The Lucid Air Sapphire is the quickest automobile you should purchase for a quarter-million {dollars}, and it’ll outrun automobiles within the quarter mile that price orders of magnitude extra. It’s even faster than the dragstrip-oriented Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170. In a current take a look at by Hagerty’s Jason Cammisa, the Lucid turned a powerful 9.002 second run on the Famoso dragstrip in California. Wait, isn’t that only a tick behind Dodge’s claimed 8.99 seconds for the Demon 170? In actual life with an actual driver behind the wheel, the Demon managed a slower (however nonetheless mind-meltingly fast) 9.721 second go.
Run after run, the electrical tremendous sedan gave the supercharged monster a correct old-school shellacking.
The marvel of gasoline-powered efficiency has not solely been matched, but it surely’s been bettered. On the drag strip, anyway. On the subject of going quick in a straight line, you simply want a Lucid Air Sapphire and an empty abdomen.
Maybe much more attention-grabbing is how vast the hole between these two automobiles will get when the highway floor isn’t “prepped” with VHT. Even with sticky Mickey Thompson drag radials (versus the Lucid’s street-ready each day driver Michelin PS4S tires), the Demon 170 simply can’t get the facility all the way down to the bottom on customary asphalt. On the finish of the drag strip, which means the Demon 170 is a full two seconds slower than the Sapphire. The hole will get nearer with VHT on a prepped observe, with the Demon dropping 1.5 seconds from its timeslip, however that’s not sufficient to catch America’s new king of straightline pace.