A Full Review of my now Towed Lucid Air Dream Edition.

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folks we've got a lot to talk about

because i'm about to play you the lucid

air dream edition review which i bought

and paid over a hundred and sixty nine

thousand dollars for

and i filmed this video within about the

first week of owning it but i've got to

give you an update so yesterday on

february 21st 2022 there was a recall

calling for 204 lucid air dream edition

vehicles to be returned to lucid for an

update that had to do with something

that could malfunction within the front

bumper of the vehicle and could affect

braking or potentially steering well

unfortunately something happened to my

lucid yesterday that was not related to

this recall

as we pulled the lucid out of the garage

my father-in-law was driving we pulled

the lucid out of the garage all of a

sudden a lot of lights came on and

started flashing warning indicators that

the steering for the car had failed

the car steering column had completely

frozen up to where it was almost as if

uh that the steering wheel was locked

but if you pushed hard enough you could

still turn the wheel it was just

probably somewhere around five to six

times as difficult as a power steering

steering wheel but based on

well my conversation with my father when

i was driving at this time

and the car unfortunately had to be

towed to the lucid facility in torrance

now it has been confirmed that whatever

issue this vehicle had is so far not

related to the recall it is a separate

issue and it's unclear why the steering

malfunction the steering was working

totally fine

well since we got the car

uh and having parked it in the garage

nothing happened to the car obviously in

the garage other than pulling it out and

turning it on and all of a sudden the

steering had just completely failed so a

little odd on that i wanted to give that

disclaimer here up front and also a

disclaimer that unfortunately my mic

placement in the video that i'm about to

play for you wasn't ideal so you're

going to hear a little bit of ruffling i

apologize for that

i almost didn't want to post the video

because it personally bothers me but i

thought hey you know what the

information i think is more valuable

than the noise is annoying at least

hopefully

let's get into it hey everyone meet

kevin here today we are finally

reviewing the lucid air dream edition

and i'm going to tell you exactly which

number of production this vehicle is as

well which is kind of exciting because

we took delivery the third week of

january of this vehicle lucid had a very

ambitious goal of delivering

550 of these by the end of q4 2021 we

got this the third week of january we're

going to talk about which number lucid

we are and what we think about the car

after having the vehicle now for just a

little over two weeks so let's get into

the car

but first one of the things i have to

say that i absolutely love is when you

drive this car around everybody looks at

it it is a head turner of a car and when

you look at it

probably one of the reasons for that is

this two-toned color that the vehicle

has this is by far my favorite sort of a

burgundy style

metallic paint color as well you can

choose multiple different lucid options

by far i recommend this one as my

favorite and also what i've seen a lot

of other folks recommend them though the

other colors are great as well this

two-tone though big head turner here uh

and one of the things that you'll notice

on the lucid over for example a tesla at

least what we found is the attention to

the detail is a lot better one of my

biggest takeaways of the car is that

this car seems to be something that

somebody maybe in that age range between

45 and 65 might really enjoy especially

if they're looking for that mercedes bmw

style finish you'll see that on the

inside as well whereas tesla seems to

appeal more towards that 25 to 45 male

demographic

lucid i think might more equally appeal

to males and females but also that older

demographic looking for maybe more of

that attention to detail and i think

that's where lucid really takes off now

is it worth the extra money this vehicle

right here it was a hundred and sixty

nine thousand dollars it's the top of

the line vehicle that they have they

plan to come out with less expensive

vehicles in the future car has a zero to

60 of 2.4 seconds which is a little bit

less than the model s plaid which sights

a 1.9 0 to 60 although that doesn't

include that first foot roll off so it's

really more like a 2.1 for the tesla

model s plaid versus a 2.42 on the lucid

here on sport mode it does have over

1100 horsepower when you're in comfort

mode it drives at about 600 horsepower

so you've got a really good kick no

matter which comfort setting you're in

and the battery's got a 471 mile range

which i think is really incredible this

is the performance model there are two

styles one is the longer range which

boasts the 520 mile range

this is the model that's a little bit

quicker but you sacrifice about 40 miles

40 to 50 miles of range on it so let's

uh let's take a look at both the front

and the trunk and then we'll go ahead

and hop in to the car and we'll take it

for a spin

there we go now one of the things that i

do like about the lucid over the tesla

here is that when you hold down the key

it actually has a motor to open and shut

the front and i really appreciate that

