Welcome to Tech in the Car! This is the beautiful Ferrari 296 GTB!
I'm here at Silverstone and a big thank you to Ferrari for letting me film this video.
I'm going to show you around it and I'm going to talk about some of the tech inside!
This beautiful car is the Ferrari 296 GTB Assetto Fiorano and this has got lots of cool racing
parts to it which make it look very beautiful including this amazing stripe and this color
is rosso Imola! so you might be wondering why is this called the 296 and because it's got 2.9 liter V6
and this is Ferrari's first V6 engine since there was the Dino and there's been various track
versions but this is the first production Ferrari that you have! The 296 GTB has 830
CV which is 819 horsepower which comes from 663 CV from the V6 engine and 167 horsepower from the
electric motor and the electric motor runs at the back and it is a rear-wheel drive car! this is not
four-wheel drive as it has no electric motor on the front wheels in like the SF90. Let's have a look now at the front
here at some of the cool features of the design so at the front of the Ferrari 296 GTB there are some
interesting aerodynamic traits this front splitter here is designed to channel the air under the car
to keep the air really clean and it helps with the aerodynamics but you'll also note on the top here
by the lights there are little air ducts these air ducts send the air cooling through over the brakes
so the brakes stay cool at the front of the car you normally get lots of high pressure
building up here but these vents make sure that the high pressure is released and improves
the handling and the aerodynamics of the car and it's got an all-new light design as well
which is very interesting this 296 GTB is 2 600 millimeters which is 50 millimeters shorter than
the SF90 so this is a shorter wheelbase car with a more compact packaging so everything in the car
is packaged differently for example the battery which forms part of the hybrid system on this car
is actually located underneath the driver compartment whereas on the SF90 it's located
behind the seats the technical requirements of this car has affected the design of it and you'll
see that as we go around the car and look at other features because this is the asceto fiorano pack
weight saving is a really important part of it so this car has four carbon fiber wheels if you
remember the other videos I've done I talked about how an unsprung mass over the front of the car
helps with the way it handles and with a chassis control so this helps it even more these carbon
ceramic discs not only are they class leading in the performance but they also reduce that mass
over the front of the car and that's the same with the carbon fiber wheels here because there's less
sprung mass over this area of the car it means when you turn into corners it responds faster
and more precisely which is what you want from your race focus road car from ferrari
if we continue down the side here you can see obviously this has a beautiful ferrari shield
looks amazing and there are other changes too to this car at the side here we have this wing over
the top this is used to clean the air everything on this car is focused towards aerodynamics and
this wing helps the air it's got a v-shape like a fork and the air comes in and it splits into
and that means that it's able to control the aerodynamics of this car and it comes over here
and it helps to cool the hydraulic components at the back of the car now we should talk about the
engine this car has a hot v which means that the air from this car actually works in a different
way to other ferraris so what happens is the air comes from the bottom here and it flows up to the
top and out of there whereas on other Ferrari's it comes from the top and goes in and comes
out the bottom so it's a different aerodynamic profile to other Ferrari cars on this the 296 GTB
let's have a look at this engine and also have a look at the packaging on the back of this car so
this is the back of the 296 GTB so if you come in to look at this engine you'll see that it's
really load down and this V6 is the same engine as the SF90 except it's got two cylinders less
so it's packaged right down you can probably see the red parts which are the cylinder
covers for the engine what you can see right in front of you here is the exhaust this is where
the exhaust comes through from the engine and so you've got the heat covers you can also see the
high voltage areas for the motor which is what the orange wires are down there and this car
has a motor it's mounted at the back the gearbox on this car is very similar to the SF90 and the
ferrari roamer you don't actually choose the gear when you touch your gear shift paddles the car's
computer figures out what's best for you and when you change your gears it automatically selects it
whether it's higher or lower to be the most efficient now what's interesting about this car
is obviously like the SF90 it can be driven in electric mode only and it can do 25 kilometers
up to 85 miles an hour which is really great but that's different from also how the SF90
works because with the SF90 there's a front motor which allows the car to be driven in reverse this
obviously has a reverse gear the SF90 doesn't but it also has the e-mode so it can be driven
directly on the electric motor now what happens when you need to kick the engine on well the
clutch stays open when the car is in electric mode and then it closes when the engine turns on and
then it combines about the electric motor which is 167 horsepower with the power from the engine
so the back here let's talk about the design so this has got a drs active aerodynamics which help
clear the air around the back of the car and then underneath it you see the exhaust so this
is a very different design for ferrari exhaust being in the middle here and that's because of
the way the car has been designed the powertrain having the engine down really low with a hot v
and that hybrid system means that the most efficient and aerodynamic way with the best
performance is out the rear directly so that's why it's got that design obviously being the
Assetto Fiorano pack we've got a full carbon fiber diffuser as well which really helps clear the air
and as i mentioned before the air comes from the vents at the top over the back here to
cool the hybrid system which exists at the back with its motor in that area right let's have a
look at the inside of the car now welcome to the inside of the 296 GTB so let's just start the car
up inside this car it looks really beautiful i just started the engine up we've got these racing
bucket seats behind me here which is because this is the aceta fiorano model it has that we've got
beautiful leather on the inside we've got the passenger display down the side there you can
see his bucket sees here this is very similar to the inside of the SF90 Stradale but obviously
this is the newest Ferrari that there is this is a beautiful interior and i love it in here
let's have a look at the infotainment system now this is the infotainment system on the 296
GTB and as you can see it's got a lot in common with the SF90 and the Roma i can swipe through
the menus in exactly the same way just like the SF90 has a hybrid information on the side here
i continue going through to radio and then we've also got the hybrid mode here with
the charge boost and fast charge I don't actually remember seeing that on the SF90 so that might be
a unique feature of the 296 GTB of course the way this works is just like the other cars
you can tap on it and you can go into the menus and i can go down here and i can go to settings
and i can tap on settings and i can change the infotainment and we can change the display
settings to change the theme and then change the center rev counters to russo to bianco to aliminio
to nero and then back to gialo which is my favorite and this is very very similar to the SF90
but that is how that works this also has Android Auto and Apple CarPlay again which will appear on
the rev counter this is the interior of the 296 GTB and you can see this steering wheel just like
the c it has the capacitive touch buttons which allows me to scroll through the various settings
the steering wheel has the manatino and i can swap through the various modes by hitting that and this
is the only hard button on the car on the wheel other than of course the lights so this lets you
swap between race between sports between wet and then back to ct off which is traction control there's
no bumpy road mode on this car but on the standard cars if you press down it will go into the bumpy
road mode you've got your indicators on here and your light controls on the steering wheel this car
is amazing in the interior and the steering wheel is beautiful with a carbon fiber we also have the
passenger display on this car where you can see the performance information of the car which
replicates what the driver can see just like the c has a hybrid mode as well and if i go back on
here then we can also see our audio and navigation and add waypoints if there is a destination set
in the navigation so that gives the passenger a lot of control inside this car hope you enjoyed
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