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When this thread opened three and a half months and 31 pages ago, this was the opening post: "Post Deliveries here!" Now, that was optimism. 😏

Well, I'll be . . . . I just got off the phone with my sales advisor before I opened this thread. I have decided to switch our second Gravity order -- a Grand Touring -- to a Dream Edition as well. He said he thought Lucid had just made some system updates that would allow him to switch the...

Uh, oh. I've been found out. 🥴

Yes, but I thought the embargo might have ended over the weekend, as this was referred to as a "press week", not "press weeks".

It might depend on which Gravities are the first to go into production. Dream Editions are fully-optioned and only come with three exterior and two interior color choices, so Lucid could probably put some of them into production without risking no one to take them. If Grand Tourings are first...

I disagree with the last comment. This is why I'm so antsy about these press reviews. I don't know when the call will come for final configuration on our Dream order. If cars for customers will really go into production by the end of the month, calls to some order holders will soon be...

When I said that Lucid should look to the Porsche business model I didn't mean that they should aim to compete directly with its sports products. What I meant was that Lucid should set its sights on becoming a vehicle brand that plays on the premium periphery of mass-market segments by bringing...

It's also the reason that the big German luxury sedans from MB, BMW, and Audi have class-leading rear seat room and comfort. German executives are far more likely to use cars for domestic business travel than their U.S. counterparts who prefer planes due to greater distances. When we switched...

I've heard several mentions of a "press week" being conducted last week for auto reviewers to test drive production Gravities. This is the event in which Jordan Schiefer and Tom Moloughney said "Out of Spec Motoring" was not allowed to participate because there was no room for them...

I worked for over twenty years at a major corglomerate. The CEO defined his role as largely that of tax collecting and wealth redistribution, in that he used the cash and profits generated by mature product lines to cover the costs of developing new technology and product lines that would...

Here's an addendum I was writing to the above post when the edit feature timed me out: I'm beating this horse, but I really, really want to see production Gravities with the two interior choices in natural light before I get the call to confirm our Gravity Dream order. Be it in a home or a car...

Well, as my mama used to say, "there's no accounting for taste". Yours . . . or mine, of course. 😉 I have to admit that the photos you just posted make the seat color and the piping look much more "in bounds" than other photos. They also make the Tahoe color look more tan than orange...

I think you're overlooking the fact that, in the U.S. (the first market into which Lucid launched), the Air outsells the MB EQS, the Porsche Taycan, the BMW i7, and the Tesla Model S. Yes, the volumes are small, because the market segment is small . . . but in that segment Lucid is outselling...

There's a real conundrum here. The overwhelming majority of the serious auto press has lauded Lucid to the skies for its performance and handling dynamics. Their reviews sometimes take issue with its price, more often with its quality issues (at least early on), and almost always with its...

I, too, used the term "niche" while also putting Porsche among "major automakers". I don't think the two terms are necessarily inconsistent. Porsche is a hugely-followed presence in the industry and a brand with which far more people are familiar than exotic brands. However, it still operates...

I have seldom heard copper mentioned in the context of li-ion cell chemistry as opposed to cobalt, so I was a bit surprised when Conner starting talking about copper. Here was the discussion (starting around 6:45):

If I understood what Kyle Conner and Tom Moloughney explained last week about the trade-offs in deciding on cell copper content, isn't this the result: i. e., more copper allowing for faster taking on of energy but lower energy storage density? I assumed Moloughney's reference to the "Porsche...

Well, we can at least choose an interior color that diminishes the contrast. I just wish I didn't have to. This is less an issue for the Dream, for which I had already decided to go with Yosemite because I didn't like the orange hue of the Tahoe. This is really more an issue for the Grand...

I just came across this post from Tom Moloughney of "State of Charge" renown: It brought to mind a recent comment by Jason Cammisa on a "Carmudgeon" podcast, where he said that Lucid joins Porsche as the only other carmaker to get suspension dynamics and real-wheel steering right, to the...

That's a possibility, and I hope you're right. But the angst it has triggered among some of us is probably due, in part, to the fact that we will probably get calls to confirm our final orders before any production Gravities show up in Design Studios for us to see in the flesh. Lucid claims...