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How is the Press Responding to the opening of Gravity Orders?

CentralGAev said:
Edmunds write up.
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2025 Lucid Gravity First Drive Review: A New Benchmark for Electric SUVs

The new Lucid Gravity arrives in 828-horsepower Grand Touring guise, with 450 miles of EPA-estimated range. We take a brief drive in Lucid's new luxury SUV and find that it just might set a new benchmark for EVs.
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Nice to hear this from them, but I just wonder how long it'll be before they order one with the smallest wheels wearing all-season tires to race against an Acura NSX on fat summer rubber . . . .
 
msaunders9430 said:
Loved this video.
If you can sit through an OoS video, this is like watching a preview of a movie before the main feature. :)
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I am sooooo psyched for the forthcoming series. I think this was the best interview of Peter I have yet seen and I cannot wait for the weekly Wednesday drops of the next installments!!!
 
"Throttle House" just put up a video review of the Dodge Charger Scat Pack (an EV with a fake exhaust sound track). I take that to mean that they weren't spending the last week and a half editing a video from the Gravity test drives.

The test drive reviews of the Gravity so far have been so consistent in their observations that hearing from "Throttle House" might be a little superfluous at this point, but I do enjoy their videos for way they mix comic entertainment into serious driving reviews.
 
hmp10 said:
"Throttle House" just put up a video review of the Dodge Charger Scat Pack (an EV with a fake exhaust sound track). I take that to mean that they weren't spending the last week and a half editing a video from the Gravity test drives.

The test drive reviews of the Gravity so far have been so consistent in their observations that hearing from "Throttle House" might be a little superfluous at this point, but I do enjoy their videos for way they mix comic entertainment into serious driving reviews.
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Them and Jason Cammisa are consistently my favorites.
 
hmp10 said:
"Throttle House" just put up a video review of the Dodge Charger Scat Pack (an EV with a fake exhaust sound track). I take that to mean that they weren't spending the last week and a half editing a video from the Gravity test drives.

The test drive reviews of the Gravity so far have been so consistent in their observations that hearing from "Throttle House" might be a little superfluous at this point, but I do enjoy their videos for way they mix comic entertainment into serious driving reviews.
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Did Lucid actually GIVE reviewers the cars to make their own reviews? In the Out Of Spec one, the Lucid team babysat Kyle for the most of Kyle's review.

I think Throttle House and Cammisa are at their best when they have the cars on their own turf and can put together the cool videography and high budget reviews. Doing a vlog in front of the Lucid Engineering team would be meh for those guys i think.
 
momo3605 said:
Did Lucid actually GIVE reviewers the cars to make their own reviews? In the Out Of Spec one, the Lucid team babysat Kyle for the most of Kyle's review.

I think Throttle House and Cammisa are at their best when they have the cars on their own turf and can put together the cool videography and high budget reviews. Doing a vlog in front of the Lucid Engineering team would be meh for those guys i think.
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Cammisa is definitely going to do an episode; he mentioned as such on the podcast iirc. You’re right about throttle house, but it’s also entirely possible the reviews that require quite a bit more editing and polish take more time.
 
momo3605 said:
Did Lucid actually GIVE reviewers the cars to make their own reviews? In the Out Of Spec one, the Lucid team babysat Kyle for the most of Kyle's review.

I think Throttle House and Cammisa are at their best when they have the cars on their own turf and can put together the cool videography and high budget reviews. Doing a vlog in front of the Lucid Engineering team would be meh for those guys i think.
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As far as I could tell from all the reviews, Lucid personnel were in the cars every time. Also, the drives seemed limited to a specified route and about 30 minutes long. Cammisa, however, did do the test drive and did a podcast on it, although I have not yet seen a video of his drive.
 
