u/rlwfish

The Gravity has been with us for 1 week now. Here are some thoughts:

-- Man I love this thing. Given the price it makes sense that this would be the case but it's a MAJOR upgrade over the EV9 in nearly every way I can think of (software, ride quality, space/cargo room/storage, refinement, driver profiles, ADAS, comfort). The only thing I miss (though the kids haven't complained yet) is the powered roof shade in the EV9. We also don't have the tow package on the Gravity...but I don't think we ever used it on the EV9 (we used to put a hitch carrier on the ID4).

-- It has been working great for my wife all week for the various school and daycare runs she has to do. I wish I could drive it more but alas it's the "new family car" as my son calls it. The only issue she had was with efficiency. Turns out she had the regen off. She didn't use it in the EV9 much, and she expected that the Gravity would work like the EV9 where the brake pedal still blends regen when you turn regen to off. First day (55 miles of local/suburban roads) she used 28% of the battery!!! But after changing to standard regen she was doing more like 18% by the end of the week. And that was with 3 programmed preconditioning routines set for AC as well sitting with the HVAC running for school pickup and drop off. Yesterday on my 70ish mile freeway run up and down 95 I was getting 3.1-3.2 mi/kWh. I think I could do better if I wasn't going 70+ / was more mindful. Looking forward to taking it out to our cabin in WV to see how it does in the mountains/elevations change.

-- I was hopeful the frunk would be a hit with the kids and it has delivered. We took it to watch youth soccer (parking was directly field adjacent) and after a 70 mile drive to try to get my son to nap (spoiler he didn't but he got two runs through the Baltimore harbor tunnel at least) we made an IKEA run (for ice cream apparently) which he requested to eat in the frunk.

-- Some quality / unexpected stuff:

------The trim on the top corners of both front doors is crinkled for lack of a better term. Seems like it wasn't glued well enough or the rubber they use isn't soft enough to make that tight corner. It was also sitting in West Palm Beach so maybe the sun overheated and released the glue?

------It has been raining here quite a bit...and it seems the front lights fog up in changing conditions/humidity. I looked it up and apparently they aren't sealed so it's normal. But still a bit unexpected.

------The DreamDrive Pro hands free works really really beautifully but it's super picky about when it wants to come on. Yesterday it didn't seem to want to engage at times because it was raining and/or because I was wearing sunglasses. It also would tell me "no hands free zones" we're coming up at times when they didn't seem to actually happen. All-in-all the system is wonderful. It's taking some time to get used to the car making decisions to change lanes. The way it changes lanes is fairly natural although it does something that I don't think I have ever done as a human driver which is to change lanes in a manner that brings you directly parallel to another car in the adjacent lane. It did that 2-3 times yesterday and each time I thought if I was the other driver I would definitely not be expecting that since we were basically coming out of no where.

------Not related to the car itself (well, maybe a bit because it is a very different driving position/sight lines than the EV9) but "we" already curbed one of the wheels. I'm going to wait until "we've" gotten a bit more used to it to repair it. Luckily it wasn't too bad...pretty shallow curbing...should easily sand down and then I'll see about coloring it.

Obviously still in the honeymoon phase here but I'd have no qualms recommending this thing based on the first week / 500 miles or so!

Making a separate post here to share some photos I was inspired to take to help the OP on this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gravity/s/hrWuFbzvcJ

It's easier to add all the photos here and probably easier for others to find later in search.

I summarized our situation on the other post but TLDR we have two rear facing car seats (Evenflo 360 revolve extends), previously had EV9 with captains chairs, Gravity has much more space, can pass by even without seats rotated if necessary.

Apologies for the high angle shot of my lap but that was the only way I could easily demonstrate the actual seating space there (reference: I'm 5-8, 160lbs, 30/32ish inch waist).

Made with Cricut Maker 3. One for each kid. The bears all over the car have been a big hit so figured this was the way to go just for some fun as my wife didn't want another baby on board type sticker like we made for the EV9.

Posted yesterday about taking delivery of our new '26 Touring in Tysons. Well, here she is!

I have to say it was a great experience. I knew some of the influencers got this "reveal" treatment but had seen some other posts on Reddit that they didn't get this. When my wife and kids walked in and saw the car under this it was such a surprise for them. Really well done with the little table with our names on it as well.

I'll try to post some additional photos in the comments since I can't do it with the videos.

Pros:

-Tysons location is great. We arrived early via Lyft, dropped the kids car seats and other stuff off at Lucid, and got lunch in the mall.

