FIRST DRIVE: Lucid Gravity - 1,000bhp Tesla Model X Rival 

This, or a Tesla Model X?

Driving my Lucid Air GT for 2 years now and I'm still in love. I can't walk away from it without turning back to look. As easy as it is on the eyes (much better in person than in photos) the best feature is still that drive experience. Having experienced real automotive engineers doing the suspension and power delivery design and tuning really shows from behind the wheel. With enormous torque, the car feels mor like a luxury V-12 than a drag-strip specialist. Sure, it has a launch mode, which is a good party trick once or twice, but really it is the smooth unending waves of power that can be called up in any mode that is genuinely addictive. Handling is quite positive and confidence building, and a bit more fun on a mountain road with the stability control dialed down a bit. I've gushed long enough. Go out of your way to find and drive one. It's not just another EV. Lucid is doing something truly unique and wonderful.

Gotta say it. I'm a Tesla fan, but this is so much more refined and better thought out than a Model X. Nice job, Lucid. Best of luck with it!

I really like the way this guy talks about the interior design, feels like he understands and actually drives a car... things that we do often while the car is moving needs to be easy to find buttons so you can keep your eyes on the road as much as possible... But things like mirror controls that you almost never do, and if you do it's often while stationarry before starting driving, doesn't need to be a button.

This is one of the best if not the best looking electric SUV I've seen so far

As a Lucid stockholder, I applaud this video.

What I like about the styling, interior and exterior, is that it doesn't look like it's trying too hard. It's not trying to look futuristic and high tech, it just, is.

This is the next level design for a family car. Simple and sweet.

Gotta love simple design, this looks stunning!

The tray tables in the back of the front seats are GENIUS. How many kids do homework on their laptops now on the way to and from school?

I saw this in person. What a beautiful design and a ton of practicality. They have really crafted a beautiful vehicle. I hope that this is the design language they're going to move forward with.

Finally a brand that has nailed usability. Everything looks like it’s where I’d expect it to be. The VW group have been good at that for years but they went backwards in the last couple of years. This looks like everything is properly thought out. Well done! 👏🏽

My first car was a SAAB 9-3. Lovely car with ”Night Mode” on every night! I think both Air and Gravity are like the Maybachs of EV’s.

Such an intelligently designed car, inside and out. Would almost certainly be my first choice were it closer to my price point.

Would choose this over a Tesla any day of the week

the gravity is pretty neat, they have one at the scottsdale mall location and it is more impressive to me than the air

I have owned my lucid air for just over 7 months now, best car I’ve ever owned, i believe in few years lucid will take over car industry

I love that you ran through the list of competitors because the Gravity is easily the most beautiful of them all. All the competitors look instantly dated next to this

It is beautiful actually

This was a great interview and I really like Derek's responses. His design thinking and approach is very straightforward, practical and realistic and I couldn't point to a single response or design choice and be like huh, why did they do it this way. Everything was well explained and it all made practical sense to me. The obvious example of this was the physical controls vs. digital controls question and how they chose which got what. It's a shame Lucid is currently marketed towards the luxury segment buyer but it's not hard to understand why it's much easier for a smaller almost boutique brand like Lucid that isn't making hundreds of thousands of cars a year and their manufacturing costs haven't been so refined to target a higher cost to be able to make a profit.

Beautiful lines, simple and gorgeous design

This is what I call "My dream vehicle".

We need a Model 3 competitor from Lucid.

Best SUV I've seen till now 👍🏻

I think it’s really cool that a company let Jeff Ross design a car!

I too love to see unique and innovative vehicles enter the market. They are what ultimately push car technology forward.

I really like the "turn stuff off"-function and having physical buttons for things that will be used during driving. And stalks, thank you! And yokes should stay in Nightrider...

What a beautiful car !

Love this Gravity vehicle. Lucid has a winner here. Congratulations on coming forth with a hugely well thought out electric suv.

That Digital Detox to me as a super feature, thanks Lucid.

