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- Wow. The feedback is crazy. Wow. I just want to keep playing it.

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Can you see the smile on my face? (Grunts)

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(Slams) Here I have some fantastic new kit from Fanatec.

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This is the CSL DD a direct drive wheel from Fanatec

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that promises to deliver the performance of a $1000, $2000 or $3000 racing wheel for like $400,

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- $500.(Chuckle) That's insane. Let's check it out.

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Every driver has their limit. Yeah, that's definitely for sure. (Chuckle)

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My limit is further than others. Oh, this is like a flex thing here.

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- (Guest Speaking) - Go away, Riley.

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Okay. We got the manual in the box. Oh, it's a quick, quick guide.

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Presumably to Mount the thing and plug the stuff in.

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We don't need that. We get some stickers. Oh, this is so cute. Look at this,

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Andy, do you want a sticker here give me your forehead.

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Thanks, Andy. Woah, look at this. This is actually really, really smart. They put holes in the cardboard.

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Pretty Cool - (Guest Speaking) Yeah.

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It's probably Stuff in the box, I reckon. I think these are for, if you have a racing wheel stand,

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you would slide these into like the grooves in this metal

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housing and then thread the bolts into there. So we won't Need those.

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We have, oh, look at that type C.

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- [Guest] Yaay. Wow. Throw the box Away. (Chuckle)

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This thing is chunky. Oh.

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(Grunts) Wow. It's really heavy. (Grunts)

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It's really heavy. Ohh, Oh My Gosh, Wow.

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Oh, they didn't put holes on the other side. That's it? That's all. That's all that's in the box.

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This Is impressive. Oh. (Grunts)

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This This, Totally makes sense. I mean, what you have is a giant aluminum housing here

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and then inside the motor in here is going to be basically,

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just a ton of copper. So the fact that this is really heavy, it makes sense.

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Oh we got a Wow, that scale is terrible.

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Why would anybody want that? Ohh.

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11 pounds, Wow.

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It is. Like I said before, a really nice machine to aluminum housing.

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It looks like it sort of splits off in the back. You could probably take this apart.

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Should we take this apart? - No, really? Oh, they're just hacks.

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Oh, we're totally taking this apart, John. Oh, John oh we must,

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There's not really any moving parts. Like this shaft should just be held in the motor

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magnetically and the rest of it should just be like electronic and crap. So yeah.

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We're totally taking this apart.

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It's got some torque. Oh, this is plastic.

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Oh, interesting.

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Yeah. Okay. So the, the ends are plastic, but the main housing is definitely still aluminum.

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Oh my God. You ready Brandon? (suspenseful music)

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Oh, no. He can't see anything. Damnit.

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It's all hidden. Oh. - [Guest] You can't go farther than that - No. I can't, But look at that machining.

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Oh, so nice. Is this the type of aluminum extrusion?

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Somebody in the comments? Let me know. Anyways. So if we could see inside, we're going to,

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we're going to show you some screenshots from their website. You would see the star of this show,

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which is the custom built direct drive motor. They made specifically for this unit.

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Now, if you don't know anything about steering wheels, there's a couple of different types.

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You can either get a direct drive. You can get a belt driven or you can get a gear-driven.

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And now typically for budget wheels,

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which I mean can be anywhere from like a hundred to $500,

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which is sort of your budget to mid-range category.

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You're going to see a lot of belt-driven and gear-driven.

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And basically what those have is a, a much smaller motor, which will then use gearing

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or a belts ratio to increase the torque. But on a direct drive, you have none of that belt.

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And none of that gear, that means there's going to be a lot less play and you're gonna get way more accurate feedback.

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And in the case of this unit, we're also gonna get a lot more powerful feedback.

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Now, the wheel I usually use at home Is a thrust master T-300 I'm not like a crazy expensive baller SIM racer.

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Umm, and that guy, I think outputs around 3.9 Newton meters of torque.

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Whereas this unit with the optional boost pack,

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will do eight Newton meters. Which is, which is double.

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That's uhh. That's a lot of torque. Okay. So a bit of a correction here. Uhh.

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It turns out this is just the regular power supply. Umm. It's a 90 watt unit. And then the boost pack is 180 Watts.

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We don't have that one, unfortunately, but we will at least get to

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experience it in 5 newton meter mode Okay, Let's put this thing back together though.

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- (Guest speaks) I don't know if you can read this

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as part of our standard QC process. This wheelbase has passed a durability test,

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which causes slight marks on the quick release surface this product, whereas this marks with the marks with pride.

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Oh, that's cute. Before connecting the wheelbase to your PC, please install the latest Fanatec driver,

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then update the wheelbase firmware. Okay. We can do that. Let's try mounting it to the desk first.

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Oh, the sticker is terrible. Oh No, Fanatec why?

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The goo is coming off. It's just a lot of paper.

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You got a knife? I'll use this plug. See how this Goes. Cool that worked.

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All right. This worked I'm good. So I think I need to affix this before I can quick release,

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but maybe not. I mean, does this have a quick release on it right now.

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I think I'll read the manual. It's probably a safe bet.

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Cool. This is useless. Says nothing about the steering wheel. Nice. Sweet.

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You Know, it's always weird to unbox a steering wheel.

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You're like, this should be in a car. (Funny Noise)

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- [Brandon] It has plastic handles. - It Does have flappy paddles. They feel like garbage,

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but this guy goes on here and then it clips onto this.

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I'm pretty sure. Ooh. (Sratching Noise)

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Remove with care. Oh, Oh yeah.

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This one's plastic. Like it's, it's a, it's a plastic-y material

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that like doesn't rip.

