It’s Ugly. It Costs $640,000. Everyone Is Mad About It but Me.

Mr. Ratti is a professor at M.I.T. and Politecnico di Milano and the designer of the Olympic torch for the 2026 Winter Games, among other projects.

The revered Italian sports car maker Ferrari has debuted its first electric vehicle, the Luce — a $640,000 five-seater with a staggering 1,035 horsepower. The reaction has been swift and savage. The Ferrari faithful, the Ferraristi, are mortified, angry, apoplectic that the brand would appear on a vehicle that doesn’t resemble a muscular sports car. “It looks like a mouse, it looks like a Prius, it looks like a Honda, it looks like a Chinese E.V., it looks like everything BUT a Ferrari,” wrote one Redditor. A former Ferrari chairman decried, “We’re........

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