{"id":9072,"date":"2026-05-28T15:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/?p=9072"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:06:44","slug":"lamborghini-reacts-ferrari-luce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/lamborghini-reacts-ferrari-luce\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lamborghini Can&#8217;t Sound Like a Lamborghini Without an Engine. That&#8217;s the Whole Reason It Killed Its Electric Supercar \u2014 and the Reason Ferrari&#8217;s Just Flopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ferrari Luce&#8217;s disastrous reveal has Lamborghini breathing a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari&#8217;s first all-electric car <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/ferrari-luce-is-ugly\/\">has no reason to exist<\/a>. The original complaint would be &#8220;why is Ferrari making an EV,&#8221; but the supercar maker had a chance to prove naysayers wrong with a cool, capable EV. The issue is they didn&#8217;t. The Luce is not just the ugliest Ferrari ever made, but ugly even when compared to basic electric commuters. And the performance is standard for a luxury EV, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/tesla-model-s-plaid-vs-ferrari-luce\/\">nothing exceptional<\/a>. Nothing\u00a0<em>super.\u00a0<\/em>There is nothing &#8220;Ferrari&#8221; about this vehicle, with even the former chairman questioning if it should have the prancing horse logo.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lamborghini revealed its all-electric supercar, the Lanzador, a few years back. It was meant to come out soon, but CEO Stephan Winkelmann claimed Lamborghini&#8217;s clientele <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/lamborghini-lanzador-not-happening\/\">had no interest in EVs<\/a> and put the model on pause. At the time, Winkelmann added that the interest was &#8220;close to zero,&#8221; citing a lack of connection with electric cars due to the missing V12 and all. The brand couldn&#8217;t find a way to connect wealthy supercar owners with a silent, soulless EV, so it gave up.<\/p>\n<h2>Will the Lamborghini Lanzador have better luck?<\/h2>\n<p>After the backlash Ferrari received for the ugly Luce, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/27\/ferrari-luce-backlash-lamborghini-ceo-ev.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Winkelmann told CNBC<\/a> that delaying the undesired Lamzador was &#8220;the right way to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He explained: &#8220;<span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">By observing the market, we saw that the acceptance curve [of EVs] for our type of customers is not increasing, and that therefore we decided to move away from a full-electric car into a plug-in hybrid.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When asked about the Luce, Winkelmann remained a bit more reserved. He simply stated that &#8220;every brand has to decide for themselves&#8221; when it comes to launching an EV.<\/p>\n<p>An early look at the Lanzador tells me it wouldn&#8217;t be as much of a stinker as the Luce. It carries over some of Lamborghini&#8217;s style and aesthetic, with an aggressive front end and numerous harsh angles throughout the body. However, it still looks a little goofy and would have to figure out a way to not be silent and depressing while driving it. That&#8217;s the biggest issue.\u00a0The Luce sounds like a typical EV, using generic, synth-like sounds to keep the car from being completely silent.<\/p>\n<p>That fakeness just doesn&#8217;t cut it for the supercar crowd. I&#8217;m not really sure what Lamborghini has in mind to make the Lanzador sound engaging and exciting, given that it has no engine. I don&#8217;t think it will do well. The only electric cars from these brands that do well are extreme hypercars. But these more &#8220;common&#8221; supercars, meant to be seen on the road and at local car shows&#8230; Nobody wants to drive an electric version of them. I don&#8217;t think the world is ready for it.<\/p>\n<p>Especially one as ugly as the Luce.<\/p>\n<p>If Lamborghini is smart, it will &#8220;delay&#8221; the Lanzador for eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ferrari Luce&#8217;s disastrous reveal has Lamborghini breathing a sigh of relief. Ferrari&#8217;s first all-electric car has no reason to &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"A Lamborghini Can&#8217;t Sound Like a Lamborghini Without an Engine. That&#8217;s the Whole Reason It Killed Its Electric Supercar \u2014 and the Reason Ferrari&#8217;s Just Flopped\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/lamborghini-reacts-ferrari-luce\/#more-9072\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Lamborghini Can&#8217;t Sound Like a Lamborghini Without an Engine. That&#8217;s the Whole Reason It Killed Its Electric Supercar \u2014 and the Reason Ferrari&#8217;s Just Flopped\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electric-vehicles-evs","resize-featured-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9089,"href":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions\/9089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}