Over the course of two seconds the planet we live on moves about 37 miles through space, the universe expands by about 100 square miles, five million emails are sent, and Porsche’s Taycan Turbo GT can go from zero to sixty miles per hour. In Car And Driver’s comprehensive instrumented test of the new German … 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: 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
Driving a car with more than 1,000 horsepower can be a bit nerve-wracking, a feeling that would seemingly be compounded if your first experience with it is on a race track you’ve never driven on before. But as I’m lapping Circuito Monteblanco near Seville, Spain in the 2025 Taycan Turbo GT, Porsche’s first attempt at … Read more
The car company with a performance trim named after a throw-away joke from every 13-year-old’s favorite Mel Brooks film is apparently expanding its EV performance lineup downward with a new Model 3 Plaid on the docket. The Model S Plaid proved no match for Porsche’s Taycan or Lucid’s Air Sapphire on track. As a result, … Read more
Lucid is dropping the price on its flagship and sole vehicle (for now), the Air sedan, because demand just isn’t where the nascent automaker needs it to be. Three trims of the Air — the Pure, Touring and Grand Touring — will all see varying degrees of price cuts. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived The base model … Read more
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik This week I finally got to try out the Lucid Air Pure, the base trim of the electric sedan and the only one available with rear-wheel drive. For a starting price of $78,900 including destination you get 430 horsepower and a range of up to 419 miles, the latter of which is … Read more
