Motor vehicle with innovative steering assembly and steering wheel thereof

A steering wheel for a motor vehicle, the steering wheel having:

• a steering wheel shaft extending along a steering wheel axis and configured to be coupled to an outer casing of a steering assembly of the motor vehicle in a rotatable manner about the steering wheel axis with respect to the outer casing;
• a control portion manoeuvrable by a driver of the motor vehicle and coupled to the steering wheel shaft so as to have at least one use configuration with respect to the steering wheel shaft, the control portion being rotatable to drive the steering wheel shaft into rotation about the steering wheel axis in the use configuration to steer the motor vehicle when the steering wheel shaft is coupled to said outer casing in a rotatable manner about the steering wheel axis and the steering assembly is in a configuration suitable to be operated to steer the motor vehicle by means of a rotation of the control portion about the steering wheel axis;
• a control paddle to control a function of the motor vehicle;
• wherein the control portion is axially delimited, in the use configuration, between a back wall and a front wall opposite each other according to the steering wheel axis, the back wall being arranged to be closer than the front wall to the outer casing according to the steering wheel axis when the steering wheel shaft is coupled to said outer casing in a rotatable manner about the steering wheel axis;
• wherein the steering wheel comprises a slide slidable between at least a first and a second position on a guide defined by the back wall along a sliding direction transversal or radial with respect to the steering wheel axis in the use configuration of the control portion, the control paddle being hinged to the slide about a pivot axis, wherein the control paddle in the first position of the slide is at least partially inserted in a seat of the back wall and has in the use configuration of the control portion:
• a first face facing a bottom of the seat according to the steering wheel axis, and
• a second face opposite the first face according to a thickness of the control paddle or the steering wheel axis in the use configuration and having at least one part arranged flush with an outer surface of the back wall, so as to appear integrated with or blend in with the back wall, as well as an optional further distinct part hidden by the back wall inside the seat, the second face being alternatively entirely hidden by the back wall inside the seat;
• wherein the control paddle in the second position of the slide is at least partially extracted from the seat and free to rotate about the pivot axis to control said function in response to a rotation of the control paddle.