I talked to 4 people at lucid and all of them told me I could not do that.
What state was the car located in?
I am in AZ and the car was located in CA
Anyone have insight on if and when ev credits will end with the new administration?
Too soon to tell. For now, I wouldnât worry too much about it.
ON one hand, Trump has traditionally hated EVs.
On the other hand, he owes Musk a bunch of favors.
That is the challenging part of this administration - figuring out who has paid enough for favors.
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Yea. Itâs a bit tricky. Anyways we will know more once House votes are counted. If there is plan to remove the credits completely from IRA, congress needs to pass a new bill. But that can affect Tesla sales. Again the IRA is supposed to be limited to NA made EVs with non-chinese battery. Thatâs quite what Trump likes. So I wouldnât be surprised if he let it stay. On the other hand, the lease loophole is something he can get rid of , even without congress. And that doesnât seem to hurt Tesla as most Tesla purchases are financed
Thereâs probably some nuance there. Lucid has locations in AZ and CA.
It isnât possible for me to lease a Lucid in Ohio, and itâs far from the only reasonably populous state that lacks a Lucid showroom.
Lucid seems to have a very convoluted logistics process that makes leasing a challenge in any state without a Lucid Studio. For example, customers in Nevada (Las Vegas) cannot pick an inventory car and do onsite pickup for a lease from LA or Phoenix area studios. The car must be shipped to Nevada. So basically, we cannot get any onsite credit for a lease.
I was told any inventory car must first go to LA, get PDIâd and then shipped to Nevada. I am not aware of any legal reasons for the restriction; we lease and pickup from out-of-state all the time. Plus, allowing customers to pick up the car should save the company some money on shipping it.
I would assume itâs some technicality in how Lucid gets financing from BofA for inventory in each state, individually. Otherwise, itâs silly of a struggling company to disincentivize customers in states where they donât have studios. It should be making deals more attractiveânot worseâfor those customers.
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I tried inquiring about Lucid. Their closest demo car was 100 miles from me and that too in a pop-up setup for 2 specific days. Everything else is 2-3 hrs drive for me just to test drive. How is everyone else test driving their car?
Do you travel much? I scheduled a test drive for when I would be in a city with a showroom.
Unless they start giving them away again, I wouldnât recommend getting one without driving it first.
I drove a Touring, and it wasnât at all what I expected.
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What were you expecting that you did not experience?
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I was expecting it to handle a lot better (for something called âTouringâ).
It felt extremely fast but the handling was sloppy. Even in the sportiest drive mode.
Handled more like my 7 Series than my Eat Ron GT.
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I would agree with trism about making the effort and finding some way to properly test drive and experience Lucidâthe car and the companyâbefore committing to it. Honestly, their poorly planned test drive process and the follow-up turned us away from it.
We scheduled and test drove at a pop-up in Vegas. The âmarketing specialistsâ admittedly had limited knowledge about the car or the sales process. They were simply enjoying goofing around with foreign tourists, who clearly had no intention of buying one, while we waited half an hour from our scheduled time to drive. We wanted to test drive a GT, but they kept trying to downsell us to Pure.
In the end, we only got to drive a Touring, and that too through a badly chosen route with slow traffic in shady streets around the Strip. They made no effort in planning the route to showcase anything remarkable about the car itselfâneither luxury nor performance.
Also, most of what they told us about delivery and incentives at the pop-up turned out to be untrue when the sales person called us the next day. E.g., the marketing person said we could save $1500 destination fee by scheduling a pickup at the factory. We didnât even ask about it; he himself excitedly told us. Forget the factory and forget any incentive, we canât even schedule a pickup from a Studio if weâre leasing in Nevada.
The entire experience was frustratingly odd, as if they are purposefully screwing up. They were friendly and a bit silly, but unbelievably incompetent. Candid Camera vibes!
As for the car, it handles like you would expect a big, heavy touring sedan toâmore boaty than sporty. Even its acceleration has an inexplicable mildness to it; itâs quick but doesnât feel punchy. It might be comfortable for long drives, but we wonât know that from a test drive.
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This is interesting! Youâre the first person Iâve heard use the word âsloppyâ when describing the driving experience in a Lucid.
The handling isnât awful in a general sense. I love my 750 but not because it handles like a 911. But itâs balanced, cohesive.
The power of the Touring is⌠out of scale with how softly the car handles.
Itâs hard to explain.
Itâs as if the Horsepower & Torque Team was introduced to the Curvy Cornering Team for the first time at the product launch party.
And I really wanted to want one.
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Thanks team. I think I am going to go back to my BMW EV options.
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Once you drive the Etron GT/Taycan you will understand how bad the lucid handles and steers
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Lucid is offering a $4k onsite credit (till the end of the month) + $15k in incentives.
Anybody going to try and hack one of these? 
Looks like MF or Residuals went up though, as payment amounts seem higher than Nov, at least for the GTâs. Thought they would be a little more aggressive than Nov.