I was told EOY on my white car but I asked him about where we are in the “color schedule” and he said he didn’t have any info on that. I still wonder if there weren’t a fair number of Tourings produced already and sitting in the full delivery lots at the factory? Otherwise I can’t imagine that they will be able to produce, inspect, and deliver the number of Tourings they are committing (but not promising) to deliver before the end of the next (holiday shortened) six weeks…..
Did it seem much bigger on the inside compared to the outside? TARDIS reference.....
I agree, it seems unlikely they could produce any significant number of cars AND get them through PDI that quickly. So maybe a good number of those cars are already built and going through PDI now? But then why not hand out VINs on many of them? Only a few here have been told a VIN is coming soon so far. Given you need the VIN to apply for financing and set up insurance, you'd think they would not want to create an unnecessary bottleneck there.
Bring 'yer Torches and Pitchforks to demand delivery before the stroke of midnight December 31, 2022!!!
I would imagine it is a logistical nightmare trying to pair that many cars with the differing configurations to a specific owner and then trying to pair that with the logistics of delivery. That would certainly explain why the delays in getting Vins out. Of course if this theory holds, you would expect a LARGE numbers of VINS to get out through the DAs this week or next….?
Right. Maybe not with the holiday this week, but we'll see if a huge number of VINs get sent out early next week. If not, and they seem to trickle as usual, then I'd be likely to suspect Lucid will totally miss this optimistic goal of getting the bulk of their fully-loaded Tourings delivered before EOY. It's just hard to believe financing, insurance, car carriers, PDI, and the Service Centers / Studios will be able to coordinate that many deliveries in just a few short weeks in late December.
When was your original order date?
4/16/2022
The week before the launch event I was told by upper management that the next batch was Quantum Grey.
Interesting. That checks out. Anecdotally, if we look at just our tracker, grey is the biggest batch. Or it's at least very close to red. We know silver was "Derek's choice" for the big release day party. To move to one of the more popular colors next would make sense.
Another thought I just had that supports the theory that Touring cars were produced ahead of finalizations. If they built out, say, X number of silver fully loaded Tourings, and then not that many people finalized with that config, it would make even more sense to contact customers who were just missing DDPro to upsell them. Not because they had capacity to run more silver cars through production, but because they already had produced those cars.
Grey would be the one other color I would consider right now. Black or red are nice but would not appeal to me. Silver looks great, but probably not for me. Grey I actually considered switching to a few times.
I felt like the Tahoe was too brown also and the Mojave was a bit dark for my taste which is why I switched from Mojave to Santa Cruz.
Please, please please!
I must have debated the color choices to death because they all look great. I thought keeping Santa Cruz clean would be the hardest so going with Mohave.
Have you gone to the studio to see in person?
