Lucid Air Sapphire
Why 4.0: The Plaid's thesis executed with better engineering and the same ownership reality: a luxury commuter with a party trick. Doug gave the Air 73; the axis measures a different thing entirely.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
Three motors and 1,234 hp producing nothing but a rising inverter whine and tyre noise at any speed you like. Lucid adds no composed layer at all, which at least avoids pretending to be something else. There is no engine here to rate.
electric · rated 0.5 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €221k (2024) → €166k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Outboard rear seats get LATCH lower anchors and top tethers, standard Lucid Air layout across trims including Sapphire.
No LATCH hardware in the front seat.
FMVSS 225 (US federal LATCH mandate, lower anchors + top tether required from Sept 2002) (owner-community sourced, not manufacturer documentation)
The long version
The 1,234 horsepower mostly gets deployed in stoplight demonstrations and drag-strip videos meant for other people, because the rest of the ownership experience is a quiet, comfortable sedan that happens to out-accelerate cars costing three times as much. Buyers skew toward early Lucid adopters who wanted the number more than a reason to use it regularly, and the resale market has not developed the confidence yet to reward patience — early Sapphires have already given back real value. It is a luxury commuter with a launch-control party trick pulled out roughly as often as party tricks generally are.