because uh for 170 000 vehicle i feel

like it should have

extra luxuries and the tesla model s

plaid doesn't do that so this is going

to be i'm going to be regularly

comparing to the tesla model s plaid

which i think that's the point

nice a nice front space here you do also

have this little uh

usually you only see this in trunks

where you have sort of another layer

where you could put things underneath

and so i really like that you have a

very deep frunk here and this uh

sort of foldable

cover here feels very nice and sturdy

which is really important in these one

of the issues i had in my tesla model x

was i put heavy objects on the back and

then it broke and sort of fell through

in the trunk but again actually having

this deep storage compartment in the

front very nice and they do also have a

button here that if i hold the button

it'll automatically close this so so no

more putting your hands on the hood and

trying to slam it down

something that's very nice one of the

things that folks love about the lucid

is the fact that it also comes with

lidar this is your lidar sensor here

it's got 14 cameras throughout the

vehicle we've got radar obviously the

sonar radar everywhere but

the big selling feature here is that in

the future they expect to have

autonomous driving capabilities right

now they don't yet and that's one of the

downsides of lucid right now is that

they don't even have the adaptive cruise

control yet now that's expected to be

released within the next few weeks but

i've also been hearing that it's

expected to be released in an

over-the-air update within the next few

weeks for the next few weeks because

i've been hearing about that for a while

so at some point in the future we'll get

more and more uh self-driving

technologies uh especially cruise

control which i feel like is a bare

minimum that we should have that we

don't have right now it's got the

technology just doesn't have the best

software yet to make that happen

apparently

so here's our trunk

also with the automatic opening closer

one of the things that i thought was

really ingenious about this trunk though

is i've regularly wanted to put things

in my trunk only to realize that i need

to put the seats down and then whether

it's on the tesla or almost any other

car you have to go open the side doors

run around and put the seats down one of

the benefits of the lucid is this i can

just pull

this lever here and it pushes the seat

and releases the seat and the seat belt

of both the bench and the side seat and

now if i were to push something in the

seats would just fall forward so i don't

have to walk around it's those little

luxuries that i think were quite

brilliant for lucid now over here you

get a little bit less visibility into

the trunk just the way the vehicle is

designed but you do have a decent amount

of space here another compartment where

you can place more objects down here

decent size also very sturdy here and

tesla has really improved their

sturdiness of these back compartments as

well another thing that's pretty neat is

and we'll show you this on the inside

but they do have a hatch here so if you

were going to put in skis or some form

of longer objects you could get a nice

six foot distance from trunk to the

inside through that little hatch hole

there so we'll go ahead and close this

off

the color really remarkable in the sun

when you get into the shade sometimes

it's a little bit harder to tell the

color of the vehicle so for example if

we come around to this side you lose a

little bit of that really majestic

burgundy color and it turns into a

little bit more of oh is that is that

black is it just dark red what is it so

in the sun is when when this really

stands out i also really enjoy

these these hubcaps i think they've

they've got a really nice finish and

these are a

probably an aluminum cap here so unlike

the tesla model 3 which as you would

expect it's not plastic it's

this is this is much nicer feels again

more luxurious higher quality

and again that attention to detail here

even to where the nuts for the wheel

have been uh either powder coated black

or whatever to really blend in with uh

with the aluminum lid that you have here

so really nice work low profile wheels

of course now one thing that's a little

weird coming from a tesla is you have

this temptation to push the handle here

which you're not supposed to do you can

and if you push this down

it will open

or it will search for a key that's close

but the handles are supposed to present

themselves when the key comes close

you're not supposed to push down on it

so that is something for tesla owners

that's a little bit of an adjustment

but very nice quality feel on the doors

the mirrors open and close obviously

when the vehicle locks or unlocks

okay so let's now hop on into the inside

and get to the meat and potatoes so now

we're inside the lucid and one of the

first things that i absolutely love

about this is you've got this really

neat looking suede right here that

contrasts with the wood veneer

and then physical buttons here the

physical buttons i will say one thing

that does bother me about the tesla is

not having physical buttons for

adjusting the temperature control you do

have controls on your steering wheel but

having nice buttons for just quickly

adjusting the temperature uh very very

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and again very beautiful luxurious

