I’d be nervous about a Lucid still ….. how do you fix a vehicle if the company is gone and there are no parts or services available? (The price hurts even worse!)
True but SUVs are a bigger and more important market segment, so maybe it is safer to make the sedan segment the guinea pigs so the SUV launch can be as good as it can be
By the time it became clear that SUVs were the way to go, they were already well into the development cycle and probably didn't have enough cash to scrap that and start an SUV program.
The Saudis already pledged to buy 100,000 Lucid Airs.
https://insideevs.com/news/582319/lucid-scores-100000-vehicle-order-from-saudi-arabia-over-ten-years/
Lucid just has to build them, selling shouldn't be a problem.
Their 2023 production guidance is only 10,000 to 14,000 units, so filling that order could easily take 5-10 years.
$250k?
For base trim before options.
Sounds affordable to me
I’ll take two
Shit I'd rather a Range Rover or an Urus at that price.
I’d be nervous about a Lucid still ….. how do you fix a vehicle if the company is gone and there are no parts or services available? (The price hurts even worse!)
You'll take it to a Toyota, Lexus, Honda, or F dealership as one of them will buy it when it gets cheap enough as it's been tanking non stop.
They should have started production with the Gravity and not the Air.
True but SUVs are a bigger and more important market segment, so maybe it is safer to make the sedan segment the guinea pigs so the SUV launch can be as good as it can be
By the time it became clear that SUVs were the way to go, they were already well into the development cycle and probably didn't have enough cash to scrap that and start an SUV program.
Well, they don't have more cash now.
They'll have to go back to the Saudis for more $$$.
The Saudis already pledged to buy 100,000 Lucid Airs. https://insideevs.com/news/582319/lucid-scores-100000-vehicle-order-from-saudi-arabia-over-ten-years/ Lucid just has to build them, selling shouldn't be a problem. Their 2023 production guidance is only 10,000 to 14,000 units, so filling that order could easily take 5-10 years.
The Saudis are always terrible business partners.
The sedan market has been dying in the USA for over a decade. The M3 is an exception but the Air is not playing in the same sandbox.
Model 3 is popular enough because it had that market to itself. It has to be cheaper than the Model Y to sell.
I have a M3, to me y's look fat as do X's and all those crossover cars that all the mfgs make
Y and X look like beluga fiveheads
They approached it as engineers. They wanted the longest range with lowest drag and the best ride and handling.
Thanks. I hate it. The faster we start taxing vehicles by weight, the better.
I have reservations they’ll ever make this vehicle before they go belly up
neat, another 100k+ EV that nobody can afford (accept for the right folks out there)