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Sarah-n-Tuned: The Harsh Truth // 2026 Lucid Air Touring Review

The_Don said:
I turned this off when I heard her first complaint: range remaining shown in percentages instead of miles. It's literally a setting in every electric vehicle.
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I didn't even get that far.
 
The_Don said:
I turned this off when I heard her first complaint: range remaining shown in percentages instead of miles. It's literally a setting in every electric vehicle.
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I watched the whole thing, though was hesitant based on the title, especially after the Engineering Explained video. I subscribe to her and like her videos, but that complaint about the percentage remaining annoyed the hell out of me. Especially when she went on about it for a while and made the comments about having to do math.
 
Just watched the whole thing. Having driven over 80k miles in my touring over the last 2.8 years, I can say that I disagree with her overall assessment. However, I also feel like her review including the dumb stick with the hand that she kept smacking on the car, her mannerisms, and her biases (including not caring enough to figure out how to change the display to miles remaining) are very indicative of the general population.

So, the takeaway for Lucid from this video should probably be 'we have a bunch more work to do if we want to sell more cars to the general population' because this is how they will view the car. Yes, it's an engineering marvel and a great car to drive. But it's expensive and a decent amount of the user expectations are not met with the current hardware and software design.

I've actually said this before. I love the car and am willing to tolerate the quirks. The general population, however, will not accept or tolerate them and certainly won't pony up the wad of cash needed to buy one just to deal with the things they don't like.
 
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gibbsy1 said:
I watched the whole thing, though was hesitant based on the title, especially after the Engineering Explained video. I subscribe to her and like her videos, but that complaint about the percentage remaining annoyed the hell out of me. Especially when she went on about it for a while and made the comments about having to do math.
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I don't think she's much of an EV enthusiast, so probably didn't even think there would be a way to change it like we nerds would. And personally, I don't expect these reviewers to dive through an entire menu system just for grins.

I find most of her reviews pretty fair-minded honestly. A lot of the lower scoring is based on the price I think, and she did say she was rooting for the company's future.
 
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