My thoughts have been along different lines.
When Jason Cammisa of Hagerty test drove a pre-production Gravity, he raved about it. He then sat for a lengthy podcast interview where he referred to Porsche as Lucid's only match in chassis engineering and went so far as to argue that the Gravity raises the question of whether sports cars are becoming obsolete. And Hagerty's coverage of the Air and Sapphire was equally enthusiastic. No reviewers that pin their futures on reporting about performance can long ignore EVs, as some of the quickest and most powerful cars on the planet are now EVs.
The same with Throttle House. Not only have they covered a range of Airs, they were one of the few channels that test drove and reported on the beta Gravity relatively early on in development. (The car they drove actually had Air seats in it, so anxious were they to get behind the wheel of one at first opportunity.)
I actually think that both outfits think Lucid is a stellar automotive performance house and want it to succeed. But, given the disastrous software experience almost every early reviewer of production Gravities has had, I wonder if Hagerty and Throttle House have dropped out of sight with the Gravity because they don't want to give it the review they would have to if they wanted to keep their reputations for candid reporting intact.
It's what I do personally now. For several years I talked up the Lucid brand to anyone who would listen, sometimes to the point that they probably wished they hadn't asked. But after driving Gravities for some months, I now respond to comments and inquires with as brief and generic a response as I can toss off. I honestly don't want to talk about what my real experience has been with the cars. I save that for this forum only.
