Portofino Magneride & Carbon Fiber wheel w/ LEDs?

Other US customers who have ordered PFs can comment directly but that sounds bizarre to me. Some car owners simply do not like interior CF treatments or LED steering wheels but can easily afford and want other upgrades like MagneRide and exterior CF.

It's also likely untrue that "Ferrari "paired" them". The factory does not restrict these options. Who may "pair them" is the US distributor for Ferrari - FNA (Ferrari North America). Each geographical distributor comes up with their own selection (offerings) of options and bundles of options. So in other markets, like the UK or France...Germany, they can each offer different bundles of options the factory offers. Some options like heated seats may not make any sense to offer for some locations... like the Middle East.

The factory (Ferrari) has no reason to restrict MagneRide to only cars with CF/LED steering wheels. The opposite is actually true because the cost of MagneRide (which Ferrari has to source from BWI Group, China) for the factory is potentially reduced if more buyers are allowed to include them in their cars.

Ask another dealer, not connected to the one you inquired with.

 

My dealer has not indicated to me that I have to order both (although I will be doing so); I had originally planned to get the Magneride shocks but not the CF wheel, and he didn’t say boo.

 

Ferrari does require dealers to average a high dollar amount of options per vehicle. Perhaps this dealer meets the goal by requiring some expensive options be combined?

 

Both are must!

 

True. They usually expect customers to add about $40k in options but this bundling of MagneRide with a CF/LED steering wheel is a bit bizarre and can result in unwanted interior CF.

FWIW, when I ordered my Cali30 I wanted MagneRide, LED steering wheel in leather but my sales guy was unaware that a leather LED steering wheel is possible through the factory's "Tailor-Made" program. So I skipped the LED steering and just bought the MagneRide along with $45k of options. My car has aluminium and cuoio interior, very much like the way Pagani does aluminium and leather interiors of the Zondo and Huayra. To me, that looks much more traditional Italian than CF.

Earlier this year my new service advisor got me a used CF/LED steering wheel and had it recovered in matching leather by a local upholsterer. It looks as good as the "Tailor-Made" version.

 

Not true. I have Magnaride and no Carbon...

 

I have ordered Magnaride and no CF but my allocation is a little while out so its possible they haven't gotten to me yet.

 

I was told the same by my local dealer/general manager, and he is a pretty straight shooter who does not BS.

 

Yes true in the US market. They go hand in hand when I specced my Portofino I had to order both.

 

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I suspect there might be some mis-communication between Ferrari and the dealers. It's likely true that the carbon fiber wheel does require magride (very few cf wheels would be ordered without it so why bother making a wheel without the hole for the magride button). But as we've seen in pictures here there should be no problem ordering the standard bright aluminum wheel with or without magride button

 

Eureka!

 

I was at Algar Ferrari on Thursday and I am pretty sure I saw a car with the button and no carbon steering wheel.