Lucid Motors makes high-dollar, luxurious electrical automobiles with trendy designs and plush interiors, so turning one right into a cop automotive wouldn’t make a lot sense. However then I noticed this: a Lucid Air in full cop automotive livery with entrance push bars, lights, and, most significantly, metal wheels. Immediately it makes just a little extra sense.
In response to a current X publish by the automaker, the Lucid Air just lately participated in California Freeway Patrol automobile testing. It stays unclear how effectively Lucid’s patrol automotive carried out, if the company plans on shopping for any of them, or even when Lucid intends to construct any cruisers. Nonetheless, one factor that stood out to me is simply how kick-ass the Lucid Air appears on steelies. Admittedly, they’re massive steelies, with the lowest-profile tire I’ve ever seen on such wheels, in order that they fill the wheel arches properly.
It’s shocking that such fundamental wheels look so good on such a trendy automotive however maybe much more shocking that it appears nice as a cop automotive, too. Its smooth profile truly offers it a menacing look and, if you know the way quick most Lucids are, you’ll shortly notice you’ll be able to’t outrun Johnny Regulation should you see one in all these in your rearview mirror.
Lucid didn’t showcase what the inside of its cop automotive appears like however I’m certain most of its inside niceties had been eliminated for patrol automotive fare. It in all probability doesn’t have the snazzy touchscreen for its local weather controls or the squishy leather-based seats. However the Air has a reasonably simple-looking inside to start out with, so it in all probability isn’t arduous to get it prepared for police work.
There aren’t any official specs for this police automotive both, so we don’t know which trim degree it’s, how a lot energy it makes, or what kind of vary it’ll have. Nonetheless, essentially the most fundamental Lucid Air Pure has 430 horsepower from its single rear-mounted motor, 420 miles of vary, and a zero-to-60 mph time of 4.5 seconds. So even when it’s the bottom mannequin, the Air is greater than able to chasing down baddies down the Pacific Coast Freeway—and it’ll look rattling cool doing it.
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