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Full 2026 Lucid lineup. Air Pure to Sapphire ($70,900 to $249,000) plus Gravity Touring and GT. Specs, range, and which trim fits which buyer.
Read moreLucid reliability in 2026. 17 Air recalls, 66 NHTSA complaints, Consumer Reports 2025 verdict, plus 3 Gravity recalls on a pre-data SUV. Honest, sourced, no fabricated grades.
Read more2026 Lucid Air Sapphire deep-dive. $249,000 tri-motor sedan, 1,234 hp, 1.89-sec 0-60, 427 EPA miles. How it competes with Tesla Plaid and Porsche Taycan Turbo GT.
Read more2026 Lucid Air Grand Touring buyer's guide. $114,900 AWD sedan, 819 hp, 512 EPA miles. Specs, charging, recalls, and how it cross-shops vs Mercedes EQS, BMW i7, Porsche Taycan Turbo, Tesla Model S.
Read more2026 Lucid Air Touring buyer's guide. $79,900 AWD sedan, 620 hp, 431 EPA miles. Specs, charging, recalls, and how it compares to the BMW i5 M60, AMG EQE, Audi A6 e-tron, and the rest of the Air lineup.
Read more2026 Lucid Air Pure buyer's guide. $70,900 RWD sedan, 430 hp, 420 EPA miles. Specs, charging, recalls, and how it cross-shops vs Model 3 Performance, BMW i5, EQE.
Read morePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:31 — 72.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | More As co-hosts of The Weekly Driver Podcast, Bruce Aldrich and I have for the past several years picked the top cars of the year at the end of the calendar year. This year, as we do most often, Bruce and I interview a guest on the podcast and then drive the week’s review vehicle to lunch. We often extend the day to further drive the vehicle, take images and share our opinions. Bruce has certain interests and knows the mechanics of cars and trucks far better than I do. I write reviews of vehicles for several publications, including TheWeeklyDriver.com since 2004. I usually
Read moreIt’s difficult to consider the 2023 Lucid Air Pure the entry-level vehicle of the young carmaker’s five trims. It’s the brand’s least expensive and least powerful sedan. But it would be many manufacturers’ flagship offering. The 2023 Lucid Air Pure is a continuation of the car’s debut in late 2021 as a 2022 model. Its starting price is $77,400, with Lucid‘s latest, the top-line Sapphire, priced at $249,000 (no options). Performance is the key for all trims, a “meager” 430 horsepower to the highest in the mainstream car industry, the Sapphire’s 1,234 horsepower. With its single-motor, rear-wheel drive layout, the Air Pure is exemplary for daily driving requirements. If it were the only trim, Lucid enthusiasts would be satisfied. But
Read moreIn the 15 years since Tesla debuted, several potential competitors have swiftly arrived and departed without any impact. Lucid Motors, less than two years into its luxury electric sedan life, is an exception. The Lucid Air, designed in Newark, California, built in Casa Grande, Arizona, and majority owned by a Saudi Arabian sovereign investment fund, at least equals the omnipresent Tesla in a dozen criteria. It outdoes the EV stalwart in several ways. It’s new, powerful, industry bending and has limited availability, traits Tesla also had in its infancy. Unveiled in October 2021 as a 2022 model, Lucid produced 7,180 vehicles last year, about one-third of the original estimate after industry-wide supply chain issues. The 2023 edition is now also
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