Lucid Air inhabit the space previously occupied by those who judged cars either on 0-60mph time or top speed. Corr ........... 0-60 in 3 sceonds and accelerate to 202mph.

Both equally irrelevant off a racing circuit.

I quite agree that the top speed and more particularly the 0-60 time are utterly pointless, especially for a car supposed to be an electric luxury car.

The price makes it unattainable unless you are the proud owner of lots of positive zoros on your bank statement. Pointless!!

No more so than any other other luxury car of that sort of price, and there are lots!. As an aside, on an episode of Richard Osman's House Of Games I saw the other day, I learned that there are more than 500.000 people in the world who have assets of more than 30 million dollars. Thats way more than you'd need to be looking at cars in this price range, so I suspect you'd be very surprised at just how many people in this country alone could take on a car of this price. Just look at how many cars are sold by RR and Bentley these days compared to a couple of decades ago!.

In my small Aberdeenshire window cleaning round, i can think of two customers who have cars with a list price well over £100k.

Sorry, can't agree with this. A 500+ mile range doesn't mean you drive 500 miles without taking a break. What it does mean is that say you're driving from the Bristol up to Aviemore, you can take a loo break and then get going again immediately, rather than having to wait 40 minutes (sorry i'm not up to date with charging rates) or even wait for a charger to be accessible. You can just spend a penny, grab a takeaway coffee and be on your way.

Given range anxiety and subsequent charging times are the two most well-known pitfalls of electric car ownership, I think this development is far from pointless. It is expensive though, i'll agree with that!

Edited by Metropolis. on 09/10/2021 at 23:31