Ferrari California’s fast-action retractable hard-top

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If you’re on Ferrari’s mailing list for the new California, you might have seen a new email in your inbox today with a link to another chapter (literally) opening up on the vehicle’s dedicated website.

Today’s installment leads to a video of the California’s trick folding hard-top – another first for Ferrari (if you don’t count the innovative one-piece mechanism designed by Fioravanti for the limited-production 575-based Superamerica).

Thanks to a mechanism that moves multiple segments in unison, the hard-top can be deployed or retracted in only 15 seconds – faster than the soft-top on any convertible ever to roar out of the gates at Maranello.

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  1. June 26, 2008 at 8:33 pm | Permalink

    Awesome hardtop! I like the way it hides away in the trunk

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