We went to checkout Polestar and Lucid today.
Didn't get to drive the Polestar as they were busy. They have around 40 cars left that they want to blow out, then they won't be bringing in any new cars for a bit as they figure out the tariff situation. The current stock of PS3 are made in China, and Polestar is trying to figure out if they want to keep importing from China or bring them in from South Carolina.
Test drove the Lucid Gravity, well my wife did anyways. She had no complaints about the car which is good? She said it feels different, but in the same way that when she drives an Audi it's different. More so that it's a different brand and they have different ways of doing things. You hop between a X1, X3, X5, given the slight UI differences and size and physics, you can feel the family resemblance.
So back to the Gravity. They have something like 10 Tourings coming in Jan. We can hold them if we want. We decided not to as we weren't ready to commit.
Wife's review - steering was fine, the squircle was weird. Throttle and power was good, brake pedal has very little travel. Seats were good, she liked the stretched back windshield when driving. The screens were ok.
I didn't drive it, but I sat in the passenger seat. Suspension was firm but comfortable. Steering is very quick for such a long car. Back seat was very spacious if a bit too hard (the cushion). There's some jerkiness leaving the stop light due to the brake hold. I'd lean into turning that off. Standard regen is very strong and we turned it off altogether.
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Originally Posted by yray
a month ago, BJBMW had some last year X5 they were firesale-ing, not sure if they still have some
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They sold a demo 50e 5888 off. We aren't ready to buy as I need the confirmation from ICBC that they are writing the car off. I don't need to end up bag holding 200k worth of SUVs.
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Originally Posted by JDMDreams
Mazda phev? Ppl were saying you need to go back to the dealer to change brake pads on ioniq 5 cuz you need to do something with the software.
Also I dunno how jank the battery replacements are, I've been seeing a few HK tik toks where people went to China to replace their EV batteries and shit is jank as fuck, exposed, rubbing wires, batteries connected by metal strips instead of flexible wires, random new diy battery modules put in with nothing securing it to the main housing, no cooling between packs, no space for battery expansion, temperature sensors not plugged back into the battery cells and just dangling loose in the pack so you don't actually get a temp reading or it doesn't change, some bricked cars due to shorting.
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I thought about the CX90, but real world EV range is something like 35km. Not quite enough for us. We need about 50km for it to be useful.