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MotorTrend just put the Lucid Air Sapphire back under the lights and the outcomes are wild. With a dealer installed Track Tire package, the three motor Sapphire ripped a verified 0 to 60 mph in 1.881 seconds to top MotorTrend’s all time leaderboard. The upgrade is easy and never low-cost. You get 4 Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS Elect LM1 tires mounted on the Sapphire’s forged wheels for $8,250 plus installation on a automobile that starts at $250,500. The payoff is real. On its factory Michelin Pilot Sport 4S LM1 rubber the Sapphire previously stopped the clocks at 2.2 seconds, so the sticky Pirellis are the difference between very quick and physics bending. This can be a shorter tackle a much deeper MotorTrend test, which also notes the Sapphire’s 1,234 horsepower and 1,430 lb ft of torque are finally reaching pavement with minimal waste.
The gains carry down the strip. MotorTrend recorded a brand new quarter mile better of 9.03 seconds at 154.8 mph, improving on the Sapphire’s prior 9.21 at 157.1. The large Lucid also stops as hard because it goes, hauling down from 60 mph in 93 feet, a ten foot improvement versus the Michelins and a tie with the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT Weissach for shortest stop amongst EVs they’ve tested. Across the figure eight, the Pirellis helped the Sapphire to a 22.3 second lap at 1.11 g of lateral grip, trimming three tenths and adding 0.06 g over stock while keeping the automobile’s friendly balance intact. MotorTrend’s precision timing is why they report back to three decimals here, and it matters. The Porsche now sits a razor thin 0.006 second behind within the 0 to 60 sprint. Tesla’s Model S Plaid doesn’t crack the sub two second mark of their standardized procedure.
What makes the Sapphire so compelling is the split personality. In Track mode it punches like a prizefighter and can slide with tidy, rear first attitude while you ask. Switch your mindset and it glides through traffic with quiet, E Class style comfort. Steel springs, adaptive dampers, and 4 easy drive modes do the heavy lifting, which keeps the automobile approachable on real roads. If the baseline was not already lofty, the Track Tire package lets owners bolt on measurable performance without changing the automobile’s character. Credit to MotorTrend for doing the exertions to indicate just how much time is hiding in a set of tires.
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