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Lucid introduced its new crossover — the Gravity — as just a little of a Swiss Military Knife. The corporate stated it might do absolutely anything and the entirety you throw at it. I in most cases take stuff like that with a grain of salt, however after using the 2025 Lucid Air Gravity Grand Traveling, I am satisfied there are dozens of automobiles that are actually rendered useless. Sure, it actually is that just right. It doesn’t matter what I requested it to do, the Gravity responded the decision after which some. There are only a few duties that the Gravity can not deal with.
Lucid hasn’t had probably the most monetary steadiness within the trade during the last few years. It hit an actual house run with the Air when it got here out for the 2022 type yr, however it took some time for gross sales to hit significant numbers, or even then a big luxurious sedan is a troublesome promote. We are residing in an SUV-loving international, so Lucid’s moment act, the Gravity, had to be very good if it desires to compete in an especially necessary a part of the marketplace. Thankfully for Lucid — and the individuals who put down deposits for the Gravity — this new SUV is even higher than marketed, and it leaves you questioning why different automobiles cannot be adore it.
Complete Disclosure: Lucid flew me out to Southern California, fed me and put me up in a really nice lodge all so I may force the 2025 Gravity.
The facility of Gravity
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There are heaps of the explanation why the Gravity Grand Traveling is so spectacular, and I will get into all of them in a while, however probably the most standout factor about this just about 6,000-pound, seven-seat electrical crossover is how it drives. Lucid says its function with the Gravity was once to create a “seven seat supercar,” and whilst that is just a little of hyperbole, it is not a declare this is totally with out advantage.
For now the Gravity best is available in Grand Traveling trim, which has two somewhat compact but audibly noticeable electrical motors fastened at the entrance and rear axles. Mixed, the entire force unit places out an especially wholesome 828 horsepower and 909 pound-feet of torque. It is sufficient juice to get the Gravity from 0 to 60 mph in simply 3.4 seconds, and it feels each and every bit as fast as that. In spite of its length, the large Lucid nonetheless will provide you with that pinned-to-your-seat feeling that you simply get with such a lot of EVs in this day and age.
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Nonetheless, the variability is somewhat just right — just about class-leading, actually, simply 10 miles in the back of the Cadillac Escalade IQ. Power is saved in a 123-kWh battery, which supplies the Gravity Grand Traveling a 450-mile vary. That needless to say gets you the place you wish to have to move, and despite the fact that you run low on energy, charging is a cinch. The Gravity is fitted with a NACS price port, so you’ll be able to plug it in at any Tesla Supercharger, however it may well price even quicker than the ones lately permit due to a 900-volt structure. Lucid says the Gravity can juice up at 350 kW, so you are able to upload 200 miles of vary in simply 11 mins, which is quicker than with regards to the entirety west of China. Lucid sought after to construct a automobile you’ll want to use on a circle of relatives avenue travel with self assurance, and it undoubtedly completed that.
Between its splendidly relaxed air suspension (a primary for Lucid), very good complex driver-assist methods, ethereal cabin and lengthy vary, you’ll be able to devour up miles quite briefly in a Gravity. It is a very an identical vibe to the Air’s skill to be a GT automobile, and that is the reason no twist of fate.
Using the seven-seat supercar
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However, what about if you find yourself now not on a avenue travel? What about if you end up on a twisty a laugh avenue with no person in entrance of you? Smartly, the Gravity excels there, too. Lucid’s engineers did an excellent process developing an actual cut up character for this crossover. Within the Clean force mode the Gravity could be very relax and at ease; bump as much as Swift and the entirety will get just a little tighter. For the actual a laugh head over to Dash mode, which stiffens up the chassis, provides weight to the steerage and sharpens throttle reaction, amongst 1,000,000 different tiny changes. In Dash the Gravity is in actuality a laugh to huck down a again avenue — or a mud path, if you happen to get the risk.
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There is a ton of grip from the not obligatory 21-inch entrance and 22-inch rear tires — sure, the Gravity has staggered-size entrance and rear wheels, how cool is that? (There is additionally an to be had 22-inch entrance and 23-inch rear setup, or 20s in entrance and 21s within the rear.) Frame roll is beautiful nicely controlled, however it is undoubtedly nonetheless noticeable. You’ll be able to best do such a lot to masks 6,000 kilos value of auto. What the Gravity does actually nicely is dig itself out of a nook; it is a actual point-and-shoot device. The rear-wheel steerage machine may be an actual spotlight, and every other first for Lucid. It may possibly both flip with or towards the entrance wheels to provide it both an extended or shorter-feeling wheelbase, expanding agility in corners and assisting steadiness at excessive speeds. It additionally provides the 198.2-inch Gravity a turning radius of simply 38 ft, which is critically spectacular from a automobile this giant.
