They want show the HUD to prospective buyers, they are building KSA models without the HUD to deliver to the Middle East. Most rich their have chaffeurs, they dont need HUD. Hence to slow roll out to studios. Makes sense.
I get it, but the fact they couldn’t even manage to scrape together 86 HUD’s isn’t exactly a good look either. Definitely makes no sense to send HUD’less cars to only have to eventually replace them though.
Exactly. That’s what I was trying to highlight.
Fair point, but...
This is unfortunately not a sign of truth. I wish it were, but SAs and stores are constantly misinformed at the moment, as communication within Lucid from HQ to end-sales is clearly lacking. This is evident from all of the other incorrect statements stores and sales have made to other owners.
I don't disagree with that.
I'm not convinced these two things are related. I do not know what the holdup is, but it is not clear to me that it is one and the same. All of this stressing about CARB may be real, but... the manual presently also lists the CARB certification.
I understand, and I don't mean to sound like I know things; I don't. You might be right. My only point is simply that we have no idea.
Smart move not putting a year on that statement
That is the CARB certification for the cabin air filter. CARB sets many standards -- some for vehicle emissions, and some for air cleaning. Weird, yeah? https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/list-carb-certified-air-cleaning-devices
I agree that this is strange and mystifying. Obviously they want to deliver vehicles! Obviously they are able to build things that look like finished vehicles in bulk! People in the forum have VINs that show charged and updated vehicles! The showroom vehicles don't even really need to be operationally complete, although there's probably not much point in displaying showroom vehicles and generating more demand for something you can't deliver yet.
My SA has bee awesome. Told me the Chicago Studio has a Gravity to view but not drive at this moment. Driveable one, soon.
My SA said that you can ask for a different SA. Request a change.
Wow, thanks so much for the time management advice—because clearly none of us would know how to spend our time without it.
I agree with the “Strange and Mistifying” comment. You seem to have two separate but related issues. First, by Lucid’s admission, HUD hardware is in short supply. Second, the HUD software is currently “Not ready for prime time” and showrooms are currently not allowed to show it. So why are they waisting HUD hardware on showroom/demo cars if they are not going to even turn it on? Optimistically you could say that Lucid is weeks or a month or two away from having HUD software dialed in and wants appropriate demo cars to show it off. Pessamistically, you could predict that Lucid is still many months away from dialing in th HUD software and should therefore prioritize putting HUD’s in customer cars (limited as they are at this time) and for now send HUDless cars to Studios. At the very least, send only one HUD car (probably demo drive car) to each studio and have showroom car HUDless.
Yeah, when at Studio today, mentioned to SA that my probably unrealistic hope would be to get car by Christmas, he at first said that should be most likely, but when I told him I did not place my order until April, he said “Yeah, probably more like February” which is what I had been thinking all along.
Feel sorry for the people waiting for the Touring. We’ll probably see what happened with the slow roll out of the Air models, people will simply move onto something else.
Was in Natick for service yesterday (6/3/2025) and a Gravity was on the showroom floor. I think they said it arrived the day before. Looks really cool in person!
Unfortunately I am told my current SA is the only one serving my area.
You don’t have to use one in your area. I switched and mine is in a different part of the country
