The most controversial Ferrari ever built arrived at the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed, and almost nobody was allowed to see it. The Luce, Maranello's first fully electric production car, was kept behind closed doors in an exclusive VIP area near the Cartier Lawn, accessible only to serious potential buyers who had been personally invited. The rest of the crowd had to settle for opinions formed from press images and internet argument.
CarBuzz was among the few granted access, and the in-person verdict is nuanced. Free from the packaging constraints of a combustion powertrain, the Luce adopts a silhouette unlike anything else in Ferrari's stable. The long, low hood flows into a windscreen that seems to disappear beneath a floating front wing. Designed in a secretive collaboration between Ferrari's in-house team and LoveFrom, the creative collective founded by former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson, the car is a minimalist sculpture that looks genuinely different from every angle.
The rear is where Ferrari's DNA is most visible: four round taillights that reference the 360 Modena, though some have quipped it looks like a 360 drove into the back of another car. The 23-inch front and 24-inch rear wheels, the largest ever fitted to a roadgoing Ferrari, fill the arches with real presence, giving the car a surprisingly muscular stance that photographs do not fully convey.
Under the skin is where the Luce gets serious. A quad-motor electric powertrain delivers 1,035 horsepower and 730 lb-ft of torque, with true four-wheel independent control for genuine torque vectoring at each corner. The 0-62 mph sprint takes 2.4 seconds, with 124 mph arriving in 6.8 seconds. Top speed is 192 mph. The 122 kWh NMC battery from SK On provides a WLTP range of 329 miles, and 350 kW DC charging means the battery can recover rapidly on longer journeys.
Inside, the Luce seats five, another Ferrari first. Four doors, including rear coach doors with full power operation, open into an interior that splits opinion sharply. Ive's influence is clear in the minimalist approach: analog-digital instrument gauges, a steering wheel that borrows shapes from classic Ferrari racers, and a controversial centre screen on a pivoting ball joint that can face either the driver or passenger. Some of it works beautifully. The instrument cluster, in particular, is a high point, leaning into tactile analog cues rather than the digital screens favoured by every other manufacturer.
Priced at roughly 550,000 euros in Europe, with deliveries beginning late 2026, the Luce is not trying to be everything to everyone. Ferrari sold out 88 units in China within hours of the model going on sale there in June. Whatever the internet's verdict, the market has already spoken. At Goodwood, kept from the crowds, it felt less like a car reveal and more like a provocation. Ferrari has staked its claim on the electric future, and the Luce, divisive as it is, cannot be ignored.
