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- Mar 7, 2020
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- Naples, FL
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- Model S Plaid, Odyssey
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- 154
- Referral Code
- 033M4EXG
I just reached Lucid Sales. They said the production date for the Dream Edition has been pushed into the second half of the year, but they couldn't/wouldn't say just how far.
I asked whether the delay would enable any features to be added to the car (such as power-operated doors or more rear toe room), but they were equivocal. They just kept repeating that the delay was to ensure that the quality of the delivered cars would be as high as possible and that this had been necessitated, in part, by Covid and delays in safety testing.
I also asked when cars would be turned over to auto journalists for testing and review but again got no firm answer.
I'm rather frustrated. Throughout a year of Covid challenges and factory construction, Lucid has repeatedly said that everything remained on schedule. Now -- on the day that a reverse merger is announced -- comes news of production delays. It's very odd that Lucid would announce production delays at such a time, unless they were hoping that the noise surrounding the SPAC merger would drown it out.
I asked whether the delay would enable any features to be added to the car (such as power-operated doors or more rear toe room), but they were equivocal. They just kept repeating that the delay was to ensure that the quality of the delivered cars would be as high as possible and that this had been necessitated, in part, by Covid and delays in safety testing.
I also asked when cars would be turned over to auto journalists for testing and review but again got no firm answer.
I'm rather frustrated. Throughout a year of Covid challenges and factory construction, Lucid has repeatedly said that everything remained on schedule. Now -- on the day that a reverse merger is announced -- comes news of production delays. It's very odd that Lucid would announce production delays at such a time, unless they were hoping that the noise surrounding the SPAC merger would drown it out.