Lucid Gravity Is 3 Seconds Quicker To 150 Mph Than A Corvette Z06, Even Though It Can Hold Three Times As Many People

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Even if you don't spell for the Sapphire type that makes 1,234 horsepower, nan Lucid Air is one earnestly awesome electrical sedan. Unfortunately for Lucid, nan U.S. is overmuch much willing successful crossovers these days. Enter the Lucid Gravity. Like pinch nan Air, little costly versions are coming (the 828-hp Grand Touring starts astatine astir $95k), but nan $140,000 Gravity Dream Edition makes a ridiculous 1,070 horsepower while besides offering capable room for your full contiguous family. With that benignant of power, you cognize it'll beryllium quick, but recently, our friends at Car and Driver tested 1 to spot conscionable really speedy it really is.

In C/D's testing, nan Gravity deed 60 mph successful 3.1 seconds, which is earnestly speedy for a luxury crossover that will inevitably beryllium utilized to shuttle kids to sports believe and location to galore a fossilized aged French fry, but it besides ran nan quarter-mile successful a much awesome 10.6 seconds astatine 140 mph. For comparison, while C/D still hasn't gotten its hands connected the caller quad-motor Rivian R1S, it precocious tested nan tri-motor type and recorded a quarter-mile clip of 11.1 seconds astatine 121 mph. The Gravity besides deed 150 mph successful 12.3 seconds, making it astir 3 seconds quicker to 150 mph than nan Chevrolet Corvette Z06. 

Of course, nan Z06 is simply a track-focused type of nan Corvette, and it wasn't precisely built pinch resistance racing successful mind, but still. We're talking astir a mid-engine supercar that seats 2 versus a family crossover that seats six aliases seven, depending connected nan configuration you choose. Does anyone request a glorified electrical minivan that's quicker than a Corvette Z06? Not 1 bit. But you tin person 1 if you're consenting to springiness Lucid capable money. 

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In summation to beating nan tri-motor Rivian R1S, nan Gravity besides hit nan BMW iX M60's quarter-mile clip of 11.5 seconds astatine 120 mph. Meanwhile, the Mercedes-AMG EQE SUV besides ran it successful 11.5 seconds but crossed nan statement astatine only 117 mph. Then there's nan Lamborghini Urus Performante, which posted an 11.2-second clip astatine 122 mph, arsenic good arsenic nan Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT and its identical 11.2-second clip astatine 121 mph. So yeah, successful lawsuit it wasn't already clear, nan Gravity is ridiculously, perchance moreover dangerously quick. 

Speaking of danger, C/D has yet to trial nan 1,020-hp Tesla Model X Plaid, truthful it's imaginable nan Gravity isn't nan quickest SUV connected waste correct now.  Then again, Tesla sewage free of its PR section a while back, truthful possibly don't clasp your activity waiting for that peculiar test. Especially since almost nary 1 buys nan Model X anymore. 

While nan Gravity proved to beryllium nan quickest SUV that C/D has ever tested done nan quarter-mile, that 3.1-second 0-60 mph clip isn't capable to put it astatine nan apical of that peculiar list. In fact, nan 850-hp tri-motor Rivian R1S deed 60 mph successful only 2.8 seconds, moreover though it's down much than 200 hp. Then again, nan Rivian besides makes 1,103 pound-feet of torque compared to nan Lucid's 909. 

Upgrade to nan quad-motor R1S, and you get 1,025 hp and 1,198 lb-ft, truthful nan Gravity whitethorn not clasp nan quarter-mile crown for long. (In Jason Cammisa's testing, nan times were fundamentally identical.) Then again, you tin already get a guidelines Rivian R1S for $76,990, while Lucid still has yet to unfastened up nan bid books for nan $79,900 Gravity Touring, which is possibly nan bigger deal. Currently, that's connected way to hap later this year, but nan measurement things person been going lately, who knows.