Luce Lawless

Ferrari have announced their first all-electric car - the Luce:

Looks good doesn't it?

As long as you view it from that exact angle.

'Cause it just looks weird from every other one.

Auto Express cover the story here describing it as "New Ferrari Luce EV arrives with shocking design, 1,035bhp and £440k price"

Autocar have this describing it as "1036bhp, 329 miles, £440k: Ferrari Luce revealed as wild super-EV"

The Autocar one must be better because it has one extra bhp.

They also have more commenters - more in both number and knowledgability.

The Auto Express ones are just judging the car on the fact it is electric and isn't particularly attractive - not that any of them would be able to afford one despite one claiming that he could - yeah sure mate!  Oh and there is one commenter who is either a Chinese Bot or a Chinese moron - I suspect the former.

A lot of the Autocar comments are also negative but there is a more genuine mix and more constructive criticism.

There is agreement and positive commentry on both websites for the interior and both have comments likening it to a Jaguar i-Pace - something I can definitely see.

Personally though, I'm not that enamoured by the interior:

It has real buttons which is good and the instrumentation is innovative - in a good way - but what is that dashboard made of?  Plastic? Shiny leather?

More weirdness.

So I won't be putting in an order for one.

And not just because I can't afford one.

Pork Pies

If I said Pork Pie to you, what would you picture in your head?

A meaty pastry product?

 

Or maybe a hat? 

Or maybe a character from a popular 1980s sitcom set in a barber's?

Who I've just realised was called "Porkpie" because he wore a pork pie hat.

 

But probably not the newly opened 4.4 mile Melton Mowbray Bypass.

 

Which is now to be called Pork Pie Way.  Which explains the photo above that I nicked from that BBC News article.

 

The local people had a vote.  Which can be dangerous.  But they mitigated the danger by limiting the options to a select list.

 

So no chance of Bypassy McBypassface.

 

But PETA weren't happy.  The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals thought Pork Pie Way was "pig-demeaning", and urged the Reform UK-run council to choose Vegan Pie Way instead.

 

Oh dear.  I can be as Commie-left woke as the next person but that is ridiculous.  And imagine a Reform council going with that!

And remember, this isn't the first case of apt road naming.

Getting Cozy

The UK's top selling car in March was the Jaecoo 7.

The US's top selling car at the turn of the Century was the Little Tikes Cozy Coupe.

Click on that link for a very amusing article from Car+Driver.

Although I'm not sure of the picture they have chosen - it is a black lad serving a white girl.  Bit of racial stereotyping going on there I think.

The story isn't about car sales in the early 2000s though.

It's about how Little Tikes are now producing an EV version of the foot powered sit-in car.

It takes 3 AA batteries for the pretend charging unit to provide lights and "charging noises."

The commenters underneath the story seem to get the joke.

Apart from one tosser who states, "It's downright crazy to drag toddlers into the EV Car drama with plastic peddle cars, don't you think? It's more of a adult topic. Over the top on this, toy designers."

He's got 18 downvotes, zero upvotes and various comments basically confirming that he is a tosser.

And wrong. 

He also can't spell "pedal" and The Crazy Coupe doesn't have pedals so isn't a pedal car anyway.

Right, I'm off now to watch Driving Miss Daisy.

What a grey day!

Sad news from Cupra here.

And I say that as the owner of a grey car who has previously owned a silver car and a black car.

Although my other three cars were vomit yellow, cherry red and racing green.

The story states that this...

..is a thing of the past.  Cupra creative director Francesca Sangalli has stated that,

"Cupra is about neutral colour with a twist, and this is why we give much more importance to matt finishes and the very oily treatment of colour.  You choose a Cupra if you like the brand, and you choose the range of colours that fits with the brand and not vice versa. You will never find a red Cupra."

Damn shame given that we have now got to the stage where nearly all cars are monchrome.

"Broadening the range with more colourful hues risks losing the brand because you go with what everyone else does" 

So now she's going grey.

Like everyone else.

Apart from Fiat.

Big Little Car

Another video from one of the YouTube Channels I subscribe to...

This is a review by the petite Imogen Bhopal of the Hyundai Ioniq 3 on Robert Llewelyn's Everything Electric CARS channel.

I say "petite"...

...she looks quite large here:

 

Or is it just a small car?

 

Then again? 

   

Is it a small woman and a big car?

 

At the start of the review, she states that they only had 30-ish minutes with the car.

 

And the more I watched it, the more it looked like she and the car were nowhere near each other.

 

She and the car appear to be digitally combined. 

 

Like Marc Almond & Gene Pitney in the video to the brilliant "Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart."

 

Then, all of a sudden, just before 6 minutes into the review, she opens the boot!

 

She also climbs in to it:

 

This really excites the commenters.

But I suppose the biggest takeaway is that you can stash the body of a petite person under the boot floor of a Hyundai Ioniq 3.

Which I suspect isn't what they were really going for.