finish and feel you just you look at it

and and you see the speakers how they're

seamlessly built in over here and you

can't help but feel like it's a luxury

vehicle like this is a 180 000 vehicle

there's no no corners cut the finishes

everywhere you look the trim fits

the rubber seals aren't coming peeling

off which even on my tesla model s plaid

which i've had for a month i've already

got a rubber seal right here that's

that's peeling off you just don't see

some of those

quicker imperfections now that doesn't

mean this vehicle is perfect one of the

things that does bother me is that when

you're driving and you need to use this

center console here you have to look

down so let's give an example here let's

say

i'm driving the vehicle

uh like this and i need to do something

on my center console like for example i

want to switch to the sprint mode from

smooth mode i really have to take my

eyes off the road to look down here

and that's to me a little bit

dangerous i much prefer having the

console here in front of me rather than

down below

now when you do switch from comfort to

sprint mode

it does also regularly give you this

this warning here that sprint mode

enables maximum power and torque

recommended to only be used by skilled

and advanced drivers under suitable

driving conditions

with with lucid specifications summer

tires installed

this warning i think there should

absolutely be a little button here that

says never show me this again because

quite frankly it's a little exhausting

every single time i switch from smooth

to sprint to get this warning i i got it

i never want to see it again so that

bothers me a little bit something else

that's interesting is there are

many redundancies that that i don't know

are the best for example if you want to

open the charging port and i go into

park here and i want to open the

charging port i can press this button

right here to open the charging port

which opens it up over here i can go

into the openings menu over here

and i can open the charging port through

this method in this case i just closed

it and then the third method is just

touching it and pushing it on the

outside which

it seems like

one of these at least one of these is

unnecessary so one of the things as an

investor that i love about tesla is that

they try to minimize those extra

redundancies because that just ends up

going into profit now sometimes

focusing on extra profit i feel like can

come at the expense of taking away some

conveniences for the customer personally

i'd really like to have an automatic

open closing front

on the model s plaid which which you

have here but you don't have there

that in my opinion is just another way

for tesla to farm additional profit

which you can't blame them for that but

these sorts of redundancies would be an

easy simplification for lucid i think to

simplify their their manufacturing

processes but that's just one example

one thing that might explain why we have

the opportunity to have a charging

button here is because we can actually

make this screen disappear which is

quite neat if we slide up right here

this screen slides away and disappears

and and now we can place whatever we

want over here we've got another little

storage compartment here and this is one

thing that's neat is if you're not

familiar with the lucid and let's just

say worst case scenario somebody broke

into your car or whatever

that might be a pretty safe spot you can

kind of see through it over here but i i

don't think it's very intuitive for

people to think that you can make this

entire screen disappear as an owner of

course you would know that not

suggesting that anybody wants to get

broken into

uh and not saying that this would

absolutely stop somebody either

now

one thing this vehicle does have as well

is facial recognition so when you create

a profile under settings

uh we'll go over here to access and

profiles once you create a different

profile

which right now it's under my

father-in-law bill that's because i have

given my father-in-law bill this car and

so he has been loving it and uh he's

lending it back to me today for this

review

one of the things that's neat is you can

set up multiple different profiles here

and there's a little camera under the

speedometer here

that's kind of like face id on the uh

iphone or really any smartphone at this

point and it will automatically adjust

your seat and your preferences to your

profile based on identifying your face

which is great that's something that the

tesla doesn't have you'd have to

manually click on different profiles for

the seat adjustments or whatever

you can also turn on which i'm not sure

how i feel about this but you can also

jump over

screen is a little not as responsive

i've noticed sometimes it has a little

bit of a lag to it you could also turn

on seat massagers in the front so there

we go

you can set up multiple different

massages and different styles of

massages and different strengths here

because it is a seat that's very very

comfortable unlike a massage chair you

don't want to massage hair you sit in it

and it's off you you still feel the

plastic knobs in that uh this you don't

you would have no idea this is a massage

chair unless i showed you this this

setting or told you as a massage there

but because of that you get a little bit

of a less effective massage i'd say i

think it's a little bit more like

a vibrating chair so i'm not sure if

this is necessarily something i would

pay for if it were an option if they

come out with the less expensive lucid

models which we expect i would imagine

this is going to be one of the features

that ends up disappearing but they have

this for driver passenger

another thing that i love though which i

