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My 2 cents, and I politely disagree: I believe in this instance a rear-alignment after the vehicle weight "settles-in" after 100 miles or so is required. The added width of the rear axle changes the design and dynamic of the car's handling (rear kick-out "in-turns") significantly. Generally...

Better lateral-g forces in handling feel, creating a little less body-roll, and more straight-line feel with a bit more requirement to turn-in. Some 4-square tire setups have a little road-wander and this eliminates that and creates more oversteer effort but more rear-end stability. Wider...

So because the wheels are more outward, there might be a need to perform a rear-alignment after a day or so. If you don't get wider rears, there will be very small amount of range change due to the axel being a combined 28mm longer for more rotational effort. Wider rears would be likely...

New owner here. Closest center was 100 miles away, but here in Colorado we had 3 snowstorms in a row and didn't want to risk it so they picked her up for the 2 year servicing. Chicago is the service department hub that organizes a 3rd party servicing in Denver. They came and picked it up on an...

I had put 1/2" spacers on my 1999 Pontiac SLP Firehawk for the rears because I couldn't fit 315 width. I find you'll get a little understeer but overall a better RWD experience and the car will be less twitchy. I'm curious how the dynamics change it! You could likely put a wider rear 19" tire.

More AI rendering of a potential Lucid "Earth" midsize crossover. These are just feelers and NOT real. This one is generated by the website indicated.

A few online AI renderings to muse over..

They had mentioned they were waiting to replace a woofer in the driver's rear section, so I guess waiting to have a speaker shipped to them. Still, they received the car over a weekend, and Monday was a holiday, so really only 4 days. I just checked the Lucid App and temperature says 96 deg. F...

I apologize. Yes, you're right. The mid-size seems to be a small SUV crossover as far as Pete has shown, with production to be 2026. I suspect a prototype to create hype will be more revealed by October by my guess. Price-point is under $50k, probably a Pure-version that will be around $48k...

Well, let's compare.. on the left is the delectable 1993 Ford Taurus and on the right is the 2022 Lucid Air Dream (Laughing..) The average person doesn't really know much about cars or cost or Hp or lateral-g's, etc. I usually tell them it's the new Ford Taurus. People who rent a Mustang...

30 hours? So far mine's been there for a week.

I suspect Volkswagen Group's fit-and-finish in the Audi plant are a little more regulated. My wife having owned a Bavarian Motor Werks Z3 M, I can say tolerances are very tight and accurate, however there are interesting electronic gremlins, some intentional, that pop-up. A decoder is vital to...

I'll start with the question, then sing my song: How long does 2-year-service take? I was able to determine my Lucid Service main location for Colorado (which is Chicago). Nice folks. Scheduled my 2-year service and within a few days they send a 3rd party exposed-flat-bed towing company to...

Just watched a Bloomberg discussion with our good man Peter Rawlinson and he mentioned the mid-sized option is "shhheduled for start of production late '26" for "$48 to $50,000 product; that's the big one for us, and many of my engineering team are working full [t'chat] on that right now." with...

I find Italians make the most beautiful garbage.

I noticed that too. I think the steel-springs and Bilstein suspension remind me a lot of how several Lotus cars respond; dialed-in very very carefully and precisely; perfectly. I can tell a LOT of time was spent on that component, not as an afterthought like another car company might "slap on"...

I question the type of leather on the steering wheel. It reminds me of the heavily coated LT4-trim of the Corvette that is repellant to leather conditioner intentionally. I'm using Pinnacle Sovereign Leather Conditioner on all leather surfaces and everything soaks it up greedily making all the...

I find with the winter-tire package it handles quite well in 6" snow here in Colorado. They're using Pirelli Sottozero, which are decent, but I'm more a fan of Bridgestone Blizzaks as being the best, so when the Pirellis wear-out I might replace them...

I would agree the handling is not that bad, but there is unprojected feel-uncertainty. Where are my grip-limits? Are the front and rear turn-in connected? Am I stepping-out? What's the brake pedal and steering wheel telling me? It's almost all visual on a Tesla; no resistance to controls...

Of the 3 Tesla owners I knew, (one was a Model S, the other two were Model 3s), all of them software-bricked at least twice, the S-owner's bricked 4 times in the 6 years he had it. All of them had door and trunk issues being locked-out repeatedly. All of them had interior pieces falling off or...