Became part of the family on 5/8
Picked up my 2026 GGT (7 seater, all packages except for towing) from the Legacy Studio in Frisco, TX. What a beautiful spaceship, quiet, and comfortable. The build quality is much better than my previous Model X plaid, and the storage volume is out of this world. The sound system (Pro) feels so much better than the MX, but it could be because of the overall quieter cabin. The dynamic range exceeded my expectations so far, giving me over 360 miles at 80%, getting really close to the 437 advertised. Getting over 100 more miles than I would with my Plaid.
So far the issues that I’ve got are not that bad, but there are a few things that happened since pickup:
- The driver side mirror folds but fails to unfold 99% of the time.
- The ambient lights from the dash turn off when driving but the doors (front and back) don’t, but sometimes all of them are off.
- The fob has an update but nothing I do (batteries, moving away from the vehicle) results in the app connecting to the fob
- Car seems to think I’m still in the car after I leave, leaving music / podcasts running until I manually lock it
- It seems loud whenever it wakes up / charges, way louder and active than my MX.
- The driver side wireless charger doesn’t seem to work reliably, and it takes a lot more than it should to correctly start charging my IPhone Pro Max, and it feels slower than my MX charger.
Some things I don’t like, but I feel will get better through software
- Apple CarPlay seems to be operating at a lower resolution than Lucid’s OS, and it feels weird
- Despite the surrounding cameras, I don’t feel they help with parking in tight spaces. Maybe this one is user error since my MX didn’t have full 360 / Birds Eye view and I’m not used to it.
- The hud positioning is restricted and can’t find a way to feel comfortable with it, it feels too “in your face” rather than a support tool, and doesn’t integrate with CarPlay’s navigation
- CarPlay doesn’t always start automatically in every session, and I have to press the car play button; no need to re pair or anything, just have to “start it”, but the first 3 times I got in the vehicle during and after delivery it would start automatically.
- The blind spot monitoring feels small; there’s more space it can take to make it more usable / larger sized.
- I miss geolocation things like auto mirror folding and auto halo off based on locations.
- The customizable buttons feel like a gimmick given how very little actions can be assigned to them.
8)The AC doesn’t seem to be very smart on auto mode. - So…many….dings during drives… with not enough information on how to reduce them.
All of this to say…. This is a great SUV, with a lot of upside, and fixable issues. So far, super happy with taking the leap of faith from Tesla to Lucid.