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You could put a speaker in it that does vroom. Some companies do that.
This is really a rich people's problem though. #care
So Ferrari has felt compelled to add some sound back in. The company claims that sound is authentic because it is picked up by sensors beside the axles and amplified like an electric guitar.
That is so fucking lame.
EVs have a problem, and that problem is they're just not entertaining. I remember watching the Goodwood festival hill climb, and the least entertaining vehicle to watch go up the hill was the Mustang Mach E, despite being one of the fastest on the day. The most entertaining were vehicles made in the thirties with tyres the size of a modern mountain bike, and the gear shift on the outside of the car.
After getting an EV myself, the vroom is completely irrelevant IMO, I actually find the silent acceleration way cooler. 😎
The problem with the new Electric Ferrari is way more that the design is an uninteresting stereotype of an average small sportscar.
Agreed, there are some really cool ev hypercars out there and Ferrari could have done that and gotten positive responses, but instead they made the most boring looking car ever.
They should've just slapped a Fiat badge and a 60k price tag on it and it would have been interesting again.
Ok, but the Fiat 500e is STYLIN'!!!!! I'd buy that!
In the other end of the scale we have the "Bat Mobil"
https://www.goodwood.com/grr/road/news/the-ariel-hipercar-is-a-1000ps-nutjob-with-a-turbine/
It's ugly, but at least it's not boring. 🤣 🤣 🤣
On a more serious note,
Or the Yangwang U9 Extreme, maybe the fastest car in the world, looks amazing, and is an ev.
Yes that looks like an actual race car.
It doesn't, by any means, but it does look like a form over function rich persons car, which is what it was aiming for and would have been unthinkable for a Chinese car a decade ago.
It definitely looks a lot like a le mans race car.
I love taking off in my EV and doing a tight turn without walking up the whole neighborhood. But people who buy expensive sport cars mostly want to be seen and heard, they're not doing this for the driving comfort. I found my drive in a Ferrari lacking in comfort.
They have used none of Ferrari's "design language" for this car, it doesn't look like a Ferrari.
This was actually designed by Johnny Ives' design studio. I don't think they got the message that Ferrari was the customer.
I absolutely agree, it could maybe be argued that the new design is elegant, but my immediate impression was just uninteresting.
I would have believed this car was a Kia without a second thought if I saw it on the road with that badge. That's not a compliment for either company, unfortunately.
I enjoy it when I sit in the car, but only to a degree. And I hate it when others keep driving by my window, blasting me with their micro penis sound. Or when they scare my dogs. So if you 100% absolutely need it to be happy, let's make a compromise and play an artificial sound inside of your own car. Oh, and please do the same with every fucking loud motorcycle.
And to Ferrari, if you want an outrageously cool car with electric motors, this is how you do it.
That car is BADASS!!! Damn noisy too! I wouldn't miss engine noises when it sounds like that!
Really cool that they have put sci-fi like motors on each wheel. It will be interesting to see where this goes as it allows for a lot of new traction and cornering techniques. Pity about the design looking a bit like a Jensen Interceptor.
You take that back - this bland monstrosity posing as a Ferrari doesn’t have a tenth of the personality of a Jensen Interceptor.
I'm okay with the silent power, I am not okay with it looking like a minivan.
I genuinely think Ferrari deliberately designed a boring looking EV so they can say "See, our customers don't want EV's, let's never do one again."
They wont have much choice when combustion engines are banned.
People who have loud cars and care about their cars being loud are some of the saddest people in existence. The only purpose is to shout at others about what an inconsiderate asshole they are. And to make them feel better about being such a sad small peened individual.
Be it old shitty cars with after market pipes, giant trucks designed to be as obnoxious as possible or "sports" cars only driven by dickheads who can't drive for shit. I fucking hate them all.
True, EV's are about things like value for money, quietness, reliability, lack of maintenance, all things expensive flashy cars detest and have no need for
It's like making an economical artwork or cheap watch for a super rich person, what's the point?
Haters gonna hate. Imo, the Hyundai Testarossa looks absolutely gorgeous 🚙
Without the vroom you have 50% less of micropenis compensation. Outrageous!
Of course. If you can't be loud and obnoxious, you can't compensate for the fact you have a tiny penis.
Which I wish they'd quit because they're giving the rest of us with tiny penises a bad name.
For passionate enthusiasts, Ferraris are not merely cars but works of art...the sound of the engine revving evokes a sensation comparable to listening to the music of Giuseppe Verdi or Giacomo Puccini.
“I agree with him – the horse needs to be removed,” said Barone, adding that his main gripe was its lack of sound. “How can you have a Ferrari without any vroom?”
I suppose that someone could make a device that polls OBD-II for the current RPM and feeds more synthetic ICE engine sound into the sound system.
EDIT: Hell, if you're freed from the constraints of an actual ICE engine, there's probably some sort of sound that's more psychologically-optimized to make the guy happy than whatever an actual engine puts out.
BMW did that and everyone hated it.
People don’t want synthetic sounds, they want the real thing.
Carriages aren’t the same ever since they went without any horse dung.