Well, I've had the car for a month. BLUF: goddamn this car is amazing and I love it. This is the third most expensive thing I've ever purchased (behind a JD/MBA and a house) by a lot (more than triple my next closest vehicle purchase) and I have literally zero buyers' remorse, which is a little surprising to me.
I'm not a car guy. I'm a normal person who needed a second vehicle with my wife and I expecting our first child in March and second in November (surrogate for second, can go talk about that in the off-topic area if you want). We established some criteria: get to OKC or Austin from Dallas without needing to stop, ideally an EV, enough backseat room for two 6'5" 220+ adults, enough backseat room for two rear facing infant car seats, and enough space to get two sets of golf clubs and a push cart and suitcases, or golf clubs and a stroller, or many other combos of stroller/luggage/clubs, and of course great safety. This was the only car that seemed to meet those needs and we have not been disappointed.
Ride:
Fantastic. So smooth and SO QUIET it's amazing. it just hugs the ground and it's so quick and jumpy, like an explosive RB dodging traffic. Highway assist and AC are both great, though I could test more in heavy traffic. Seats are super comfy, I like the shape of the wheel, and the blind spot cameras are awesome. Since week 1 when we got to 2.1.43, I haven't had any issues with cameras or needed to do a logo reset for any reason in the car.
Meeting our requirements:
Perfect marks so far. Car is gigantic inside and out (that's ne for me and caused an issue, but not the car's fault, as you'll see below). Have taken a full crew golfing, easily fits our stroller, fit my wife's gigantic brothers and father and luggage on airport runs for Thanksgiving (I'm a fairly big broad shouldered dude at 6'2" 200, and all three of them are much bigger than me - and not in an obese way). Remains to be seen, but taking it DFW to Austin after Xmas for the first road trip test, and we'll test our exact car seat(s) post baby shower (not expecting any issues here).
Charging has been all at home and it's so easy and convenient.
Updates have yet to push to the car, have had to ask customer service after a couple weeks of still not getting. Hope that changes.
Audio is awesome, though I think there's room to improve the Spotify interface in a few ways.
About to find out how repairs and such go, which I'm a little nervous of. I mentioned the car is huge compared to my normal - we clipped a side mirror and are gonna need a new one, and possibly calibration. Hoping they don't need to truck it back to a Lucid service center but can handle it at the certified body shop in Dallas. Still deciding on insurance usage or not, it's fairly minor but still a really expensive repair compared to a traditional vehicle.
Overall: Absolutely freaking love this thing. In a way I never really expected. It's so great.
Minor gripes/hopes for fixes:
I'm not a car guy. I'm a normal person who needed a second vehicle with my wife and I expecting our first child in March and second in November (surrogate for second, can go talk about that in the off-topic area if you want). We established some criteria: get to OKC or Austin from Dallas without needing to stop, ideally an EV, enough backseat room for two 6'5" 220+ adults, enough backseat room for two rear facing infant car seats, and enough space to get two sets of golf clubs and a push cart and suitcases, or golf clubs and a stroller, or many other combos of stroller/luggage/clubs, and of course great safety. This was the only car that seemed to meet those needs and we have not been disappointed.
Ride:
Fantastic. So smooth and SO QUIET it's amazing. it just hugs the ground and it's so quick and jumpy, like an explosive RB dodging traffic. Highway assist and AC are both great, though I could test more in heavy traffic. Seats are super comfy, I like the shape of the wheel, and the blind spot cameras are awesome. Since week 1 when we got to 2.1.43, I haven't had any issues with cameras or needed to do a logo reset for any reason in the car.
Meeting our requirements:
Perfect marks so far. Car is gigantic inside and out (that's ne for me and caused an issue, but not the car's fault, as you'll see below). Have taken a full crew golfing, easily fits our stroller, fit my wife's gigantic brothers and father and luggage on airport runs for Thanksgiving (I'm a fairly big broad shouldered dude at 6'2" 200, and all three of them are much bigger than me - and not in an obese way). Remains to be seen, but taking it DFW to Austin after Xmas for the first road trip test, and we'll test our exact car seat(s) post baby shower (not expecting any issues here).
Charging has been all at home and it's so easy and convenient.
Updates have yet to push to the car, have had to ask customer service after a couple weeks of still not getting. Hope that changes.
Audio is awesome, though I think there's room to improve the Spotify interface in a few ways.
About to find out how repairs and such go, which I'm a little nervous of. I mentioned the car is huge compared to my normal - we clipped a side mirror and are gonna need a new one, and possibly calibration. Hoping they don't need to truck it back to a Lucid service center but can handle it at the certified body shop in Dallas. Still deciding on insurance usage or not, it's fairly minor but still a really expensive repair compared to a traditional vehicle.
Overall: Absolutely freaking love this thing. In a way I never really expected. It's so great.
Minor gripes/hopes for fixes:
- The only thing I "hate" is the feeling and noise when it comes out of hold at a stoplight. I've got some advice in another thread and will be working to see if this is addressable.
- I REALLY look forward to a solution that doesn't turn off or beep at me when i use my knees to steer like I always have in an ice car on a Texas highway going west with no traffic on a dead straight road for hours...
- Nav system sucks. Can't wait til it can display google maps. For now I'm doing fine with what I've always done, which is phone map in cupholder and bluetooth audio.
- It's weird that I can't seem to queue songs in Spotify by swiping it down to the main screen. Or do so on my phone. For instance, at home, if I use the TV's spotify app to play and get our sound going, I can use my phone and it recognizes my account is being played on a device, and I can use my phone to control next songs, skips, etc. As a passenger you'd think I'd be allowed to do that and play with it, especially given how much other stuff I can do (choose a new playlist, pick a song, etc). Just weird that I can't queue stuff in the car app or from my phone. So I usually default to just playing it via bluetooth.
- The app is pretty bare bones
- Mobile key is a bit annoying - it doesn't seem to work unless I have the app open on my screen (and I have all the right permissions on, I'm certain, so that's not it). So I've defaulted to always having the real fob with me, which is fine.
- Valet key - the card isn't really a valet key, which seems dumb, though maybe I just don't understand or am using it wrong. A valet key, or eve just being able to put it in valet mode or something seems easy and weird not to have
