GENEVA MOTOR SHOW: The MOST Advanced Steering Wheel Yet? The SPIES Get A Closer Look At Innovation

One thing you have to love about Ferrari: they always are bringing innovation from the track and implementing it into their road cars.

The latest example? The functional steering wheel.

Rather than have stalks extending from behind the steering wheel, the teams from Maranello concluded that it would be infinitely wiser to put more of the controls on the steering wheel, as in an F1 car. The most obvious move are the turn signals, which are now located in the center of the wheel.

Is this an ergonomic disaster or pure genius?

Let us know in the comments below...


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rom64 - 3/5/2010 2:59:15 PM

+3 Boost

At first this car used to make me grimace,
now the more I look at it, the more it makes me grin...

bfghemicuda - 3/5/2010 3:46:28 PM

+1 Boost

Looks pissed

commander104 - 3/5/2010 3:56:38 PM

+1 Boost

are the radio and climate controls on the back of it?

mpls - 3/6/2010 5:56:38 AM

-1 Boost

The future is voice activation, not all these buttons on the steering wheel.. looks pretty messed up i say

Lamborghini_vs_Ferrari_Racer - 3/6/2010 4:09:28 PM

+2 Boost

My God! The car looks so angry in the first pic. At 9000rpm, all the blood-red Maranello horses scream to get out of the way or be eaten up!! And what an interior....def. my favorite car...cannot wait for the lightweight and hardcore Scuderia version which will be even more potent than this monster0.o

uaw_lax - 3/7/2010 4:06:37 AM

0 Boost

Bad design. If you where driving this car hard through twist and turns you would be sure to turn somthing on or off by hitting a button on the wheel.

racinghart - 3/8/2010 4:15:51 AM

+1 Boost

So what happens when you want to signal left while you have a steering input active that leaves the 'left signal' button on the right hand side of the steering wheel (or vice-versa)... sounds like ergonomic hell to me.

LexSucks - 3/8/2010 11:18:16 AM

-1 Boost

Lexus LF-A is better in every way measurable or not.