do think is missing from a lot of

vehicles

first of all many different options for

adjusting the seat in addition to

bringing out a thigh support which is

quite interesting i can extend the thigh

support and right here under my legs

the the seat actually extends forward

which is quite an incredible adjustment

you can get this moving out quite far

they do not yet have the model and they

expect to in the future where in the

future in the back you might actually be

able to lie the seats down to some

degree that's not out just yet but i

wanted to talk about the seat heating

and that's probably under this little

climate section here there we go the

seed heating what's really incredible

here is you can heat two different

sections so let's there we go we'll turn

the heater on so i can heat my back

or i could just heat the seat

and i really think that is an incredible

innovation that they have the heater for

the back and the seats separate so that

way if i just wanted

my bottom or just my back i have that

choice

now there are seat heaters in the back

as well though i don't have that dual

control for the back

there is also steering wheel heating and

cooling which was also quite neat

another thing that's super neat is as

long as you have the

vents open for your the feet compartment

you can actually turn on cooled seats so

if you wanted to you could program this

to precondition the car on a hot day to

cool your back and bottom so that way

you sat down on cooled seats

the way it does that is it pulls air in

from under the seat and brings that

through the seat so it sort of comes out

through the little holes of the leather

here really really incredible feature i

haven't seen that before so i love some

of these extra luxuries they also have

themed lighting which is a little harder

to see right now it works really well

during the night time to trim around the

doors and and the sills can change color

one of the things that i really wish

they had when we changed this sort of

mood lighting here is i wish rather than

just having a brightness control they

let me pick whatever color i want right

now i only have six options here and i

expect that because this is an led strip

maybe that's something they could

introduce in the future but if you

didn't like the teal the blue or the

purple or the pink you're kind of stuck

you're limited to the color options that

they give you i think this is like a

yellowish over here like the lucid color

so this should be more like a phillips

hue where i have a full range of colors

that i could choose from

charging is done with electrify america

these vehicles can charge very very

quickly and remember we get up to

uh

470 miles with this one and if we start

pre-conditioning to charge this on a

supercharger we can charge to 80 within

20 minutes on this vehicle which is

quite incredible really really good

battery management and that's one of the

things that lucid uh really prides

itself on is is their battery technology

their battery management technology so

very incredible now hopping over here to

the center console one thing that i

didn't love as much is

this right here not as nice as the tesla

with the tesla model s i can kind of tap

on this here and then it automatically

retracts this feels a little tight

depending on how cool or warm it is in

the day

and then when i do finally get it all

the way back and we take out for example

the masks that are in here because well

it's california

if i take my phone and i want to charge

my phone

in the car i can't fit it with a case

unfortunately in the little charging

slot here which is not ideal if i even

took it out of the case though it's

quite tight

and one of the things the issues that

i've had is once i stick it in i've

actually never gotten it to show up a

charge uh yet so i've kind of given up

on the idea of using the charger that's

built into here but the tesla makes it

very nice and that you could put your

phone down

and through the case or whatever it's

going to give you that that inductive

wireless charging now because i'm going

to be talking about her i have disabled

alexa but this card does come with alexa

one of the things that i don't love

about it though is it seems like the

alexa that they've set up is really more

of a third-party api poll from alexa so

it's not the alexa that you think it is

it's named alexa it can pull some things

like it could you know help you navigate

it can tell you what time it is and

basic things but if you said for example

hey alexa add batteries to my shopping

cart you get this error message that

says uh this this third-party software

is not supported

with that feature and i think that's a

little bit of a bummer so you're not

really getting the full alexa experience

there are opportunities though or there

will be i'm told in the future to add a

siri and apple car play in the future

i'm not exactly sure

when that's expected to come out usually

with car manufacturers they like to tell

you that oh it's coming but it can take

a little bit longer for things to

actually come out now you get to

log in of course to your alexa app

through amazon spotify title tune in i

heart radio pocket cast and so on and so

forth no car play yet expected to be

coming and again the alexa

kind of uh i would say it's like 20

percent alexa and 80 percent kind of

weird delayed voice recognition software

but not not the best but that is

something that could easily be updated

through an over-the-air update now let's

give the car a little bit of a drive and

what i do want to show off

is something that i think is wonderful

and that is the parking feature of the

vehicle so let's give this a little bit

of a drive here

and we'll find some cars to park between

