Thanks to the Luce, we're realizing we don't like grey blobs

It's insane out there on the internet right now. We're all acting like we're the lawyers Ferrari sends out when someone commits the heinous crime of personalizing their Ferrari to their will. I mean, desecrates a holy four wheeled item made by the car Gods in Italy, of course. But this time, Ferrari itself is the one who dares to violate the spiritual rules, and that won't stand in the eyes of the armchair warriors that are uniting en mass. And I love it.

I'm having the best time on the internet since ages. I wouldn't have thought that presenting that eye sore of a Luce would set the world in flames like it did. Except for James May, who kind of likes the new EV, nobody seems to like it and everybody has his own theory for why Ferrari decided to built the damned thing. I did too. I just thing it's a way for Ferrari to stay clear from EV's for a while, and at the same time sell the shitbox to some hardcore fans, tech nerds that want a supreme Apple Car and the people of China that don't really seem to have any taste in cars whatsoever.

But my opinion is probably the most boring one out there. It's way to nuanced for fun. We like a bit of fun here, don't we, dear reader? And the most fun theory out there is that Ferrari built the Luce because it wants to keep building V12's. The reason the Luce is as ugly as it is, is because Ferrari deliberately tries to upset the whole of Italy, a part of the EU and hopefully some car enthousiasts. Not because it likes to poke the bear with a stick long enough to get away safely, but to get the bear to attack political leaders.

You see, according to this theory, which I've read a couple of times on Reddit and on most car sites which allow comments to go unfiltered, the Luce is Ferrari's attempt to prove it's no good at making EV's and therefore it shouldn't. But it needs to be allowed to not make EV's because under EU regulations it needs to, or else it will need to pay a fine. Disregarding the fact the fine Ferrari would have to pay would be way cheaper than it was to set up a project to create the Luce, let alone to pay the designers Ive and Newson, the angry mob would be doing it's job of harassing officials to the point they would waive the regulation for Ferrari, after which the Luce would be burned and never to be spoken of again.

To be fair, it does sound very Italian passive aggressive and not beyond the way Ferrari would do business. But I'm also very afraid nothing like this is going to happen. Sadly. Not because the EU wouldn't budge for Ferrari alone, but more because the internet forgets really quickly. I mean, last week we where all up in arms about the fact that Mercedes-AMG let the electric GT 4-door coupé be designed by even worse designers than the ones that left Apple a few years ago. But look who's talking about that? We barely even know the thing was presented in yellow, since Mercedes has, very sensibly, switched to black for the latests press releases.

However, I'm still rooting for my fellow armchair warriors. I like the fact that the Luce has brought us together again. I like it even more that there is a line being drawn in the sand. We're realizing that we've been fed boring, bland and shapeless cars for far to long and that we demand to get some charisma, some personality and some daring shapes in our cars. We don't want to end up waiting for the door handles to pop out of our grey blob of a car, only to realize that we've been standing there for five minutes pressing the button on the keyfob next to the wrong grey blob, because the whole parking lot looks the same.

In other news

News? Who dares to release something after Ferrari shit the bed this bad. We're all trying to clean the stain out of the sheets before we're ready to continue. I bet you didn't even notice Lancia has shown the latests grey blob. Nobody noticed, because the heap of crap coming out of Maranello's arsehole was so big, it blocked out the sun.

Anyway, did you notice the new old BMW E30 M3 being made in Denmark? Probably not. Don't blame you, it is very, very small and not made by BMW. It's being made by LEGO and while being a bit off on proportions, it's still a cool collectable. I'm not going to get it. I'm buying the Hoonicorn and the set containing the Land Rover Defender and the Jaguar Project 7.

Speaking of shitting the bed. My internet has just crapped itself. You'd thing being in the middle of nowhere in Sweden, you'd have a decent 5G connection. Guess the Swedes like their lives in the stone ages. See you tomorrow. Maybe. Maybe not.