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- Gravity GT
I recently got the chance to drive an Air Pure in NYC, then a week later got to drive the Gravity at their pop up in Atlanta. Both drives were in city traffic on difficult streets and at low speeds (never got over 45 in either drive). After driving the Air Pure, I was very nervous about my Gravity order, because all I've heard on this forum and in professional reviews is how amazing that car drives, but in my test drive I found it was... fine? Maybe a little worse than fine? My brother and I both got to test it and found that although the suspension was decent, the car just felt ok. Acceleration was somehow sluggish and lurchy (leading me to believe I would never feel satisfied driving it in Comfort if it were my car), and the one peddle drive was quite jerky, with a ton of bite from the friction brakes as you come to a stop. It also had a poor turning radius, making the NYC parking space I had to parallel it in and out of quite a challenge, and all in all I found that it did not make me feel in a hurry to abandon my 2019 Volvo V90 Cross Country with AWD and air suspension.
Fast forward a week to my Gravity test drive, and I was absolutely blown away. It was so smooth, linear, intuitive, comfortable, solid/heavy feeling (in a good way), and just an absolute joy. And I couldn't get over how much I loved the steering wheel. Contrary to what almost everyone has said, it did not feel a thing like driving an Air, and for me, that is a very very good thing (though again, these were both low speed city traffic drives). In particular, the one peddle driving in air made me feel very unsure, but in Gravity, it felt like second nature even though I don't have any one peddle driving experience, and there was zero bite as it brought itself to a stop. It *never* felt lurchy or jerky.
So all of that to say, I just didn't really care for the Air, which wasn't very comfortable to me and just didn't feel like an upgrade over my current car--a massive off-road focused wagon. The Gravity on the other hand felt like the best large car I've ever driven. Maybe just the best car I've driven in general.
Fast forward a week to my Gravity test drive, and I was absolutely blown away. It was so smooth, linear, intuitive, comfortable, solid/heavy feeling (in a good way), and just an absolute joy. And I couldn't get over how much I loved the steering wheel. Contrary to what almost everyone has said, it did not feel a thing like driving an Air, and for me, that is a very very good thing (though again, these were both low speed city traffic drives). In particular, the one peddle driving in air made me feel very unsure, but in Gravity, it felt like second nature even though I don't have any one peddle driving experience, and there was zero bite as it brought itself to a stop. It *never* felt lurchy or jerky.
So all of that to say, I just didn't really care for the Air, which wasn't very comfortable to me and just didn't feel like an upgrade over my current car--a massive off-road focused wagon. The Gravity on the other hand felt like the best large car I've ever driven. Maybe just the best car I've driven in general.
