I almost feel obligated to say: "I love this car. It is the best car--better than I imagined" every time I read a post about "issues".
I want to say, " yeah but "every time. I want to say to the complainers:
" Try to find a better car of any stripe --you human that has god-like perfection in every aspect of living, and never needs a reset. ".
I think of the Air as so far ahead of ALL automobiles that there is no going back. Also, even though, in two years of ownership, I have not had the problems others have posted, including the key fob "issues", I think of the Air as a laptop connected to a network, not just with the control modules in the car, but with the overweb itself (particularly but not limited to Lucid monitoring / updates).
It's not a car like anything I've had in the past. I no longer think of my Lucid as a car -- it's a time machine.
I just want to remind folk that a lot of lurkers and curious come here to learn about Lucid, and they see the complainers, and wonder or get the impression that it is a flawed vehicle. Nope -- it's a spaceship.
So when I read the "issues" posts I wish they would end with:
" ... but I love this car..." or "...I'd never buy this again..."
so I know, and visitors know, where you really stand.
I love this car, and I intend to buy another as soon as I figure out how to tell the wife.
The Air is the weirdest car I have ever owned in terms of my reaction to it. Having an early-production car, I lived through 10 months of absolute software hell before UX 2.0 came along in October 2022. There were constant issues with entry, A/C shutting completely down (in south Florida summer), ear-splittingly loud high-pitched shrieks from a rear speaker, constant reboots, car not going into gear,
ad nauseam. As those who followed my posts in those dark days know, I was very near to dumping the car several times.
Yet, at the same time, the car was the most exhilarating thing to drive I had ever owned (and I had owned three Audi R8's, Mercedes AMG's, a Mercedes McLaren SLR, a Corvette, a Model S Plaid,
etc.). The assemblage of prodigious power, precise handling, ride compliance, interior space and comfort, materials quality and styling, and body solidity was simply unrivaled. Even on the days I hated the car, something in me could just not let it go as there was nothing else on the market that did everything this car could on its good days.
Thanks goodness the introduction of UX 2.0 and the rapid sequence of OTA updates began the process that has left us with a car whose software generally works to deliver a total control suite (the combo of software and manually-operated features) that I like even better than our Tesla's. While we still have the occasional software glitch, it's neither more frequent nor more annoying than what we experience with our Tesla's software.
We will never own another Tesla. We ordered a Gravity the day orders opened. My brother, who has owned a Tesla for six years and has driven and ridding in our Air many times, is looking forward to the Lucid Earth so that he can make the switch.