The Gravity too can haul itself in quite effectively due to its large brakes. Six-piston calipers with 15.4-inch rotors are up entrance, and four-piston calipers with 15.3-inch discs are within the rear. If that is not somewhat sufficient for you, there may be additionally adjustable regenerative braking, which will move all of the means from totally grew to become off to complete one-pedal using that’ll gradual the auto down at a price of 0.33 Gs. No longer too shabby.
Going the place no Lucid has long gone earlier than
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It is usually now not too shabby off-road. All Gravitys include height-adjustable air suspension that may be raised all of the means as much as come up with 9.3 inches of floor clearance. That is sufficient to deal with with regards to each and every muddy, rutted trail you’ll be able to throw at it. There is additionally an off-road Terrain mode that permits you to have a hell of a large number of a laugh on a unfastened floor (relying on how a lot you disable the protection nannies).
Similar to its on-road traits, the Gravity loves to rotate while you raise off the throttle whilst regen braking is engaged. It is extraordinarily modern, despite the fact that — you might be by no means stuck off guard by way of it, and also you get the hold of it relatively briefly. You’ll be able to quickly in finding your self transitioning from nook to nook with the tail out, feeling like a hero. I do not know many different heavy-ass SUVs that may do this.
A pleasant position to be
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Without reference to how you might be using the Gravity Grand Traveling, you’ll be able to be extremely joyful to be spending time in its inner. The listing of cars on sale lately with a cockpit this beautiful is exceedingly quick, and none of them value as low as the Gravity does. Regardless of the place you glance you’ll be able to in finding wonderful-feeling leathers, brilliant steel items, open-pore woods and actually fascinating material and canvas fabrics. The auto I drove was once fitted with Lucid’s extraordinarily soothing Yosemite colour mixture, which gave the Gravity a perfect ethereal feeling along side the large windshield in entrance of you and the whole structure of the cabin’s controls. In a global the place a large number of automobile interiors really feel interchangeable between manufacturers, the Gravity units itself aside as one thing that’s not of this international. It is undoubtedly a spot this is supposed to make you’re feeling calm and let you unwind. Lucid says it is impressed by way of mid-century trendy furnishings, and that presentations via.
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Including to this serenity is the way in which the 2 primary monitors function. The Gravity is certainly an excessively tech-forward car, however the way in which Lucid has applied the era right through its cabin is actually one thing. The Gravity, in a similar fashion to the Air, has two monitors for entrance passengers. A curved 34-inch 6K show seems quite beautiful and serves as your gauge cluster and infotainment display; the proper aspect is operated by means of contact. Beneath that could be a 12.6-inch touchscreen that permits you to keep watch over a lot of the Gravity’s purposes. Each are built-in quite nicely and customizable sufficient that you’ll be able to put no matter knowledge you need anyplace you need it. If that is not your genre, you’ll be able to at all times hook up Apple CarPlay (Android Auto is it seems that coming quickly) and let that do the give you the results you want. The gauge cluster segment is left most commonly clutter-free with only a speedometer and a regen braking meter viewable.
Should you turn on Lucid’s good DreamDrive 2 Professional Stage 2 driver-assist machine, you get a rendering of the entire cars round you in that open gauge display area. At the moment Gravitys wouldn’t have it, however over-the-air updates including complete hands-free freeway using and automated lane adjustments are stated to be coming. Even additional down the street, Lucid engineers inform me we’re going to see a Stage 3 hands-free using machine within the Gravity. The {hardware} is it seems that already there, it simply must be switched on.
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The whole lot simply works tremendous nicely on this automobile, and it made using throughout the tight roads of the Ojai Valley in California that a lot more stress-free — despite the fact that the squircle steerage wheel took just a little of having used to, particularly in hand-over-hand maneuvers. Designers inform me the form of the wheel was once an actual backward and forward internally at Lucid, however they in the end went with it as a result of ths form does not block the gauge cluster in the similar means a typical steerage wheel would. I am getting it, and you’ll be able to get used to it. It isn’t just about as unhealthy as Tesla’s yoke, so do not fret.
