Retro fitting Amalfi steering wheel to the 296

[MingtheMerciless]

Looks like you can get the Amalfi steering wheel retro fitted to the 296, Roma and SF90.


https://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercars/ferrari...

Thoughts here? Unless it is stupid money I'd go for this.

[ted 191]

I would imagine it’s stupid money, the haptics wheel is ok once you get used to it, it’s the amount of information and how you navigate around this information that takes time.

[johnnyreggae]

Given how Ferrari announce cars at least a year before delivery this option probably wont be delivered until 2027 by which time all the current owners who whinge about the original wheel will have sold their cars !

[MDL111]

Best guess 10k euros installed or some such figure or at least not much change

[oharedm]

I have emailed JCT600, Ferrari Leeds. What are the odds they have had nothing from Ferrari on this topic.

[bennno]

.......product development boss Gianmaria Fulgenzi told Top Gear that a retrofit for existing models is possible. Current owners won’t have to replace the entire steering wheel; only the center section needs to be swapped, and the procedure can be done at a dealer without shipping the car back to Italy.

[maura]

I applaud Ferrari for admitting their mistake, I was unfortunately an early Guinea pig in my AF SF90, but it just shows how far Ferrari have fallen from their halcyon days that we are talking about a steering wheel with more excitement than the New/Facelift car. BACK CATALOGUE

[MingtheMerciless]

I also checked. it's only two panels on the steering wheel, the hybrid system buttons remain haptic, which is absolutely fine. It sounds like a very small job. Not of course that that means anything in relation to the price.

[oharedm]

Dealer at the moment has no details other than the press release yesterday.

[bennno]

oharedm said:

Dealer at the moment has no details other than the press release yesterday.

Think of a number, times it by ten, then double it, add VAT.

[MingtheMerciless]

Yes - Ferrari will probably treat it as a profit opportunity to gouge existing owners with an essential retrofit to fix a mistake or else your car is muck when you try and sell it.

[MingtheMerciless]

I've heard it is going to be £10k+.

[simon_j]

MingtheMerciless said:

I've heard it is going to be £10k+.

£14,250+vat

[MDL111]

That is an hilarious figure, especially if it is not the entire wheel (even if it was, it would still be ridiculous)

[MingtheMerciless]

That's insane.

To correct a stupid error. And only two panels replaced.

[willy wombat]

Cheap for a company that charges £23,000 (including VAT) for a “special” colour.

[Origami]

Given this pricing culture, I assume that pitching up to a Ferrari main dealer with 8l of Costco's finest oil and asking them to use that wouldn't be well received then?

[bennno]

Having sat in the Amalfi at the London launch the steering wheel buttons look pretty fussy, the haptics are fine once you are used to them and the logic with which they operate.

[XMA Simon]

£17,100? WTF!!! That is about 8% of the market value of most of the cars. Just for a wheel when the car already has a steering wheel. If I had a 296 - I wish - I think that I would just "make do" with the touchpads. It is not like the overall control logic of the cockpit is improved: Thinking things like 1) indicator buttons you can easily operate when driving more or less straight ahead, but not so easily when needing to indicate while turning on a roundabout. Or 2) the complicated menu logic.

[MDL111]

Origami said:

Given this pricing culture, I assume that pitching up to a Ferrari main dealer with 8l of Costco's finest oil and asking them to use that wouldn't be well received then?

Aston Martin did not even accept that a friend of mine brought new winter tyres along himself. Only install tyres sold by them at a nice mark-up.