I actually had an order for a lucid and was looking past the fugly exterior (slightly less bad in white). I liked the spacious interior a lot, in a light color.
But, the things that killed it for me:
1. Build quality reliability issues
2. See #1. The forums and some reviews are full of random...
I would say I expected service to be better for an expensive car, but I also have no real faith in dealers.
That said, it seems like dealing with Porsche directly is actually worse than dealing with dealers from what I’ve read here.
of course I realize there’s sampling bias on the forum, and...
I originally thought I wanted a lucid, but changed my mind a month ago after seeing some quality issues on the forums. Wish I joined a waitlist back then in q1 this year rather than 2 weeks ago…
I guess the idea of waiting for my first nice new car will have to hold me over for quite some...
Thank you for the detailed additional context! I appreciate it as my main goal is to have a reliable, high quality vehicle, coming from reliable, cheap Japanese vehicles of yore :).