Gravity Delivery Discussion

[hmp10]

I saw a few more details today and it looks like it's more like 99%. Or maybe I should say it IS just a regular Gravity, with a few different trim and appearance items added. At least it appears that way. Which makes more sense than diverting resources to a significantly different vehicle. Looks like some extra paint here and a sleek roof rack.

This differences in this one-off concept vehicle may be mostly cosmetic. However, if you know anything about Lucid, should it head toward production it will become a significant drain on resources.

Lucid is not a company that will just change wheel offsets, raise the suspension a few inches, gussy up the upholstery stitching, and slap on a new paint color to get "a look". They will thoroughly optimize the suspension geometry and reprogram the control systems to deal with those changes. They will not just grab a set of off-road tires off a rack to slap on the wheels. They will test an array of off-road tires to pick the best for the application and then tinker some more with suspension algorithms. They will re-assess the battery management and coolings systems for off-road duty. Et cetera . . . .

Just look at the engineering interplay between the rear chassis and traction systems of the Air Sapphire and the Air Pure at opposite ends of the trim spectrum when many automakers would have just removed the front motor for the Pure instead of worked through how to apply the learnings from the quarter-million-dollar Sapphire to the "budget" Air.

It's this engineering mania that sets Lucid apart from most automakers and that allows them to produce ground-breaking vehicles.

It's also what makes it excruciatingly hard for them to get cars into production quickly and smoothly.

I hope they stay this way . . . and I hope they survive doing it.

 

[acependragon]

Anyone here traded their existing vehicle for the Gravity? How was your experience?

 

[TomUH]

Is there a lease vs buy thread on the forum?

 

[Xminus6]

There’s nothing Earth shattering that I am aware of that makes Gravity super hard to build. HUD may be large and new tech, but it’s not a falcon wing door. And yes, I had a super early Tesla X and the FWDs were odd, but they were able to manufacture at scale.

Sure. But they were definitely glitchy. I had an X from the first 6 months of production and I liked it overall. But the FWDs were pretty finicky over the life of my ownership. But you're right they did get it done.