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How do I, oops. Oh, oh. Oh, I see.

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Cool, that's like the, uh the electrical connectors

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for like the buttons and stuff

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Its backwards, there we go, oh nice.

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Wow. This is a lot of, there's a lot of set-up fantasy.

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I like that they use Loctite, this is nice. All right, I'm done. Cool. All right.

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So we've got our quick release hub, attached.

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Oh There we go. Wow. Nice.

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(sigh) Now just one more thing to do.

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It is a substantial amount of stuff to do. (Guest Speaks)

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Like, I am not denying in any way, shape, Or form that this is a quick set up process.

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(Chuckle)

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Well it depends how much you play 1 category of game

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because I, it is so much better when you want to play a racing game.

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So I think that has to go in there.

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This guy definitely goes into here and this will be

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under the table? And then I think we get this guy

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to go on there for extra torque. It's like the it's the boost kit,

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but for this handle, and then, no...

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there we go.

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(Grunts) Oh it's so heavy

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LTT Store.com

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(Chuckles) That is janked. I mean, I can tighten it a lot more.

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I'm worried this Ikea table is going to like crush itself

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or break some of this plastic. Okay. Yeah. That's, that's totally fine.

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Yes. There's pedals. Oh we haven't even done that yet. (Honking Noise)

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Please tell me the pedals don't have to be put together.

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Whoa.

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That's got a little Spongy. See that little sponge in there.

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I get it. The reason there are so many pieces

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is so you can customize it. If I put it like this, though, is it going to wobble?

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Like maybe I just have to move them over and ignore the fact

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that we have a clutch pedal. I actually, I have experienced the reason

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that you're not supposed to drive with flip-flops and I go to press the brake as I'm going

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around the corner, like in the parking garage and my foot slipped off.

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And then my flip- flop got stuck behind the pedal, so I couldn't press it.

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And I ended up like scraping my bumper against the wall.

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Okay. We got gas. We have brake,

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I got the wheel and the pedals plugged in and hooked up. And we actually had to update the firmware on both.

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The steering wheel itself which was just kind of crazy and the motor and we've loaded up a Assetto Corsa,

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which is usually my preferred game of choice. It's got presets, but they never really work.

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So we kind of have to set this up manually there's our steering axis, brake, brake. Press that.

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That needs to be inverted Specifically. I wanted to import the car

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that I own right now, which is an E60 M5 And we're going to do it on the Nordschleife

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and see how that goes. (Chuckles)

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Oh yeah. Oh wow. The force feedback is, oh,

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this almost feels like a real car. Oh that, oh, oh.

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Oh man. The pedals are too close together. The force feedback is incredible.

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And this is not even with the boost kit. That's incred..this..that's crazy.

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What is that number? Is that miles per hour?

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Oh, I'm going to go on the dirt. I'm going in the dirt. I'm going to the dirt.

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Wow. The feedback is crazy.

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Oh boy, I'm going way too fast oh, come on baby. Oh.

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Oh, Oh man. - Whoa, the steering is not. You see what that's not right.

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I think I have some @#!% misconfigured here. There's so much feedback in this wheel.

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It's shaking the whole desk. Uhh these pedals. Look at this.

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There we go. That's proper. Now I have no excuses for sucking.

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Oh boy, (laughter)

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I should have picked an easier car. This thing's a boat.

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Oh, oh, (laughter) come on. Oh man.

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I definitely started to get the hang of it a little bit more there, but wow.

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That's (chuckle), I've never actually played on a direct drive wheel and the,

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the sharpness and the aggressiveness of the feedback is,

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is unlike anything I've played before. Like this is so much better.

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And when you consider the marginal increase over like a high-end belt-driven wheel, uh high-end

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a good belt driven wheel. Like a thrust master T-300. This is so much better.

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And we don't even have the boost pack. Holy Crap.

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Wow. I just want to keep playing it. Can you see the smile on my face?

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Oh my God. The pedals feel good. It's just. They're not mounted to anything.

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So, they're kind of flopping around everywhere.

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I'm impressed. Good job. Fanatec. I am I'm genuinely impressed.

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Should we get somebody else to try it?

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(chuckle) Andy's a drift guy. - Oh Wow - Forgot. It's 500 horsepower.

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- Oh My God. This is steering wheel feels so good. - (Laughter)

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Ohhhh, (Laughter) - And there's deer.

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This car sucks. (Laughter) - Do you want a different car really quick?

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I'll give you a Porsche or something. You are, you are just pegging it at red line.

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Whoa, this car's fast.

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Does it feel like it handles better? - Oh yeah, - Definitely a little.

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Oh, oh you're going a little fast.

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But it recovers so easily. Wow. - Yeah So compared to like the Logitech wheel

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you were using before, What do you think? - This is like a hundred percent improvement.

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This feels like driving a real car. - I want your you're out of 10.

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Have you, have you tried anything better than this? - No, no, no.

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I give you like 9.5 but the 0.5 is because it doesn't really have a clutch.

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- Well, we can add a clutch - But yeah. So this setup 9.5

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- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. Well there you have it.

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Clearly, this is a fantastic product. I mean, I still have (exploit) grin on my face

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and I'm not even driving. I don't think that speaks for it enough.

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So maybe check out my ShortCircuit that I did on the flight SIM set up, which was pretty fun.

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I think Andy, did you fly in that? - Yeah, yeah, yeah I did. - Yeah he flew in that. We didn't get.

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- Off camera We didn't get to the office, he wasn't in the video. - I did.

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- Oh you did Like off camera though. - It wasn't in the video. It doesn't matter. Didn't happen.

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