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LUCID AIR

THERE’S BEEN A lot of hype about this one. The story behind it is eerily familiar; a monstrously powerful electric sports sedan that hails from Silicon Valley and which arrives with convention-busting 0-100km/h times and screens galore. And yet you’re looking at a car that was not laser-focused on taking down Tesla, but California’s answer to a new-age Mercedes S-Class. One conceived before Stuttgart’s own EQS had seen the light of day.

The Lucid Air seems like a car of contradictions on the face of it. If the big claim is that it’s a luxe limo with one of the chunkiest range

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