Everyone makes SUVs at this point. Porsche, BMW, even Lambo.

I feel like for this to be successful Ferrari would have to do something that showcases craftsmanship and uniqueness in the motors. The engines were a setpiece in many of their cars and that was a big reason you bought one. I cant help but feel EV cars just have motors with different sizes and specs but they are all just some variant of a Samsung/Panasonic/Toshiba design or something thats been scaled up from the motor thats in my washer.

No, I’m just on mobile and exhausted. Fixed it.

It is interesting why home vacuum cleaners have such aerodynamic shapes moving essentially at 2km/h every 3 minutes for 5 seconds

Because it was not designed to sell. It was made for compliance on fleet C02 outputs, so they purposely made it overpriced and ugly so they don't actually have to waste time making them.

122 Kwhr battery. Batteries are now $120/Kwhr. So a battery pack is $15K -where the fuck does the other $600K come from? Free coke and ho's?

Gimme Giorgetto Giugaro back. He designed my current car, and I'm looking to by an 80s car based heavily on his design from the previous generation

The Luce just went full retro and I love it. I think everyone likes the interior, its just the exterior that is bland and offensive. Take a look at the Rimac to see what a proper electric supercar should look like.

I agree with the points, and also the exterior "offensive" bits (eg front bottom intakes) might get improved with versions of it that will inevitability follow. I don't dislike the general styling, just a few individual bits (that's with evey car).

It is weird that it's a standard saloon like every (non- hyper)EV, but whatever. That's like what evey brand is doing.
But maybe they just can't produce a sports EV for folk that would usually buy Ferraris anyway, so they simply made a long range cruiser (but with a cooled battery that can be depleted in 10 minutes if one so chooses).

However

get an F40 vibe

Yes, love the lights (that were og just cheap), but hate how they are under a (semi-)transparent slab of plastic spanning the entire width of the car. That looks awful (imho), "cheap", & ages even worse. With (uni-)lights or "hyper-screens" or whatever, just don't cover objects with shit instead of framing/designing a frame for them or whatever.

Ferrari sell cars to fund their F1 habit.

F1 funds Ferrari. They make money from F1.

Constraints are package and cost, you are saying that adding battery cells decreases range, which is mental. EVs can cope very well with weight, but as you say if you want to move through air fast, you need low drag.

They don't necessarily weigh more, but they often do simply because they're all giant fucking trucks and SUVs. Look at the small and aerodynamic EVs with ~50kWh battery and you'll see that they weigh about the same as their ICE counterparts.

If you say so

I think Ferrari is the type of brand where what you see and feel behind the wheel trumps any other feature, including design: exterior of a car are just like 20% of the story, how it moves and how it feels inside is much more important, and the interior looks like nothing else ever before.

Design wise, I only really have problems with the back half side, with big plain surfaces without bite. The view from above is interesting and all design features serve a purpose. There’s beauty in that (but I agree it doesn’t look that attractive).

Price is crazy but whatever, for the target clientele a high price just means more bragging rights…