The world has stopped. Or at least the part of the world that breathes gasoline fumes and prays to the holy trinity: V12, manual transmission and the color red. Ferrari has done the "unthinkable". They've announced an electric car. And to top it off, they've hired the man who designed your iPhone to design the interior. Predictably, the internet exploded in a cloud of fury before we've even seen the entire car. It's called the Ferrari Luce. And before you start writing threatening letters to Maranello, hear me out. This might be the best thing to happen to motoring this decade.
Let's be honest. We all knew this day was coming. The day when the Prancing Horse would trade the roar of a twelve-cylinder engine for the quiet hum of electrons. A Ferrari It wouldn't be Ferrari if it didn't do it with a drama befitting an Italian opera. Instead of simply throwing a tablet on the dashboard and saying "finito," they called in Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson of the LoveFrom collective. Yes, the father iPhone and Apple WatchAnd so the interior of the Ferrari Luce was born – an interior that divided the world.
The result? Internet warriors have gone crazy. “This is not a Ferrari!” shout keyboards from Tokyo to Los Angeles. “Where are the gauges? Why is everything so… clean?” Calm down, my people. We haven’t even seen the exterior yet, but everyone is acting as if it is. Ferrari just repainted the Sistine Chapel with a roller.
Inside: When Apple meets 1960
The biggest the irony of this car is that a man who is holy used to sliding on glass screens, created the most tactile, physical and “analog” interior in a modern electric car.
Forget about huge televisions, which reign in Tesla and Mercedes. Luce is the anti-screen. Steering wheel? Recycled aluminum, three-spoke, inspired by the classic Nardi steering wheels of the 50s and 60s. No thousands of buttons, just pure mechanics and elegance. Instrument panel? Overlapping OLED panels that mimic the depth of the old Veglia analog meters.
"This is not a car cabin. This is a Swiss watch enlarged to the size of a living room."
Center console is a masterpiece of glass and aluminum. Physical buttons – yes, physical buttons! – for climate control and ignition. And that central display, the “multigraph”? It has physical dials powered by motors to display a compass, a stopwatch, or, most importantly, Launch Control. It’s romantic. It’s brave. It’s something we’ll look at in the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) one day and wonder why all cars aren’t like that.
Numbers that will silence skeptics (so say online sources)
If the aesthetics don't convince you, the physics will. The Ferrari Luce is not a toy. It's a weapon. Underneath that artistic skin is a purpose-built 800-volt (880V, to be exact) architecture. What does that mean? It means this thing charges faster than you can drink your espresso.
- Power: Four independent electric motors produce more than 735 kW (that's a monstrous 986 horsepower or 1000+ hp in Boost mode).
- Acceleration: From 0 to 100 km/h (0-62 mph) in less than 2.5 seconds. That's not acceleration, that's teleportation.
- Speed: Top speed exceeds 309 km/h (192 mph).
- Battery and range: The battery capacity is 122 kWh (NMC chemistry), which promises a range of around 531 km (330 miles) according to the WLTP cycle.
- Mass: But here, physics can't be beat. It weighs a whopping 2,313 kg (5,100 lbs). It's the heaviest Ferrari in history.
But with four-wheel steering, torque vectoring, and active suspension, it'll probably still run circles around your favorite gasoline sedan.
Cold shower for internet critics
Why is the internet burning with disapproval? Because people don't like change. Because they're afraid Ferrari is losing its soul. But think about it: Ferrari was always a pioneer. Enzo Ferrari I would probably love electric – instant torque, no losses, pure efficiency.
The people who are now spitting on the inside are the same people who complained when it was Porsche made an SUV. Today, however, the Cayenne pays the development bills 911 GT3.
Jony Ive and Marc Newson They didn't just design "another" interior. They created a space that is radically different. It is minimalist, but not sterile. It is futuristic, but deeply rooted in the past. And most importantly - it dares to be different. There simply can't be a different electric Ferrari. If it were just another copy with a nameplate in the middle, it would be a defeat. What we see is a victory of design over convention.
Conclusion: A museum exhibit of the future
Ferrari Luce will be officially revealed in full only in May in Italy. Until then – calm your horses. Price? Probably from €370,000 (approx. $400,000). Is it worth the money? If we look at the specifications alone, there may be faster cars. But you don't buy a Ferrari for the numbers on paper. You buy it for the feeling.
Luce promises to pass Dolce Vita into the electric age. With a glass key that changes color when the machine comes to life, with a sound (still being refined, but it will definitely be epic), and with a shape that will probably separateAnd rightly so. Art must divide.
My opinion? Leave it to Jony Ive to make his mark. This car will not only be special on the inside, but as a whole it will be something that we will look at in 50 years with the same admiration that we look at Ferraris from the 60s today. An electric Ferrari was inevitable. Thank God they had the balls to make him like that.