and we'll give it a park uh one thing

while we're driving it and it might be a

little bit hard to hear on the camera

but

you

definitely hear the the engines a lot

more in this car let's try to give that

a listen here and see if you can hear it

so we'll be quiet here and i'll just

give it a little bit of gas here and see

if you can hear that engine you

definitely hear it more than you would

on a tesla

it doesn't sound bad it's not by any

means obnoxious or offensive but you can

definitely hear it if and this is on

comfort mode if we throw this onto

sprint mode you end up hearing the

vehicle a lot more let's go ahead and

jump on into sprint mode and let's give

it a comparison to sprint mode

that's not bad so not much of a

difference in sprint mode but you do

notice the sound a lot more than you

would in a tesla so you're hearing the

mechanics of the engines and the battery

much more i don't think it's by any

means like i said offensive it is just

something that's different when you're

in this you definitely hear the engine

and battery functioning a lot more than

you would in a tesla one of the things

that does bother me about the car is it

makes a lot of noises a lot of sounds

and those these are controllable ones in

terms of chimes i kind of wish they had

a joe mode in the lucid joe mode in the

tesla was essentially an opportunity to

reduce the volume of all of the alerts

by a substantial percentage so that it

wouldn't wake children up who might be

sleeping in the back and that was

because somebody named joe was

complaining to elon musk on twitter that

the chimes were too loud i don't believe

we have that option here on the loose it

and i will say the chimes are a little

loud

you also have menu sounds

and you can see a little bit of a lag in

the sound there

it's minor but

the screens do take a moment so you can

see the lag if i click here how long it

takes to actually jump

yeah it's okay it's definitely not as

responsive as let's say an ipad but okay

let's give this thing a little 0 to 60

here this does not have a cheetah mode

at least not that i'm aware of let's see

if i hit the brake in the gas and we

were actually in drive i don't actually

expect anything yeah see the car does

want to try to go so no no cheetah mode

here that's okay

so we're going to go ahead and give this

a little 0 to 60 here we are on sprint

mode

and let's see how it goes

it's not bad

uh so a little bit of a bumpy road here

the

0-60 definitely isn't uh as as uh much

of a punch as the tesla model s plaid

but then again that's that difference of

about those uh three

tenths of a second driving the the plaid

all the time could make me jaded but

this is very very incredibly fast and

quite frankly it's probably more fast

than any car really needs to be so i

don't

i would not say that somebody should buy

the plaid for the three tenths of a

second this has a lot of power in it you

really feel that 1100 horsepower the car

it feels feels good it feels tight while

it's going uh

even just mid drive accelerations as

well are really powerful and incredible

you see that as well uh on the highway

if you're going 65 miles an hour and you

quickly need to pass somebody you're

able to go from 65 to 90 not that you

want to very very quickly which is

quite incredible so very very impressive

i think there might be a little bit of a

lag time though between when you

hit the gas oh i suppose it's not really

the gas anymore the accelerator and when

the vehicle actually launches

it's very very slight but i'm going to

give that a little try here again

just just so we can see the launch right

here let's see if there's any lag time i

feel like i noticed that in the last

time all right foot on the gas and we're

ready to go and three two

yeah i feel a little bit of this that

you you can almost hear the engine make

this

uh sound and then it goes let me do that

one more time so i'm gonna push in three

two one

yeah it's it feels like there's like

this like it's shifting into gear uh

kind of mode so a fractional fractional

of a second difference uh in terms of

performance but it's something that is

noticeable by the way also if somebody

else is trying to get in the car and

you're trying to unlock one of the other

car doors i haven't found the best way

to do that because right now we're in

park

if the car is locked all the handles are

in if the car is unlocked the handles

come out but sometimes you don't have

the best responsiveness on the door

handles on the outside even though the

handle pops out when he touches the

handle to prompt it because the car is

locked it's not letting

someone pull on the handle to open it

which makes sense but then why is the

handle popping out in the first place so

that's a little weird that the handle is

popping out

to essentially imply that you could open

the door so sometimes that quick in and

out loading at the back doors probably

not the best or maybe we're just doing

it wrong but it's something we noticed

oh and given that someone in the back is

not buckled up leave that for a second

listen to the sound of it they're really

good at making their sounds kind of

annoying

which i get it for for being buckled up

but that's actually the rear seat buckle

and i haven't seen that before where it

pings you for a rear seat now another

thing that's pretty neat is see that

sunscreen at the back of the car well

when i put the car in reverse watch what

happens

the sunscreen automatically collapses to

maximize your view out of that window

and when i go back and drive it doesn't

do it instantly but usually after about

30 seconds that sunscreen comes right

back up now let's go ahead and give this

thing a park and see how the auto park

