The Motor Trend article as well as other messages about the car stopping spontaneously while driving as well as my inexperience with anything other than Tesla superchargers located along freeways have me concerned about the reliability. Having said that ..I love the car and can't wait. For those of you who have had issues... Has anything ever made you reconsider?
Having had one of the early Airs (production number 154), I was plagued with a lot of the early production issues. The relatively few hardware issues were resolved quickly by Lucid service (usually mobile). In fact, I had fewer of those than with the Model S Plaid we got four months before the Air was delivered.
The early software issues were another matter and descended like a plague of locusts. But that all changed beginning in October 2022 with the rollout of UX 2.0 and the frequent updates / upgrades that followed. At this point, I actually prefer the total control suite of the Lucid over the Tesla, mostly because I think the Lucid's mix of manual switches with screen controls is less gimmicky and more ergonomic.
In the 17,000 miles before this car was wrecked when someone turned across my travel path at an intersection, it never shut down while driving. However, it failed to start more than once until I put in the PIN.
The only time the Lucid stopped while driving was with the Air that replaced the wrecked one (at number 395, still an early production car). It went into limp mode as the HV battery and the rear drive unit failed, although I made it the last few miles home using back streets. As unsettling as this was, the same thing happened with our 2015 Model S P90D when a weld break in the battery pack took out the pack, the inverter, and the rear drive unit.
Did I reconsider the Lucid? Yeah, a few times when I was in a real snit. But I've been an early adopter with cars all my life and have had worse experiences with new models of a Corvette, a Jaguar S-Type, and a Mercedes SL55 AMG. I even had a year of transmission troubles and a distorted windshield with a Honda Odyssey from the beginning of a new model run.
Bottom line . . . I quickly became and remain a Lucid fan. I replaced the wrecked one with an identical Dream Performance, and I intend to be as near the front of the line for a Gravity as I can get.
Of the many cars of all types I've owned over 50 years, the Air is the best balance of power, ride, handling, room, comfort, structural solidity, and features I've ever had in a car.
