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Love the exterior on that gen Bonneville. Like it better than the Aurora of the same year. Both of the same platform. But...I prefer the Oldsmobile's interior much much more.

You just wanna see what you wanna see... Which is to falsely assume that a skateboard platform is not flat and the body sits directly on top... In fact, the skateboard frame is a tray that houses the battery and the body shell goes on top to which the seats are directly on top of the battery pack. For Lucid, the battery pack ends where the front seats end making it possible for the rear passengers feat to actually be housed in the battery tray itself... The motors of both Lucid and Tesla is where the tires are front and back and nothing enters the passenger cabin. Like a FWD or rear engined car. Plus...there is no transmission, so... The battery cooling systems are in the battery tray within the battery pack... The body shell literally just goes on top... Tesla Model S (Computer generated shell) Lucid There is a small intrusion in the cabin up front for the Lucid, but nothing to scream and whine about lack of interior space... In fact, the Lucid Air has more interior space than the Tesla Model S despite the Air's battery tray being less flat. All pictures posted give a crystal clear idea of what is what. No need to be Doubting Thomas about this... If a manufacturer makes the interior a tight space, its because they are doing it wrong. Maybe designing the rake of the windshield too steep making the A, B and C pillars too low in trying to make a sedan more sports car like and designing interior dashboards and center consoles chunkier than need be... But that has NOTHING to do with the skateboard platform and where the battery resides... Like I said, maybe design an EV sedan less like a Porsche 911 if one wants interior space to be maximized... But Porsche and Audi gets its wrong with their battery tray...

If you guys noticed, the battery pack is BELOW the middle of the tire's height. The brake disks are ABOVE the battery pack. The seats sit at the brake disks level. And there is virtually nothing that enters the interior cabin. Now compare that to a RWD unibody Only FWD unibody or BOF comes close to a skateboard EV

If a manufacturer is losing interior space with its skateboard EV platform, they are doin' it wrong... Lucid Air

Darn tootin'! I reckon' that is a mighty fine Dodge! Let's go muddin'!!!

I much much prefer Oldsmobile's interiors of this era than any other GM brand. Of course when this Grand Prix entered service, Oldsmobile was no more. Intrigue (of the previous W-Body platform as compared to the last Grand Prix before it became the G8) Alero 1st gen Aurora Those would be my favorite GM interiors of this era being the late 1990s-early 2000s.

WOW, I do not remember that on that Pontiac model, thought to be honest, I only ever considered buying one Pontiac and that was the Bonneville SSEi SuperCharged sedan. Slept on it over night and knew it would not fit the family even though I loved how it drove. This is that dash and what I remember.

At least they are protecting the auto with style with a generic appliance on top!

Photoshop ~

I guess its not all that uncommon to listen to 1980s Cold War related music. I definitely did Nikita in the beginning of the month right after Putin invaded Ukraine. I also did these two German ones

Cannot read the logo on the steering wheel and do not recognize the plastic dash. Which brand and model is it?