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It looks like every other Ferrari I'm not really sure what's not to like about it. Obviously it should be yellow though, what's with this blue colour scheme?

Optimization have sucked away wiggle room everywhere.

The outside looks interesting given the small wiggle room EV have on design. We will not have dramatically unique car designs till battery tech gets 10x energy dense and cars can afford not being shaped like an egg shell

The inside is all Ferrari/Ive choice. There are some cool touches like the display unit. But majority is constricted by supply chain optimization. There's only so much you can deviate before things start costing an arm/leg at the scale Ferrari sells cars. Ferrari can afford custom manufacturing with some manual work but not hand manufacturing everything.

I find nearly all Ferrari models ugly AF so I'm happy we're not getting another tiny dick monstrosity but instead just another generic ugly EV.

They know what we want, but they deny us at every turn.

Was thinking Honda but I agree that it fails to fit the design lineage of Ferrari.

I'm genuinely curious about the reliability. I've been lucky enough to own a lot of cars in my life. I will tell you every somewhat modern/modern exotic car I've owned has been an absolute piece of over priced shit beyond "it looks and sounds cool''. I kid you not probably every other time I drove my Lamborghini Aventador with 5k miles some stupid shit would break, radiator hoses, electrical problems, misfires and they all cost stupid amounts of money to fix. While my 2002 Camry has 185k miles with only regular maintenance and I'd feel comfortable driving it across the US.

I get they're meant to be looked at ect, but if you can't design a radiator hose that lasts over 2 years and 5k miles you've got a serious engineering problem. Hell, I had a 68' mustang that still has the the OEM from the factory before I replaced it and it technically still was fine. Absolutely ridiculous, these things are like a bunch of expensive parts just bolted together like a 2nd grader did it.

Sorry for the rant. These cars are one of the few things that ligit get me pissed as an automotive lover.

It was only a concept but I thought the DS Survolt looked wicked back in the day.

Or they could just, you know, design the same as a gasoline car and use some molding tricks if volume is a concern.

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There are some fundemental problem with making an EV look like a "normal car" though.

EVs are more dense than their ICE counterparts. This means that the whole vehicle needs more structure to protect it in a rollover than an ICE of the same size. Thicker frames and pillars in a smaller car end up making it look bulgy and weird.

I think (but not 100% sure) that EVs are required to have extra protection for the battery to prevent them from getting punctured and having a "thermal runaway" event. This makes the cars even more pudgy.

The energy source and propulsion methods have changed, which will affect their design of the cars. Much in the same way early jet airplanes looked like regular airplanes with jets attached, EVs started as regular cars with electric motors. We're currently in the weird transition phase of EV design. We're seeing the EV equivalent of the P80 Shooting star, and maybe starting to get into some cars that are akin to the F86 Sabre. We have a long way to go until the design catches up to the propulsion.

I feel the I8 doesn’t look bad at all.

I don't think it looks bad.

They didn't even make it red so we'd know it was a Ferrari lmao

The stupidest thing is how Ferrari has historically gone to great lengths to make their cars sleek and pointy despite the need to accommodate big-ass radiators and engine intakes, yet just when using an electric drivetrain makes 'sleek and pointy' easy for them, they come out with this boxy shit instead!

And even worse, it's a sedan (which Ferrari has never made before). WTF.

Clearly, what happened here is that the bean-counters insisted that Ferrari needed to diversify into new market segments (both more practical cars and EVs) but somebody at the top hated the idea, so they did it in the most sabotaged, begrudging way possible. They didn't have the courage to make a proper two-seat electric sports car.