I’ll be there at 1:00 pm. See you then?Actually that works perfectly! I have no plans tomorrow at the moment.
I used to live in CT. Had I not moved to South Florida I may have made a different decision. I think the Taycan hides its weight a bit better entering a corner but as an overall package, the Lucid wins the day. In our case, the Taycan has also had issues I would not want to have to deal with outside the warranty.
Care to elaborate on that issue?
I forgot to take the photos!! Borski and I met up and this time everything went perfect with the charging. Picked up a lot of great info from Borski while our cars were charging. We inspected each other's cars and agreed both look fantastic. He did point out something interesting to me that I wouldn't have noticed. My mirrors have a matte finish and the rails and bow have a shiny finish (Lucid made them each that way). Anyway I still have to have my mirrors treated with the PPF so will use the new Xpel Fusion Plus film with the built in coating so the mirrors will then be shiny!!
Yea that was one of the exterior finish parts where they could not get a consistent quality from their supplier. Huge finishing issues with the matte finish
Yeah I agree with you. I like the shiny look. Not a big deal since we still have to do the PPF on the mirrors when I go back in three weeks for the FeynLab inspection. The new Xpel Fusion Plus PPF has the built in coating so the mirrors should come out great.
I agree with Jason on both of them. I've gotten in the 4S and Turbo at this point and they handle only moderately better than the Lucid. The chassis balance under load is virtually the same - the main difference is just how much G they can handle before breaking loose. The Air hit 0.9G on the skidpad and the Taycan managed 1.03, but in the end that won't make much difference in real world driving anyway.
To what extent is maximum skidpad lateral force simply a function of the grip limits of the tires?
The tires are definitely a factor, though in the case of both cars I could not say how much because they're on different rubber. A truer test would be same conditions, same tires. A 0.13G difference between the two cars won't make much difference unless you're trying to knock a few tenths off a hot lap imho.
Where did you find the info on the skidpad testing?
MotorTrend for the Air. They did a Skidpad for CoTY (archived at ISDA) along with the figure-eight. For a 5,200lb car it did quite well. The Taycan numbers were harder to find as they did the 200ft skidpad back in 2020 at Car and Driver when comparing against the older Model S.
Damn, now we need to see a new Transporter with the Lucid
Lucid Owners - what are you hearing about an upcoming recall that will require your car to be in the shop for 1-2 days?
What recall?
Are you referring to the suspension recall? Or the bolt torque?
