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title: 'Lucid Gravity | No Pain, No Gain | Long Term Intro'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=MfuD0BiMZUc'
video_id: 'MfuD0BiMZUc'
date: 2026-09-25
duration_sec: 790
channel: 'savagegeese'
---

# Lucid Gravity | No Pain, No Gain | Long Term Intro

> Source: [Lucid Gravity | No Pain, No Gain | Long Term Intro](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MfuD0BiMZUc)

## Summary

This video kicks off a long-term review series for the Lucid Gravity, focusing on the technical and practical aspects of the vehicle. The host, who previously drove a pre-production model, is cautiously optimistic about the production version's fixes and details the specific trim and options chosen, along with initial impressions.

### Key Points

- **Long-Term Test Focus** [00:00] — The series will cover the Lucid Gravity over a year, emphasizing technical performance, usability, and what works versus what doesn't, rather than lifestyle aspects.
- **Previous Experience & Fixes** [00:15] — The host had issues with the initial production Dream Edition, but many software bugs and problems have supposedly been fixed in this 2027 model year vehicle.
- **Test Vehicle Specs** [01:48] — The host chose the Grand Touring trim with the range-extender wheel/tire package (600 treadwear tires) for efficiency, affordability, and comfort, totaling $123,000. Lucid offers 0% financing, though EVs depreciate. Added Dream Drive Pro 2 (for future self-driving), upgraded audio, and the Dynamic Handling Package (rear steer, triple-chamber air suspension).
- **Dynamic Handling Package Benefits** [03:40] — The dynamic handling package transforms the car into feeling like a compact sedan, thanks to rear steering and excellent air suspension calibration. It narrows the gap between a sports sedan and an SUV, comparable to Porsche.
- **Interior Packaging and Usability** [04:12] — The interior is cleverly packaged, offering comfort for large drivers, second-row passengers, and third-row seating. Rear doors open 90 degrees, making entry easier for children or elderly, especially with lower ground clearance.
- **Unique SUV Approach** [04:58] — Lucid dials back the oversized SUV trend, focusing on usability. The host notes it's often mistaken for a minivan, but this is relevant as millennials are increasingly buying minivans. It offers a unique value proposition, especially on the used market.
- **Clever Technology Execution** [05:55] — Small tech details are well-executed, like the HVAC detecting a rear-seat occupant and adjusting comfort automatically. The rear tray is useful for work or food. The 90-degree doors improve access compared to competitors like the Model Y.
- **Glass Roof Cons** [07:09] — The large glass roof creates a bright cabin and uneven temperatures, especially for taller passengers. While a shade exists, it doesn't fully resolve the heat and solar exposure. The cabin is quieter than expected but not as isolated as a BMW iX or updated Model Y.
- **Core Tech So Far Working** [09:04] — Key functions work reliably: key detection, quick boot-up, and seamless Android Auto/Apple CarPlay connectivity, avoiding a fully closed ecosystem. However, there is still no app store for streaming services like YouTube.
- **Renewed Excitement** [10:28] — The host was initially disappointed but is now excited again because the core functionality works. This allows focus on the car's comfort, drivability, and overall daily appeal.
- **Home Charging Benefits** [11:18] — With home charging, EV costs are one-third of premium fuel, making it convenient and economical. The host never fast-charges except on long trips, which can be problematic. EVs aren't for everyone, especially without home charging.