If you can only muster less than a minute to try to find out what the Gravity is like, you can't do better than this Hagerty/Cammisa Instagram post:

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Hagerty on Instagram: "Can Lucid strike gold a second time? Jason Cammisa and Derek Tam-Scott discuss Jason's experience with the all-new Lucid Gravity; the manufacturer's second ever car and first SUV, as well as the internet-breaking Jaguar situat

1,458 likes, 38 comments - hagerty on December 11, 2024: "Can Lucid strike gold a second time? Jason Cammisa and Derek Tam-Scott discuss Jason's experience with the all-new Lucid Gravity; the manufacturer's second ever car and first SUV, as well as the internet-breaking Jaguar situation. Watch...
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hmp10 said:
If you can only muster less than a minute to try to find out what the Gravity is like, you can't do better than this Hagerty/Cammisa Instagram post:

www.instagram.com

Hagerty on Instagram: "Can Lucid strike gold a second time? Jason Cammisa and Derek Tam-Scott discuss Jason's experience with the all-new Lucid Gravity; the manufacturer's second ever car and first SUV, as well as the internet-breaking Jaguar situat

1,458 likes, 38 comments - hagerty on December 11, 2024: "Can Lucid strike gold a second time? Jason Cammisa and Derek Tam-Scott discuss Jason's experience with the all-new Lucid Gravity; the manufacturer's second ever car and first SUV, as well as the internet-breaking Jaguar situation. Watch...
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is the "jaguar of driving dynamics" a compliment?? I haven't owned any Jaguar's so excuse the ignorance.
 
momo3605 said:
is the "jaguar of driving dynamics" a compliment?? I haven't owned any Jaguar's so excuse the ignorance.
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It actually is, as Cammisa was making it clear that he was referring to Jaguar of yesteryear. Two of the most storied suspension and chassis engineering houses were once Jaguar and Lotus (which still is).

Perhaps not coincidentally, Peter Rawlinson was once a lead engineer at Jaguar and later the head of advanced engineering at Lotus. This man knows his suspensions and knows who else does, and you can see it today in the Air and, now, in the Gravity.
 
hmp10 said:
It actually is, as Cammisa was making it clear that he was referring to Jaguar of yesteryear. Two of the most storied suspension and chassis engineering houses were once Jaguar and Lotus (which still is).

Perhaps not coincidentally, Peter Rawlinson was once a lead engineer at Jaguar and later the head of advanced engineering at Lotus. This man knows his suspensions and knows who else does, and you can see it today in the Air and, now, in the Gravity.
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My Dad was a huge Jag aficionado back when I was a kid (in the 1970’s) and he had several XJ class Jags — XJ6, XJ12 and XJS. For luxury sedans, he swears that the road feel and ride has never gotten better than those. Of course you had to put up with the other Jaguar quirks (like terrible electronics, dual small gas tanks, etc.), but he always felt it was worth it.

I was far too young to actually drive those, but I did spend a lot of time riding IN them on road trips from NJ to Florida, Vermont, Maine, etc. They were exquisite. Quiet (for the time), luxurious (Connolly leather IIRC, walnut Burl trim, plenty of space, plush carpets) and I remember him constantly praising the steering feel and ride quality.

I am really looking forward to giving Dad (who’s still with us at 83) a ride in the Air GT after taking delivery of ours this coming Sunday. My instinct is that he will sense the lineage flowing from Peter’s experience and involvement in both companies…
 
momo3605 said:
is the "jaguar of driving dynamics" a compliment?? I haven't owned any Jaguar's so excuse the ignorance.
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Immensely. Jaguar (old Jaguar) is known for their suspension tuning, driving dynamics, and so on. I preferred Lotus, because I preferred smaller cars, but those are the two most well known brands for a car that has true soul and amazing driving dynamics.

I mean, just read this thread about the I-PACE, which is a 2-ton EV SUV, lol; not even Jaguar's wheelhouse: https://www.ipaceforums.co.uk/threa...hings-about-the-i-pace-driving-dynamics.2453/
 
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