Consumer Reports Reliabilty Rankings

[RMSko]

First off, my wife reads consumer reports from cover to cover and it does affect her decision making. Secondly, the results were right on mark with her BMW i4 as we've had it now for 2+ years and never once brought it in for anything because everything works perfectly. I've been fairly lucky as my AGT has had minimal problems, but I hardly think CR did Lucid a favor as you stated above. Bad publicity is bad publicity and Lucid needs to up their game a bit as far as quality control before the cars leave the factory.

I think far more people would simply Google something like “best 2025 luxury electric car” when buying a car. And if you do that you see that the Air is constantly at the top of the list across multiple services.

 

[Steveinarizona]

I subscribe to Consumer Reports, and very often make buying decisions based on its recommendations. For cars, I will definitely take CR ratings into account, but rely more on dedicated auto publications in purchasing decisions.I expect ratings will improve as more subscriber/Lucid owners experience the newer model year cars. I'm very happy with my Air--notwithstanding frustrating software bugs--but there is no way to spin the CR report as anything other than unwelcome.

My view is that CR is very good for reliability since it is subscriber reports, not haters and fanboys. But if one likes performance cars, like I do, I ignore much of the rest of the CR ratings although the detailed description of good and bad is helpful, and the road test reports can be excellent.

CR gave the Lucid Air a reliability score of 7 out of 100, an abysmal score. But the road test gave it a 94 out of 100, an excellent score.