Ihang a right onto the Foxen Canyon Wine Trail in the hills north of Santa Barbara, and the 2026 Lucid Gravity seems to defy physics. My hands grip the steering wheel as the vehicle carves country roads with a slalom skier’s dexterity and the gusto of a much smaller car. Not bad for the seven-seat, all-electric SUV, which handily wins Esquire’s Car of the Year.

“Three-row SUVs usually either have a lot of space but aren’t much fun to drive, park, or get around, or they’re sporty and dynamic but lack the space,” says Derek Jenkins, Lucid’s senior vice president of design. “When we began planning Gravity five years ago, we saw an opportunity to do an SUV with plenty of interior space that still drives like a performance sedan.”

The team that brought Gravity to life boasts an unorthodox col

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