2026 Lucid Gravity: Is the $2,900 Third-Row Seat Worth It?

What Car Shoppers Need to Know

• The Lucid Gravity SUV comes standard as a two-row, five-seat vehicle, but it can be equipped with a third row that increases seating capacity to seven — for an additional $2,900.
• The Gravity’s space-efficient design means that its third row is spacious enough for average-size adults to ride in comfort, but entering and exiting those seats can be challenging.
• The third row’s folding-and-stowing mechanism is entirely manual and a bit cumbersome to use.

The 2026 Lucid Gravity is an impressive mid-size electric SUV, and our editors liked it enough to name it a finalist for our Best Car of 2026 award. The Gravity delivers the lightning-quick acceleration and high-tech features of its Air sedan sibling, with the added occupant and cargo space of an SUV. It comes standard with two rows of seats for five-person capacity, but an optional stowable third row bumps the seat count to seven — for an additional $2,900.

Related: 2026 Lucid Gravity Review: Cutting Edge Meets Familiarity

You can read our original review of the Gravity by clicking the link above. At the Midwest Automotive Media Association’s 2026 Spring Rally in Elkhart Lake, Wisc., I had the opportunity to test the Gravity’s available third-row seat, with a focus on comfort, space and ease of use. Is the third-row seat worth the extra money? For the most part, yes.

Surprising Space for People and Cargo

Given its relatively low-slung appearance, the Gravity is surprisingly spacious inside — especially for an electric vehicle. Like most other EVs, the Gravity has a “skateboard” layout; its battery pack is located underneath the passenger compartment, but the pack is thin enough that it doesn’t noticeably raise the cabin’s floor.

The low, flat floor benefits legroom and, by extension, headroom in all three rows. The Gravity boasts impressive space in its second row (with seats that are adjustable fore and aft) and very respectable space in its third row. The standard “Glass Canopy” roof consists of fixed glass that extends from the windshield and covers the front seating area, along with a large fixed panoramic moonroof that covers the second and third rows. This dazzling, concept-carlike setup likely frees up a little headroom compared to a normal metal roof, but it also lets in heat on sunny days; Lucid sells a $250 sunshade set that I would definitely spring for.

Since I’m 6 feet, 6 inches tall, I’m a good stress test for seat space — if I can fit in a seat OK, 99% of people will have enough room. I had adequate headroom in the Gravity’s third row, and with the second-row seats adjusted all the way back (which is where the seat was set in the accompanying photos of me in the third row), legroom was tolerable for a crosstown jaunt but not a longer drive. If second-row occupants cooperate and move their seats forward, I’d have enough legroom to be comfortable on a road trip (but c’mon, you really shouldn’t make the 6-foot-6 guy ride in the third row).

Space aside, third-row entry and exit was tricky and awkward for me, and it might be for others, too. The second-row seats slide decently far forward and their seatbacks tilt forward, too, but the opening this creates is still on the stingy side. Once average-size adult passengers get situated in the third row, however, they should be fine.

Thanks to the Gravity’s space-efficient layout, there’s also usable space behind the third-row seats when they’re in use — more than enough for a large grocery run or maybe four carry-on suitcases. A separate cargo panel covers a minivan-like cargo well that offers a good amount of hidden storage space, or you can remove the cargo panel completely for more vertical load space.

Clunky Folding Mechanism

Folding both the second- and third-row seats creates a voluminous cargo hold (120 cubic feet including the 8.1-cubic-foot frunk, according to Lucid’s measurements), but only the second-row seats have a powered folding function. Press and hold a button on the second-row seatbacks or in the rear cargo area, and the second-row seat cushion pivots forward and down so the seatback drops in a 60/40 split to create a flat surface that’s level with the rest of the cargo floor.

Folding and stowing the third-row seats into that minivan-like rear cargo well, however, is an all-manual process, as is raising the second-row seats from their folded position. Neither is particularly easy as manual-folding seats go. The third-row seatbacks have a pull strap to fold the seatback and a pull handle to heft the folded seat backward into the cargo well. The H-shaped hinges that the seats pivot upon seem a little wobbly, and the weight of the seats is apparent. Naturally, the cargo well also has to be empty to accommodate the seats, and of course you’ll need to manually remove and replace the separate rear cargo panel. And if you want a smooth, unbroken cargo floor, you’ll also have to insert two separate hinged cargo panels to bridge the gap between the rear cargo floor and the folded second-row seatbacks.

The whole process is fairly involved, but it’s a small price to pay for this level of cargo and passenger versatility — and I’m sure it gets easier with practice. And at the Gravity’s prices, $2,900 for the extra people-hauling capability strikes me as a reasonable ask. Even so, for a vehicle that starts at almost $82,000 and can run well past the $100,000 mark with options, some additional power functionality for the seats would be nice.

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