## Transcript

Welcome to our Lucid Gravity long-term video series. We're going to have this vehicle for about a year.
And yes, there are many influencers and other people talking about the lifestyle aspect of driving it around and all that. We're going to focus mainly on the technical side of this car, what works and doesn't. We were one of the very first people to drive a pre-production version of this.
Talk to all the engineers desk side. Look at how the car was done and designed and manufactured and also how it was developed in the digital domain. Lucid as a brand has been going through some severe growing pains.
They're in the middle of restructuring and trying to figure some things out as they launch new models. When I first drove the Gravity, the production version, the Dream Edition, I had problems with it. And many other people have had issues with it
as they've tried to get production numbers up. This is a brand new 2027 model year. And a lot of the software bugs have been resolved, and a lot of the things that I had problems with, where I would absolutely not recommend it before, are supposedly fixed.
And we're going to talk about many of those things and where it's at today. But before we get started, I'm going to talk about the trim level and what is included in this car and what you can expect for the price. Now, as I started to discuss during the intro, we had unprecedented access to the engineers behind the design and build of this car.
If you want to learn some things that you will never see anywhere else, check out our hour-long review video where we discuss with them the nuances of making a car like this. Now, when I found out I was going to be doing a long-term video on this, I was hoping that they would have got some iterations going a couple years in manufacturing, and here we are.
I purposely specced this out a specific way. I wanted the Grand Touring trim level in large part because of the range. I wanted the range extender wheel and tire package, which it lowers the size down.
They are more affordable, and the tires will also last. They're 600 treadwear tires. They are about efficiency and quietness and comfort over the big wheel look and ride. When you're dealing with a family vehicle like this, this is truly like a hauler luxury box.
I wanted that. I don't want a sports car. If I wanted a sports car EV, I would consider like a Cayenne EV for that matter. And when you look at the build sheet here, you can see that a lot of these optional extras balloon the price significantly. So you have to be careful. This build is $123,000. And
before you roll your eyes, Lucid is in a place right now where they're subsidizing a lot of the things. This is one of the few brands that's offering 0% interest in financing. And you know, that's going to help because these things depreciate like a rock. At least EVs are right
in the United States, and they have insanely steel. So the price is misleading. But the things that I really wanted to add here was Dream Drive 2 Pro, which, honestly, none of the stuff, none of the center pack that this thing has,
like LiDAR and all the cameras, it's not self-driving yet. But their promise is, and it's been this way for years, that they have the hardware tech inside the car to do self-driving. So maybe we see some of that before I get rid of this car I wanted the upgraded audio system Again we found traditionally with the Lucid products and I had a long error that the upgraded audio system
does make a difference, and one of the biggest things for me personally was the dynamic handling package. That's what really transforms this car in terms of daily driving, where you get rear steer, it makes the car shrink down, it feels much smaller, more like a compact car, and the triple
chamber air suspension. The calibration on that is tremendous with the smaller wheel and tire combo. It rides really, really well. It handles the big things, the small things, and then it makes it feel almost like sedan-like. Jack said this is the smallest window between a sports sedan and an SUV
he's ever driven, and I think that's very true here. The only other brand that does it as well as this is Porsche. The main thing for me is just looking at this as a whole is Lucid is known for making an interior that is packaged where you can fit everything in and you're not going to fight
with it. We're talking you could be enormous in terms of driver and passenger. You can be enormous in sitting in the second row and find comfort and then you can actually fit people in the third row and with everything down in the back while it may not have the overall height of a minivan
it definitely has some of the usability of it in terms of flexibility of the seats, how you move things around. And then the rear doors open up at a 90 degree angle. So you can really get in and out of this with the low ground, you know, lower ground clearance. If you're
shorter, you have a child that has a hard time climbing up in the cars, or you have somebody that's elderly, this is much easier to get into than some of the larger SUVs. And at the end of the day, you're looking at this because it's a unique experience in the space where everybody
is trying to make SUVs bigger and bigger and bigger, you know, a lot of the usability is sacrificed in having that truck-like SUV. So this kind of dials it back, and you have to be okay with the brand's initial philosophy of not wanting a true SUV in terms of the EV space. And again,
there's nothing else like this, and it's not for everybody. I'm going to say that right up front. Everybody confuses it for a minivan, and that's a blessing or a curse. But there's a lot of research showing currently that a lot of the millennial buying power is going into minivans
that it's becoming a more popular segment in large part there's not a lot of options out there like this so I think if Lucid or you do some shopping around and you can find one of these namely on the used market if you're in a it's strapped and you want an EV you're going to appreciate
how you use this more so than many of the other SUVs. So my overall first impressions getting back behind the wheel and in the back seat are just the thought to clever design even the technology a lot
of things that we downplay that become overbearing on most cars is really well executed here like when i get in this back seat for example i just opened the door set here the ac immediately detected that i was in the seat even without my seatbelts on and kicked up the hvac to get me
comfortable there's things all over this in terms of usability like the back tray here that you can used for food or for work. You know, if you're on a road trip and you have to be on your laptop, hopefully not. But there's things like for professional usage and then also
rear adult comfort that super important in terms of connectivity individual control And then for children of course you can have any type of car seat in the second row forward facing reverse facing boosters you not really fighting it because it easy to get in