feature works because i will say having

all of the uh cameras the lidar and the

radar all of these technologies together

the auto park is is absolutely

incredible so let's just try to park in

between some of these these tight cars

uh tightly parked cars over here we'll

pick one and we'll see how it performs

the tesla does this well

when it feels like it that's one of the

problems is the tesla does not always

give me the option to auto park so i

almost never auto park with the tesla

because i rarely get the option to it

just doesn't pop up

this one does tend to consistently pop

up though let's give it a shot over here

hearing that engine and that battery

noise again a little bit more

it is definitely different uh from the

tesla let's see if we can fit in here so

now we're gonna hit auto park

so this is the spot that i want i'll

turn the auto park on now now i'm gonna

drive forward to give it an idea to be

aware to look for this gap over here

drive forward slowly and then this is

where i would start the park there we go

select a spot there's really only one

perfect it's identified that there's

only one now to start auto park release

brake and steering wheel no problem here

we go

auto park is now in progress

oh it's going into the driveway

it thinks it's a driveway again dude uh

well that that did not work well

so here's a really tight spot it does

see a spot available so it thinks it can

make it so hold break select a parking

spot let's select and here we go

let's see what happens i'm kind of

nervous

this is really tight

uh and again i don't think it's

recognizing this as a parallel parking

spot which is something that it's done

multiple times now

uh yep it it definitely thinks this is a

back in spot now this is probably the

third time we've tried this and while

i've had phenomenal experiences before

at this point this is just funny so i'm

just gonna let it park the way it thinks

it wants to park stop before the curb oh

my god dude okay

i

hit the brake there because we were for

sure about to hit the curb

i'm not sure what it thinks on the

screen here is happening

but let's go ahead and take a look at

what the car just

saw versus what was on screen and this

is with the lidar and all these other

sensors okay and i i used to have good

experience auto parking this but let's

go take a look at what it's doing we

stopped before hitting the curb

but we only stopped before hitting the

curb

because i frantically hit the brakes so

this is the auto park this is about the

third time i've tried and

it has

it has auto backed itself in i did have

to stop it myself but you know i it

didn't hit another vehicle it's about to

hit a curb but that's okay we prevented

that from happening so

i don't know if it has lidar in the back

we do know it has that forward-facing

lidar so who knows but a little bit

disappointed in that but oh well

technology might still be developing so

maybe don't trust the auto part yet okay

one click locks the car

double click unlocks the car now i can

come over here push

i believe onto the bottom or the top

corner here there we go i do really like

that i think that's very luxurious how

it does that so i'm not exactly sure how

to close that manually from the outside

it might just be a time thing does the

door look at that door functions nicely

with the charge port like that that's

fine as you would expect now one thing

that is neat is we have four little rail

protrusions here between the glass

and these are for ski racks that you

could add either aftermarket or i'm not

sure if lucid manufactures any but

that's that's what these are for okay

let's go ahead and hop on into the back

here you see pushing down into the

handle bad idea bad habit that i have

it's better to take the the actual

remote and double click to unlock

there we go and now we'll go ahead and

lift on this here perfect

this is my favorite part about the lucid

it's sitting in the back and not driving

everything back here feels really nice

and luxurious i love the leather handle

hold here there's just so much space

though there's comfort for your legs in

the future if they have captain's chairs

here i can absolutely see these lying

down

there's so

much space and i really like that now

this is kind of neat if i open this

compartment here not only do i get

this cup holder here but i also get

another little uh center console which i

think is quite neat the tesla model s

plaid does not have this so i really

enjoy this feature here and it just

feels great the stitching is beautiful

on the vehicle

and it just

you just want to touch it it's kind of

weird but it is obsessively nice

the way it feels the way it smells the

way it looks and the differences that

you have here as well with leather here

to this sort of leather stitching that

changes to the front actually having a

darker colored seat you've got the black

and the

beige stitching here with this cloth

here

and a more

leatherette style plastic finish here

and then a different style here so

really i mean the amount of different

materials in this car

makes it very very interesting i can't

imagine the cost of this i mean even

just looking at this shot right here

we've got one two

three four

five different materials just in this

piece right here not to mention the

little accent of of metal or plastics

that we have elsewhere so really really

incredible i mean

so much work and detail into this i do

not love the light carpeting that they

have i would recommend getting darker

weather mats here that would dirty less

but then you might take away a little

bit of that

luxurious feeling

this is where that ski thing comes

through which is kind of neat there we

go

there's that hatch

and inside there is also a

