Should Ferrari consider building ICE and ICE Hybrids in the USA

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.

 

No.

Ferrari is Italy. Ferrari is Maranello.

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Not sure but that might be some catastrophic thinking - Made in USA vs Death to ICE

 

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|

 

They wouldn´t need to set another factory. Just because they couldn´t sell them in Europe wouldn´t mean they couldn´t build them in Europe.

 

Perfect!!

 

What if we create a town in Texas - like Hershey or Stargate? We call it Italy, Texas. A railroad runs through the middle of town. On the one side is the Ferrari Factory, on the other is Lamborghini. Surrounding farms grow Italian grains so genuine Italian breads may be enjoyed in the many cafes that are sprinkled around the town.

 

Well this is what a person with ‘common sense’ would allow. The regulators don’t have common sense.

Germany is beginning to see the light as their auto industry is falling like a rock.

 

Is Fords quality on par with Ferrari? Lots of recalls for Ford and lots of bad designs inside and out for Ferrari. Good match maybe.

id think Aston in UK makes more sense as the factory will need something profitable to produce to stay in business very soon.

 

It is allowed.

 

Glad to hear that this is the proposed regulatory law for the EU come 2035. Italy can make ICE and sell them to markets which allow ICE cars after 2035.

 

Ferrari in the USA wouldn’t be Ford

It would be or could be Ferrari. Of course that’s a tough transition


But no tariffs!


Good point about the UK. I totally forgot about Brexit. There is a stronger talent base in UK with McLaren and Williams and now Aston.

So yes that would be a very good fit. And much closer for travel and business logistics with Italy

Not sure if there would be a tariff issue with the US market. But easier to negotiate with the UK than with the EU

Excellent thoughts!

 

If Ferrari won't make a different exhaust for the US they certainly won't be building production plants there. They have markedly altered their target demographic, drastically increased prices, production numbers, and new release models. All while eliminating their epic sound, engine cylinder count, analog anything including instruments, and N/A ICE as flagship. The plan is hybrids and electrics. This has all happened in the last ten years.

They also ended relationship with the best designers in the world opting for in-house garish want-a-be trial and error monstrosities that you have to be lectured on their merits to stomach much like their clothing line. They are a publicly traded marketing company that also makes cars. You'll see factories in China but not in the US.

 

The plan is 40% pure ICE, 40% hybrids and 20% electrics.

Not Ferrari factories.