{"id":"1792878151399-tech-segment","slug":"ferrari-is-officially-dutch","title":"Ferrari Is Officially Dutch","summary":"Ferrari N.V., the holding company that owns Ferrari S.p.A., is indeed registered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with its corporate seat there, though its operational and fiscal headquarters is in Maranello, Italy. This is a catalogue entry announcement, not a factual claim requiring verification. This post is framed as speculation and a question, explicitly stating there is no confirmed launch timeline, so it makes an assertion consistent with that framing. This is a satirical joke about audience misunderstanding of Oppenheimer, not a factual claim.","publishedAt":"2026-10-24T21:42:31.399Z","channel":{"id":"tech","name":"Oncast Tech","language":"en"},"show":"Machines","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: Ferrari N.V., the holding company that owns Ferrari S.p.A., is indeed registered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with its corporate seat there, though its operational and fiscal headquarters is in Maranello, Italy. This is a catalogue entry announcement, not a factual claim requiring verification. This post is framed as speculation and a question, explicitly stating there is no confirmed launch timeline, so it makes an assertion consistent with that framing. This is a satirical joke about audience misunderstanding of Oppenheimer, not a factual claim.\nSource: [ferrari.com](https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/corporate) NAMES: none needed. POST 2111894837045739627: NOCLAIM none NAMES: C218 = the internal chassis code for th (https://x.com/maartentermors/status/2113320338688020927)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Ferrari N.V., the holding company that owns Ferrari S.p.A., is indeed registered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with its corporate seat there, though its operational and fiscal headquarters is in Maranello, Italy. This is a catalogue entry announcement, not a factual claim requiring verification. This post is framed as speculation and a question, explicitly stating there is no confirmed launch timeline, so it makes an assertion consistent with that framing. This is a satirical joke about audience misunderstanding of Oppenheimer, not a factual claim.","sourceName":"[ferrari.com](https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/corporate) NAMES: none needed. POST 2111894837045739627: NOCLAIM none NAMES: C218 = the internal chassis code for th","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/maartentermors/status/2113320338688020927","claim":"Just discovered by accident that the holding company that owns Ferrari is registered in Amsterdam. Yes, Ferrari is officially Dutch! 🇳🇱 Bring on the blocks of cheese with flags in it at the next car launch. (observe the address!) https://t.co/X4s87jMR8Y","author":"Maarten ter Mors (@maartentermors)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/maartentermors/status/2113320338688020927","name":"[ferrari.com](https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/corporate) NAMES: none needed. POST 2111894837045739627: NOCLAIM none NAMES: C218 = the internal chassis code for th","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"Maarten ter Mors (@maartentermors)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792878151399-tech-segment-ferrari-is-officially-dutch","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/tech","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792878151399-tech-segment-ferrari-is-officially-dutch","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1792878151399-tech-segment-ferrari-is-officially-dutch and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Chris","text":"Ferrari is officially Dutch."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Come again?"},{"host":"Chris","text":"Maarten ter Mors posted the corporate address. Ferrari N.V. is registered in Amsterdam."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"So all those Italian flags at Maranello... legally speaking?"},{"host":"Chris","text":"The corporate seat is Dutch. The soul is still very much in Italy, they build everything there."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"This is what happens when you chase tax advantages and shareholder structures. Ferrari's been doing it for years."},{"host":"Chris","text":"But here's the kicker: if that's true, the most Italian car in the world files its holding company taxes in the Netherlands. Blocks of cheese with flag holes at the next launch, apparently."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That's the real story. The cheese course."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I'd still take the car. But the legal paperwork does make it funnier when you see Dutch watermarks on the filings."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"All right, different world entirely. A Bluesky post from John Gilda is absolutely furious."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"He quotes what he says is Forbes: Ben Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences has teamed up with Palmer Luckey's Anduril to create a dog that's optimized for military use."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Optimized for military use. Well, that's a sentence I did not expect to hear before lunch."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"His words are 'rage bait,' 'shame on Forbes genuflection,' and 'freaks.'"},{"host":"Chris","text":"Okay, but hold on. Colossal is the company trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. Anduril makes drones and autonomous defense systems. So this isn't some random pairing."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That's the part I want to see verified. There have been reports of Colossal and Anduril collaborating on what people are calling 'cyber dogs,' but I could not confirm the exact Forbes quote in that post."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Cyber dogs. That sounds like a terrible 90s cartoon."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"The point is: if they're taking genetics work and packing it into a military robotics frame, that's a big ethical jump from bringing back extinct species."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I get why he's angry, but let me push back. The military already uses dogs in combat. A synthetic one that can run with autonomous systems and not die in a firefight? That could save lives."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Oh, come on. That's not what Colossal is supposed to be. You take a species-extinction company and hook it to defense robotics, you're not making a better dog, you're building a weapon that looks like man's best friend."},{"host":"Chris","text":"But that's exactly my point! If you can put the loyalty, the scent detection, the physicality of a dog into a body that doesn't bleed out on the field, that's a better tool."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"A tool. You said it. Not a dog. And the minute you take the soul out, you're just building another autonomous weapons platform and calling it cute."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I never called it cute. But I'm serious: real shepherds die in combat. If a synthetic one can take that role, I'm not going to tear the idea down before we even know what it does."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"I want full transparency on what those creatures actually are. Otherwise you're selling a nightmare with a Forbes headline."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Speaking of corporate moves. Ford might be bringing back the Endeavour in India."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Kabir Mehrotra posts that Ford's manufacturing revival has reignited comeback speculation. There's still no confirmed domestic launch timeline, though."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"The Endeavour was a real player there. Big, rugged, proper SUV. Then Ford left India and Toyota's Fortuner just took the entire premium SUV segment."},{"host":"Chris","text":"And now Ford wants back in after burning the market. The question Kabir asks: would you choose the Endeavour over the Fortuner?"},{"host":"Matilda","text":"I think the Fortuner has years of trust built up now. Service networks, resale value, the whole Toyota reliability halo. Ford would need a massive price or feature advantage."},{"host":"Chris","text":"But the Endeavour had a massive emotional following. Just because Ford left doesn't mean people forgot how much they liked it."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Emotional following is not a sales channel. If Ford actually announces it, then we'll see. Until then, this is hope wearing a rumor."},{"host":"Chris","text":"One more quick one. A woman on Bluesky named Aeryn posted: 'They thought Oppenheimer was a movie about a successful startup founder.'"},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That's too real. Some audience watched Nolan's film and came out thinking the Manhattan Project was just a longer, sadder IPO."},{"host":"Chris","text":"To be fair, Oppenheimer did run a huge program, hired the best minds, moved fast. The startup parallels are not zero."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"And then the product launch killed over two hundred thousand people. Maybe we keep startup language away from the atomic bomb."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Just maybe."}]}