2025 Lucid Gravity’s Brilliance Makes Different Vehicles Appear Pointless

Lucid introduced its new crossover — the Gravity — as a little bit of a Swiss Military Knife. The corporate stated it might do absolutely anything and every thing you throw at it. I often take stuff like that with a grain of salt, however after driving the 2025 Lucid Air Gravity Grand Touring, I am satisfied there are dozens of vehicles that at the moment are rendered pointless. Sure, it truly is that good. It doesn’t matter what I requested it to do, the Gravity answered the decision after which some. There are only a few duties that the Gravity can’t deal with.

Lucid hasn’t had essentially the most monetary stability within the trade over the previous few years. It hit an actual residence run with the Air when it got here out for the 2022 mannequin yr, however it took some time for gross sales to hit significant numbers, and even then a big luxurious sedan is a tough promote. We’re residing in an SUV-loving world, so Lucid’s second act, the Gravity, wanted to be wonderful if it needs to compete in a particularly necessary a part of the market. Fortunately 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 vehicles cannot be prefer it.

Full Disclosure: Lucid flew me out to Southern California, fed me and put me up in a really good lodge all so I might drive the 2025 Gravity.

There are tons of the explanation why the Gravity Grand Touring is so spectacular, and I will get into all of them shortly, however essentially the most standout factor about this practically 6,000-pound, seven-seat electrical crossover is the best way it drives. Lucid says its purpose with the Gravity was to create a “seven seat supercar,” and whereas that is a little bit of hyperbole, it isn’t a declare that’s utterly with out advantage.

For now the Gravity solely is available in Grand Touring trim, which has two fairly compact but audibly noticeable electrical motors mounted on the entrance and rear axles. Mixed, the entire drive unit places out a particularly 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 bit as fast as that. Regardless of its dimension, the massive Lucid nonetheless provides you that pinned-to-your-seat feeling that you just get with so many EVs today.

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Nonetheless, the vary is kind of good — practically class-leading, in truth, simply 10 miles behind the Cadillac Escalade IQ. Power is saved in a 123-kWh battery, which supplies the Gravity Grand Touring a 450-mile vary. That for certain will get you the place it’s essential to go, and even in the event you run low on energy, charging is a cinch. The Gravity is fitted with a NACS cost port, so you may plug it in at any Tesla Supercharger, however it could cost even quicker than these at present enable because of a 900-volt structure. Lucid says the Gravity can juice up at 350 kW, so you’ll add 200 miles of vary in simply 11 minutes, which is quicker than simply about every thing west of China. Lucid needed to construct a automotive you may use on a household street journey with confidence, and it definitely achieved that.

Between its splendidly comfy air suspension (a primary for Lucid), wonderful superior driver-assist methods, ethereal cabin and lengthy vary, you may eat up miles fairly shortly in a Gravity. It is a very related vibe to the Air’s capacity to be a GT automotive, and that is no coincidence.

However, what about if you’re not on a street journey? What about when you end up on a twisty enjoyable street with nobody in entrance of you? Properly, the Gravity excels there, too. Lucid’s engineers did an excellent job creating an actual cut up persona for this crossover. Within the Easy drive mode the Gravity may be very chill and relaxed; bump as much as Swift and every thing will get a bit tighter. For the actual enjoyable head over to Dash mode, which stiffens up the chassis, provides weight to the steering and sharpens throttle response, amongst 1,000,000 different tiny changes. In Dash the Gravity is genuinely enjoyable to huck down a again street — or a dust path, in the event you get the prospect.

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There is a ton of grip from the non-compulsory 21-inch entrance and 22-inch rear tires — sure, the Gravity has staggered-size entrance and rear wheels, how cool is that? (There’s additionally an accessible 22-inch entrance and 23-inch rear setup, or 20s in entrance and 21s within the rear.) Physique roll is fairly nicely managed, however it’s definitely nonetheless noticeable. You may solely achieve this a lot to masks 6,000 kilos value of automotive. What the Gravity does rather well is dig itself out of a nook; it is an actual point-and-shoot machine. The rear-wheel steering system can also be an actual spotlight, and one other first for Lucid. It might both flip with or towards the entrance wheels to provide it both an extended or shorter-feeling wheelbase, rising agility in corners and aiding stability at excessive speeds. It additionally provides the 198.2-inch Gravity a turning radius of simply 38 ft, which is critically spectacular from a automotive this massive.

