The competition in electric 3-row luxury crossovers is heating up among both long-established automakers and burgeoning startups. One highly anticipated vehicle in this class is the Lucid Gravity, the Silicon Valley brand’s second production model and first crossover. It’s a 3-row EV with dimensions that fit in the midsize class; it’s almost the exact same length as the Cadillac XT6. Obviously, being an EV, its closest GM rival is the upcoming 2026 Cadillac Vistiq.
Pricing just dropped for the 2025 Lucid Gravity: $81,400 for the Touring model and $96,400 for the Grand Touring trim. The destination fee is unknown at this time, but the Lucid Air sedan has a destination charge of $1,500. That starting price is right around what we’re expecting for the Cadillac Vistiq’s cost of entry.
In the Lucid Air lineup, the Touring trim is the midrange model, and the Grand Touring model is a more luxurious, high-performance variant with a 3-second 0-60 mph time. It’s safe to assume a similar trim structure for the Gravity.
Detailed performance specs are forthcoming for the Lucid Gravity, but Lucid says the Grand Touring model will have more than 800 horsepower and up to 440 miles of range. If the Touring model’s specs are similar to the Air Touring, it will produce around 600 horsepower. Since the Air Touring gets 406 miles of range, we expect the bigger Gravity Touring’s range to be somewhere under 400 miles.
Lucid is opening orders for both trims of its new seven-seater on November 7th, with existing Lucid owners getting first dibs on deliveries. Lucid will start production of the Gravity Grand Touring by the end of 2024, and production of the Touring model will not begin until late 2025.
With the Cadillac Vistiq slated for production in early 2025 for the 2026 model year, it looks like it will beat the Lucid Gravity Touring to market. The midsize 3-row crossover will effectively be an electric replacement for the Cadillac XT6. It’s even being built at the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee, which currently builds the XT6.
A high-performance Vistiq-V that could compete with the Lucid Gravity Grand Touring is only a rumor right now, but here’s hoping for more electric V-Series models alongside the recently unveiled 2026 Cadillac Lyriq-V.
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Hopefully the Vistiq will be much cheaper than this. While the Lucid Gravity is super nice I think they overpriced this by quite a bit.
Having said all that, I hope GM gives the Vistiq the 800 Volt Architecture so it can charge at 350kW
The Vistiq needs to be as close in pricing to the XT6 as possible. Something like 5K above the ICE version of the segment vehicles (Minus the $7500 Rebate) so the Vistiq should start at 59K for Single RWD Motor and 65K for the Dual AWD Motor version.
So after the Rebates (If Customer qualifies which many do not) the Vistiq can start from…..
Single Motor $52,000
Dual Motor $57,500
Those prices are 5K above the ICE version give or take
I will say, the Lucid is really nice and unique inside. So I do feel like for the money, you are getting a nice and quirky product. But I am not optimistic for Lucid as a whole. This car came too little too late. Even Rivian is hurting and they are less expensive and further along than Lucid. They already have two more affordable models in the pipeline. Lucid does not.
The instant the Saudis lose their patience with Lucid it will be lights out for them. I hope not, but I say again, I standby my stance that the legacy automakers are better positioned to survive the transition over the startups (Tesla being the lucky well timed outlier).
I read somewhere that the Vistiq will start around $62K – $65K and essentially be a 3 row Lyriq, which lines up:
XT5 ($44K) Lyriq ($57K)
XT6 ($49K) Vistiq ($62K – $65K)
But you often need to load up Cadillacs with a lot of options, so we are probably looking at upper 80s to low 90s for a well-equipped Vistiq.
Lucid will not give GM any competition, their stock price has dropped below $2/share, there is a good chance the Saudi Government will no longer bail out Lucid, which means its days maybe numbered.