Faraday Future FF 91 prototype quick drive: Betting the farm

id=“article-body“ class=“row“ section=“article-body“> Enlarge ImageThere’s a lot riding on this car.

Andrew Krok/Roadshow This story is part of CES 2020, our complete coverage of the showroom floor and the hottest new tech gadgets around. Faraday Future put its name on the map at CES 2017, when it brought hundreds of journalists to a massive tent to unveil its first car, the electric FF 91. It was quite the spectacle, with promises of bonkers performance and even a drag race against a Tesla to hammer that point home.

But building a car is hard, and building an entire automaker is even harder. In the years that followed, we haven’t seen a production FF 91, but we have seen Faraday Future’s name in the press for…  not exactly good reasons. The company has had its fair share of growing pains, swapping CEOs, changing production locations and getting into a knock-down, drag-out fight with its primary investor.

Through all that, though, the FF 91 continues to work its way through the development stages; the company still estimates this thing will go into production in September. Here at CES 2020, Faraday let me slide behind the wheel of one of its development cars to get my thoughts, and while I might always have half an eye pointed down Skeptic Avenue, the car itself is actually mighty promising.

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I’ll be straight with you: I don’t like the way the FF 91 looks. Now, this is obviously pure opinion, but there’s just something about it that rankles my cankles. I think a lot of it comes from the rear end, where there’s this odd convergence of lines from all sorts of different angles. It’s really busy, and it comes out looking more alien than expected.

But, ufabet ทางเข้า despite my distaste for it, let me tell you, people go nuts for this car. During my brief spin around Las Vegas, everybody’s phones were out, taking pictures and videos. What hands weren’t occupied with camera shutters were waving or throwing thumbs-ups. There has been a constant crowd around Faraday’s two cars the entire length of CES this year. Its animal magnetism cannot be denied, even if I’m apparently immune to it.

There’s no denying how well-crafted the interior is, though. The usual hand-built development car issues aside, there’s a real-deal luxury car hiding behind those funky body panels. The space is used very well, taking advantage of the FF 91’s shape and resulting in what’s closer to a business-class cabin on a big-name airline.