Lucid is an organization of automotive lovers, which means all the things from the three-row Gravity to the flagship Air Sapphire is imbued with nice efficiency and glorious highway manners. However what occurs when the pavement disappears? The corporate appears to have a solution with its Monterey {Car} Week idea debut, which Lucid teased at present with three cryptic pictures. Probably previewing a direct competitor for the off-road–prepared Rivian R1S, the ruggedized Gravity idea seems to take its nice engineering to the dust, the place g-forces are low, yaw charges are excessive, and oversteer is a mere accelerator stab away.
Defying Gravity With Vivid Lights, Greater Tires
Particulars for the teaser are predictably miniscule, with the corporate saying solely that the Gravity present automotive could be displayed on the Pebble Seashore Concours d’Class on Sunday on the occasion’s idea garden. Based mostly on the Grand Touring trim, the idea retains the 828-horsepower, dual-motor propulsion and house for seven passengers, though there are some quite engaging styling and practical modifications readily available that clearly goal the upscale journey crowd into contemplating a Lucid over a Rivian or perhaps a GMC Yukon AT4.
For starters, the wheels seem to have a brand new six-spoke design with a hub that appears to have much less optimistic offset than the manufacturing Gravity, sticking them out a bit from the bodywork for a extra planted stance. There’s additionally a distinguished gentle bar positioned on the entrance of a low-profile roof platform. And down beneath, the Gravity idea will get chunky black cladding and wider wheel arches, containing what seems like a extra aggressive set of all-terrain tires. The rocker panels additionally sport a swath of anodized or burnished trim bearing Pebble Seashore’s latitude and longitude – an homage to the idea’s debut location.
Hopefully, the Gravity’s seemingly wider, taller stance will assist alleviate a number of the minivan-like proportions of its present kind. The snug and spacious SUV seems fairly composed and classy, however it’s exhausting to not see some pre-facelift Chrysler Pacifica-ism within the aspect profile and taillight design.
Prepared For All-Electrical Adventures
The Lucid Gravity idea harks again to our first drive expertise with the manufacturing SUV, throughout which Lucid arrange a rallycross-style cone course on graded dust. Utilizing an engineering prototype that bore a really shut resemblance to the common Gravity, we skilled firsthand – each behind the wheel and within the passenger seat – the EV’s spectacular steadiness and torque-vectoring grip in low-traction eventualities. On the time, Lucid instructed us that an off-road drive mode would quickly be added through over-the-air replace to buyer automobiles, and it appears as if the automaker could also be ready to go even additional off the overwhelmed path.
Though we’ll withhold judgment till we see the automotive in full, the newest Gravity teasers present nice promise, hopefully giving us a glossy new off-roader to think about in lieu of the charming and composed (however much less overtly sporty) Rivian R1S. If Lucid manages to provide us a knobby-tired, taller, extra aggressive Gravity idea at this yr’s Monterey {Car} Week, we’ll be blissful, and if it manages to place that idea into manufacturing ASAP, we’ll be even happier.
Supply: Lucid Motors