Commentary :

Ok, so I’m a petrol head and lots of people know it, I love beautiful cars as much as I like to trace off stupid politicians for their brain farts, but is it really that bad in the world of wokism that the Mythos Ferrari has to resort to this $#!p ??
Back in the day when everyone was speaking about the “eco - friendly” reduction & nivelation of CO2 emissions throughout the automobile industry, we saw companies throw out e-vehicles (I used to call them evicts, as my stance back then was: if it didn’t have an engine, it didn’t deserve to be called car but rather battery on wheels, but I digress) like VW with the iD. Series, Audi with their e-Tron series, BMW and the i- series & Mercedes Benz with the EQ etc..
Some of these companies came up with some real atrocities which evoked a physical rebellion of my stomach’s content. Least of all, my favourite two brands, Aston Martin by rebadging the Toyota iQ as the “Cygnet” which might have captured 1st 🥇 place if not for BMW with that hideous i3, that looked like it came straight out of a kindergarten child’s first drawing of a milk box crashed on wheels; they kind of saved it however with the i8 which I seriously liked and even drove.
This was the Brave New Autmotive World we were heading into and there was nothing I could do about it.
In later years some companies even came up with some exceptionally beautiful and delightful concepts and later production vehicles like Fisker, Tesla, BYD, Zeekr and Polestar to name just a few of the now over 70 global large producers (and over 400 in all) To name the most progressive and aesthetically pleasing of them I’ll take Rimac Nevera (The Hammond Humbler), Yangwang U9 Xtreme & the Lotus Evija, all owning 2000+ Horses under their hoo… chassis.
So naturally one would expect that if there were an Italian stable, able to make a mark in the world of supercar sport’s history of e-vehicles then a guess would go to either Lamborghini or Ferrari, maybe even Maserati and sure enough, we got the Pininfarina Battista, which is a breathtaking masterpiece just shy of 2000 hp at 1900 hp.
Well then, when I received an invitation email from Ferrari, on Monday the 25th to view their new “Luce” - Light in English, I was expecting a bombshell of a lady in red to knock my socks off, but what I got was certainly and exactly that, however in a very, extremely negative way!
Honestly, if FIAT wanted to reboot the most hideous and ugly car of all times (The FIAT Multipla), which was so ugly they had to have Michael Schuhmacher advertise the car due to the lack of sales and vile appearance and even he said NEIN 👎🏻 to them until they made it clear to him that he was paid by them and not visa versa, he finally swallowed his pride and submitted (here I go digressing again, but anyway as Scranton Joe used to say..) then they should have slapped that FIAT badge on it and get it over with, BUT, NOoooo! They made it a
F E R R A R I - understandably I was speechless. I just looked at it, whilst feeling the ominous bile returning throat and mouth in past my memory of the Multipla and quietly said to myself “What a waste of every type of resource” and went back home.
Driving back home in my lame BMW G31 520 Diesel I suddenly felt like a nobleman in his carriage wing pulled by 193 thoroughbred horses.
“they’re gonna pay for this one” I thought to myself. I was so disappointed that I didn’t even take pictures OR write, talk or think about it, almost feeling that fitting German word “Fremdscham” describing the feeling of someone being ashamed/humiliation for somebody else’s “Dummheit” or stupidity.
But after hearing Alex’s comment yesterday and the crashing stocks today, a whopping loss of $5 BILLION or £3-4 billion within a matter of hours I just had to get it off of my pistons.
Summary: Sometimes a thoroughbred stallion is just a prancing pony and a name can’t save your hide when the Assyrians come for your skin.