13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:37 am
https://www.goodwood.com/grrc/road/news ... eels-ever/
Maserati Boomerang is a sight to behold indeed.
Maserati Boomerang is a sight to behold indeed.
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Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:51 am
Some fantastic pics there but really the SZ wins by some margin, doesn't it.
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:55 am
I've always loved the R5 GT Turbo wheel.
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:56 am
Totes.
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:29 am
Paging JonathanE - how is your Matra Murena getting on?
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:34 am
Rev is correct. I think I’m a bit of a traditionalist with steering wheels. Just give me a simple three spoke setup.
What’s that lever to the right of the R5 wheel?
What’s that lever to the right of the R5 wheel?
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:42 am
What JL said.
Evora has the best wheel for any car i have ever owned.
Oversized airbag means it wont win any visual aesthetic awards, but it feels great and really encourages quarter-to-three hand positioning (which i was trained to do after years of favouring 10-to-2)
Library pic (from evo website, but not mine....
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Evora has the best wheel for any car i have ever owned.
Oversized airbag means it wont win any visual aesthetic awards, but it feels great and really encourages quarter-to-three hand positioning (which i was trained to do after years of favouring 10-to-2)
Library pic (from evo website, but not mine....
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:44 am
Absolutely this but I do like the crazy monospoke Citroen ones.240PP wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:34 am Rev is correct. I think I’m a bit of a traditionalist with steering wheels. Just give me a simple three spoke setup.
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:57 am
I like the French quirkiness of them but they look like they might snap off with a bit of mashing/sawing.Jimmy Choo wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:44 amAbsolutely this but I do like the crazy monospoke Citroen ones.240PP wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:34 am Rev is correct. I think I’m a bit of a traditionalist with steering wheels. Just give me a simple three spoke setup.
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:45 am
Ferrari or Lotus for me. That 250 SWB one 
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:59 am
Can't quite work out how that brown leather one is connected.
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:09 pm
Exactly!
WTF is going on here!?
WTF is going on here!?
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:19 pm
I sold it about a year ago. It ran properly for about a month after I bought it, but than refused to idle without a foot on the throttle. Lots of effort expended to try to fix it (new carb parts, new rotor cap etc) and lots of head scratching from the former chairman of the UK Matra club who knows these cars as well as anyone, but we couldn't get it to run properly. I eventually gave up, because to be honest it wasn't an exciting drive even when working - very comfortable and quite stylish, but a dull engine. So I sold it to a French chap for roughly what it owed me, and then lost most of that on a disastrous 450SEL 6.9 purchase... also now sold.speedingfine wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:29 am Paging JonathanE - how is your Matra Murena getting on?
The above said, I did like the Murena's steering wheel! Other past favourite wheels would include the Countach (satisfyingly fat rim) and the Bentley Turbo R (delicately thin rim).
Bah!
Jonathan
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:36 pm
Such a shame on the Matra, amazing design!JonathanE wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:19 pmI sold it about a year ago. It ran properly for about a month after I bought it, but than refused to idle without a foot on the throttle. Lots of effort expended to try to fix it (new carb parts, new rotor cap etc) and lots of head scratching from the former chairman of the UK Matra club who knows these cars as well as anyone, but we couldn't get it to run properly. I eventually gave up, because to be honest it wasn't an exciting drive even when working - very comfortable and quite stylish, but a dull engine. So I sold it to a French chap for roughly what it owed me, and then lost most of that on a disastrous 450SEL 6.9 purchase... also now sold.speedingfine wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:29 am Paging JonathanE - how is your Matra Murena getting on?
The above said, I did like the Murena's steering wheel! Other past favourite wheels would include the Countach (satisfyingly fat rim) and the Bentley Turbo R (delicately thin rim).
Bah!
Jonathan
Oh dear re the 6.9, that wasn't that long ago was it... Dare I ask what happened...
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:36 pm
Better to have loved and lost, than never....
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:40 pm
trick of the camera
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:14 pm
a-ha! 
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:28 pm
Loving The gear lever on that too! 
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:41 pm
Frankly it's all very, very good.
Re: 13 best steering wheels ever...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:52 pm
They are both simultaneously awesome and horrific.