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However, just using the gated shifter is fantastic well, on the G25 it is. This has a clickly little shifter. There's an incredibly biased review on youtube where he says how high quality it is even though the shifter isn't held down well with those two tubes and he says the pedals are high quality even though the pedals are plastic. Check it out.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-dWjLRhd8w0]]>May 1st 2008 6:51PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/May 1st 2008 7:25PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/
Tangent - I need that little yellow strip to mark the center of my wheel, mostly for Eiger Norwand's esses at full lock. Any ideas?]]>May 1st 2008 7:37PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/
(my seemingly unrelated review)
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Especially given how lame clutch mode is in GT5P, if you are only looking to maximize your GT5P experience and not drive sims like GTR2, you likely don't need to look any further than the Driving Force GT.]]>May 1st 2008 8:03PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/
http://993c4s.com/porsche-products/video-games/review-of-the-fanatec-porsche-turbo-wheel/]]>May 2nd 2008 12:23AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/
Any wheel that vibrates all the time I have my foot on the gas is useless to me. It's as dumb as a control pad that does the same thing. I know the motor is on, as I can see the car moving on the screen. Shaking the wheel provides no useful information and just leads to my hands becoming slightly numb and tiring earlier.

I wish I could get my hands on the wheel to check out the FF.

The heel/toe doesn't look awful on the wheel but it doesn't look good either.

Again, I wish I had all those buttons. I the designer of the G25 said it was for realism. But I really need to be able to look around, so I need a D-pad that a real wheel doesn't need (as you use your neck in real life).]]>May 2nd 2008 2:54AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/
Whenever I saw a wheel and pedal controller in the past I would wonder who are these racing simulation fanatics that don't know how to shift a manual?]]>May 2nd 2008 8:46AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/May 1st 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/May 1st 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/May 1st 2008 5:58PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/May 1st 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/May 1st 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/ this.

Honestly, the G25 is made with much higher quality components. All this has over the G25 is the fact that it is wireless.]]>May 1st 2008 6:19PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/Maybe I could make up a story about how it is part of the package - why else the exhorbitant $400.00 price for a PS3? Yeah, sounds like a plan with the potential for causing domestic unrest.]]>May 1st 2008 6:34PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/
And there is no way they spend 7 years on it, it's a knockoff of the G25 (with more buttons, which is nice) and the G25 hasn't been out that long.

Note this wheel also comes with a bump (fore/aft) type shifter and set of shifting paddles too. The G25's are nicer through and don't require you remove the shifter and replace it with another to switch.

The wheel is in no way completely free of wires, it has a power cable to the wall and also has a wire from the wheel to the shifter. The pedals are wireless though.]]>May 1st 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/May 1st 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/The shifter of the g25 is just too loose for realism, you almost could shift it just by blowing air onto it.
If only ActLabs were more affordable and up to date...]]>May 1st 2008 10:13PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/porsche-wireless-racing-wheel-from-fanatec/
http://www.thrustmaster.com/product.aspx?ProductID=8&PlatformID=5

I do like the controls, I wish the G25 had them. How does the 5th analog axis work? Where is the control?]]>May 1st 2008 10:50PM