Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik While it may be tough to describe to your parents, significant others or friends who don’t care about cars, there’s something just plain cool about a ute. These car-based trucks once roamed the streets of the United States, but now they’re mainly relegated to South America and Australia, and even there are … Read more
Depreciation is hitting EVs hard. Many models that were once some of the hottest cars on the market can be found with prices so cheap you’d be dumb not to buy them. One segment getting hit particularly hard is luxury EVs. Lucid might be the poster child of this depreciation. 2024 Lucid Air Pure First … Read more
Screenshot: Out Of Spec Reviews on YouTube The Arizona-made Lucid Air is perhaps the king of modern electric car luxury. It’s got its own aerodynamic design aesthetic, efficient layout, tons of power, but the new 2025 Grand Touring model is also the king of EPA-rated EV range, supposedly delivering more miles per charge than any … Read more
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, August 6, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. It’s Time The Nissan Altima Got Some Respect | Jalopinions 1st Gear: Lucid Gets Another Lifeline Despite Cash … Read more
Image: Lucid The name of the game for Lucid CEO/CTO Peter Rawlinson has always been efficiency. The company claims that its updated Air Pure model will achieve 5 miles of driving for each kilowatt hour of energy onboard (up from 4.1 miles in earlier models), for a record 146 MPGe EPA rating. The brand’s least … Read more
Screenshot: Hagerty The Lucid Air Sapphire is the quickest car you can buy for a quarter-million dollars, and it’ll outrun cars in the quarter mile that cost orders of magnitude more. It’s even quicker than the dragstrip-oriented Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170. In a recent test by Hagerty’s Jason Cammisa, the Lucid turned an impressive … Read more
New technologies are scary, and when you’re spending over $50,000 on a new car, you want to know that all that money is going to be invested in a quality product. The fabulous team at Edmunds Cars buys new cars off dealer lots with their own money and keeps them for a few years to … Read more
John lives in Annapolis and has to survive a brutal daily commute around the Baltimore/DC Beltway. His plans on trading his two cars into one that can handle the drive in comfort and hopefully keep his fuel costs down. What car should he buy? Carspotting: Big Ol’ America Cars (Welcome back to What Car Should … Read more
Screenshot: DragTimes There’s no getting around the fact that the Dodge Challenge Demon 170 and the Lucid Air Sapphire are wildly different types of cars. The Demon 170 is about as close as you can get to buying a dedicated drag racer that’s still street-legal, while the Air Sapphire is an electric luxury sedan aimed … Read more
Photo: Lucid The 2024 Lucid Air Grand Touring is getting some important updates that’ll take its world-beating 516 miles of range in 2023 to… 516 miles of range. I know that sounds wrong, but it’s actually correct: See, Lucid says the EPA made its electric range test more challenging for 2024, but thanks to a … Read more
