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Consumer Reports 2026 Lucid Gravity Review

Bdr100 said:
Sorry but anyone who thinks being required to do system resets every couple days is normal needs to take your rose colored glasses off. Yes, people on this forum have learned about doing this but it is a hack to solve a problem due to incompetent software design. Sorry if a moderator admonishes me for my opinions, but people on this forum (along with independent media reviewers) need to stop making excuses for Lucid and hold them accountable.
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But you do understand every software laden vehicle has issues….even Porsche , though it is not acceptable, there is no need to admonish Lucid like the way that CR reviewer was doing without following the procedure to reset. If he had done the reset procedure in the video, I would not think he was biased. But he didn’t and just went on and on…..blah blah blah…..

Go look at his original YouTube review, shows you how one sided he was. Slow moving seats? Come on….give me a freakin break. It’s important Lucid supporters call out such biased journalistic crap.
 
Bdr100 said:
Sorry but anyone who thinks being required to do system resets every couple days is normal needs to take your rose colored glasses off. Yes, people on this forum have learned about doing this but it is a hack to solve a problem due to incompetent software design. Sorry if a moderator admonishes me for my opinions, but people on this forum (along with independent media reviewers) need to stop making excuses for Lucid and hold them accountable.
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And it’s not every couple of days….maybe an occasional software update necessitates that. Not a big deal…..improvements will make it solid….this is the nature of early adoption. Anyone who thinks software will be perfect out of the box shouldn’t be buying a Rivian or Lucid.
 
gaskiller said:
The biased CR reviewer on a roll, complaining about frozen screen but doesn’t want to do a reset…..just wants to make a video complaining….what a dork

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He is not wrong, just gave an accurate description of what was happening.
 
gaskiller said:
But you do understand every software laden vehicle has issues….even Porsche , though it is not acceptable, there is no need to admonish Lucid like the way that CR reviewer was doing without following the procedure to reset. If he had done the reset procedure in the video, I would not think he was biased. But he didn’t and just went on and on…..blah blah blah…..

Go look at his original YouTube review, shows you how one sided he was. Slow moving seats? Come on….give me a freakin break. It’s important Lucid supporters call out such biased journalistic crap.
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he was not biased. Car shouldn’t have done that. It’s not normal.
 
gaskiller said:
But you do understand every software laden vehicle has issues….even Porsche , though it is not acceptable, there is no need to admonish Lucid like the way that CR reviewer was doing without following the procedure to reset. If he had done the reset procedure in the video, I would not think he was biased. But he didn’t and just went on and on…..blah blah blah…..

Go look at his original YouTube review, shows you how one sided he was. Slow moving seats? Come on….give me a freakin break. It’s important Lucid supporters call out such biased journalistic crap.
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What do you think causes him (and some other reviewers) to be biased against Lucid? Personal hatred? Being paid by competitors? Their x-spouse works there? Why do you suspect they are biased against Lucid? I'm just curious.
 
gaskiller said:
The biased CR reviewer on a roll, complaining about frozen screen but doesn’t want to do a reset…..just wants to make a video complaining….what a dork

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Totally agree with him. Majority of people will not want to do a reset on a $100k plus car or any car for that matter. Have never done that on any car I have owned.
 
Bdr100 said:
Sorry but anyone who thinks being required to do system resets every couple days is normal needs to take your rose colored glasses off. Yes, people on this forum have learned about doing this but it is a hack to solve a problem due to incompetent software design. Sorry if a moderator admonishes me for my opinions, but people on this forum (along with independent media reviewers) need to stop making excuses for Lucid and hold them accountable.
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He has a point, but the weird rant about cars being computers at the end is what I find a bit offputting. It's okay to point out and even get frustrated with the vehicle, but then it becomes something totally different as the video concludes. It becomes less of an objective view of the fault of the cars and more clear bias of the reviewer towards more tech focused vehicles. It is annoying, specially for a lot of people in this group, because a lot of automotive journalist have sticked with the usual "I WANT A V8 MANUAL WITH BUTTONS AND CARPLAY AND NO SCREENS," Well, sure, you can want that, but also need to understand that the automotive landscape is changing and people desire different things. It's the equivalent of reviewing a Prius and complaining about the lack of power. Some things just kind of come with the territory.
 
Bdr100 said:
As I would have expected. I know numerous people here will tear into this review and nitpick things but he has a point. Key points, fit and finish issues (look at B-piller trim behind his head in review and see bulging trim/seal) and software bugs galore. In the end he calls it a technological tour deforce but warns against buying now due to all QC and software issues.

Meanwhile there is this review below of new Porsche Cayenne EV. I know it is less room and more expensive but key takeaway - Software is rock solid.

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Wasn't the Out of Spec review of the Gravity overwhelmingly positive? You can't compare a Consumer Reports review to an Out of Spec review. CR is known to be harsh on everything it reviews.
 
gaskiller said:
The biased CR reviewer on a roll, complaining about frozen screen but doesn’t want to do a reset…..just wants to make a video complaining….what a dork

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I'm totally cool with him posting a bitch fest about an understandably annoying bug, provided he also posts videos about the stuff he likes, which of course he doesn't.
 
