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...But anytime we take adult rear-seat passengers we use one of our two Gravity Dream Editions. Our Air certainly outclassed our 2021 Model S Plaid in terms of rear seat room. With the drivers seat of both sedans set to our preferred driving position, the Air had 9.5” more fore/aft legroom...

...not seen any other reviewer report it in their acceleration runs, either. The instant immense torque of cars such as Lucid Dreams and Tesla Plaids make them inevitably prone to torque steer. The Air Dream P handles it far better than the Tesla Plaid, but it's still there. Both the Plaid...

...cars. I have encountered this kind of torque steer under hard acceleration in our Dream P and, to a much greater extent, in our Tesla Model S Plaid. They wanted to talk to me to see if I was observing something in long-term road use that they did not come across in their testing and tuning...

...an occasional software burp, but nothing that makes it risky to put on the road, and it is actually pretty much as reliable as our 2021 Model S Plaid was on the software front (and vastly superior in other aspects). Our Gravities have followed a different trajectory. The one delivered in...

...warranty was expiring. My partner had really loved that car, though -- even more than me who really liked it. So we decided to get the Plaid which had been out a few months. And for a while my partner preferred to drive the Tesla over the Air when he was going out alone. Flash to four...

Because it was really not that much better. We had a 2015 Model S P90D for six years that we replaced with a 2021 Model S Plaid. Yes, almost everything about the Plaid was different from the earlier Model S. But better? Not so much, especially when compared to the Lucid Air Dream Performance...

...Jason Cammisa of Hagerty said that the Gravity raises the question of whether sports cars are becoming obsolete. He was spot on. Our Tesla Plaid yoke? Hated it, hated it, hated it. But that Lucid squircle? Love it, love it, love it. It's amazing how much difference leading with an...

We sold our Model S Plaid shortly before our first Gravity arrived. Nothing ever drew my attention about pedal stiffness or softness in either car. I've been seeing comments about the Gravity's excessively stiff pedal for some time from quite a few posters, so I certainly can't argue it's not...

...larger than I would have ever suspected is the "squircle" steering wheel of the Gravity. We absolutely hated the yoke in our Tesla Model S Plaid to the point that we changed it out for a steering wheel. But the Lucid squircle has been a revelation. Not only does it feel intuitively right...

I think the point is stronger when talking about the original Model S. But you wrote, "The S plaid is the pinnacle of 140 years of automotive development." I think Tesla just dropped a third motor into a chassis that wasn't up to it, trying to mask several years of languishing development of...

Oh, please. I've owned two Teslas: a 2015 Model S P90D and a 2021 Model S Plaid. If the Plaid is the pinnacle of automotive development, it's a depressing automotive landscape indeed. Our Plaid was squeaking and groaning by the time it hit 10,000 miles. The front end came loose under even...

That's interesting, because one of the most consistent software/hardware failures in our 2021 Model S Plaid was that the key fob periodically refused to work, sometimes for several days at a stretch. During those episodes we had to use the key card to enter the car and rub it over the phone...

Pretty sure it was. However, after hating the yoke in our Model S Plaid, I'm still surprised at how great the squircle is, not just for viewing the cockpit display, but for driving as well. I've actually come to prefer it over any conventional steering wheel I've ever used. And the...

...I used to disagree over the Air's sound system. I thought the Air's system was flatter with a better soundstage than the system in his Model S Plaid, which he thought was better. But we both agree that the Gravity sound system is the best we've ever heard in a car -- and I've always opted...

Then you were lucky. Thoughout the four years we owned our 2021 Model S Plaid we had intermittent problems with the key either not unlocking the doors and/or not starting the car. We were never able to venture out in it without a key card which we had to use during those times, times which...

...and since the 1990's I have been having radar detectors hard-installed in them with nary a problem. This includes three EVs: a 2021 Model S Plaid and two 2022 Lucid Air Dreams. The photos I posted of the Gravity opened up by the installer might have looked horrifying, but it was really...

I would. Our Model S Plaid was squeaking and groaning in its hind quarters by 10,000 miles. Driving the same roads in our Air, we're over 42,000 miles with a dead quiet body structure.

...significant injuries. Also, our current Air with over 42,000 miles on it is still as solid and quiet as a tomb. By 10,000 miles our Model S Plaid was emitting annoying squeaks and groans from its hind quarters. We haven't had as much time in our Gravity as we would like, but everything...

...upper register. It actually seems to get more powerful with speed, more like high-performance ICE cars than an EV, including our Tesla Model S Plaid of yore. I'll never get to those speeds, but Drag Time's finding that it gets to 150 mph 3 seconds faster than a Corvette Z06 is completely...

We had a 2021 Model S Plaid as well as our Lucid Air Dream P. If I put the driver sear in each car in my preferred driving position, the Air had 9.5" more fore/aft rear legroom than the Model S. And on the passenger side, I had to move the front seat well forward before my feet could even...