Lucid's Gravity GT-S is now America's most powerful three-row SUV
The Lucid Gravity GT-S makes 1,070 horsepower, more than any three-row SUV sold in America today.
Lucid unveiled the Gravity GT-S at Monterey Car Week, displayed in Concours Village alongside the Air Sapphire, as the new range-topping trim of its three-row electric SUV. Priced from $127,750, it uses a dual-motor setup producing 1,070hp, good for a 0-60mph time of 3.1 seconds by Lucid's own estimate, and arrives with a standard Dynamic Handling Package.
A new top trim built around one big number
The GT-S sits above the existing Gravity Touring and Grand Touring trims, and the gap is significant. Where the Touring makes 560hp and the Grand Touring 828hp, the GT-S's dual-motor setup produces 1,070hp, an increase of roughly 50 percent over the Touring and around 20 percent over the Grand Touring. Lucid quotes a 3.1-second 0-60mph time, a genuinely quick figure for a three-row vehicle carrying seven seats and a full-size battery pack.
Sapphire styling moves down the range
The GT-S borrows its visual language from the Air Sapphire, Lucid's performance flagship sedan, and it shows in the details rather than the silhouette. Blue accents run through the brake calipers, seatbelts, steering wheel, armrests and seat stitching, set against charcoal Mojave PurLuxe Premium upholstery that comes standard. Buyers who want more can step up to a Tahoe leather interior for an additional $1,300. As Chief Creative Officer Derek Jenkins put it: “With Lucid Gravity GT-S, we've created a more expressive and exhilarating interpretation of the Gravity SUV.”
The hardware behind the number
Straight-line pace is only part of the pitch. The GT-S comes standard with Lucid's Dynamic Handling Package, which pairs a three-chamber adaptive air suspension with independent rear-axle steering. Both are aimed squarely at making a large three-row SUV feel composed at speed and tighter at low speed than its size suggests, rather than existing purely to make the straight-line numbers bigger.
Price, availability and what you get for it
Pricing starts at $127,750, including a $1,850 destination charge, and for now the GT-S is a US-only proposition, with orders open. That price places it well above the rest of the Gravity range and firmly into flagship-SUV territory, alongside rivals that Lucid clearly wants the GT-S cross-shopped against on power rather than price.
Not the fastest EV on sale, just the fastest three-row one
Lucid describes the GT-S as America's most powerful three-row SUV, and on the numbers currently on sale, that claim holds up. It is worth putting in context, though: Tesla's old Model X Plaid was quicker still, with a 2.5-second 0-60mph time and a 163mph top speed, before Tesla discontinued that version. The GT-S's real achievement is less about outright speed and more about doing this while keeping the third row, the ground clearance and the interior space that make a Gravity a Gravity in the first place.
A flagship arrives while the affordable car waits
The timing says something about where Lucid is putting its energy. The company's more affordable Cosmos crossover, expected to start from $72,400, has been pushed back to late 2027, even as the GT-S, a six-figure performance flagship, launches on schedule at Monterey Car Week. For a company that has talked publicly about reaching a broader customer base, leading with the expensive halo car rather than the accessible one is a choice, not an accident.
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A 1,070hp three-row SUV is the kind of number that exists mostly to be printed in a headline, and it works, this one included. But the more interesting decision here is not the horsepower figure, it is what Lucid chose to build first.
Every automaker under financial pressure eventually faces the same fork: protect the margin-rich flagship, or rush the volume model that actually grows the customer base. Lucid has picked the flagship, again, while Cosmos slips to late 2027. That is a defensible short-term call, a six-figure SUV with Sapphire styling sells itself to people who were always going to buy a Lucid. It is a much harder long-term one.
The Tesla Model X Plaid comparison is worth sitting with. A car Tesla no longer even sells was faster to 60 and had a higher top speed, and nobody at Lucid seems bothered by that, because that was never really the competition. The GT-S is not chasing a stopwatch, it is chasing a specific buyer who wants Sapphire cues, three rows, and a number that reads well on a spec sheet.
Whether that buyer exists in large enough numbers to matter is the actual question Lucid is answering with this launch, not the one about horsepower.
