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Ferrari Luce

460 pointsby jumploopsyesterday at 9:00 PM856 commentsview on HN

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/its-finally-here-m...


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KellyCriterionyesterday at 9:13 PM

Attention: AUTO-playing videos+sound when visiting

m0nit0ryesterday at 10:26 PM

I reall don't know if I like this or not.

lnenadyesterday at 9:44 PM

I hate 20 inch, floating, glued to the dash tablets with such a passion. It cannot be such a huge monetary difference to have physical switches for the AC compared to this attention grabbing accident causing contraption that was never meant to be put in a human commandeered vehicle.

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amossyesterday at 9:24 PM

That is the ugliest Ferrari I've ever seen.

whalesaladtoday at 1:04 PM

I think it's pretty cool as a car. But totally not the right move to do this under the Ferrari brand.

mdotktoday at 2:12 AM

Nissan Leaf with a hideous bodykit

zhainyatoday at 1:00 AM

This is heartbreaking. Just awful.

antinomicusyesterday at 9:16 PM

What market exists that would buy this car??

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kingkongjaffatoday at 12:30 PM

The whole thing looks amateur, this is what every product design student has in their design portfolio when they needed to add an automotive concept. There's chairs and lamps, and they tagged on this car in their PDF.

Looks like a school project not the kind of thing from a proper automotive designer.

Nothing about this conveys fast, lightweight, Italian sports car.

eur0patoday at 10:45 AM

Che disgrazia

bnitoday at 5:29 AM

The Porsche 914 of 2026

mrcwinntoday at 3:22 AM

Whoa. This is hideous.

seydortoday at 6:23 AM

apart from being blasphemy, this also looks so ... 2010

jsroznertoday at 4:01 AM

I'll take "A waste of the world's resources for $200k, Alex" *600k, sorry

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Jemmtoday at 12:02 PM

"Designed with Sir Jony Ive"; Yikes!

beanjuiceIItoday at 12:21 PM

wow this thing is uuuugly

valcron1000today at 4:36 AM

Damn, that looks awful.

59percentmoretoday at 11:37 AM

Oof.

ReptileMantoday at 11:28 AM

That is awesome looking Nissan.

pazimzadehtoday at 5:43 AM

Why the Chevrolet Impala 2000-2005 backlights?

I like the handles on the interior display

ruckfoolyesterday at 9:36 PM

Looks like an expensive Prius .. :(

tomaspiaggio12yesterday at 9:27 PM

458/488 was peak ferrari IMO

goldenarmtoday at 10:43 AM

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d--btoday at 10:10 AM

The first view from above makes the car look like a smartphone :)

jaksatoday at 4:52 AM

Ferrari Multipla

tintortoday at 5:44 PM

Is this an April 1st joke?

LightBug1today at 9:11 AM

I hear the sound of a V6 engine at San Cataldo Cemetery ... the sound of Enzo spinning in his grave ...

wat10000yesterday at 9:23 PM

It looks like an Apple Magic Mouse with wheels. Hopefully it also has a charge port on the bottom.

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EugeneOZyesterday at 9:19 PM

Doesn't look like a sport car. From above it actually looks like a phone. The main thing is that the charging port isn’t on the bottom.

jakeinspaceyesterday at 9:14 PM

This sucks

jauntywundrkindyesterday at 9:14 PM

Four wheel steering, active suspension, low center of gravity, 1050 HP...

The display & controls do look very nice!

I love how they found a way to make the sound provide real feedback. I wonder if the cabin gets feedback faster than the speed of sound in air would travel, that would be neat. I'm skeptical they kept the loop fast enough to beat speed of sound in metal though (5000~6000 m/s for steel).

> The Luce’s sound system doesn’t generate artificial noise. Instead, a precision accelerometer mounted at the center of the rear axle captures the actual vibration of the rotating electric components. That signal is then filtered, equalized, and amplified — essentially working like an electric guitar’s amplifier. The result is a sound that’s rooted in the real physics of the machinery, not synthesized from a speaker library.

https://electrek.co/2026/05/25/ferrari-luce-first-electric-f...

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sethops1today at 12:11 AM

This is the ugliest car I've ever seen, and that includes the Cybertruck. I do like the retro modern interior though.

RRRAtoday at 2:01 PM

Now rebrand it the Apple car, and somehow it would makes sense...

sudo_cowsaytoday at 7:48 AM

Ratioed

greatgibtoday at 6:48 AM

I'm wondering, isn't the system of the 2 doors opening facing each other dangerous?

Like I mean, isn't there a risk of the driver slapping or pinching a passenger that is boarding while shutting his door without taking enough care?

dyauspitrtoday at 6:34 AM

It doesn’t look like a ferrari

shin_laotoday at 12:35 PM

This looks terrible. Ferrari sells dreams, not "safe choices".

sMarsIntrudertoday at 5:29 AM

It’s the first Ferrari EV: they had to think disruptively and I really appreciate the courage. Love the design IMHO, looking forward to see the street performances.

deterministictoday at 4:02 AM

It doesn't even look like a Ferrari. I am 99.999% sure it will fail.

b800htoday at 12:12 PM

Jesus, did the bloke from the Jaguar rebrand move to Ferrari?

johnfink8yesterday at 9:18 PM

It looks like something a villainous billionaire would drive in a sci-fi dystopia. And not in a good way.

user432678today at 2:53 AM

Hate to say but this was in one of the Simpson’s episode

riccardomcyesterday at 9:24 PM

mamma mia...

ernsheongtoday at 1:24 AM

Took OpenAI's money and is now designing cars, lol

inshardyesterday at 11:40 PM

Those rear tail lights don’t sit right with me. I know there’s probably some aerodynamic reason behind it but Jony, those aren’t the proportions that just work. Steve wouldn’t approve this. And I feel Jony was always partly Steve when Jony was at his best.That said the issue is the asymmetric black negative space below and above the red circles. This is mostly fixed if you get the Luce in black or very dark gray.

sschuellertoday at 8:10 AM

Sorry, but that is grotesque. I don't want a Tesla with Ferrari badging.

gigatexaltoday at 7:23 PM

meh. I think teenage engineering could do a far, far better job. Ive has peaked and hasn't done anything cool in years.

lossoloyesterday at 10:25 PM

It looks like a budget car, not an exotic supercar.

cmrdporcupineyesterday at 10:11 PM

$600k and they still won't give you physical climate controls.

Parsimonious product design with IMHO out of date conception of what's "cool". I think Ive is pretty washed up at this point.

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fragmedeyesterday at 9:56 PM

Why do suicide doors if you have to have that B pillar?

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