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Somewhere in Texas, dark 22/23s
 

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DrZorro said:
That looks like Platinum up top with Stealth wheels. The combo makes me wonder if it's yet another prototype....and on a side note, if that photo was taken in Texas then I have a Gravity Sapphire to sell you! 🤣
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It’s another prototype. Look at the license plate.
 
DrZorro said:
That looks like Platinum up top with Stealth wheels. The combo makes me wonder if it's yet another prototype....and on a side note, if that photo was taken in Texas then I have a Gravity Sapphire to sell you! 🤣
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Guess South Lake Tahoe turned into “somewhere in Texas” …it makes sense…
 

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037 said:
Guess South Lake Tahoe turned into “somewhere in Texas” …it makes sense…
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You didn't read that Texas is buying Lake Tahoe?
 
For what it's worth:

I had a long conversation with one of the Studio reps earlier this week, and we got onto the topic of the Owner's Forum. I mentioned that the delay was creating consternation for many members, and I asked about the source of the delay. He confided that the issue is availability of spare parts and the problems were being addressed. The need for spare parts at vehicle launch is certainly not a surprise, so I assume that all the new parts in Gravity are proving difficult to source in sufficient quantities. This seems plausible given the relatively low volume of parts and recent issues with tariffs, etc. Parts have been noted as a challenge many times in Lucid's short history.

He also said he expects to see demo units at the Studio before the end of March.
 
RD7 said:
For what it's worth:

I had a long conversation with one of the Studio reps earlier this week, and we got onto the topic of the Owner's Forum. I mentioned that the delay was creating consternation for many members, and I asked about the source of the delay. He confided that the issue is availability of spare parts and the problems were being addressed. The need for spare parts at vehicle launch is certainly not a surprise, so I assume that all the new parts in Gravity are proving difficult to source in sufficient quantities. This seems plausible given the relatively low volume of parts and recent issues with tariffs, etc. Parts have been noted as a challenge many times in Lucid's short history.

He also said he expects to see demo units at the Studio before the end of March.
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While I don't doubt that excess or spare parts aren't an issue, it still doesn't really explain why we haven't seen any unsupervised final product reviews. I still think there's a software situation holding things up. Certainly they could build at least ONE final unit to pass around to testers. If they only ordered enough parts to deliver 9 vehicles until the next shipment came in, shame on them! They should have been securing final parts and orders 6+ months ago.
 
RD7 said:
For what it's worth:

I had a long conversation with one of the Studio reps earlier this week, and we got onto the topic of the Owner's Forum. I mentioned that the delay was creating consternation for many members, and I asked about the source of the delay. He confided that the issue is availability of spare parts and the problems were being addressed. The need for spare parts at vehicle launch is certainly not a surprise, so I assume that all the new parts in Gravity are proving difficult to source in sufficient quantities. This seems plausible given the relatively low volume of parts and recent issues with tariffs, etc. Parts have been noted as a challenge many times in Lucid's short history.

He also said he expects to see demo units at the Studio before the end of March.
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If true, It’s just embarrassing at a management level that you could mess this up second time running. At least the Air had a valid excuse with Covid, chip shortages etc. but there really is no excuse for Gravity. Seriously? They only had enough parts to deliver 9 cars and hold up all the rest.

Rumor is that Rivian is about to report profitability for its first time and given that both companies started producing cars at the same time, where’s Lucid? So far behind it can’t even seem to order the correct number of parts it needs to actually make cars.
 
RD7 said:
For what it's worth:

I had a long conversation with one of the Studio reps earlier this week, and we got onto the topic of the Owner's Forum. I mentioned that the delay was creating consternation for many members, and I asked about the source of the delay. He confided that the issue is availability of spare parts and the problems were being addressed. The need for spare parts at vehicle launch is certainly not a surprise, so I assume that all the new parts in Gravity are proving difficult to source in sufficient quantities. This seems plausible given the relatively low volume of parts and recent issues with tariffs, etc. Parts have been noted as a challenge many times in Lucid's short history.

He also said he expects to see demo units at the Studio before the end of March.
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I had a conversation with our sales rep this week as well, and was told that it would likely not be until summer for early orders by existing Air owners to start getting delivered.
 
Friendly reminder that the sales people often know less than us on the forum and frequently just make things up rather than saying they don't have an answer. This has been shown time and time again, so I wouldn't put much, if any, stock in the answers you guys have been given. I agree that more communication would be nice.
 
HC_79 said:
If true, It’s just embarrassing at a management level that you could mess this up second time running. At least the Air had a valid excuse with Covid, chip shortages etc. but there really is no excuse for Gravity. Seriously? They only had enough parts to deliver 9 cars and hold up all the rest.

Rumor is that Rivian is about to report profitability for its first time and given that both companies started producing cars at the same time, where’s Lucid? So far behind it can’t even seem to order the correct number of parts it needs to actually make cars.
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In Lucid's defense, Rivian wouldn't be reporting profitability on just the R1T and R1S. They need the EDV to reach that.
 
