Welcome to Tech in the Car!
We're with Ferrari at Silverstone today and a big thank you to them,
this is the all-new 2021 Ferrari Roma this car has 620 horsepower from
a v8 engine with 760 newton meter torque all driven through the rear wheels i'm going to show
you around it we're going to look at the cool infotainment system and talk about the exterior
let's start with the key this is the first Ferrari with keyless entry but this is really special
keyless entry because we hear lots of stories about cars being stolen by the wireless signal
being repeated well not on this the Ferrari Roma this has got two signals coming from the key fob
one signal lets you know when you're within 1.5 meters and there are sensors and transmitters
inside the cabin which triangulate the position so it's a two-way communication so that means
nobody can just copy the signal get the code and repeat it because a car will be trying to have a
two-way conversation that's really really cool something which gives you peace of mind when
you have an expensive Ferrari no one can just come along repeat the signal and steal your car
and the key looks really cool as well let's have a look now at some of the external features of the
Ferrari Roma this new Ferrari Roma has an all-new design including this shark nose design at the
front which is very reminiscent of Ferrari's in the 1950s and one little interesting feature here
is if you look down at the license plate it isn't attached to the car it's actually held up by a
little bracket here and that's really unusual and the reason why it's like that is because if the
license plate was any further back the radar sensors on the front for the adaptive cruise
control would be affected and wouldn't work so that's really cool we've got a really long
bonnet and we'll have a look at the engine in a second if we come around the side here we
have an all-new design on the side you notice that there's no Ferrari shields on the side
this car has carbon ceramic brakes these are Ferrari brakes and what's really important
about these is they have a very low unsprung mass so if you imagine when you're going over a bump
in the road if there's a lot of weight over the suspension then suspension sends those bumps into
the car you don't want that so having steel brakes adds that weight and affects the ride of the car
these ceramic brakes make sure that doesn't happen so they're very light and they're very
large and they're able to slow down the Ferrari Roma and also help with the ride of the car as
well which is very cool if we continue down the side here you'll notice there's some other cool
things going on here so we've got an all new light design here at the back which is kind of elongated
and very interesting and you can't actually see the lights here they're tinted out and then in the
back here we have our four round exhaust pipe all carbon fiber this is an aerodynamic diffuser which
really does a lot to help with the suspension of the ride of the car this is a new rear wing this
is the first Ferrari with an aerodynamic active rear wing and it's got three positions and those
positions change depending on what's going on the car how you're driving the mode it's in
on the manetinno and all the other various parts of how you drive adjust what happens with the rear
wing which is really interesting to look at let's now have a look under the bonnet or the hood here
And this is the engine on the Ferrari Roma like i said 620 horsepower 760 newton meters
of torque now let's talk about the suspension while we're under here the suspension has got a
special magnetic system which has particles of metal in it and when a charge goes through it
it will suddenly become really strong and hard or soft or medium and that goes through here that is
where the charge goes into the suspension so this magnetic suspension electromagnetic suspension the
Ferrari has is class leading and really really fast and helps with the ride of course looking
under the bonnet here let's not forget our v8 engine with that beautiful red Ferrari design this
is a special polycarbonate which has a special finish which is why it has that distinctive
red historical Ferrari look and then the other thing to consider too here is the position of the
engine the engine is actually behind the front wheels which means although this looks like a
front engined sports car it is not it's actually a mid-engine sports car and you know it's a Ferrari
i mean look how beautiful that engine looks you could just look at that all day this of course
is available to be optioned in carbon fiber with the interior and every car has a chassis number
here this is a twin turbo v8 with zero turbo lag which is thanks all the work Ferrari's done on the
engine really interestingly the gearbox on here is a dual clutch semi-automatic eight speed but
what's really really interesting about this is the gears when you use the paddles are not selected
by you the car determines which gear you need and then when you touch the paddles it changes
into the gear which it thinks is best for you so you're not actually changing the gears yourself
and that means it also is able to change in 100 milliseconds so it's a fantastically good gearbox!
