Lucid Gravity vs Cadillac Escalade IQ

The Gravity is a three-row SUV only if configured as one: Lucid sells it as a five- or seven-seat cabin, and the second row is a bench in every build — there is no captain's-chair option. The Escalade IQ is the opposite: 7 seats in every variant, and its second row is individual seats in every variant, with no bench offered.

So a Gravity shopper must option the third row this site exists to measure, and a family wanting a walk-through second row gets it only from the Cadillac.

The Gravity is 198 in long and 65 in tall; the IQ is 224.3 and 76.1. That is 26.3 in of length and 11.1 in of height between two vehicles doing nominally the same job — the widest silhouette gap of any pairing we cover.

Neither publishes a body-only width: Lucid lists only mirrors-extended (87 in) and mirrors-folded (79) figures, Cadillac only a mirrors-included 94.1. We record no width for either rather than mislabel a mirror-inclusive number.

The IQ owns the front row: 45.2 in of legroom, the largest front-row figure in this dataset, against the Gravity's 40.9. The Gravity answers in the second row: 42.6 in (on the Extended Range Battery basis Lucid publishes) — the largest second-row figure in this dataset — against the IQ's 41.3.

In the third row the Gravity leads on legroom, 33.9 to 32.3 in, and the headroom figures are near-identical — 37.4 (Lucid's Glass Canopy roof basis) versus 37.2. Remarkable, given the Lucid's roof sits 11.1 in lower.

Both makers publish cabin cargo separately from the front trunk, and we keep it that way. Gravity: 21.3 cu ft behind row 3, 56.2 behind row 2, 111.9 maximum — its 8.1 cu ft frunk excluded. Escalade IQ: 23.6, 69.1, and 119.1 (published as behind-first-row) — its 12.2 cu ft eTrunk excluded. The IQ leads at every position.

Towing is the clearest split on the page: the IQ's 8,000 lb is the highest among the EVs in this dataset; the Gravity's 6,000 lb is a 2,000-lb concession to its shape.

The Gravity's delivering range runs $79,900 (Touring) to $98,900 (Grand Touring); the GT-S, at $125,900, was not yet delivering as of August 2026. The IQ spans $127,405 to $148,205 on Cadillac's FAQ trim ladder — the highest starting MSRP in this dataset.

The gap is the story: $47,505 between the floors, and the most expensive delivering Gravity still sits $28,505 under the cheapest IQ. These two do not compete on price — they compete on philosophy.

Lucid Gravity: The rear rows matter most — the dataset's largest second-row legroom figure (42.6 in) and a third row that out-stretches the Cadillac's — in a body 26.3 in shorter, from $79,900. The buyer accepts a bench-only second row, option-sheet attention to get the third row at all, and a 6,000-lb tow ceiling.

Cadillac Escalade IQ: The mission needs full-size capability — 119.1 cu ft of maximum cargo, 8,000 lb of towing, seven seats in every build with an individual-seat second row — and the budget absorbs the highest starting price in this dataset to get it electric.