What a package deal
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The Gravity’s different actual birthday party trick is its inner area and packaging. It isn’t too unexpected, as that is a space Lucid excelled in with the Air. You’ll be able to fair to God have compatibility seven full-size adults within the Gravity, and no person goes to whinge. I arrange my driving force’s seat and the second-row seat without delay in the back of it to be relaxed for my 6-foot-1 body, and I nonetheless had a variety of knee, leg and headroom within the 3rd row. It is actually exceptional.
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In spite of the reality it is smaller than a large number of its pageant just like the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV, Cadillac Escalade IQ and Rivian R1S, the Gravity has much more hauling capacity. Lucid says that the five-seater Gravity has a complete of 119.1 cubic ft of shipment room with the entire seats folded. Seven-seaters lose about six cubic ft of shipment, however you’ll be able to are living. Each Gravity additionally has an 8.1-cubic-foot frunk that is best for tailgating. It actually boggles my thoughts how designers and engineers had been in a position to carve out this a lot room in a automobile that is not that massive, all whilst maintaining it beneath 6,000 kilos. (Smartly, the five-seater weighs 5,904 kilos however the seven-seater is 6,048 kilos.) I suppose it is some kind of darkish, Voldemort-style magic, however I have never been in a position to verify that but.
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Sadly, no automobile is best, and nor is the Gravity. My check automobile and a couple of others on the first force match had some have compatibility, end and tech problems. One of the vital egregious was once on my production-unit check automobile a just about three-quarter-inch misalignment between the door card and dashboard. Different trim items were not utterly fitted correctly, and there have been some tech problems too. The massaging seats — which have been nice when operational — would flip off and on at random periods, and at one level my opposite digital camera made up our minds it was once completed for the day. I spoke with a Lucid consultant who confident me that those had been teething problems on very early manufacturing fashions, and they might be fastened earlier than in truth attending to consumers. I will give them the advantage of the doubt for now, however we will see.
A glance out of doors
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The out of doors of the Gravity is way more conventional-looking than the interior. That is not a foul factor in any respect, however you’ll be able to completely see the place the Air’s DNA comes into play. It helps to keep the acquainted lightbars and the entrance and rear in addition to an not obligatory platinum-colored roof (the Stealth package deal that blacks out the roof, external trim and wheels is same old). Different main points just like the wheel and bumper designs are transparent Lucid hallmarks.
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When it got here to the whole design, Lucid obviously went for a extra flowing, high-efficiency form than a large number of new SUVs hitting the marketplace in this day and age. Truthfully, it rings a bell in my memory just a little of the Mercedes-Benz R-Magnificence, however about 20% much less minivan-ish. I actually dig its glance, and there are many considerate touches that make you understand Lucid’s designers be aware of how other people might be the usage of the auto, just like the 90-degree opening for the rear doorways that’ll make coming into the second one and 3rd rows that a lot more straightforward. Lucid additionally needed to transfer the door for the charger port beautiful past due within the sport as soon as it switched from a CCS charger to NACS so it might extra simply have compatibility at Tesla Superchargers with very quick plug wires. It is little such things as that which I respect.
Pricy, however justified
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Pricing for the Gravity is a blended bag. I imply, it is not reasonable, that is needless to say. Costs get started at $96,625 for a Gravity Grand Traveling (the one type to be had), they usually best move up from there if you get started including an increasing number of programs. My very well-equipped check automobile was once fitted with DreamDrive 2 Professional ($6,750), a Surreal Sound 22-speaker machine ($2,900), the Dynamic Dealing with Package deal ($2,900), a tech package deal ($3,200), the seven-seater package deal ($2,900) and a couple of different odds and ends, together with the very beautiful inner and external colour schemes. It got here in at $124,100, together with vacation spot. Do not get me unsuitable, that is a hell of some huge cash, however while you take a look at the contest, it is both proper in step with or in truth undercuts the ones automobiles. The Escalade IQ and EQS SUV get started at $130,090 and $106,400 respectively, and neither of them carry out as nicely or come just about as well-equipped because the Gravity.
Ultimately, inexpensive Gravitys will come. Lucid will get started accepting orders for the Gravity Traveling in past due 2025 and I might be expecting that automobile to start out within the mid-$80,000 vary. Nonetheless, there is a giant bang-for-your-buck issue with the Grand Traveling, despite the fact that you have to spend a large number of greenbacks.
