{"id":667149,"date":"2026-05-27T01:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667149\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:59:17","slug":"controversial-electric-ferrari-outrages-transport-minister-and-the-rest-of-italy-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/667149\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial electric Ferrari outrages transport minister (and the rest of Italy) \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salvini&#8217;s comments are likely to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/giorgia-meloni-italy-carmaker-stellantis-collision-fiat-cars-economic-patriot-investing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heighten tensions<\/a> between the Italian government and the Agnelli-Elkann family, the largest single shareholder in Ferrari and the global carmaker Stellantis.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial Luce \u2014 the first Ferrari model to be fully electric and to have five seats \u2014 immediately sparked outrage among purists in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>It also didn&#8217;t immediately convince investors, with Ferrari&#8217;s stock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borsaitaliana.it\/borsa\/azioni\/scheda\/NL0011585146-MTAA.html?lang=it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dropping<\/a> by more than eight percent on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The four-door Ferrari, branded as &#8220;the most comfortable Ferrari ever&#8221; \u2014 hardly an on-brand endorsement for a carmaker synonymous with speed, style and passion \u2014 was co-designed by Jony Ive, the former chief design officer at Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheAppleDesign\/status\/2059031686785188317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">jokingly noted a resemblance<\/a> between the new Ferrari, available in an unusual light blue, and the iconic Apple products designed by Ive&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0.2rem\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAppleDesign\/status\/2059031686785188317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-26-at-20.17.15.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"520\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Di Montezemolo, who led Ferrari for over two decades, also slammed the car.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salvini&#8217;s comments are likely to heighten tensions between the Italian government and the Agnelli-Elkann family, the largest single&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,291430,1302,6144,5040,6801,159806,51387,10815,71661,108,10127],"class_list":["post-667149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-carlo-calenda","tag-cars","tag-electric-cars","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-italy","tag-john-elkann","tag-matteo-salvini","tag-media","tag-sergio-mattarella","tag-social-media","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}