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Fanatec RennSport Wheel Stand Hangs On Tight While You Drive Like a Maniac
Posted by Mark Wilson at 5:45 AM on October 8, 2008
Racing wheels have come a long way, featuring excellent accuracy and realistic force feedback. But they're still quite awkward, requiring a properly positioned table or precarious lap placement. The RennSport Wheel Stand by Fanatec solves these positioning problems, holding the wheel, pedals and even stick shift in the perfect, adjustable spot for each player.
Constructed solidly out of aluminium and steel, turn as hard as you want, but the RennSport doesn't look to be going anywhere soon. Meanwhile, users can adjust height and angle of the wheel, which is more than you can say for most real steering wheels.
The catch is, of course, the price. At US$130, this wheel holder costs as much as many nice wheels themselves. But then again, the RennSport works with most major models and looks like the best thing for racing simulation since this little number. So you could do much worse. [BusinessWire via Digital Trends]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
mung
Posted October 8, 2008 9:00 AM
Any info on when and where this will be available in Australia?
fyredragon17
Posted 7:21 AM 8/10/08
No wires between the wheel and the console/pc she is playing on? That's a wireless racing wheel?
fyredragon17
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Posted 7:18 AM 8/10/08
Obligatory DO WANT.
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Posted 7:16 AM 8/10/08
@Jeb_Hoge: My older sister drives stick. How's about you and her race :P
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 7:12 AM 8/10/08
Anyways, nice idea... lies between the cheap-ass plastic racing wheel, and the expensive-as-hell-cockpit convertion with racing seats.
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 7:10 AM 8/10/08
@unspellable: Yep, the cleavage of that device would definitely work on me too...
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
unspellable
Posted 7:06 AM 8/10/08
The shape/stand of that device is definitely cleaver. Looks like it would actually work.
unspellable
basicvisual
Posted 7:00 AM 8/10/08
I feel the need, the need for speed! And a little bit of cuddle time with a cuttie who likes racing games.
basicvisual
UofITom
Posted 7:00 AM 8/10/08
That girl really grinds my gears!
UofITom
Mooby
Posted 6:59 AM 8/10/08
@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: My friend...knows this guy...who gave his girlfriend Spanish fly and left her alone with a RennSport Wheel Stand...
Mooby
Jeb_Hoge
Posted 6:57 AM 8/10/08
@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Yeah, girls can't drive stick.
And what's with her wearing her mom's shoes?
Jeb_Hoge
Phenostar
Posted 6:57 AM 8/10/08
Is that the Snorg tshirts girl??
Phenostar
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 6:55 AM 8/10/08
That picture has left me speechless.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Jeb_Hoge
Posted 7:43 AM 8/10/08
@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E: Oh, come on, that was funny. ;-)
Jeb_Hoge
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 7:39 AM 8/10/08
Please tell me I'm wrong in seeing what looks like an attachment point under the wheel directly in front of her vajapocalypse. Does it reward good driving? Or does it simulate/stimulate running over the rumble strips on the side of the road.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 7:35 AM 8/10/08
@Jeb_Hoge: She's a WaMu customer.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 7:34 AM 8/10/08
@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E: I drive stick too, but those shoes are ugly.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
onewiththewurlitzer
Posted 8:03 AM 8/10/08
@basicvisual: hahaha
onewiththewurlitzer
RayLast
Posted 8:03 AM 8/10/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: You're wrong.
RayLast
bpapa9013
Posted 8:02 AM 8/10/08
I think she must have gotten double dosed on the psilocybin pizza pockets (hey it happens to the best of us)...
Maniacal Smiles like that are typically drug induced.
bpapa9013
bpapa9013
Posted 7:59 AM 8/10/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: I prey that it is just the knob for the height adjustment. But I'm sure you could adapt it to other uses...
vajapocalypse? At first I thought it was vajpocalypse, which I think sounds funnier...
