Lucid Gravity X Concept Wants To Conquer The Off-road World

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Off-roaders are truthful hot correct now, truthful it only makes consciousness that Lucid — a institution that makes immoderate of nan champion road-going cars connected nan marketplace — would effort its manus astatine a go-anywhere escapade vehicle. That's why nan Newark, California-based institution showed disconnected its Gravity X (read: Gravity Cross) conception astatine a backstage arena during Monterey Car Week; it will beryllium making its nationalist debut astatine nan Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance connected Sunday.

The Gravity X has rather a fewer changes to make judge it's up to snuff when nan going gets rough. Lucid reshaped nan Gravity's beforehand and rear facias pinch brushed metallic elements to amended attack and departure angles, pinch skid plates and integrated tow hooks arsenic well. It besides widened nan vehicle's track, lifted nan thrust tallness and added civilization wheels pinch all-terrain tires. To further group nan Gravity X isolated from nan modular SUV, Lucid bestowed it pinch each sorts of orangish accents that popular against nan show car's Astral Drift satin paint, and nan hood has topographical maps of Big Sur and Death Valley etched into nan paint.

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Lucid's latest creation besides comes pinch what nan institution is calling a "modular tile system." It has integrated crossbars, LED ray bars, a tile container and accessory mounts successful lawsuit you want to return your Gravity X overlanding. It keeps the modular Gravity's seven-seat setup, pinch nan 2nd and 3rd rows capable to fold wholly flat, truthful there's much than capable room for your camping buddies and each of their crap.

On nan inside, nan orangish taxable continues pinch orangish piping and stitching, leather seats, a microsuede steering instrumentality pinch an orangish inlay astatine six o'clock, and open-pore walnut wood inlays. It besides has "high-performance" level mats pinch brushed metallic inlays, and nan broadside sills characteristic nan coordinates of Pebble Beach.

If capacity and scope are a interest for you while you're off-roading, nan Gravity X does its champion occupation to quell those fears. Lucid utilized a Gravity Grand Touring arsenic nan basis, truthful it has 828 horsepower and 2 motors to play with. That's decidedly going to beryllium capable to brute-force your measurement done immoderate obstacle and get it from 0 to 60 mph successful conscionable 3.4 seconds. With 450 miles of EPA-estimated scope connected nan Grand Touring it should besides do a bully occupation of getting you very acold distant from nan beaten path, though acknowledgment to nan chunky tires nan Gravity X's scope is astir apt a spot lower. 

Of course, this is simply a conception vehicle, but you've sewage to admit it looks beautiful production-ready. I evidently cannot opportunity this pinch immoderate certainty, but I wouldn't beryllium amazed astatine each if thing very akin really went into production. I besides wouldn't beryllium amazed if it was very good. For nan astir part, if you return a car that is bully to thrust connected pavement and off-road-ify it, you get thing really solid.