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ferrari is well known for cars that are fast gorgeous pricey and far too often read but lost in all that sometimes is their technology I'm Brian Cooley here to remedy that with the top five Ferrari technology milestones seen that style we're going to rank them by their broad influence number five the electrochromic roof the 2005 superamerica wowed with a glass roof that went from clear to dark electrochromic Lee kind of like those sunglasses that were the rage in the 70s but in this case triggered by a button and an electric circuit the thing also rotated back 180 degrees in case you still weren't getting enough attention not only had no one done this combination before I don't think anyone has done it since number 4 active aerodynamics this is Formula One stuff that Ferrari knows very well but brought to production cars on the 458 speciale a movable flaps at each end of the car change its air flow starting around 90 miles an hour to optimize downforce and keep the thing on the ground to be fair though chevy cruze ford focus and dodge dart also do this though to a dramatically different end result number three is the manatee no another lift from formula 1 the manatee no is the little handle it's the most serious if not the first drive mode selector you find it on Ferrari wheels BMWs M button and the audi drive mode so let's do something very similar but Ferraris little switch as cool as it looks gave electronic car modes wheel cred number to a hybrid that's right the recursively named Ferrari laferrari will be their first production hybrid though it will probably lack the ability to run in EV electric-only mode the way other hybrids do that's because the company reckons correctly I think that a Ferrari should always sound like one now yes Porsche has the 918 hybrid beating Ferrari to the punch by a whisker or so but there's something about a Ferrari hybrid that has been change more minds globally the number one Ferrari innovation that really resonated was no manuals mission around late-2012 the California spider became the last Ferrari to offer a manual gearbox ending the run of the most iconic and one of the most unforgiving shift gates in all of history all Ferraris today's ship with basically an automatic a dual-clutch automated manual gearbox now while Volkswagen was first to market with this in the 03 golf r32 Ferraris cancellation of the clutch pedal really signals the end of an era for more like this go to cnet on cars.com where it's all about high-tech cars and modern driving I'm Brian Cooley thanks for watching