Perhaps one would have imagined a sports car that could hardly be tamed with power, a huge thing, with a giant battery, thousands of horsepower, a torque that would make every half-wave turn prematurely. In addition, arcs would have been allowed to jump in the interior, encapsulated in glass tubes, humming when switched on like a converter station on a sultry summer's day. It could also have been given a pair of straight-toothed gears so that it would have howled violently when driving. In fact, why is it not just carbon fiber structures and extruded aluminum in the interior? Or what would it have been like if some of the cables had been exposed? If the flow of power had been virtually exposed? Ferrari decided to do something completely different.
The first fully electric Ferrari, as the press photos suggest, is a well-behaved, nicely designed car. There is hardly any sensation when looking at this work. The slightly senseless element of a road-going Ferrari, but the pure joy, pleasure and seduction are missing. That is perhaps the most remarkable thing about this car. It is perhaps also the logical conclusion when the iPhone and co. design team around Jony Ive creates a car.
Fewer of all the highly emotional elements that make up the Ferrari DNA have probably never been found on a car with the prancing horse. Even a Fiat 500 Tributo Ferrari has less ratio, but more furor than the good-natured little carriage that was presented to the world public in Rome.
But don't be fooled. Some things elude the limited minds of the common people. It could well be that a new, financially well-endowed type of buyer has already been waiting for this car. Or, as an old, well-deserved tester of Automobilrevue suspected in a conversation with the editorial team, the Luce will become the innocuous, politically correct second car for existing Ferrari customers and the car with which environmental zones in the inner cities of the world's metropolises can be driven without restrictions. Pure petrolheads, however, will have a hard time with it either way. So if this Ferrari doesn't suffer the same fate as the retort Lotus Eletre - nobody wants it - it will probably be down to the genius of a brand that has managed to reinvent itself and its products.
At the moment, however, it still looks as if Ferrari is experiencing its very own "Jaguar moment": hardly any positive reactions, countless memes and, thanks to AI, the Luce is already playing the role of the unflattering anti-hero in various films. Only one thing is clear at the moment: Ferrari has rarely received so much attention when launching a new model. In the past, Maranello has been able to enjoy plenty of this attention with every new launch.
Ferrari Luce - Technical data
Dimensions & weight
Length: 5,026 mm
Width: 1,999 mm
Height: 1,544 mm
Wheelbase: 2,961 mm
Unladen weight: 2,260 kg
Weight distribution: 47% front / 53% rear
Luggage compartment: 597 l
Tires
Front: 265/35 R23
Rear: 315/30 R24
Brakes
Carbon-ceramic brakes front and rear
Drive
4 electric motors (one per wheel)
Power: 772 kW (1,050 hp) of which 210 kW at the front / 620 kW at the rear
Torque: 11,500 Nm at the wheels
Battery
Capacity: 122 kWh
Voltage: 800 V
Maximum charging power: 350 kW
Driving performance
0-100 km/h: 2.5 s
0-200 km/h: 6.8 s
Top speed: 310 km/h
Range: up to 530 km (WLTP)
