Eagerly Awaiting My Gravity

[buddyroe9]

Lucid seriously needs to speed things up and get the Gravity in customer hands. I was about to buy a Model X, but after Musk's latest antics, I've 100% decided to get a Gravity. I was already 50-50 anyway. I'll miss FSD, but I'll just have to start driving again. Small price to pay, and hopefully not forever.

 

[DeaneG]

Lucid seriously needs to speed things up and get the Gravity in customer hands. I was about to buy a Model X, but after Musk's latest antics, I've 100% decided to get a Gravity....

You dodged a bullet there IMO. The X is a ten-year-old design, and newer EV SUVs have surpassed it: EX90, EV9, R1S, Polestar 3. All are very, very good, and Gravity may be the best of the bunch, we'll see. All have Supercharger access.

Out of Spec Kyle, while test driving the EX90, laughed and said "Why would anyone buy an X?"

 

[buddyroe9]

You dodged a bullet there IMO. The X is a ten-year-old design, and newer EV SUVs have surpassed it: EX90, EV9, R1S, Polestar 3. All are very, very good, and Gravity may be the best of the bunch, we'll see. All have Supercharger access.

Out of Spec Kyle, while test driving the EX90, laughed and said "Why would anyone buy an X?"

So those cars have self presenting doors? If so, I may have to check them out. That's another Model X feature I'll miss out on, that I so dearly love.

 

[DeaneG]

So those cars have self presenting doors? If so, I may have to check them out. That's another Model X feature I'll miss out on, that I so dearly love.

No. Each has their own unique strengths.

 

[hydbob]

So those cars have self presenting doors? If so, I may have to check them out. That's another Model X feature I'll miss out on, that I so dearly love.

IF that's your #1 reason to buy a car, none of the other EV SUVs have it, for now or ever.

 

[bryway]

No. Each has their own unique strengths.

So those cars have self presenting doors? If so, I may have to check them out. That's another Model X feature I'll miss out on, that I so dearly love.

I put a deposit on a Lucid Gravity the day orders opened and cannot wait to leap into that from my Model X. Musky has a lot to do with my decision to leave Tesla, because every time I approach my car I cannot help seeing his face in my mind’s eye. Not a great way to start every drive haha! Musk aside, it’s the features of the Gravity that have (pun intended) pulled me in!

I have sequentially owned two Model X over the past six years, after moving away from 15 years of serial BMW ownership (2004 E46 330Ci Convertible, 2008 E93 M3 Convertible, 2012 F02 740Li, and finally, a 2016 G12 750). Currently in a Model X Plaid (6-seat, 22” wheels, FSD) which I bought new in January of 2022. I now have well over 60,000 miles on my MX Plaid. Suffice it to say I drive a LOT. I have loved this car — especially the straight line performance and, yes, the somewhat finicky self-presenting front doors and automatic falcon wing rears. While I have grown accustomed to the quirks of the doors, passengers have not. As a result, I am looking forward to having more traditional doors. I am also looking forward to having features I once had in my 2012 and 2016 7-Series that I have sorely missed in my dalliance with Tesla. Specifically, massaging seats, rear wheel steering, a heads-up display, and 360-degree surround view. Add to that better interior materials, fit and finish, better interior space utilization, better (reported) driving dynamics and better efficiency, and I was sold!

And re: FSD, I have FSD in my MX Plaid, and while a marvel of software engineering, I must admit I rarely ever use it unless on the highway; and even then, only when traffic is sparse and really flowing, which is a rarity here in the SF Bay Area. I have given up trying to use it in heavy highway traffic and on city streets, because its behavior frustrates the hell out of other drivers, causing them to do stupid things (like cut into the gap my car leaves between the car in front of me on highways, or honk at me for coming to a full stop at stop signs on city streets, etc.) So I’m convinced I can live without FSD as long as I have good adaptive cruise for open stretches of highway on long trips, which the Gravity will have.

I’ll be listing my MX Plaid for sale as soon as I take delivery of my Gravity!

 

[flarbear]

So those cars have self presenting doors? If so, I may have to check them out. That's another Model X feature I'll miss out on, that I so dearly love.

And one of the first things I disabled. I didn't want to ever have to worry about whether it would open in traffic and get taken off. I'm guessing that was extremely unlikely given I've never seen any reports of it, but the number of ways in which the door misjudged how far to open either the falcon wing doors or even the driver's door made me never want to trust the automation when traffic was involved.

I do occasionally miss the self-closing feature when I drive a rental and step on the brake. Why is the door just sitting there?

While I have grown accustomed to the quirks of the doors, passengers have not. As a result, I am looking forward to having more traditional doors.

Exactly my same experience and reaction. I'm tired of my passengers, even ones that ride in it every week for the past few years, be afraid of what my doors are going to do...

 

[flarbear]

And re: FSD, I have FSD in my MX Plaid, and while a marvel of software engineering, I must admit I rarely ever use it unless on the highway; and even then, only when traffic is sparse and really flowing, which is a rarity here in the SF Bay Area. I have given up trying to use it in heavy highway traffic and on city streets, because its behavior frustrates the hell out of other drivers, causing them to do stupid things (like cut into the gap my car leaves between the car in front of me on highways, or honk at me for coming to a full stop at stop signs on city streets, etc.) So I’m convinced I can live without FSD as long as I have good adaptive cruise for open stretches of highway on long trips, which the Gravity will have.

OMG, it's like we share a mind.

I use it all the time on the highway as I find that type of driving to be an uninteresting use of my time and the driving is so reliable there.

I have FSD and I "play with it" all of the time on side streets and I'm pretty amazed by what it can do, but it also easily does things that will annoy other drivers and also just take extra time to get to my destination. I'm not a "cut through traffice, speed demon", but I'm also not a "that's OK, you'll eventually figure out how to make this right turn with no oncoming traffic" kind of guy either. I'm rarely patient enough to let it do its (admittedly relatively safe) thing to get me to its destination. Maybe things are better with HW4 and FSD v13, but I bought mine in 2017 and the then claims of "we'll be able to drive coast to coast with no driver by the end of this year" that have been repeated every year since. Um, yeah, right.

Even on the highway, while I'm appreciative that it drives safely, it does still do things that I wish it wouldn't and could be solved with more training - mainly in the area of "lane choice strategy" - but those idiosyncrasies are not enough to avoid using it and those issues have gotten way better over time. I'm hopeful that DDPro will be able to meet or keep up with those fundamental needs for road trips.

 

[sri]

Peter Rawlinson on LinkedIn: #lucidgravity #technology #manufacturing #evs #electricvehicles…

This past weekend we handed keys to the first production Lucid Gravity SUVs off the line to some of our employees, friends and families. We are ramping Lucid…

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[borski]

Peter Rawlinson on LinkedIn: #lucidgravity #technology #manufacturing #evs #electricvehicles…

This past weekend we handed keys to the first production Lucid Gravity SUVs off the line to some of our employees, friends and families. We are ramping Lucid…

www.linkedin.com

Woooooooooo!