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Type of bind: Electronics
Brand: Logitech
Color: Black/Silver
EAN num: 5099206000025
Label: Logitech
Manufacturer: Logitech
Model: 963416-0403
Publishing house: Logitech
Release Date: November 17, 2006
Sale Popularity Level: 474
Studio: Logitech
Warranty: 2 years warranty

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Product Description:
The Logitech G25 Racing Wheel offers incredibly precise driving control with dual-motor force feedback, 900-degree steering and a six-speed gated shifter. Premium materials are used throughout, stainless steel paddle shifters and pedals, soft leather grip surfaces, and brushed metal wheel spoke accents. The 11-inch wheel provides solid road feel where you want it, and the 14 programmable buttons and sequential shifting option provide flexibility when you need it.

Amazon.com Product Description:
Real metal. Real leather. Real racing. Premium materials. Hand-crafted components. A team of racing fanatics dedicated to providing the most realistic driving experience possible. With the G25 Racing Wheel, Logitech is taking sim racing controls to the subsequent level, and we'd like you to come along for the ride. The G25's unique dual-motor force feedback transmission delivers powerful, high-fidelity force effects to the hand-stitched leather wheel, so you can feel under-and oversteer before you're on the barrier.

Sit down, turn off the lights, and crank up the sound. You're not playing games anymore; with the G25, you're racing.



Features:

   
         
Six-speed shifter with push-down reverse gear
Choose exactly the right gear for the turn. Plus a leather-wrapped shift knob so you can drive in style!		   Sequential shift mode
Provides backward compatibility.		   Logitech's exclusive carpet grip system 
Holds fast to the carpet to provide  a realistic driving experience. 
         
   
         
Dual-motor force feedback
The mechanism is smooth, quiet, and powerful. 		  Stainless steel gas, brake, and clutch pedals
Eliminates flex from the pedals, so you can brake and accelerate with more precision. The clutch pedal makes heel-and-toe downshifting possible, keeping your gear changes quick and your RPMs high.		   11' leather-wrapped steering wheel rim
With the 900-degree wheel rotation and hand-stitched leather, the wheel provides a realistic driving experience.


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Customer Reviews
User popularity level: out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Elevated my gaming experience...
I always like to play racing games and recently purchased a PS3. Wanting to wait for the full version of GT5 so I purchased GRID. Despite that I enjoyed this game with the Sixaxis controller, I wanted to try playing the game with the Logitech G25 as I found this on sale for $200 at the local Fry's.

The game recognized the G25 without any issue. With the default setting, it doesn't feel natural. The force is actually too strong. After trying to learn to adjust to the G25, my time was still better with the Sixaxis controller than the wheel. Disappointed as I was, I considered returning the wheel to the store. Luckily, I found an option menu in the game that allows modifying several settings to suit the user. After playing with the settings for several races, the wheel feels much more natural. And my time around the tracks is significantly better.

In 2 days, I have won many events/trophies in the game. Now that the controller is adjusted to my liking, the experience during play cannot be matched by using the standard controller. The steering wheel set is very well made. I have not tried the other steering wheel systems, but I highly recommend this. It will elevate your racing game experience to a new level just as it did for me. I cannot wait for the full version of GT5.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Five Stars!
There's enough five star reviews on this thing that one more isn't going to matter. They're all correct, it's awesome. A bit pricey but nice!!!

If you're using it with a PS3, the buttons on the shifter double as a controller (sans the Start, Select and PS button).


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Logitech G25: Best Racing Wheel
There is nothing that compares. At very first I thought it was too expensive and bought one of the other logitech wheels because it was cheaper. Then I ordered the G25 to compare. The other wheel was good, but no comparison and was returned the same day. The feedback is right on. The wheel feels more solid than the lower logitechs. The peddles have better pressure and the added clutch is a must. The separate gear shift is nice if you don't always want to use it, but if you do, you have the option of regular or sequential shifting. The shifter also adds more macro buttons for less fiddling with the keyboard. I believe it's the best you can get for a home system.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - AMAZING
this was my very first steering wheel ever, i could've just got anything with gas and a brake, but I am into racing, and i wanted the 6 speed and the clutch and all that fancy stuff. I didn't even think the G25 would be that good, it's simply amazing, it wasn't even expensive for what it does. the feedback force is simply as realistic as it gets, I can simply say amazing all day and it would'nt be enough, 5 stars. if you have a racing game, dont be silly playing with the keyboard like i did, i didn't know the real fun of racing games untill i got hold of the g25. worth every penny. the only thing, i think you should watch for is that if you dont have a place to hook it, it could be tricky, and no fun. so make sure you have a good spot for it and you're all set for an amazing experience. Cause it ain't racing untill you get the G25 steering wheel.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Amazing build and realism for the price you pay
I had a Logitech Driving Force Pro for a while, but its lack of an H-pattern shifter and a clutch pedal gave me an excuse to turn to something better - the G25.

