I've been looking at Gravity since they went on the market. Test driven a few times and I loved the interior quality of the car (and the dream sound pro system). My summer daily is a taycan TTS and Cadillac vistiq for the winter/road trips. Ever since 3.6 came out with hands off driving modes, I've been seriously considering replacing the vistiq (it's fine, but the interior quality is rather sad)
I went to the studio in June and got assigned a sales associate. He found a dream edition for me initially in June, with 20k discount + referral + corporate 5k etc, the total discount was closer to 30k. I thought that was no brainer, placed the deposit + 4k transportation fees, and waited for delivery.
June past by and I got a call early July saying those stacked credits were gone. There's only 20k + 2500 corporate credit left. The 0% financing deal did not apply in Washington because they hadn't obtained direct sale licenses. I thought the process was rather odd, after all I paid everything they asked me to pay and it was lucid that couldn't transport the car fast enough. I told the sales to cancel the order. Apparently immediately after I cancelled, the car was sold to someone else. Luckily guy got the last dream edition in the inventory.
Time went by and I've watched the 2026 inventory drain fast. Most of you saw that by late July there were only 1-2 MY26 GT that's fully loaded. August deals got a bit better - you no longer had to pay 4k transportation (1.5k for in stock) and the lease rates are very aggressive. So I set up an inventory watcher with my OpenClaw and ask it to alert me if there's any fully loaded MY26s being released. A couple weeks later it found one with every box ticked AND the 20/21 wheels, at 400 miles of range this actually is better for my road tripping needs than the dream edition. I called the sales and went through the process of ordering one again.
The same thing happened - we are getting closer to the end of the month and I was afraid the deals would disappear again. Luckily the sales person called last week and told me to prepare for delivery on August 31st - cutting it really close! I said to myself that I'll only believe it when I'm sitting in it.
Well, I'm sitting in it right now. Guess that worked out in the end. The final lease deal came out to $1554 36mo/10k with 0 down after tax. There is no transportation fee so 4k invisible savings. The car came with two key cards, two key fobs, two charging adapters so that's nice (I read somewhere that you only get one key fob).
Overall this is definitely very different than any other car buying experiences I've had. You had to put in a lot more effort and the sales guy is pretty much just coordinator for the process. The car is a great piece of engineering marvel, but the purchasing experience definitely isn't on par with 120k MSRP. Lucid probably has to figure out how to do consumer business the classic way to be able to move inventory en mass.
BTW: one annoying thing I found only after owning the car: if you turn Regen off then even the brake pedal doesn't regen. Why? This seems like lucid didn't want to bother with blending two modes of braking and just put a "by design" bandaid on this. Taycan for example will default to coast and blend Ebrake with physical brake perfectly. Gravity will coast fine but you had to use physical disc brakes. That seems lazy implementation for an EV.
