The floor is flat. Completely. No hump interrupting your shins like a bad joke. This is the Ferrari Luce and it might be the most practical car the brand has ever built. Not that “practical” is a word you expect in Maranello.
Big Is the New Black
At 197.8-inch-long it breaks every size record. The Luce is the longest Ferrari in history. Heavy too. Almost five thousand pounds on the scale.
The platform is electric. That’s why the interior works. No engine block looming under the hood no central tunnel eating up knee room. Just space.
Ferrari started this four-door experiment with the Purosangue back in 2022. That thing was shocking. A V12 SUV. Critics lost their minds. Now comes the Luce and it’s shocking too. But different. It introduces actual firsts. Not just “it goes fast and costs millions” firsts. Real engineering firsts.
Like active aerodynamic grilles. Never done before by Ferrari. E-Ink tech for the key. Corning Gorilla glass everywhere. The wheel setup is insane. Staggered. 23-inches in the front 24 in the rear. The biggest stagger ever on a Ferrari tire.
It eliminates the 48-volt auxiliary battery. The inverter does it all. Clean. Efficient. Unexpected for a supercar manufacturer.
Three Adults? In a Ferrari?
The rear door hinges backward. Suicide style. Just like the Purosangue you sit through the frame and discover the center seat. Wait. What?
The 456 Venice GT was a rare wagon legend it had no middle seat in the back. The Purosangue only ever had two rear seats. The Luce fits three adults in the second row. Adults. Not small children. Not dogs. Grown humans.
The wheelbase is 116.5 inches. Slightly shorter than the Purosangure’s stretch yet the cabin feels cavernous. Cargo space wins too. 21 cubic feet behind the seats. That is 4.4 cubes more than its gasoline predecessor. The tailgate helps. It opens high and wide. Easy loading.
The bench splits 40-20-40. You can fold just the middle. Or just one side. Versatility is not Ferrari’s trademark but here it is anyway. The battery modules live underneath. Thirteen in the floor. Two under the rear bench. Each holds 14 cells. The whole 122 kWh pack weighs 1,389 pounds. A significant chunk of the car’s total mass.
A Necessary Niche
Motor1’s take is simple: everyone looks at the outside. The design is polarizing sure. But the inside changes how you live with the car. It distinguishes the Luce from every other gas-burner in the showroom.
Does an electric Ferrari feel sacrilegious? To some. To others it feels like inevitability. Regulations tighten worldwide. Emissions limits get stricter every year. It was not a matter of if Ferrari made an EV. Only when.
The price is steep. €550,00. Start there. Then add options. It will always be a niche product. Not for the daily commute unless your commute involves winding roads and silence. Ferrari’s projections probably look good enough though. They know their customers. They know the rules are changing.
So you buy the Purosangue for the badge. The Luce? You buy it for the space.
Will anyone really park a Ferrari with the doors wide open to let a third passenger step out on the street? Maybe.
