Thrustmaster's New Sparco R383 Wheels Adds More Immersion To Your Rally Races

[heirdeux]

You'll have to fork over $200 to get your hands on the popular rally racing wheel.

Thrustmaster's New Sparco R383 Wheels Adds More Immersion To Your Rally Races : Read more

 

[10tacle]

Woah. $200USD for a rim. Thrustmaster is moving into Fanatec territory here. I have a T300 RS and love it paired with my G27 modified pedals using an adapter from Ricmotech. However, if I'm going to put a bunch of money into a shifter, pedals, and different rims, I'm just going to step up to the far superior Fanatec hardware. Kudos for offering the rim in full 1:1 scale however to add to the realism.

 

[dstarr3]

That's a lot of money for a round little logo in the center of the wheel.

 

[10tacle]

That's a lot of money for a round little logo in the center of the wheel.

Hah. You haven't shopped Fanatec hardware prices for just wheel rims have you? Try this BMW racing rim out for size for $250 USD:

https://www.fanatec.com/us-en/steering-wheels/clubsport-steering-wheel-bmw-m3-gt2-us.html

 

[junglist724]

At these prices I'd rather get into the open sim wheel ecosystem and just get a real racing wheel that I could also bolt onto a real car.

 

[RomeoReject]

You ain't getting there at that price, Junglist. The 383 that this is based on is $250, no electronics. Quick release steering wheel hubs are another $125 (Assuming you don't want to disassemble and reassemble the steering column each time just to swap a wheel). Paddle shifters would likely be cheap, assuming they weren't actually hooked up to a sequential transmission in the car. Plus a pedal set ($100). If we ignore literally all the costs of building the assembly and any related electronic work, you're still at ~2.5X the cost.