The Lucid Air Sapphire is the quickest car you can buy for a quarter-million greenbacks, and it’ll outrun cars in the quarter mile that price orders of magnitude extra. It’s even quicker than the dragstrip-oriented Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170. In a recent test by Hagerty’s Jason Cammisa, the Lucid grew to become an important 9.002 2nd run on the Famoso dragstrip in California. Wait, isn’t that only a tick in the back of Dodge’s claimed 8.99 seconds for the Demon 170? In actual hour with an actual driving force in the back of the wheel, the Demon controlled a slower (however nonetheless mind-meltingly fast) 9.721 2nd move.
Run nearest run, the electrical tremendous sedan gave the supercharged monster a right kind old-school shellacking.
The marvel of gasoline-powered efficiency has now not simplest been matched, nevertheless it’s been bettered. On the drag strip, anyway. With regards to going speedy in a instantly series, you simply desire a Lucid Breeze Sapphire and an deserted abdomen.
Possibly much more fascinating is how extensive the distance between those two vehicles will get when the street floor isn’t “prepped” with VHT. Even with sticky Mickey Thompson drag radials (as opposed to the Lucid’s street-ready daily driver Michelin PS4S tires), the Demon 170 simply can’t get the facility all the way down to the garden on usual asphalt. On the finish of the drag strip, that implies the Demon 170 is a complete two seconds slower than the Sapphire. The space will get nearer with VHT on a prepped monitor, with the Demon shedding 1.5 seconds from its timeslip, however that’s now not enough quantity to catch The usa’s untouched king of straightline velocity.