-The Lucid center is very nice, feels like a very premium experience. I've owned a BMW i3 before and had it serviced at BMW a couple times, and the dealership was not nearly as nice as this.

-They had a really nice breakfast and drinks spread while we waited a few minutes for our delivery appointment.

-As noted, the reveal was great, the orientation was great, and they were very patient while we got things set up, got the car seats in, and got the kids situated before we could leave.

-The car itself is amazing. I knew that from the test drive of course but it's different when it's yours. Once the cameras calibrated (about 10-15 miles) and I was able to turn on hands free on the beltway...wow great system. Everything about driving it is just so enjoyable. The massage on the way home was lovely. I saw lots of heads turn on the beltway to see what this thing was. Very cool.

-Fits in the garage. The distance indicator is really great for figuring out where to stop to clear the garage door. Same exterior dimensions as our EV9...though the doors on this are larger so it's a bit harder to get into.

-All weather mats I got from LinerX fit great...of course some still need to flatten out (especially the trunk one). I got the frunk one which in hindsight is completely unnecessary. It also interferes with the frunk seat precise fit. Will probably take it out and only use if we plan to put filthy stuff in there

Cons:

-The process is not complicated but it's not simple either. The web portal is a bit confusing and gives conflicting information at times. It could really use a rethink to simplify how they display the information/actions required.

-The sales folks haven't dealt with all of the different finance companies so don't know their processes very well. There is also a disconnect between sales and delivery folks since I test drove at the Tysons corner location but took delivery at Tysons Galleria. I had to ask 4-5 different people to get the frunk seat same day. I heard the guy next to me get told they had no frunk seats moments before they brought mine out to be installed. Not ideal. I had to ask my guy to check for him bc he said his kids are looking forward to that the most. They also have very limited accessories in stock. I don't get it...I think most people are wowed by that seat and want to take it home same day. Why can't I order accessories to the store at least so I can take them home with the car and not deal with a separate delivery and install at home??? Small tweak could really improve the experience if you arrive and all your accessories are already paid for online and installed.

-The car could have been cleaner on the outside. It was clean don't get me wrong. But it wasn't detailed either. Didn't matter bc it rained the whole way home anyway lol.

-My wife will be the primary user but I drove home since she hadn't driven it before and it was raining etc. Unfortunately the two massage settings with the physical roller feeling would intermittently stop working in her passenger seat once we started driving home. Apparently it's a bug or something so I reset the UI and will try again. But I hyped up the massage stuff for her and I could tell she was frustrated/disappointed.

-I hit my head on the tailgate within 10 minutes of being at the delivery. Seems like it will be a problem lol. The guy taking his next to me was about a foot taller than me...not sure he will survive this car's tailgate.

-Why are the mirrors so itty bitty? Our outgoing EV9 has massive mirrors which are great. My Polestar 2 has totally frameless mirrors so at least they maximize mirror area vs aero drag area. These are kind of the worst of both worlds. Small and waste a lot of space with the mirror housing.

-What's with the shape of the charging cable bag? It is shaped like it belongs somewhere (like a weird curved triangle shape)...but it doesn't slot nicely into the frunk corners or the side wells in the back. I ended up rotating it and putting it in the 3rd row foot well...fits great there. We will have the 3rd row down for max cargo most of the time.

Happy to answer any questions!

Picking up our 2026 Touring today at the Tysons location! Our EV9 lease is up in December but we're coming up on mileage anyway so I will ground that lease as soon as I get a clean pre-inspection (don't have enough garage space for 3 cars and don't want to risk damage to the lease leaving it street parked).

Build sheet shows $105,100 before taxes and fees. With all incentives ($10k+$3.5k+$1k+$1.5k - last one a goodwill to offset the transportation fee) and then taxes and fees added on top we are at $99,859.43 Out the Door. I'm in MD where leasing is not a good move, and since we qualified for 0% for 72 months (the most significant incentive IMO in terms of net present value and opportunity cost) we am purchasing with about $11k down. Probably should have done less down given 0% APR but whatever.

All the technical details aside, very excited to take delivery and hand this thing over to my wife/kids for daily school and daycare duty lol. I will still be driving my workhorse Polestar 2 (bought used for $20k or something) for commuting/dad duties.

I found an older forum with delivery checklist items but it was a little older. Any thing I should be looking out for these days? Any Easter eggs?

Went to a nice anniversary dinner last night and spotted this beauty. Looks great in the drizzling rain. We pick ours up this Saturday (2026 Touring, Green, all packages except towing & pro sound). Pumped!