Engineering Explained, aka Jason Fenske, decided it was time to trade in his Tesla Model 3 for a Lucid Air Touring—a car that costs $80,000 and, on paper, sounds like a miracle on wheels.

Jason had sung Lucid’s praises for years, marvelling at their engineering wizardry during carefully staged test drives.

Then reality happened. The retail version wasn’t exactly the symphony of perfection he’d imagined. Instead, Jason found software glitches, random bugs, and hardware hiccups that made him question why anyone would pay eight figures for a car that can’t even behave properly out of the box.

When you drop $80,000 on a car, you expect it to just… work. The Lucid? Not so much.

Lucid hasn’t turned a profit since day one, and after seeing Jason’s findings, it’s easy to see why. Sometimes, the dream of the future comes with a few too many glitches in the matrix.