Driving this car makes you look classy! I will trade in my model Y for this beautiful elegant car! Can’t wait to get this!❤️

I'm not normally a SUV kind of guy, but this looks rather good

Finally, something too beautiful enough to get the whole family of them. Having the sedan next tot he SUV in front of your house would be mad

Cool! This is the showroom at my workplace (Lucid HQ). Never thought Top Gear would make their way there. I actually worked on that Gravity they're featuring. Part of team that builds the raw metal chassis and structure, but never get to ride or drive the damn thing.

I like the fact that the screens can all be switched off. Is it really necessary to have the sat-nav constantly in view, let alone all the other glaring features? For navigation, direction signals should suffice for most occasions.

I'd deeeefinitely rather have this than any Tesla. It looks infinitely better and is much more aligned with the design I appreciate. I think it looks brilliant.

I love how Lucid welcomes outside people's input to find out what they really want, or dislike. I also get the impression that contributions from the design team are respected & openly discussed.

this car looks so clean without looking boring, very hard to achieve this balance

I love Derrick Jenkins. He is the real deal, such a professional.

Probably the best EV. I like the MPV look and being a big fan of pracicality and driver friendliness of the car.

Absolutely stunning, even better looking than the Lucid Air

Thank you Lucid for bucking the trend of digitizing everything and converting it to touch. Your customers will thank you for it.

Digital detox is a brilliant feature as i love tech and screens but it can get really annoying at night because of the glare

Lets go Lucid !!! The car is awesome , lets goo 💎💎💎💎💎

The Gravity is a Game changer!

Besides the right side indicator coming on when you turned left, looks good.

Interesting thing about Lucid now is that it's one of the car companies that's working with Middle Eastern investment to diversify off oil - Lucid's now majority owned by the Saudi's and it'll be one of the first car manufacturers to have a car manufacturing plant based in Saudi Arabia. Derek is ex head of Mazda North America and they managed to poach quite a few ex GM and ex Tesla executives so they have the knowhow and definitely the money.

This video explained why ELON MUSK talk about LUCID day and night

Glad you picked up the fact Peugeot have been using a smaller steering wheel for a while now. As a 2008 owner, it quickly becomes very natural, and a traditional steering wheel feels odd. It does look great, but I imagine it'll cost north of £100,000 and will sell in relatively small numbers.

Derek mentioning that you could bring a Bluetooth speaker out when using the frunk seating makes me think they should have just added optional speakers up there.

It looks beautiful.

The best analysis I've seen of Lucid's strategy when designing their vehicles described it as basically "Let's package everything as efficiently as possible to provide the greatest amount of cabin and storage space, design the exterior to be as aerodynamic as possible, then make it look both distinctive and timeless with the wiggle room we have left. We are open to legitimately re-engineering any and every aspect of the vehicle that gets in the way of those goals." And that's why the headlights are unique to Lucid, why they re-engineered their heat pumps to make them more compact, why they re-engineered the drive units to make them more compact, and why they also spent so much effort designing their battery configurations and placement. They wanted a usable interior, an aerodynamic undercarriage design, and as much storage space as possible, so everything got designed and re-designed to make everything fit. Thus the Air, their first ever car, has the size of a Mercedes E-class, but the interior space of an S-class, and the storage capacity of an SUV. It's legitimately a marvel of engineering and packaging, plus the design does grow on you quite quickly. I didn't like the aesthetics at first, but now I'm rather fond of it. Looks vaguely retro-futuristic. Plus the interiors look great, at least as nice as they should for the price. I will go ahead and put this out there: I think Lucid has some of the best interior usability designs out there. The smaller steering wheel is still an eminently usable size and actually helps to mitigate the feeling of the power steering being over-boosted and excessively numb since it lowers the length of the lever you have to work with. The two glass d-pad touch inputs on the steering wheel, in conjunction with additional buttons is really about as good as you can hope for in a 'modern' interior aesthetic and provide adequate discrete input options on the steering wheel, particularly compared to Tesla. The screens, particularly the lower screen, are placed quite sensibly for user input and you still get enough physical controls to not be entirely reliant on the screen for every single thing. In short, all of the touch-points, the places where you interact with the car, are thoughtfully designed and follow trends only where it is useful rather than just trying to be cool. I really like their classy interior design choices.