Okay let's get in the new Ferrari Roma and have a look at the interior of this amazing car so on the
steering wheel you can swipe through the various screens and up and down so one thing which is cool
we got a max view button if i tap on the max view button it then changes the view here so we've got
our over view here at Silverstone and if i press it again then i will change it and you'll get
sort of a half and half for you and what's cool about this is if you're driving a road it will
only show your route in the bottom half here at the top it shows all your racy information like
your rev counter which is very cool and if i go back to max view again i then get back to my rev
counter one of the coolest things here is you can change the color of this odometer in the middle
so this is pretty cool so if i tap on infotainment here and then go down to display settings and then
i tap on themes i can go to giallo which is i'm going to assume dialog is yellow
there we go i hang over to rosso which is red which we've already seen and go to nero which
is black bianco which is white and then aluminium which is going to be aluminium and there we go i
think glo is the best one personally so let's go back to yellow before if you wanted to change the
color of your rev counter you had to get basically a different Ferrari there was no way to do it but
now you can change on here and i don't know if you can see on the camera but this is really really
sharp this display it's a really high quality display it's by far away the clearest sharpest
display i've seen on any car infotainment system to date if we go back to the home screen here
there's a tutorial so you can see it we can go into our audio settings as well in infotainment
and we can have a look at our volume our equalizers this has got everything you would
expect of a modern infotainment system and then we have our safety features so this is a Ferrari
and it's got adaptive cruise control it's got automatic high beam and front light systems so
it doesn't blind people blind spot detection so if somebody is in your blind spot when you try and go
out pull out you'll know they're there predictive braking lane departure warning
traffic sign recognition front sensor automatic for parking all of this really cool technology in
a Ferrari this is a really safe Ferrari to use but it's also a Ferrari which is really really
exciting and the other thing too worth mentioning when you look at this fantastic steering wheel
and it is a fantastic steering wheel is the fact that you can see very clearly this has capacitive
touch buttons on the steering wheel so previously Ferrari's had actual physical buttons including
the start stop button not this car this car has capacitive buttons and we've got our turn signals
we've got our controls for the infotainment system so this is what lets me adjust this the right hand
side of the driver's display over here is the adjustable bit so you can adjust that side using
the controls down here you can't adjust anything on the other side of the display only on this
side of the display which is very cool and then these controls here are what allow you to do that
max view is what changes the view so you've got the wider view here which is very interesting to
see and then over here we have our voice control our trip information our cruise control our phone
and then being a Ferrari we have our manetnino so this is a physical button still on the car
and i can change it into its different modes so this is sport mode comfort wet and being in
England probably you want to use wet mode all the time so i'll just go between them again
you can see these cool little lights flashing up here which is awesome to see how you got
your esc off and the other thing too is if you press on this button here if you press down on
the manetinno you then go into bumpy road mode which means that if you're on a road you don't
want to change your settings but it's bumpy that will allow you to make the car suspension softer
so it can handle those bumps even easier and then down here of course we have our windscreen wipers
and our lights let's look at this central display now so on top here we have our audio
we have the phone overview we have navigation and we have our climate control and you can turn the
climate control up and down using these buttons you can drag it up and down to adjust it turn
on the air circulation adjust the fan speed for both sides and you can see auto and sync and ac
and this display also supports apple carplay and android auto if you have spec that is an optional
extra but it is there and you can do it right let's have a look at the 360 camera now so we've
got the 360 camera we've got our overview on the 360 camera which i can change the angles we can do
our reversing camera we can do our side cameras and there are cameras on the front back and the
side mirrors so you have a 360 view so it means that parking this Ferrari is really really easy
and again that's something which having it in a Ferrari a really expensive car which is awesome to
have as well so now we have our passenger display so you're able to go through the various settings
so if you want to tap on that there go back to home screen so we've got our performance settings
and that will show you the speed and the performance from the main screen
we go to audio this will let you mirror what's on the driver's side as far as audio is concerned
navigation so what's cool about this is if you have a destination set in the navigation
the passenger can add POIs on there so you can find places and it will update
the navigation which is very cool to see and then we've got our settings which will allow
you to adjust the brightness of that screen so that passenger display allows the passenger to
adjust the music and adjust some settings and see performance of the car really cool even though
it's worth mentioning the central display is not very far away so that's the Ferrari Roma!
Big thank you to Ferrari for letting us look around this don't forget to give
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