I Just dont understand why everyone seemingly make EVs ugly on purpose...
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2026
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So people won't buy them. O&G companies still own the auto industry.
There's two big reasons.
No front grill
So much of a brand's identity can be carried by the grill and headlights. And on an EV, there's no need for a grill. But just a slab of flat metal looks weird, so they add stuff to break it up.
Drag
The range of an EV is a lot more sensitive to drag than an ICE car.
So in order to reduce the drag, shapes are smoothed out.
Aero efficiency becomes a much bigger priority than looks.
I actually really like the look of my Renault Megane E-Tech
Battery could be better, but else I'm really happy with it - and the look of it
Also completely subjective..
The Ferrari Ev looks sick as do Hyundai's offerings and hell even the new Prius is pretty cool. (I know it's a hybrid)
Maybe you just have a really narrow scope of appreciation lol.
Audi has the best looking cars to my eyye, of all the standard person cars. Their EVs are asstastic looking.
The secretly don’t want to manufacture them so they make them look like shit?
Obviously they can be made to look normal, the Ford Lightning & Mach E, Lucid, Polestar, and even a Tesla all look pretty normal and arguably some look really nice. But ask a mainstream manufacturer to make an EV car and they look stupid half the time. The Prius finally doesn’t look like it’s trying to virtue signal with its ugliness, so designs can be improved too.
But ask a mainstream manufacturer to make an EV car and they look stupid half the time.
IMO, it's probably more that they overdesign them. They want the EV to look futuristic and unique compared to their regular cars, but their cars already look like that to some degree, and so they overcook the design into looking like some science fiction vehicle. Take the Ferrari, for example, they tried to make it have a floating arch where the hood would normally be.
That's fine for a movie or video game, but in real life, coupled with the practical limits, it just doesn't look very good.
That‘s definitely a possibility. People don‘t want futuristic unless maybe it‘s a sports car, and even then it‘s iffy.
Tesla look like poo. Polestar are nicer by a mile but the backwindow is veey EV aesthetic
I don't agree on the Prius. The 2026 version has worse consumption and a smaller trunk so it could look more like any other SUV. People buy these cause they are the best economics for the size and Toyota made it more like "what they think a phev suv should look like". I'd say that's the opposite of your point.
2024 and 2026 Prius both show 57/56 city/highway economy on fueleconomy.gov for the most economic models. The 2022 shows 54/50, the 2019 58/53.
So it looks like average economy has improved.
As for cargo, that’s unfortunate to lose space, but if they can get more people to buy the car because it looks more “normal” then that’s better, no?
Dont throw sense their way 😅
More people using less fossil fuels = better always
People who drive gas cars personally, make ugly EVs. They don't build cars for themselves, they build cars for what their prejudiced minds think EV drivers want. The problem here is probably that none of the Ferrari leadership drives an EV.
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I don't even think it looks that bad, it just doesn't look like a Ferrari
I imagine that's the issue, that it does in fact not look like a Ferrari, when it is supposed to be a Ferrari.
Yeah definitely, like if Audemars Piguet released watches that didn't look like and Audemars Piguet they'd definitely get a similar reaction from their similar clientele.
Like this?
Technically that's a swatch release, similar to the Moonswatch. People went crazy for the royal pop though, more than I thought they would.
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I saw an image edit with a Toyota Prius badge and I legit liked it
Hyundai's Ioniq Venus concept actually kind of looks like if Ferrari designed a Prius
That’s kinda neat looking honestly.
Honestly, too many Cybertruck vibes for my taste. Maybe it's better from other angles
I feel like this what a more finished design of the cybertruck could have been. Personally, I like the sharp angles and strong lines on this car (to clarify, the cybertruck is fugly and has no redeeming qualities) and hope we see more of this style in the future.
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The company's shares plunged by 8% the day after the Luce was unveiled.
Lol. They let an iPhone designer design a Ferrari, and it really shows.
Whoever designed that smooth as a booger look clearly didn't have a poster with Ferrari on it, in their room, as a kid.
I would sell their stock too, if I had any.
I thought he just designed the interior?
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Stock up 4% today on the firing news lol
Ferrari has one of the greatest design teams in Pininfarina yet they choose a person famous for making a rounded rect to make a totally new product. This is what they get for their poor choices.
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There was no reason to make it look so out of place, unless they actually wanted to tank sales. Nothing about its look is necessitated by the EV drive train versus ICE.
That's not a marketing issue, that's whoever approved that design. Which, to be fair, may be the marketing boss depending on how their corporate structure is.
I mean, I feel nuts because I've complained about so many EVS that look terrible and not like a normal ice car.
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How hard is it to put a battery on a testarossa.
Dumbasses tried to reinvent the ev
This seems like two unrelated stories. It wasn’t his decision to buy the car, nor did he design it. So it seems unlikely that he’s resigning because people don’t like the design or idea of it
How did they get to unveiling without anyone reviewing the design? Or did everyone inside Ferrari sign off on it as being acceptable?
They bypassed a large chunk of the Ferrari design and engineering and marketing team, who hate it with fierce Italian passion. They think management have betrayed their history
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The thing that gets me is when car designers make a car that's trying to be something it's not. It's an EV, not an ICE vehicle. If anything, amplify the motor hum under load (accelerating). Don't simulate engine sounds. We're tired of living in a simulation.
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