar forums, Cadillac forums, and Tesla forums. I have not joined a Rivian, Volvo, or M-B forum yet, because the cars have not really existed much yet. I have six months to figure it out before...

It may not be... I just created a ranking rubric for the cars on my list, and I was very surprised at how they sorted out. In my mind, I had the Gravity very high because it kills it in so many ways. And the car I had pushed out of my thinking was the iX3, mostly because of its janky audio...

Thanks a ton. I was not aware of that YT site... 3.6 is a massive leap for sure. This is my remaining watch list before I need to pull the trigger on PaaK - I will not buy a car without PaaK Sirius XM App Integration - I listen to the "radio" a lot, and I scan through my favorites with the...

I am talking about present day, not the state of software-defined cars over ten years ago. People were tolerant of early Teslas, because Tesla was offering a brand new experience to the market. But that was then; this is now. Tesla has been rock solid for a long time now. Today, many automakers...

Several manufacturers seemed to get the software right, and it is showing. Tesla is a given here. BMW is very good. Hyundai is good enough (its not flashy, but everything works). Rivian seems to be solid. GM crapped the bed. VAG is below average but improving. The only major I have not...

My Macan EV test drive a couple months ago was similar. I think the Macan is beautiful. And its handling is by far the very best. But it is a huge step backwards from an electric vehicle point of view. I mostly deleted it from my interest list. (Though it did get PaaK a couple weeks ago.)

He's not wrong. The way I view the Gravity is that Lucid created a car that is 99% amazing and 1% annoying. But their problem is that 1% greatly impacts the regular, everyday use of the vehicle. For example, what if they invested their leadership and energy a little differently, and the car was...

The key is not necessarily the receiver, but the integration of the app with the steering wheel controls. For example, I think with Rivian, they only have the app, but the steering wheel controls will let you change channels through the favorites you setup in the app. It behaves like skipping...

Thanks for posting your questions. It is one of the reasons why I am on like five different forums while trying to pick my next car. It never occurred to me that a car in this class would omit an integrated SiriusXM receiver. I had a car without, and I won’t go back.

Looping back to the question above, can you set presets and change stations via steering wheel controls? If not, that totally blows. This is one of the reasons I ditched my Model Y and don’t want another - no native (station control) Sirius XM.

Oh shart!!! Does the Gravity not have a native SXM receiver - it only has the app???

It’s literally just 2 things: motor max torque and gear ratio. There is nothing else and no magic. There is no torque “curve.” BEV motors deliver roughly flat, peak torque from 0 RPM until the point of field weakening. Then the torque slopes roughly linearly downward from there while the motor...

The purpose of the card is backup to PaaK phone failure. The Gravity’s card is the aspirational expectation of a coming PaaK. I used my PaaK without carrying the card backup for a year or so. But then as an engineer, I thought the proper risk management decision was to start carrying the card...

Most biometric locks are battery. Craptons of them. Plus, most have physical key as backup.

I will pile on. I haven’t carried a physical key of any kind in 4 years. Home locks are biometric. Office is biometric. Life is grand. 0 glitches in four years and probably thousands of interactions across many devices.

What he said above, that is a seat rail bolt. I have taken a bunch of seats out of cars over the years, and there are few other bolts that big inside the cabin.

Is the Air’s PaaK done via a digital key in the phone’s wallet or pure Bluetooth through the mobile app?

You have a challenging conundrum... This made me curious to search available used Gravitys on Autotrader... There is exactly 1 within 200 miles of my home. That means there is very little sale data available for a used car manager to set a price. Therefore, they will be very conservative on...