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It"s fair to say that, upon seeing the Faraday Future FF 91 for the first time, the internet has reacted with some scepticism. So we decided to use the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to get a closer look, and speak to Faraday"s design chief, Richard Kim."It"s inside out design," he tells us. "When we buy the new generation of car, we"re going to be thinking about the back seats. There"s this old notion that being in the back seat of a car means you"re extremely wealthy, and you"re being chauffeur driven; now the back seat is just as important for the Uber generation. So we"ve designed this car for someone who"s never had a driving licence. This is the first of its kind."So the interior which Faraday unhelpfully wouldn"t let us photograph gets two seats rather than three, and they look as large, sumptuous and reclining as anything Rolls or Merc offers. Yeah, we weren"t allowed to sit in it, either. Predictably there are screens aplenty, while the doors are coach-style (the back doors rear-hinged), like on a Rolls-Royce Phantom.There are no door handles just push a button for them to swing electronically open and the car allows or denies access via facial recognition. Kim acknowledges the FF 91 won"t be cheap, and many will experience it via car-sharing, something which requires a new way to access cars if you"re to stroll up and borrow one rather than own it.Kim makes bold claims about the FF 91"s interior functionality, too. "We want to have the absolute best connectivity. Not just ever in a car, but we want to be better than your home or office. So when you have bad phone signal at home, just go in the car."It may be designed for people without a licence, but Faraday wants its car to appeal to those who do have one. Hence 1,050bhp and a claimed 0-60mph time of 2.39secs, something it"s tried to prove with plentiful videos of the FF 91 beating a Ferrari, Bentley and a Tesla Model S on a drag strip."We"re the fastest production car. If you do like driving your car, you want to be the fastest car. Here you can smoke all the Ferraris. We have to be as good as possible in everything. We can"t compete in the old way. We have to be the best in every way. We have to do it all in one, like your phone."
Date written: 9 Jan 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6323
It"s fair to say that, upon seeing the Faraday Future FF 91 for the first time, the internet has reacted with some scepticism. So we decided to use the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to get a closer look, and speak to Faraday"s design chief, Richard Kim."It"s inside out design," he tells us. "When we buy the new generation of car, we"re going to be thinking about the back seats. There"s this old notion that being in the back seat of a car means you"re extremely wealthy, and you"re being chauffeur driven; now the back seat is just as important for the Uber generation. So we"ve designed this car for someone who"s never had a driving licence. This is the first of its kind."So the interior which Faraday unhelpfully wouldn"t let us photograph gets two seats rather than three, and they look as large, sumptuous and reclining as anything Rolls or Merc offers. Yeah, we weren"t allowed to sit in it, either. Predictably there are screens aplenty, while the doors are coach-style (the back doors rear-hinged), like on a Rolls-Royce Phantom.There are no door handles just push a button for them to swing electronically open and the car allows or denies access via facial recognition. Kim acknowledges the FF 91 won"t be cheap, and many will experience it via car-sharing, something which requires a new way to access cars if you"re to stroll up and borrow one rather than own it.Kim makes bold claims about the FF 91"s interior functionality, too. "We want to have the absolute best connectivity. Not just ever in a car, but we want to be better than your home or office. So when you have bad phone signal at home, just go in the car."It may be designed for people without a licence, but Faraday wants its car to appeal to those who do have one. Hence 1,050bhp and a claimed 0-60mph time of 2.39secs, something it"s tried to prove with plentiful videos of the FF 91 beating a Ferrari, Bentley and a Tesla Model S on a drag strip."We"re the fastest production car. If you do like driving your car, you want to be the fastest car. Here you can smoke all the Ferraris. We have to be as good as possible in everything. We can"t compete in the old way. We have to be the best in every way. We have to do it all in one, like your phone."
Date written: 9 Jan 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6323
