Slightly silly FF cruise control question

If it's the same as on my 812SF, when I want to disengage without tapping the brake pedal or paddles, I turn it off and back on again, though this does clear the set speed.

For resuming a set speed (after braking or changing gears), I push in the speed adjust knob.

 

I definitely get the feeling that even in the "grand touring" cars, the focus is really on performance driving, and not on day-to-day conveniences. Cruise Control's relative clumsiness reflects that.

On my 812, turning CC on and off is easy - a quick tap of that particular button does it. Setting a speed is a little clumsy, with the twist and hold of the knob or a moment or two, but it could be worse. And, as I mentioned, pressing the knob to resume speed isn't terrible either. It would be nice if the set/resume/adjust control was on the steering wheel, but I get that it's already pretty crowded there.

 

I have CC on both my 612 and FF, but I couldn't tell you how either works. I tested both when I bought the cars, but rarely used it since. I used it on the 612 when we drove from Boston to Scottsdale, but even on those remote mid-west interstates there was too much traffic to use it regularly. Unless you have radar CC as I have on my Lexus LS and my wife's Panamera, it is just not worth all the continual adjusting of the regular CC.

 

Yeah, radar cruise control is a game changer. My previous car was my first car with it, and it was fantastic. That said, as annoying as it is going back to old school CC, I still find that I use it quite a bit, in part because it's a good way to keep speed from getting away from me in cars like these, where it's so easy to achieve jail-time-worthy velocities.