https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/14/lucid-motors-unveils-its-400-mile-range-luxury-ev/
No fancy new tech here, just more and bigger of the same. I don't think the looks are cutting it though, it has the "blandly futuristic" look of a Chinese car.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/14/lucid-motors-unveils-its-400-mile-range-luxury-ev/
No fancy new tech here, just more and bigger of the same. I don't think the looks are cutting it though, it has the "blandly futuristic" look of a Chinese car.
It looks ugly as sin.
at least it looks like a car. Too many EVs look ugly for the sake of being Ugly. Look at the BMW i3. All those good looking sedans and coupes in BMWs history, and they produced that to showcase electric propulsion?
I'd daily that. I'd make sure to leave plenty of 11s too.
Does anyone else think Robocop?
mad_machine wrote: at least it looks like a car. Too many EVs look ugly for the sake of being Ugly. Look at the BMW i3. All those good looking sedans and coupes in BMWs history, and they produced that to showcase electric propulsion?
BMW has been doing city car concepts for decades that look similar to the i3. It's a different form factor from sports cars and sport sedans, more upright and stubbier. City cars need to be shorter, and in being shorter, the cars need to be more upright for passenger fitment. Look at the '90s E1 concept:
And from '93:
I spent 3 days with an i3 and it's the perfect form factor for a city car. The looks from those proportions have grown on me and I LOVE the interior.
It truly is a concept car come to life.
Chris_V wrote:mad_machine wrote: at least it looks like a car. Too many EVs look ugly for the sake of being Ugly. Look at the BMW i3. All those good looking sedans and coupes in BMWs history, and they produced that to showcase electric propulsion?BMW has been doing city car concepts for decades that look similar to the i3. It's a different form factor from sports cars and sport sedans, more upright and stubbier. City cars need to be shorter, and in being shorter, the cars need to be more upright for passenger fitment. Look at the '90s E1 concept:
I don't disagree with you on the form factor for city cars.. but the i3 is damn ugly. It is a mishmash of curves, cut off curves, windows that do not flow from one to the other, and weird angles.
I like it. Looks more like a sedan than a Tesla.
mad_machine wrote: at least it looks like a car. Too many EVs look ugly for the sake of being Ugly. Look at the BMW i3. All those good looking sedans and coupes in BMWs history, and they produced that to showcase electric propulsion?
At this point in the development of EV's, people are buying them for the sake of an EV, not for economic reasons. So they want the car to stand out, somehow- to tell the world that they have an EV.
Sorta like putting flairs on fenders. Or hood scoops.
Just some kind of peacock thing.
One thing about EVs is that they don't have to look like traditional cars due to not having engines, so no need for engine packaging. Or grilles other than for brand identity. I can't wait until EVs move off into even more non-traditional styling directions.
In reply to Chris_V:
I am with you on this. Problem is that a large segment of the population wants to see what they have always seen before. With rear engine fiats I will get told 3 out of 5 times that it would look better with a grill. I can explain all I want that there is no need for one but that doesn't matter
Chris_V wrote: One thing about EVs is that they don't have to look like traditional cars due to not having engines, so no need for engine packaging. Or grilles other than for brand identity. I can't wait until EVs move off into even more non-traditional styling directions.
As soon as we stop driving them ourselves, the windows can go away. that will free up some artistic space.
NOHOME wrote:Chris_V wrote: One thing about EVs is that they don't have to look like traditional cars due to not having engines, so no need for engine packaging. Or grilles other than for brand identity. I can't wait until EVs move off into even more non-traditional styling directions.As soon as we stop driving them ourselves, the windows can go away. that will free up some artistic space.
Sadly not for me. I'll vomit in a heartbeat if I'm moving and not looking in the general direction of travel.
The only thing i don't like about the looks is the front bumper. It reminds me of a caravan.
And Chris_V is right, BMW has a long history of similarly terrible looking city car concepts.
Some of the finer details of the Lucid are a little overly fussy, but the general form and proportions are great. the intuck along the lower doors gives it a very athletic look for a sedan. I dig.
I kinda like the quirkiness of the i3's design.
The lucid looks ok, but a bit ho hum. I didn't click on the link, so I have no idea what or who Lucid even is. Sounds like a brand that came out of a brainstorming session at an AA meeting.
I'll take blandly fututristic for 800 Alex.
Nothing could possibly go wrong here.
I see a lot of aluminum and Carbonfibre in that tub
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