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Should Ferrari consider building ICE and ICE Hybrids in the USA

Discussion in '12Cilindri' started by MalibuGuy, Oct 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM.

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  1. MalibuGuy

    MalibuGuy F1 Veteran

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    The rest of the world is banning IICE and ICE hybrids, and the USA is not.

    Should Ferrari use FNA to organize a USA production facility to produce ICe based cars.

    Ferrari could build and sell what the brands knows best. Build v6 v8 and v 12’s . turbos and hybrids. ICE based Icona and limited series. One off special project models. And yes sports racing series models. Keep the foundry and casting expertise alive. Continue to precise crank production alive.


    And even create the Retro Antique renovation going.

    Otherwise, I fear these skills handed down from generation to generation will quickly be lost.

    The USA market has enough customers to support this endeavor. This is the time to sell some of the RACE stock and put it back into the FNA manufacturing division.

    I’m sure that many of the technicians from Maranello and Modena would love to visit and work here in the USA.

    Select a state with welcoming tax and regulatory laws.

    I’d sign up to buy an FNA car with Ferrari DNA!

    And whatever I’d save on tariffs I’d spend on nice options.
     
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  2. vaderinc

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    Ferrari is Italy. Ferrari is Maranello.

    Anything outside of that is no longer Ferrari ... go buy a corvette
     
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  3. gliazzurri

    gliazzurri Formula Junior

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    First they don’t care. Second made in USA—lol
     
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  4. MalibuGuy

    MalibuGuy F1 Veteran

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    #4 MalibuGuy, Oct 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
    Last edited: Oct 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
    OK then we are all in for Ferrari all electric!
    Or would you buy a used ICE Ferrari instead of the All Electric.

    And how many years would it take for Ferrari to work out the bugs in the all electric. They bought a few Teslas to reverse engineer . Corvette bought Ferraris such as the 360 to learn about mid read engine set-up.

    Maybe I should buy a Tesla. Faster and more reliable than a Ferrari All Electric —at least that tech lead will last for the first couple of generations of Ferrari All Electric.
     
  5. jumpinjohn

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    Not sure but that might be some catastrophic thinking - Made in USA vs Death to ICE :)
     
  6. MalibuGuy

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    #6 MalibuGuy, Oct 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
    Last edited: Oct 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
    The setting: Post - ICE Apocalypse

    It’s 2035 and there is a deadly silence on all the roads in the EU. Petrol stations lie vacant with broken windows in the service center and old dried out rubber fuel hoses dangling lifeless from the vandalized and battered pumps.

    Strange and odd looking electric vehicles are whizzing by without sound and some without drivers. Random black strips of plastic are anointed on their exterior panels. Weird shiny silver wheels beg for attention.

    Then a bold silhouette appears out of the haze. It’s a racing driver. He wears a helmet which bears his number and his team. He starts up the engine and a deafening rumbling shakes the ground and triggers the car alarms of all the parked cars nearby…

    He grabs the gear lever and slots it into first and drops the clutch. Mad Max is back|
     

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