glow-in-the-dark child safety release

which is quite neat if a child gets

stuck in the trunk for some reason you

have the option of turning on the rear

sunshade

or stowing it

which happens automatically if the car

gets placed into reverse i kind of like

having it up uh there we go extend rear

sunshade we'll just go ahead and give

that a little click here i like that a

lot and another thing that i like is the

window here i'm going to close this door

here and i really like that when the

window is

closed

you can lift up again

drive up the sun shade

on the back window so both of the back

windows have this feature and if i want

this back down

i can send that right back down it's

quite nice

look at the feel and the luxury of this

and it feels tight very very stable

nicely put together beautiful beautiful

it the car really belongs in museum i

mean it's like a work of art very very

nice now this control has a lot less

functionality than the tesla rear

control has it's really seat heaters

temperature control and rear shade

control

beyond that

that it doesn't have anything else it's

just sun shade and climate that's it

which is nice but i do like that the

tesla allows you to control music go on

youtube or whatever you want in their

larger rear display panel and another

thing that's neat is you actually have

two usb

c power plugs or adapter plugs right

here under this and it's built into the

handle section which is wild because

usually you would see these plugs on

more of a stationary aspect of of the

component so the fact that they put

these usbc's in the movable lid is

actually quite impressive i haven't seen

that before so i like that a lot much

like the tesla the glass is incredible

it feels amazing especially as a

passenger in the back you just feel

at ease back here beautiful tinting so

you don't feel like the sun is beating

down on you even during a sunny day

you've got the side sun shades and uh

incredibly comfortable in the back if i

was always going to be in a lucid i

would just want to be back here and just

fall asleep which i have fallen asleep

in the back of this car before it's

really nice another thing too is usually

the latches here would be just your

regular

stainless color

but they actually matte black this i'm

not sure how long it'll last as the door

opens and closes over time but it looks

nice it really takes sort of a potential

eyesore away of a big stainless notch

right here now one thing that i will say

i love and this is where we get to

reveal what number vehicle this is again

delivered the third week of january in

q1 here this vehicle which we're told

they were delivered approximately

sequentially in in the number that the

vehicle is but this lucid dream edition

right here has its model number right

here or make number it is make number

214 so this is the 214th lucid and i

like this because this is textured too

it feels really neat and feeling your

number there

but really i mean look at this attention

to detail on even this i mean usually

people don't pay attention to this part

of the car right here this is just you

know where your feet step over like who

cares about this nobody sees this part

unless the door is open but look at this

this is beautiful i mean what incredible

engineering to have this so gorgeous and

complete right here

really this is what makes the lucid

difference

uh from a tesla it is all of this extra

attention to detail that might mean less

profit for investors but for an end user

this is incredible so this is the lucid

air dream edition you know they've taken

a lot of inspiration from tesla even to

the design of their keys which they've

made even sleeker than the tesla ones

though a little bit less intuitive some

of the features and not as polished such

as alexa or even the navigation

things a little less responsive on the

software side we saw the auto park not

yet at prime time we don't yet have that

cruise control or some of the autopilot

features though on a hardware side folks

this vehicle is a work of art it feels

like it belongs in a museum if

somebody's looking for attention to

detail this is where you are spending

money and getting your money's worth on

the look the feel the comfort the fit

and finish the details by the door trims

the stitching and the car the different

use of materials to really make you feel

comfortable and the space in the back

really incredible vehicle it's fast it's

got all the power you need there's no

reason you need to get the extra three

tenths of a second out of the tesla this

is a phenomenal vehicle and it carries

the luxuries that a car of of this

caliber should which unfortunately i do

think that the tesla model s has really

skimped out on on some areas now we know

from tesla model s was going for speed

so it doesn't have the door motors on on

doors to pull the door shut like this

vehicle does it doesn't have the

self-presenting doors like the model x

does

it doesn't have the motor to open or

close the front like the lucid here does

and by far the biggest reason to

potentially buy a tesla over the lucid

the self-driving the autopilot is

phenomenal this video is obviously not a

video about the tesla autopilot and

eventually this is expected to have

autopilot style features but if that's

not important to you then hey maybe the

tesla's not the right vehicle if

autopilot is right now seems like the

winner is tesla but most importantly if

somebody is really looking for getting

the most bang for their buck the highest

level of quality and they want a head

turner of a car i think this car is

absolutely a contender you've got a head

turning vehicle with quality that does

not disappoint from the outside to the

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