> be Ferrari
> spend 8 decades selling cars based on the sound they make
> hire Jony Ive - the guy who killed the headphone jack and shipped the butterfly keyboard - to design your first EV
> wait 4 years. unveil the "Luce" in Rome
> charge $640,000 for 280 miles of range. a $50K Mustang Mach-E does 300
> 0-60 in 2.4 seconds. so does a used Tesla Plaid for a tenth of the price
> weigh 4,982 lbs - basically a Ford F-150
> 4 doors, 4 seats, a hatchback trunk Ferrari proudly calls "the largest luggage capacity we've ever offered"
> Ive at the launch: "it's not styled"
> actual designers call it "soulless," compare it to a Honda, a kit-car, and "a Lotus Elise for the EV era"
> because EVs are silent, you bolt an accelerometer to the motors and run an algorithm that filters "unpleasant frequencies" and amplifies "musical" ones
> US deliveries: Q2 2027
$640,000. for a 5,000-pound sedan with a synthesized soul. designed by the man who killed the headphone jack.
$FLNC - Signed master supply agreements with two major hyperscalers, and still going through record 5.6 billion dollar backlog, with 3.36 billion revenue expected in 2026 which is right around their marketap. A lot of impatient selling and UBS downgrade caused some panic.
@hypakritikal@based16z yeah but the all the pain and struggle of fatloss journey is the key to maintaining the goal weight. these peptards will just gain the weight back when they stop using