Macan, EX90, and R1S owners who waited on those delayed releases are saying "We feel your pain".
 
HC_79 said:
Rumor is that Rivian is about to report profitability for its first time and given that both companies started producing cars at the same time, where’s Lucid? So far behind it can’t even seem to order the correct number of parts it needs to actually make cars.
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Rivian isn't exactly the company I'd point to when it comes to starting deliveries when expected.

I held a Rivian R1S Launch Edition reservation for over four years before finally throwing in the towel. At one point I got an email saying a "Rivian Guide" would be contacting me before Thanksgiving to confirm details of my final order. By June of the following year I still had not heard from this mysterious "Rivian Guide", and several calls and email went unanswered.

Meanwhile, I took delivery of our Air Dream Edition which I had reserved months after I reserved the Rivian.
 
RD7 said:
For what it's worth:

I had a long conversation with one of the Studio reps earlier this week, and we got onto the topic of the Owner's Forum. I mentioned that the delay was creating consternation for many members, and I asked about the source of the delay. He confided that the issue is availability of spare parts and the problems were being addressed. The need for spare parts at vehicle launch is certainly not a surprise, so I assume that all the new parts in Gravity are proving difficult to source in sufficient quantities. This seems plausible given the relatively low volume of parts and recent issues with tariffs, etc. Parts have been noted as a challenge many times in Lucid's short history.

He also said he expects to see demo units at the Studio before the end of March.
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Neurio said:
Friendly reminder that the sales people often know less than us on the forum and frequently just make things up rather than saying they don't have an answer. This has been shown time and time again, so I wouldn't put much, if any, stock in the answers you guys have been given. I agree that more communication would be nice.
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Here's a post I drafted late this afternoon but decided not to post as it would likely create a mini firestorm. Now I'm rethinking that, as the real point of it is that Lucid sales people -- sometimes in the same Design Studio on the same day -- can tell multiple, conflicting, mutually-exclusive stories simultaneously:

I just got off the phone with the manager of the Miami Brickell Design Studio. He told me that 50 Gravities have been delivered to bona fide customers, including a white one that went to Canada. (Coincidentally, this happens to be the same number of deliveries claimed by "Motor Intelligence", whose report was picked up in several recent articles.) I challenged that, but he said that Lucid released that figure in an earnings statement a couple of weeks ago and it's public knowledge. The last earnings call was on November 7, and I cannot find any other communication in which Lucid made such a statement. (There was a report on January 2025 deliveries that contained a 50-vehicle discrepancy that some attributed to Gravity deliveries.) I asked if the white car in Canada was on the show circuit up there, thinking it might be confused with the car we were posting about on another thread today, but he insisted this was a car delivered to a customer. He was very specific, saying that Gravity deliveries have started but are only going to customers who already own Airs and who checked the box for a cash purchase when they ordered. I told him that I was an early Air Dream owner, ordered a Gravity the morning orders opened, and am a cash purchaser. Yet I'm being told by my sales advisor (who works in the same Studio, by the way) that they don't know when deliveries are going to start.

I also told him that Rawlinson said the next production units after the nine December deliveries were going to be sent to the press and to Design Studios. He responded that "things change" and Lucid is now doing what they did with the Air Dream, i. e., beginning customer deliveries before any Studios receive test drive units.

So . . . WTF?
 
hmp10 said:
Here's a post I drafted late this afternoon but decided not to post as it would likely create a mini firestorm. Now I'm rethinking that, as the real point of it is that Lucid sales people -- sometimes in the same Design Studio on the same day -- can tell multiple, conflicting, mutually-exclusive stories simultaneously:

I just got off the phone with the manager of the Miami Brickell Design Studio. He told me that 50 Gravities have been delivered to bona fide customers, including a white one that went to Canada. (Coincidentally, this happens to be the same number of deliveries claimed by "Motor Intelligence", whose report was picked up in several recent articles.) I challenged that, but he said that Lucid released that figure in an earnings statement a couple of weeks ago and it's public knowledge. The last earnings call was on November 7, and I cannot find any other communication in which Lucid made such a statement. (There was a report on January 2025 deliveries that contained a 50-vehicle discrepancy that some attributed to Gravity deliveries.) I asked if the white car in Canada was on the show circuit up there, thinking it might be confused with the car we were posting about on another thread today, but he insisted this was a car delivered to a customer. He was very specific, saying that Gravity deliveries have started but are only going to customers who already own Airs and who checked the box for a cash purchase when they ordered. I told him that I was an early Air Dream owner, ordered a Gravity the morning orders opened, and am a cash purchaser. Yet I'm being told by my sales advisor (who works in the same Studio, by the way) that they don't know when deliveries are going to start.

I also told him that Rawlinson said the next production units after the nine December deliveries were going to be sent to the press and to Design Studios. He responded that "things change" and Lucid is now doing what they did with the Air Dream, i. e., beginning customer deliveries before any Studios receive test drive units.

So . . . WTF?
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LOL! What a clusterf*ck
 
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