Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance Is a 1050-HP Consolation Prize

• The Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance is a new 1050-hp version of the electric luxury sedan.
• It's slightly less powerful than the sold-out Dream Edition Performance but costs $10,000 more.
• Lucid says deliveries of the Grand Touring Performance will start in June, or August if you're in Canada.

CLARIFICATION: Deliveries will begin in August for Canadian buyers, not California as previously stated.

Lucid has already closed reservations for its top-of-the-line Air Dream Edition, as that model was limited to 520 units in total. But now it is introducing yet another version of the electric luxury sedan called the Grand Touring Performance that has slightly less horsepower than the Dream Edition Performance while costing significantly more. Yes, we're confused, too.

The non-Performance version of the Grand Touring has started reaching customers already, Lucid claims, and it provides 819 horsepower for $140,500. The Grand Touring Performance has significantly more power than that from its two electric motors—1050 hp, to be precise—but not quite as much as the Dream Edition Performance model's 1111 hp. And yet, the Grand Touring Performance costs $180,500, or exactly $10,000 more than the Dream Edition Performance.

This is despite the fact that the Grand Touring model lacks the Dream Edition's "Santa Monica" interior package with a unique color scheme. The Grand Touring Performance also has a slightly lower range estimate, with Lucid claiming it can go 446 miles on a charge compared to the Dream Edition Performance's 451 mile EPA estimate. Of course, if range is your priority you should be choosing the non-Performance Grand Touring model anyway, which is rated at up to 516 miles of range with the base 19-inch wheels. (Oh, and there was also a Dream Edition Range model that was claimed to go 520 miles on a charge.)

We suppose this questionable price premium is what you have to pay to actually get one of these 1000-plus-hp Lucid Air models in your driveway now that the Dream Edition is sold out. Lucid now says that deliveries of this new Grand Touring Performance model will start in June for the U.S., but buyers in Canada will have to wait until August.

Joey Capparella

Deputy Editor, Rankings Content

Despite being raised on a steady diet of base-model Hondas and Toyotas—or perhaps because of it—Joey Capparella nonetheless cultivated an obsession for the automotive industry throughout his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee. He found a way to write about cars for the school newspaper during his college years at Rice University, which eventually led him to move to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for his first professional auto-writing gig at Automobile Magazine. He has been part of the Car and Driver team since 2016 and now lives in New York City.