In the past year, Lucid Motors and Rivian have both managed to make the transition from vaporware EV startup to actual automakers. Granted, both companies are still producing vehicles at an achingly slow pace, but they are nonetheless delivering product to customers. Lucid has just recently finished the 520-unit production run of the Air Dream Edition and has a new variant for those that missed out on the limited volume launch model, dubbed the Grand Touring Performance (GTP).
Lucid is already delivering examples of the standard Grand Touring model with 819-horsepower from its dual motors and a range of 516 miles on the smaller 19-inch wheels. If a mere 819-hp and 0-60 mph in 3 seconds is insufficient to demonstrate your thirst for speed that can’t be fully utilized on public roads, the GTP once agains breaks that 1,000-hp barrier.
In order to keep the 1,111-hp peak exclusive to the early Dream edition owners, Lucid has dialed back the output to 1,050-hp, but chances are no one will ever miss that 61-hp unless they regularly hang out at the drag strip. The 2.6-second 0-60 sprint means owners shouldn’t challenge Model S Plaid drivers for pink slips, but this will still easily outsprint almost every internal combustion supercar on the planet.
Like the Dream Performance, the GTP only comes with 21-inch wheels, which in turn means that owners aren’t likely to hit the magical 500-mile range mark and will instead have to make do with an EPA rating of just 446-miles. That’s still more than any other automaker offers with an current EV. The GTP does get unique Aero Blade wheels and isn’t available in the Eureka Gold paint that was limited to the Dream edition.
The Grand Touring Performance gets the same platinum finish roof and full glass canopy as the Dream edition. Deliveries of the standard Grand Touring have begun and the GTP will get to customers in the U.S. in June with the first Canadian customers scheduled for deliveries in August. Despite being marginally slower, the Grand Touring Performance will have a $10,000 higher U.S. price tag at $179,000, $40,000 more than the standard Grand Touring. Canadian drivers will have to pay $242,000 (CAD). The higher prices are at least partially the result of the supply chain challenges that every automaker is facing.
