430 Never noticed this... Why Ferrari, Why???

Interesting. Must be US specific. Here the up arrow is solely for the 2008 onwards F1 'Auto Easy Start' feature.

 

The ff has this too. Makes me lol every time.

 

Just be happy they didn't do what Stelantis and I think GM did! The 6 Speed in my old 2011 Challenger had a "skip shift" feature that popped a solenoid out under certain conditions to physically block you from shifting into 2nd gear in an attempt to make you put it in 4th instead. THAT was the worst. Luckily you could pull the connector and install a resistor to bypass it. Really sucked the fun out of rowing gears.

 

I'm at about 7 years of ownership, and didn't even know this existed. My car is always in "race" mode as well! lol

 

I have had my 2006 for 11 years and it does provide the symbol to recommended gear change. The Ferrari Dealership told me to ignore it.

 

My 2009 has it. I’ve only ever driven in Sport mode. Are you saying that if I keep it in Race mode that arrow won’t show up?

 

My 2018 488 has the arrows even in race mode.

 

I hear you. Another irritating thing is the blank window that shows absolutely nothing, because mine is a manual shift unit. Couldn't Ferrari have ponied up for 10% of the tach guages without that window?

 

My old girlfriend called it the "shift b*tch command" light

 

I had a gauge face made without the square cutout because that irritated me as well.

 

No idea. Any tire pressure faults I've seen come in through the lower square display.

 

Doesn’t that mean the car was not a factory manual, but a manual conversion? From what I’ve read, that plus the absence of the cavalino on the gated shifter are the signs it was a conversion.

 

Both versions had the gear number square. There was no difference between the manual and F1