Bdr100 said:
As I would have expected. I know numerous people here will tear into this review and nitpick things but he has a point. Key points, fit and finish issues (look at B-piller trim behind his head in review and see bulging trim/seal) and software bugs galore. In the end he calls it a technological tour deforce but warns against buying now due to all QC and software issues.

Meanwhile there is this review below of new Porsche Cayenne EV. I know it is less room and more expensive but key takeaway - Software is rock solid.
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On the Porsche software, remember that VW/Audi/Porsche scrapped their whole software program and instead paid $5Billion to access someone else's (Rivian iirc) because they realized EV software is hard. For $5B it better be "rock solid".
 
Spaceship said:
He has a point, but the weird rant about cars being computers at the end is what I find a bit offputting. It's okay to point out and even get frustrated with the vehicle, but then it becomes something totally different as the video concludes. It becomes less of an objective view of the fault of the cars and more clear bias of the reviewer towards more tech focused vehicles. It is annoying, specially for a lot of people in this group, because a lot of automotive journalist have sticked with the usual "I WANT A V8 MANUAL WITH BUTTONS AND CARPLAY AND NO SCREENS," Well, sure, you can want that, but also need to understand that the automotive landscape is changing and people desire different things. It's the equivalent of reviewing a Prius and complaining about the lack of power. Some things just kind of come with the territory.
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All of these auto reviewers including those on YouTube are biased against EVs and mostly non-dealer based EVs. They know there jobs won’t be much useful if EVs take over completely.
 
Ughwhy said:
Wasn't the Out of Spec review of the Gravity overwhelmingly positive? You can't compare a Consumer Reports review to an Out of Spec review. CR is known to be harsh on everything it reviews.
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OOS has not done a full review of production Gravity. Kyle did a review of pre-production Gravity about a year ago and raved about drive dynamics but stated he was really worried about state of its software as of that time. He then did a review of charging right before launch. Then Kyle did a ride along collab with Motortrend talking about state of EVs and they were in a Gravity. He just gave some basic comments but they were very much in line with most other recent reviews “Great driving dynamics, still very buggy software.” And this is coming from a guy who has been praising Lucid engineering for years. He is far from biased against Lucid.

I am looking forward to seeing his probably long report on the OOS race from Maine to Key West. This long trip should give him some extensive time to explore the Gravity and how it works beyond a 2 hour basic drive.
 
DBV said:
Totally agree with him. Majority of people will not want to do a reset on a $100k plus car or any car for that matter. Have never done that on any car I have owned.
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So I assume you never owned a Tesla? I had to reset each one of my five Teslas over the past 12 years at least 2-3x a year. And for earlier models like 2012 Model S and 2015 Model S , it was 2x a month for a year or so.
 
RajD said:
So I assume you never owned a Tesla? I had to reset each one of my five Teslas over the past 12 years at least 2-3x a year. And for earlier models like 2012 Model S and 2015 Model S , it was 2x a month for a year or so.
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100%. I just had to reboot my 2yo Tesla because it's wifi access keeps glitching out after a few days, and I'm a few weeks late in getting the latest software.

I'll also add one data point, for those worried about spouses not being happy with some software bugs: it only took a month for my wife and son to get stranded, and nearly crashed, by a new Tesla (steering column lost power and she had to wrestle it off the road under manual steering).

Not that Gravities are 100% perfect in the hardware department, but I would rather have a Gravity with extremely well-engineered and tested hardware (including, supposedly, to Volvo-level safety standards), along with a few software gremlins, than almost any other car's hardware gremlins (and, aside from maybe Tesla and Rivian, mostly not-that-great software...).

I also do think we'll be seeing them improve the software at an increasingly rapid rate as they dig out of their current bug backlog; especially with the efficiencies AI is bringing to each individual developer.
 
RajD said:
So I assume you never owned a Tesla? I had to reset each one of my five Teslas over the past 12 years at least 2-3x a year. And for earlier models like 2012 Model S and 2015 Model S , it was 2x a month for a year or so.
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Tesla is not a paragon of quality engineering. They're at a point where their software has matured. But a lot of people avoid Tesla due to their reputation for poor quality. Although they sell a relatively large number of EVs, they own a tiny slice of the vehicle market, and so they're not evidence for what the majority of people are willing to tolerate.
 
Bdr100 said:
Sorry but anyone who thinks being required to do system resets every couple days is normal needs to take your rose colored glasses off. Yes, people on this forum have learned about doing this but it is a hack to solve a problem due to incompetent software design. Sorry if a moderator admonishes me for my opinions, but people on this forum (along with independent media reviewers) need to stop making excuses for Lucid and hold them accountable.
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The frequency of resets I've needed to do in my Air is no greater than I had in my 2020 BMW X3.
 
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