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First vehicles with Apple’s CarPlay hit the road as Ferrari delivers new FF to customers

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Vehicles with Apple’s new CarPlay functionality are starting to hit the roads with Ferrari announcing today that it’s delivered its first batch of Ferrari FF models equipped with the new feature.

In Europe, they are bound for Germany, Great Britain, France and Switzerland while others have been dispatched to the United States and Japan… Apple CarPlay is the smarter, safer and fun way to use iPhone in your car. An incredibly intuitive system, CarPlay allows you to make calls, use maps, listen to music and access messages with a single word or touch of the central display.

Ferrari adds that the CarPlay feature will also be available on its new Ferrari California T.

While Apple originally announced a handful of partners would deliver CarPlay this year, we reported last month that some have now delayed the launch. Mercedes-Benz and Volvo confirmed support for the feature will not happen until sometime in 2015, while Hyundai, Pioneer and others have yet to roll out promised updates for vehicles and aftermarket accessories already on the roads. Apple’s website still lists Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari and Volvo as partners delivering CarPlay this year.

Today’s announcement from Ferrari appears to confirm the first vehicles actually in customer’s hands and on the road with the new CarPlay feature. The company also posted the video below showing CarPlay in action in the new FF:

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Comments

  1. PMZanetti - 10 years ago

    I’m going to be really mad if my new Jeep does not receive an update at some point to support CarPlay. There is no functional reason as to why its not possible…..and frankly I can’t imagine what the hold up is right now.

    • Gregory Wright - 10 years ago

      By update I presume you mean updating an existing vehicle. Off hand I’d say cost would be a good place to start.

  2. towamp - 10 years ago

    good to know… I’ll be back in 15 minutes as I need to go order one :)

  3. Luis Alejandro Masanti - 10 years ago

    I suppose that the first one to arrive to the US is going to be for Eddy Cue.

  4. Eli Matar - 10 years ago

    What a boring video.

  5. Ok Honda… YOUR TURN! My 2015 Honda Fit is ready!

  6. jrox16 - 10 years ago

    I’m so excited, my FF shows arrival tomorrow!

    lol

  7. William Robinson - 10 years ago

    Third part hardware updates should have been on the market by now. Wonder why the delay?

  8. Winski - 10 years ago

    And, so how many CarPlay systems will be sold to the consuming public capable of buying a Ferrari ?? 300?? 1500??

    What an idiotic article AND what idiotic placement of a system you’re trying to get into a general market… Just brainless…

    • jorge1170x - 10 years ago

      The new stuff always starts off this way. But this time the integration will spread quickly, as manufacturers know this will be a selling point to millennials. But they better put in systems that go Android or Apple not either/or. That would be very annoying.

  9. jorge1170x - 10 years ago

    OK so you start with a serious, take-no-prisoners, agressive, ADULT Ferrari interior….and compliment it horribly with the “fisher-price” looking icon language of Carplay 1.0? This, on a Kia, maybe, but on a Ferrari NO NO NO. Need to to skin that interface asap. Sadly, google’s “cards” version while slightly more adult would not look harmonious in a bad-ass interior like this, either – yet. Maybe in time they will both be adaptable to the car they’re in. Now here is MS’s opportunity to make a really handsome adaptable interface that might actually look at home in a supercar like this….but they’ll surely be late to this party too, plus still not enough apps booo.

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