Wow, that looks like shit.
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Yeah it looks like a receptionist desk
I Just dont understand why everyone seemingly make EVs ugly on purpose...
The secretly don’t want to manufacture them so they make them look like shit?
Obviously they can be made to look normal, the Ford Lightning & Mach E, Lucid, Polestar, and even a Tesla all look pretty normal and arguably some look really nice. But ask a mainstream manufacturer to make an EV car and they look stupid half the time. The Prius finally doesn’t look like it’s trying to virtue signal with its ugliness, so designs can be improved too.
But ask a mainstream manufacturer to make an EV car and they look stupid half the time.
IMO, it's probably more that they overdesign them. They want the EV to look futuristic and unique compared to their regular cars, but their cars already look like that to some degree, and so they overcook the design into looking like some science fiction vehicle. Take the Ferrari, for example, they tried to make it have a floating arch where the hood would normally be.
That's fine for a movie or video game, but in real life, coupled with the practical limits, it just doesn't look very good.
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I just don't like that so many of them are fucking hatchbacks. I just want a sedan (that isn't a god damned Tesla).
I think no one competes with Tesla Model 3 because they're behind on tech. Only BMW i4 is in the same category I think.
Except BYD cars. One of the reasons the US government is so furiously keeping them out is because their technological superiority to all American cars, including Tesla, would destroy the current American car market. All that and they are ridiculously cheaper.
The 80s racing Volvo station wagon was sick.
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There's two big reasons.
No front grill
So much of a brand's identity can be carried by the grill and headlights. And on an EV, there's no need for a grill. But just a slab of flat metal looks weird, so they add stuff to break it up.
Drag
The range of an EV is a lot more sensitive to drag than an ICE car.
So in order to reduce the drag, shapes are smoothed out.
Aero efficiency becomes a much bigger priority than looks.
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I don't know why they didn't just take a timeless classic Ferrari shell, stick a powerful as fuck EV 'engine' in it, maybe tweak the exterior very slightly, and go to town on the interior. Win.
There was no reason to make it look so out of place, unless they actually wanted to tank sales. Nothing about its look is necessitated by the EV drive train versus ICE.
That's not a marketing issue, that's whoever approved that design. Which, to be fair, may be the marketing boss depending on how their corporate structure is.
Why don’t they ever do retro designs and bring back popular classic looks? An electric F40 would probably sell like crazy.
It’s definitely not possible to create something that looks exactly like that with modern safety design standards but they are being very stupid by not at least trying to evoke that more in their cars.
Then again, as far as I understand it, rich people are completely detached from my idea of good taste. So we might like the classic designs and the companies might know their customers prefer novelty or “the next big thing” over that kind of continuity
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Yeah, true. But to be honest, as the marketing boss he has to defend that bullshit thing and I wouldn't stand for it as well.
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I don't even think it looks that bad, it just doesn't look like a Ferrari
I imagine that's the issue, that it does in fact not look like a Ferrari, when it is supposed to be a Ferrari.
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I saw an image edit with a Toyota Prius badge and I legit liked it
Hyundai's Ioniq Venus concept actually kind of looks like if Ferrari designed a Prius
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It looks fine.
It just looks like a minimalist hatchback in a era where minimalist design is already overused.
The interior is the only part of this vehicle that is actually interesting.
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The company's shares plunged by 8% the day after the Luce was unveiled.
Lol. They let an iPhone designer design a Ferrari, and it really shows. (Edit: The iPhone designer just designed the interior, I'm told.)
Whoever designed that smooth as a booger look clearly didn't have a poster with Ferrari on it, in their room, as a kid.
I would sell their stock too, if I had any.
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I don't think it looks all that bad. Also of all the backlash people, how many were ever going to buy one?
Complete non story this one. It's been pushed by the anti-EV crowd
It would be a good looking Renault Megane. It's a terrible looking Ferrari. It has nothing Ferrari about it.
Yeah, I can see that. Sort of my issue with the EV Mustang. It isn't just an EV version of the Mustang. It's a completely different car. Just call it something else. Maybe a different horse breed.
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Bro come on. Like the other person said, it doesn't look like a Ferrari. It looks like an econobox. I don't get why it's so hard for them to make it look like a super/hypercar. Nobody wants to spend half a mil (or whatever) on this soccer mom-looking-ass-car.
The issue is that ferrari is only as valuable as it is perceived. If the brand is not thought of as being the best, then the product will not sell well (at the price).
Seems like Ferrari would know what a Ferrari looks like. I mean, everyone else does.
The electric part isn’t the problem, nor the marketing, it’s the… well yk
The thing that gets me is when car designers make a car that's trying to be something it's not. It's an EV, not an ICE vehicle. If anything, amplify the motor hum under load (accelerating). Don't simulate engine sounds. We're tired of living in a simulation.
I drive an EV
This sort of shit doesn't help with idiots hating EVs on principle
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Ferrari has one of the greatest design teams in Pininfarina yet they choose a person famous for making a rounded rect to make a totally new product. This is what they get for their poor choices.
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How hard is it to put a battery on a testarossa.
Dumbasses tried to reinvent the ev
The newly reissued testarossa has a hybrid EV drive range of like 100km. It’s definitely a start.
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