Is this the end of Chrylser? The only car/minivan they make is the Pacifica and it's made in Canada. I think Lucid should make a 60K Gravity pure, get out the Atlas motor, make it RWD with the GT battery and strip out everything except the purluxe and outlets.
I still want to see them put Randy Pobst or Ben Collins in the car for a Laguna Seca lap, and someone to do a Nurburgring lap to really cement Sapphire as the King! It's running out of things needing to prove to be the best:)
I was going to stay disciplined but let a day close and see what happens. I was waiting for more peak hate for Anti-EV and LCID in generally based on some 'disappointment' around Gravity launch numbers, but this CEO change is as good as any buying controversy.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/lucid-motors-ceo-peter-rawlinson-steps-down/
He is pretty locked up with Lucid for 24 months based on this. 120K a month contracting salary, 2MM shares. They want him around. I am wondering if there is a bigger company restructuring in play, like a merger or...
Yes but in Germany and Europe the prices are quite high relative to competition (think BMW and MB local prices with no import costs as opposed to the Pure costing 93K over there).
They should have a pretty good handle on actual sales prices now and then can compensate needing to drop price by $7500 so that there is no effect of any tax credits changes. But 20K units is going to include a much larger share going to Middle East I suspect.
Many of us are eagerly waiting for a mid-specced Gravity Touring. My wife mentioned she started getting concerned with the size of large SUVs, so the Dynamic Handling Package and RWS will be a very useful capability.
The more I think about it, the more it's potentially leading to some sort of bug to work out in the manufacturing line process. They added a much higher level of automation for Gravity compared to Air.
The proportions are because it is low relative to other 3 row and large SUVs, it is 65in height as listed on the Spec, which is the same height as my 14 Honda CR-V, but it is 20 inches longer.
I was there; they missed an opportunity to put a Production vehicle in the little test drive area for people to ride. It was the same Dream Edition prototype that is in my avatar photo I took in the studio in Oak Brook. And all locked up in ropes....
In the app you can turn on the steering heat and seat heater at level 2. I can only sit on the heated seat for like 10 mins before it gets too hot, so if you sat in the car at sub 20 DEG F weather with a jacket on you would get pretty comfortable quickly without waiting for the cabin temp to...