Motor Trend article on Lucid lineup

[scal_air]

https://www.motortrend.com/features/2025-lucid-lineup-updates-changes/

Apologize if it's a repost - Didn't find it on a search.

 

[sri]

Cons on Gravity:

• Won’t be as efficient as the Air

Is this a joke, how on earth they think this is a con. So they want a company to do miracle for a 7 seater sedan to compete with efficiency of an Air.

 

[scal_air]

Cons on Gravity:

• Won’t be as efficient as the Air

Is this a joke, how on earth they think this is a con. So they want a company to do miracle for a 7 seater sedan to compete with efficiency of an Air.

Yeah it's almost as dumb as one of the cons on the Air being "Vague brake pedal feel".
Never heard anyone complain about that...

 

[Buffalo Bob]

Yeah it's almost as dumb as one of the cons on the Air being "Vague brake pedal feel".
Never heard anyone complain about that...

With high regen, I hardly ever even touch the brake pedal at all, for that matter! I sometimes forget that it's there.

Makes it weird when I switch to an ICE car after driving the Air for a few weeks.

 

[xponents]

Cons on Gravity:

• Won’t be as efficient as the Air

Is this a joke, how on earth they think this is a con. So they want a company to do miracle for a 7 seater sedan to compete with efficiency of an Air.

Fun fact: Statistically, 100 percent of humans are born at a young age

(This sentence is as obvious as the thing in the Motortrend article.. maybe even the image below is. Could this article be AI generated content?)

 

[hmp10]

Interesting. I posted about this article this morning on another thread (post #227 on the thread titled "Lucid gravity order begins Nov 7").

The article originally contained several errors, including statements that the Gravity was built on the Air platform (it is built on its own dedicated platform) and that at launch the horsepower would range from 480 to over 800. I emailed the author of the article to point out the errors, and I see that they have now been corrected.

 

[hmp10]

Cons on Gravity:

• Won’t be as efficient as the Air

Is this a joke, how on earth they think this is a con. So they want a company to do miracle for a 7 seater sedan to compete with efficiency of an Air.

The article also failed to list the Air's remarkable space utilization as a pro which, along with efficiency, is one of the Air's two biggest claims to fame for moving the EV engineering and design needles forward.

Basically, this article just came across as a filler piece without any real thought or even basic fact-checking.

Unfortunately, with Lucid's opening of Gravity orders without any vehicles for the press to test drive or review, there's more and more filler showing up in the automotive press right now about the Gravity, and much of it is downright silly. Many of the articles and videos use computer-generated images that only vaguely resemble actual Lucid products and contain large dollops of drivel and outright misinformation.

 

[ccarroz]

Cons on Gravity:

• Won’t be as efficient as the Air

Is this a joke, how on earth they think this is a con. So they want a company to do miracle for a 7 seater sedan to compete with efficiency of an Air.

Was just going to say the same thing. I guess they needed to fill the space but would anyone expect it would? then again, some people believe in flat earth so..... If I had time to waste I might be tempted to go all of these articles over the years until I find a call out that a hummer is not as efficient as a Prius...

 

[ccarroz]

Cons on Gravity:

• Won’t be as efficient as the Air

Is this a joke, how on earth they think this is a con. So they want a company to do miracle for a 7 seater sedan to compete with efficiency of an Air.

On second thought... this is unacceptable and I feel a class action coming. I thought we were getting our cars from same person that sold Jack his beanstalk beans.... What is the world coming to these days......

 

[joec]

Fun fact: Statistically, 100 percent of humans are born at a young age

(This sentence is as obvious as the thing in the Motortrend article.. maybe even the image below is. Could this article be AI generated content?)

View attachment 24576

It's not even just that it's obvious. It's trying to take one of Gravity's greatest strengths and turning it into a weakness. It's deliberately misleading.

Gravity will be the most efficient SUV of its size on the road. By a wide margin. But they try and make it sound like it won't be particularly efficient, because it's slightly less efficient than a vehicle in an entirely different class.

This kind of thing is rampant in our media, and it really needs to be called out.

 

[xponents]

It's not even just that it's obvious. It's trying to take one of Gravity's greatest strengths and turning it into a weakness. It's deliberately misleading.

Gravity will be the most efficient SUV of its size on the road. By a wide margin. But they try and make it sound like it won't be particularly efficient, because it's slightly less efficient than a vehicle in an entirely different class.

This kind of thing is rampant in our media, and it really needs to be called out.

Similarly, I also hated when people compared the Hummer EV’s MPGe to a Prius or something, when it should really be compared to an old Hummer!

 

[joec]

Similarly, I also hated when people compared the Hummer EV’s MPGe to a Prius or something, when it should really be compared to an old Hummer!

Exactly. These arguments are disingenuous. Factually accurate, which is how they get away with it. But fundamentally dishonest.

 

[hmp10]

Exactly. These arguments are disingenuous. Factually accurate, which is how they get away with it. But fundamentally dishonest.

Oh, I see auto "journalism" every day that goes far beyond factual accuracy.