Lucid displayed its Gravity X off-road concept and a high-performance Air Sapphire on Sunday at a car-design gathering held at Rivian‘s California headquarters.
The cars appeared at Pistons & Pretzels California, an invitation-only meet-up for the car design community organised by the consultancy Konzepthaus, which staged this edition at Rivian‘s headquarters in Irvine on Sunday.
Jörg Oberglock, Lucid‘s Senior Director of Design Operations, confirmed the display in a LinkedIn post thanking Konzepthaus for the invitation and Rivian for providing the venue.
Konzepthaus listed five exhibiting partners for the meet — Rivian, Lucid, the solar-vehicle start-up Aptera, the luxury brand Karma and the tuning firm ADRO.
Rivian, as both venue and exhibitor, used the event to show its own range, from the R1S and R1T to the R2 and the unreleased R3 and R3X.
A Rival’s Off-Road Pitch
The Gravity X is Lucid‘s signal that it, too, wants a place in the rugged-adventure space Rivian and the revived Scout brand are chasing.
Lucid unveiled the concept nearly a year ago at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, building it on the Gravity Grand Touring SUV.
The show car adds a lifted ride height, a widened track, all-terrain tyres, skid plates and integrated tow hooks, along with redesigned bumpers to improve its approach and departure angles.
Derek Jenkins, Lucid‘s Senior VP of Design and Brand, said that when the concept broke cover, it built on the production Gravity to “explore new possibilities off the beaten path.”
The concept vehicle wears a satin Astral Drift finish with orange accents and topographic maps of Big Sur and Death Valley etched into its hood — cues aimed at the outdoorsy buyers Rivian has courted since the R1S and R1T.
Lucid has been clear that the Gravity X is a design study rather than a product. Its global communications head, Nick Twork, called it “a concept, pushing the boundaries, not a production vehicle”, and the company has not confirmed an off-road production variant.
What Lucid is building instead is a mid-size line-up of three cheaper models. The first, the Cosmos crossover, is due to be unveiled this summer — no firm date as of Monday — with production planned in Saudi Arabia by the end of the year.
The Gravity X as shown stays a one-off, but its direction will not: Lucid has said the third mid-size model will be off-road-focused, and interim chief executive Marc Winterhoff has said it will take cues from the Gravity X.
Air Sapphire Alongside
Lucid paired the concept with the Air Sapphire, the tri-motor, 1,234-horsepower version of its flagship Air sedan, priced at $249,000, and the halo of a line-up that also includes the newer Gravity SUV.
The Silicon Valley company, which builds both models in Arizona, has struggled to lift volumes and remains deeply unprofitable.
Lucid delivered 3,953 vehicles in the second quarter and is now offering zero-percent financing for 72 months — its most aggressive terms yet — to clear unsold 2026 Gravity stock. Against that backdrop, design-community appearances like this are a low-cost way to keep the brand visible.