The Gravity may haul itself in fairly properly because of its big 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 fairly sufficient for you, there’s additionally adjustable regenerative braking, which may go all the best way from utterly turned off to full one-pedal driving that’ll gradual the automotive down at a charge of 0.33 Gs. Not too shabby.

It is also not too shabby off-road. All Gravitys include height-adjustable air suspension that may be raised all the best way as much as provide you with 9.3 inches of floor clearance. That is sufficient to deal with nearly each muddy, rutted path you may throw at it. There’s additionally an off-road Terrain mode that allows you to have a hell of a variety of enjoyable on a unfastened floor (relying on how a lot you disable the security nannies).

Very like its on-road traits, the Gravity likes to rotate if you raise off the throttle whereas regen braking is engaged. It is extraordinarily progressive, although — you are by no means caught off guard by it, and also you get the grasp of it pretty shortly. You will quickly end up 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.

No matter the way you’re driving the Gravity Grand Touring, you will be thrilled to be spending time in its inside. The checklist of autos on sale at present with a cockpit this beautiful is exceedingly quick, and none of them value as little because the Gravity does. Regardless of the place you look you will discover wonderful-feeling leathers, vibrant metallic items, open-pore woods and actually attention-grabbing material and canvas supplies. The automotive I drove was fitted with Lucid’s extraordinarily soothing Yosemite shade mixture, which gave the Gravity a brilliant ethereal feeling together with the large windshield in entrance of you and the general structure of the cabin’s controls. In a world the place a variety of automotive interiors really feel interchangeable between manufacturers, the Gravity units itself aside as one thing that’s not of this world. It is definitely a spot that’s meant to make you are feeling calm and show you how to unwind. Lucid says it is impressed by mid-century trendy furnishings, and that exhibits via.

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Including to this serenity is the best way the 2 predominant screens function. The Gravity is undoubtedly a really tech-forward car, however the best way Lucid has applied the expertise all through its cabin is absolutely one thing. The Gravity, equally to the Air, has two screens for entrance passengers. A curved 34-inch 6K show seems fairly beautiful and serves as your gauge cluster and infotainment display screen; the precise facet is operated through contact. Beneath that may be a 12.6-inch touchscreen that allows you to management a lot of the Gravity’s capabilities. Each are built-in fairly nicely and customizable sufficient which you can put no matter info you need wherever you need it. If that is not your type, you may at all times hook up Apple CarPlay (Android Auto is seemingly coming quickly) and let that do the be just right for you. The gauge cluster part is left principally clutter-free with only a speedometer and a regen braking meter viewable.

In case you activate Lucid’s good DreamDrive 2 Professional Stage 2 driver-assist system, you get a rendering of all the autos round you in that open gauge display screen house. Proper now Gravitys do not have it, however over-the-air updates including full hands-free freeway driving and automated lane modifications are stated to be coming. Even additional down the street, Lucid engineers inform me we’ll see a Stage 3 hands-free driving system within the Gravity. The {hardware} is seemingly already there, it simply must be switched on.

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Every thing simply works tremendous nicely on this automotive, and it made driving via the tight roads of the Ojai Valley in California that rather more fulfilling — even when the squircle steering wheel took a little bit of getting used to, particularly in hand-over-hand maneuvers. Designers inform me the form of the wheel was an actual forwards and backwards internally at Lucid, however they finally went with it as a result of ths form would not block the gauge cluster in the identical method a daily steering wheel would. I get it, and you will get used to it. It is not practically as unhealthy as Tesla’s yoke, so don’t fret.

