This New Moza Racing Wheel Is Going To The Top Of Our Christmas List

Ok, it may be July and the tail end of a heatwave as I’m typing this but once the email landed in my inbox for this, Christmas was the first thought. This is the Moza Vision GS, and it’s absolutely going straight to the top of my list for the big man in red this year.

It’s said to have been inspired by the wheels you’d find in various concept cars (and if the name is to go by, we’d gather Vision Gran Turismo in particular) leading to an aesthetically-pleasing, GT racer-like design measuring 310mm in diameter.

It arrives as Moza’s flagship racing wheel and naturally, that means it’s absolutely crammed with everything the company has to offer. At its heart is a 2.85-inch circular touchscreen display which can be customised to show whatever you fancy. Oh, and it’s got a built-in gyroscope to keep the display completely horizontal no matter how hard you’re cornering. Because why not, eh?

The wheel itself is made from aluminium, wrapped in real leather and with a forged carbon fibre faceplate. That material is used for the shifter and clutch paddles as well, which themselves use non-contact hall sensors to offer a better response than physical switches.

Paddles are included, and there are 72 programmable inputs on the wheels. Those include several LED backlit face buttons, a seven-way funky switch, both rotary and thumb encoders plus a joystick. I’m not sure I’d ever need that many controls, but I sure want them. As with pretty much every high-end racing wheel these days, it also features a built-in LED RPM strip which is customisable.

It’ll work with any existing Moza wheelbase – from the entry-level R3 through to the range-topping R21 – thanks to a standardised aluminium quick-release system. Equally, with a separately sold adapter, it will work with wheelbases from other manufacturers too.

You can order one right now, but it’s unsurprisingly not cheap – coming in at £749, and that’s before you factor in the rest of the hardware if you don’t already have it. Maybe I’ll stick to asking for socks this year…