Their drivetrain tech is the best in the world but the interior and software experience just isn’t up to par for the price. I really wanted to like Lucid but I had to cancel my reservation because it just didn’t feel like a future-proof car. The screen being way too small to actually watch movies on makes any promise of future autonomy less appealing and the lack of a HUD is baffling at that price point. Couple that with a badly delayed and janky CarPlay integration and I just couldn’t dice roll at that price tag that the car might be what I want it to be someday.
Agree with everything you said. I was so excited for the test drive and was going to get one however in addition to the things you mentioned the ride was awful. Made me feel seasick! Basically a battery and computer (that doesn’t work great) on wheels.
Same here. Had a deposit from nearly day one. Had to cancel after seeing how half baked both the organization and the car software was when it came time to covert the deposit to an order. Maybe those things are better now >1y later… but now there’s even more competition coming in cheaper than they are. The Model S is that much cheaper and the Polestar 4 and ID.7 are coming around the corner.
For what they’re charging, they need to have their systems worked out basically perfectly. Especially for nav/route planning and media controls it should feel at least as good as the AAOS Google Maps and Spotify does on my Polestar 2, which is almost half the cost of the equivalently spec-ed Lucid.
Their drivetrain tech is the best in the world but the interior and software experience just isn’t up to par for the price. I really wanted to like Lucid but I had to cancel my reservation because it just didn’t feel like a future-proof car. The screen being way too small to actually watch movies on makes any promise of future autonomy less appealing and the lack of a HUD is baffling at that price point. Couple that with a badly delayed and janky CarPlay integration and I just couldn’t dice roll at that price tag that the car might be what I want it to be someday.
Agree with everything you said. I was so excited for the test drive and was going to get one however in addition to the things you mentioned the ride was awful. Made me feel seasick! Basically a battery and computer (that doesn’t work great) on wheels.
exactly…i sat in it once and felt like its passable, i rather buy their stock for lottery :0
Same here. Had a deposit from nearly day one. Had to cancel after seeing how half baked both the organization and the car software was when it came time to covert the deposit to an order. Maybe those things are better now >1y later… but now there’s even more competition coming in cheaper than they are. The Model S is that much cheaper and the Polestar 4 and ID.7 are coming around the corner.
For what they’re charging, they need to have their systems worked out basically perfectly. Especially for nav/route planning and media controls it should feel at least as good as the AAOS Google Maps and Spotify does on my Polestar 2, which is almost half the cost of the equivalently spec-ed Lucid.