The Gravity’s different actual social gathering trick is its inside house and packaging. It is not too shocking, as that is an space Lucid excelled in with the Air. You may sincere to God match seven full-size adults within the Gravity, and nobody goes to complain. I arrange my driver’s seat and the second-row seat instantly behind it to be comfy for my 6-foot-1 body, and I nonetheless had loads of knee, leg and headroom within the third row. It is really exceptional.

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Regardless of the actual fact it is smaller than a variety of its competitors just like the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV, Cadillac Escalade IQ and Rivian R1S, the Gravity has much more hauling functionality. Lucid says that the five-seater Gravity has a complete of 119.1 cubic ft of cargo room with all the seats folded. Seven-seaters lose about six cubic ft of cargo, however you will reside. Each Gravity additionally has an 8.1-cubic-foot frunk that is good for tailgating. It really boggles my thoughts how designers and engineers had been capable of carve out this a lot room in a automotive that is not that massive, all whereas maintaining it underneath 6,000 kilos. (Properly, the five-seater weighs 5,904 kilos however the seven-seater is 6,048 kilos.) I assume it is some kind of darkish, Voldemort-style magic, however I have never been capable of verify that but.

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Sadly, no automotive is ideal, and neither is the Gravity. My take a look at automotive and some others on the first drive occasion had some match, end and tech points. Probably the most egregious was on my production-unit take a look at automotive a virtually three-quarter-inch misalignment between the door card and dashboard. Different trim items weren’t completely fitted correctly, and there have been some tech points too. The massaging seats — which had been nice when operational — would activate and off at random intervals, and at one level my reverse digicam determined it was performed for the day. I spoke with a Lucid consultant who assured me that these had been teething points on very early manufacturing fashions, and they might be fastened earlier than really attending to clients. I will give them the good thing about the doubt for now, however we will see.

The skin of the Gravity is much extra conventional-looking than the within. That is not a nasty factor in any respect, however you may completely see the place the Air’s DNA comes into play. It retains the acquainted lightbars and the entrance and rear in addition to an non-compulsory platinum-colored roof (the Stealth bundle that blacks out the roof, exterior trim and wheels is customary). Different particulars just like the wheel and bumper designs are clear Lucid hallmarks.

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When it got here to the general design, Lucid clearly went for a extra flowing, high-efficiency form than a variety of new SUVs hitting the market today. Actually, it jogs my memory a little bit of the Mercedes-Benz R-Class, however about 20% much less minivan-ish. I actually dig its look, and there are many considerate touches that make you understand Lucid’s designers take note of how folks will likely be utilizing the automotive, just like the 90-degree opening for the rear doorways that’ll make coming into the second and third rows that a lot simpler. Lucid additionally needed to transfer the door for the charger port fairly late within the recreation as soon as it switched from a CCS charger to NACS so it will extra simply match at Tesla Superchargers with very quick plug wires. It is little issues like that which I respect.

Pricing for the Gravity is a combined bag. I imply, it isn’t low cost, that is for certain. Costs begin at $96,625 for a Gravity Grand Touring (the one mannequin accessible), and so they solely go up from there when you begin including increasingly packages. My very well-equipped take a look at automotive was fitted with DreamDrive 2 Professional ($6,750), a Surreal Sound 22-speaker system ($2,900), the Dynamic Dealing with Package deal ($2,900), a tech bundle ($3,200), the seven-seater bundle ($2,900) and some different odds and ends, together with the very fairly inside and exterior shade schemes. It got here in at $124,100, together with vacation spot. Do not get me incorrect, that is a hell of some huge cash, however if you have a look at the competitors, it is both proper consistent with or really undercuts these vehicles. The Escalade IQ and EQS SUV begin at $130,090 and $106,400 respectively, and neither of them carry out as nicely or come practically as well-equipped because the Gravity.

Ultimately, cheaper Gravitys will come. Lucid will begin accepting orders for the Gravity Touring in late 2025 and I might anticipate that automotive to begin within the mid-$80,000 vary. Nonetheless, there is a massive bang-for-your-buck issue with the Grand Touring, even in the event you’ve bought to spend so much of dollars.