and out of the door like I said these 90 degree door openings are super super nice and something I just got out with the model YL you know as great as the packaging was for that it was harder to get into the back seat because of the door design so there's little clever things in terms of
engineering here that they've done to make this a cozy place. Now, I do like the open airy nature of this. There's a lot of glass in here. Personally, for me, you know, I like the more
enthusiast focused products like the Porsches. Like I get no kind of easy. I love the way that that was packaged. It felt like just a regular car. It felt like an internal combustion car, normal steering wheel, normal entertainment. You didn't have to have this massive glass roof in it.
And this is just standard here. And while they do offer a shade that kind of covers up and reduces some of the thermal exposure to your upper body towards the glass, you can cover it. This entire back space is open. And, you know, there's a lot of people who talk, well, we designed the glass to reject heat, and it doesn't really, on paper, increase the thermal load in the car.
As your head and shoulders, if you're a taller person, get closer to the glass, it's just the process of it. you have uneven temperature. So you might be warmer at the top near the glass and cooler at the bottom.
And it's hard to keep the air all consistent in terms of temperature. And then you have just the solar exposure. You know, if you just don't want a bright cabin, there's no way to turn off the sun
in this car. So those are some of the things you notice right away about it. But again, it has a massive wow factor coming from a traditional car. And if you're looking for something different, they do that here. And, you know, it's better for it for most people, truthfully. It is a pretty
quiet cabin, although, you know, there's really so much you can do. There's a lot of glass in here. I don't think it's as quiet as I drive a BMW iX. It's nowhere near that in terms of isolated and quiet. There's more reverberation in here. And I think even Tesla on their new updated Model YL,
where they've improved some of the interior acoustics, I feel like that is now more isolated in terms of reflectivity, in terms of voice and noise and sound control than this car is, but this is a much bigger open space.
It's harder to mitigate with all this glass. But again, this is peak comfort. Truthfully, you're getting this because you want a luxury box. You want a luxury box with minimal sacrifices that's driver-centric.
The technology seems so far, in my very short time, the things that need to work here so far are, and that is the key is detected every time I come up to the car, it unlocks, unlocks right away. If I turn that feature off, the key fob's
working. The car I get in, it detects that I'm there. Things boot up quickly. When I paired Android Auto, which is something that Tesla and a lot of brands are trying to get rid of in the EV space of Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, a lot of cars are not using that. This car, every time I
get in it, it's ready to go. So I don't have to use the UI in here. I don't have to use their onboard software as much. If I have that, that's another huge pro for a lot of people. It's not a completely closed ecosystem
and they done a good job with that But you know if you used to a tech experience that where they don really deliver on what they intended to do at the start So if you want a bunch of different apps like you want YouTube and streaming services and all that that is not here at this point
But I think they've gone back to the drawing board to fix the very core things it needs to do with the car. And that's what I'm excited about testing because so far everything is working compared to the original car that I drove. Like almost just the basic car stuff was broken.
So it's made me more excited to drive it and experience what it has to offer. So I'm going to be honest, the Gravity was something I was super excited for and then immediately disappointed with when I first drove it.
And I think if you look around the Internet, there's going to be a mixed bag of people that have had problems, people that know what they're talking about, regular people that have bought this. And I'm back to being excited again, namely because things seem to work properly, right?
The core things work. So now I can focus on some of the cool things about having a car like this for a while. That is, it's comfort, it's drivability, it's unbelievable to drive, and it's something you want to be in every day.
The other part of this is, and I understand this is not for everybody, because we're talking about a product like this that's expensive, although it is subsidized on leases and finance offers. The EV part, this EV discussion, at least in the United States,
has kind of been really poo-pooed, and we know why, right? Not everybody has charging infrastructure in their house. They don't live in a house. It's harder to find chargers. I have an electric car because I want to diversify.
I have plenty of internal combustion cars and have had that, so I can balance back and forth. But the thing that I really love about having an electric car right now with the way gas prices are, because I have charging in my garage, I don't think about it.
I charge overnight, and the costs are one-third of what they are to go to a pump for premium fuel on a luxury product. And that goes a long way. Now, you talk to somebody like Jack, he's Mr. V8, he doesn't have charging in his garage.
Every time he takes an electric car, all I hear is endless complaints. He's got to stop and charge multiple times to get to Michigan or wherever he's traveling to. And it's a pain in the ass for him. He hates it. And for me, I've never fast charged my BMW.
The entire time I had it, except one road trip. It's been 99% charged at home. And the one time I did charge it on a road trip, it wasn't even in the ass. It didn't work. I had to go to four different service places to get it to charge properly.
So it's a real concern. But again, for the 99% of time, if you have charging at home, you don't have to deal with fuel. And you don't have to deal with all the compliance bullshit of modern engines being super complicated now
and things that you don't want to ever work on. I'm not saying this is going to be perfect. It's just as disposable in many ways until they figure out the cycles of learning. but having an EV when fuel prices and all that is really high and having a convenience charge at
home it's something that is amazing once you get used to it but again not for everybody I get it still want your internal combustion car thank god they're still around but I'm going to fill you in on all the pros and cons of this car as we drive it over the course of the next year
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