When I very first opened the infamous purple Logitech box that housed the product and grabbed out the wheel, I was surprised by a few things:

1. The weight - The three items that consist of the G25 weigh markedly heavier than the Driving Force Pro. The pedal base seems much more sturdy. The steering wheel feels about the same, and of course there's the new shifter.

2. The easy movement of the wheel - anyone who has owned a Driving Force Pro knows that it's relatively difficult to turn due to the friction in the motors; the G25 glides as I turn it back and forth.

3. The cheap plastic! - a turn off was the build quality of some of the parts. I was almost dismayed to see that the spokes that are used to tighten the clamps were flimsy and difficult to turn, and it took me a whole 15 minutes to figure out how to depress the knobs to tuck away. The clamps seem flimsy especially on the shifter. Fortunately physics works - despite the appearance, the shifter and the wheel were both quite firm when attached to my table.

As for the other parts - the shifter felt as other reviewers had described - flimsy and unrealistic, and my second gear didn't seem to be very weak, as if it were a person hanging off a cliff, about to be throw back into neutral. The top of the shifter is cheap plastic, not the steel that decorates the rest of the system. Otherwise, everything else seemed to look good.
4. The alarming clearance of the wheel clamps - sadly, Logitech still assumed that all tables and desks made in the world are an inch thick. Well both my coffee table and my dining table (both from IKEA, mind you I'm a college student) are about two inches thick, and i couldn't fasten the wheel onto either surface. What's confusing is that the SHIFTER seemed to have more than two inches of clamp clearance, so I affixed that to my coffee table. Fortunately I had another wooden table that was under an inch in thickness, and I clamped my wheel down there.

5. The tiny area of the carpet grip on the pedals - the base of the G25 pedals is huge compared to that of the Driving Force Pro. I expected a wider area of "spikes" to be used for carpet grip, but I was perplexed to see the same ~ 2" x 12" strip of spikes for the carpet. When I set the carpet grip down though, I noticed after you push to an extent, the grip really grips the carpet, and the base ain't moving nowhere after that.

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USING THE WHEEL

Okay, I popped my laptop in front of me and I played around in Live For Speed until I really got the hang of the wheel, and I'll tell you that I was genuinely surprised. The wheel isn't just accurate and good - it's amazing.

The Driving Force Pro was a solid wheel and had good force feedback, but it was hard to turn and a bit rough sometimes. The G25 is a new level of force feedback, smooth and quiet. The wheel turns easily through all 900 degrees of freedom, and the pedals accurately represent what pedals should feel like in real life*.

*To be annoying, yes I do have some critiques about the wheel - to truly mimic a real car's pedals, very first of all the pedals should be spaced out a bit farther - they are a bit cramped. The brake pedal's resistance is flat throughout its depression - in a real car, the resistance increases linearly with amount of depression. Lastly, and I know this isn't exactly feasible - the clutch pedal needs more travel distance to really simulate a car's clutch pedal.

But who cares about all that? Unless you're a real hardcore player with money to burn (you wouldn't be buying this wheel by the way), nobody's going to care. The freaking wheel costs under $300, a fraction of what hardcore players pay for their systems (which run up thousands of dollars). That's the main theme of this review - you get amazing quality for the price you pay.

More about the pedals - they simulate the experience much better than that of the Driving Force Pro's pedals, because when I give it half throttle in my DFP, the car will barely accelerate (but we know when we drive in real life that half throttle is something like 80% of your maximum acceleration), whereas in the G25, it's much closer to what I experience in my car. One more thing about the carpet grip - when I said before that they render your base immovable, I lied; when I heel-toe shift sometimes (read: push the clutch in often and hard), I notice a tendency (very small though) for the base to rotate clockwise and slide back a little. This doesn't happen when I press the gas pedal though. After a long round of playing, I will have to readjust my pedal base, but I think it's just because I want a perfect ... Read More

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