Next generation electric car 💪👍

Lucid is making the most interesting EVs out there today

I love the look, the amount of room you get and how you can easily fold the seats completely flat! We would loved to own one if it was available as it fits our family better than our Model X. This will be a good competitor to the Model X, good luck.

What a beautiful and well thought out vehicle. Impressive stuff Lucid.

When he talks about other companies making SUVs with sharp angles and transformer type designs we know he is talking about the upcoming Electric Escalade and you know what, is true!

Not keen on SUVs but this one I like a lot. Good job Lucid 👍

The sedans ive seen in person were very good looking.

Lucid’s design language works much better in SUV form. It looks great! But also a bit like a Lincoln suv

We'll, I've apparently reached the age where the interior and their relatively subtle approach to tech integration is what has sold me, rather than styling and performance. Well done Lucid on letting function take the wheel and making trendiness get out and walk.

Having owned a Lucid Air Pure for 10 months and looking at replacing a 17 year old ICE, the more I learn about the Gravity and having the Air I'm sold on this vehicle. in my mind the Lucid design philosophy is different from all other car manufacturers and right now state of the art.

Many sensible design choices made here. Wish them success.

awesome video. I start to like LUCID more and more. I just drove an Air and it really feels like a real luxury car. Just the trunk is so awesome small. I hope to see this car on the road (on the other side of the pond :) ).

4:26 I like how Michael Bay's Transformers is now used to describe anything thats over-designed/complicated

The accessories kit for the outdoor seat in the front trunk should come with a detachable visor for the open hood which shields your legs from rain and sun. How might you extend the use of the rear cargo cover as an awning?

Nice so far, but not a word on repeatability. Do you have to replace the whole front body if you have a scratch on the right wing?

Really well thought out car

Love it; so well thought through.

This is a compelling vehicle! Love being able to turn off the screens. 😊

I was not aware of that dark mode setting in Saab cars; we need to bring that back.

Wow. Such a incredible looking car 😍😍

Do the bonesaws come standard, or are they optional?

Hi, and what about if want to charge on a regular( normal plug) it ia possible??

@24:00 WOW, that statement Reminds me of #ChrisBangle . Great Statement

Poor guy hiding behind the pillar

I thought the rear tail lights had to also be on sides and the rear door so they can be seen when the rear door is up?

Lucid is on an entirely different level in the EV game

It's a great question.

A well executed and elegant vehicle. 👍🏻

A rather pleasant interlude. Impressed to see the advanced technology and design by the Europeans mentioned here, Peugeot, SAAB and Audi. Whatever happened to Lucid building (as opposed to assembling) vehicles overseas?

such a beautiful car , range utility.. almost perfect

Absolutely stunning!

In love! want that car!!!

Crazy how big that LED panel is right in front of the steering wheel.

Great Video

Good points, but Ollie is flying awfully close to the cringey hipster sun.

His a really clever guy who knows how to talk when selling ,

Seems cool, not sure of the actual real-world range at high speed and with the cold though. As much as the tried to focus on aero, it’s still a massive car

I get grandparent vibes from Lucid’s cars. Luxury, comfortable but lacking a sexy, sporty feel.

That was a puff piece

yes! this is the content I wanted to watch, more behind closed doors things please!

Can it drive 250-300mi at 80mph in any weather on a single charge?

I have never seen a Lucid and I live in one of wealthiest areas of the US. I have seen Polestars.

The aero wheels for sure!

Will they sell more than 100 the first year? Will they be in business a year from now?

love this car

Goood reviewer, good review.

well and good looking at the dynamic design but you failed to ask the basic question. What’s the drag coefficient? 0.21 is the figure to bet

Wonder if they are going to have a 2 rows option...i.e. executive trim.