But when it comes to vajomenclature, to each his own...
bpapa9013
onewiththewurlitzer
Posted 7:52 AM 8/10/08
@UofITom: wah wah wahhhhh
onewiththewurlitzer
hc5duke
Posted 7:46 AM 8/10/08
oblig.:
Do you come with the stand?
hc5duke
nutbastard
Posted 8:34 AM 8/10/08
useless til someone figures out how to make a decent clutch / gearbox...
nutbastard
Noobs-R-Us
Posted 8:31 AM 8/10/08
White shoes, how 80's...
Noobs-R-Us
DMcGrew
Posted 8:30 AM 8/10/08
Gy. 'll tk Lgtch G25 nd sm Cnnn pdls..
[www.cnnnsmltntchnlgs.cm]
DMcGrew
T-Will
Posted 8:54 AM 8/10/08
Does the "Deluxe" version come with the girl?
T-Will
shaneschofield
Posted 8:49 AM 8/10/08
There's something wrong with the proportions on that girl.
shaneschofield
Stang70Fastback
Posted 9:24 AM 8/10/08
SOLD.
Stang70Fastback
rcorrino
Posted 9:18 AM 8/10/08
@Noobs-R-Us:
Actually, the 80's were cream and pastel colored shoes. Maybe you were thinking of the late 60's to the mid 70's?
Women always had the "option" of wearing white shoes. It was never really out of fashion for them. It's just the style of shoe. For men (or more accurately, metrosexuals) white leather dress or casual shoes started coming in vogue again about a year ago. Unless you were are in the navy then dress whites mean white leather patent shoes.
rcorrino
ripfire
Posted 9:57 AM 8/10/08
It's nice, but I think I'm ok with the TV tray I got from Target.
ripfire
Toshie
Posted 9:52 AM 8/10/08
@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: It's a spray attachment/mister for when the action gets too intense.
That's all I got.
Toshie
Spaz6to8
Posted 10:14 AM 8/10/08
Women Drivers....
Spaz6to8
Zarian
Posted 10:58 AM 8/10/08
@fyredragon17:
I think that's the Microsoft Xbox360 racing wheel, I believe it's wireless.
Zarian
m-p{3}
Posted 11:12 AM 8/10/08
Is the girl coming with the wheel?
m-p{3}
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 12:24 PM 8/10/08
@m-p{3}: I don't think the wheel will hit all the right spots, so she's probably not coming with it.
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 12:23 PM 8/10/08
@bpapa9013:
+ Watch video
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
CSX321
Posted 1:42 PM 8/10/08
@Phenostar: Yeah, that's what I thought.
[www.snorgtees.com]
CSX321
G-Ram
Posted 5:30 PM 8/10/08
@Phenostar: The answer is no. Way less hot than the snorg chick.
G-Ram
EricAlder
Posted 10:42 PM 8/10/08
I'll wait until they make a manual shift version... CLUTCH!
EricAlder
CSX321
Posted 7:51 AM 9/10/08
@G-Ram: I think you're mistaken. That's her. Did you look at the link I posted?
CSX321
Evil J
Posted 9:48 AM 9/10/08
Split between legs = instant fail in my mind.
The main reason I've not bought a wheel is that aside from the ridculous cost of "faux cockpits", they never seem to have the pedals right, and stands like this make it to where if you tried to heel-toe, you'd bang your knee on a post.
I have a design, no real motivation to make it work.
A for effort, F for execution.
(PS. I don't know if it's the Snorg girl or not, but I want to smack her in the face. She looks like the "hot girl with a horrible laugh" incarnate).
Evil J
G-Ram
Posted 1:13 PM 9/10/08
@CSX321: Yes I did, did YOU? Clearly not the same.
G-Ram
ryusen
Posted 8:30 AM 10/10/08
@fyredragon17: @Zarian:
Nope that's that company's officially licensed Porche Racing Wheel. One review i read said it's better than the Logitec G25
ryusen
ryusen
Posted 8:29 AM 10/10/08
@basicvisual:
and is probably not a paid model faking it .p
ryusen