From the September/October 2025 issue of Car and Driver.
Apologies to my friend Ian and his son. In the excitement of launching the 1234-hp Lucid Air Sapphire, I neglected to tell them to protect their necks. A car with this much power needs a preflight checklist, because hitting 60 mph in 1.9 seconds is a violent event, like being rear-ended by a ’58 Continental. That sounds bad; it’s not.
Recently, several 1000-hp cars visited our Ann Arbor digs within one month. First came the 1064-hp Corvette ZR1 that you read about in our July/August issue. Soon after it left, we gathered 24 electric models for EV of the Year testing. A few of the vehicles had over 1000 horsepower, including the Air Sapphire and the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT…