Car & Driver does Hagerty One Better at 140mph in a Gravity Dream Quarter Mile

I'll just skip right to the end of the article...emphasis mine!
A luxury SUV that will mostly be driven to the store and used to schlep kids to school definitely doesn't need to be this potent, but as the name suggests, the Lucid is about dreaming big, and the Gravity's face-melting quarter-mile run delivers on that dream.
 
1mph better, 1/10 slower.

Waiting for car and driver to post braking and skid pad data along with 75mph and charging data. They skipped a few steps.

What's interesting is that it took putting four motors into an R1S to get it into the same game as the dual-motor Gravity. The tri-motor Rivian didn't even make for a contest.

I can see Rivian's point in using more but less-powerful motors for more precise torque vectoring in off-roading use, but it still really highlights the incredible power density of Lucid motors.
 
What's interesting is that it took putting four motors into an R1S to get it into the same game as the dual-motor Gravity. The tri-motor Rivian didn't even make for a contest.

I can see Rivian's point in using more but less-powerful motors for more precise torque vectoring in off-roading use, but it still really highlights the incredible power density of Lucid motors.

They have to be efficient too, so Lucid is holding back the crazy launch power in a seemingly pedestrian 3.1 to 60mph
 
Please don’t flame me. This is a serious question. What’s the fixation on 0-60 or 1/4 mile times about? Does it really matter if it’s 0-60 in 3.0s versus 3.5s? I mean, both are unreasonably fast and would have been considered absurd 5+ years ago or more.

I need that acceleration in the higher speed range on highways, at times. But I don’t understand why it is folks focus so much on that, and the one foot rollout, etc. Genuine question.
 
Please don’t flame me. This is a serious question. What’s the fixation on 0-60 or 1/4 mile times about? Does it really matter if it’s 0-60 in 3.0s versus 3.5s? I mean, both are unreasonably fast and would have been considered absurd 5+ years ago or more.

I need that acceleration in the higher speed range on highways, at times. But I don’t understand why it is folks focus so much on that, and the one foot rollout, etc. Genuine question.

Acceleration is essentially a status, the difference between an A to B car and a Sports car.

It’s for bragging rights for most people, no one needs 1,000hp
 
Acceleration is essentially a status, the difference between an A to B car and a Sports car.

It’s for bragging rights for most people, no one needs 1,000hp
Got it. Appreciate the response. It’s interesting because like voltage, it feels like whatever the next car is will beat the current acceleration champion…but I do get it now.
 
Got it. Appreciate the response. It’s interesting because like voltage, it feels like whatever the next car is will beat the current acceleration champion…but I do get it now.

Tesla sold everyone in Ludicrous and Plaid modes while offering a sub par Luxury vehicle (in traditional sense) and it worked as long as no competition was available, now people are choosing slower vehicles (read slower than 9 second 1/4 mile which Model S and X can do in plaid flavor) which offer better build, fit and finish.

In the end…whatever sells cars.
 
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