Flat Bottom Steering Wheel?

Poll Poll What Wheel?

  • Option 1 - Keep it simple

    Votes: 31 40.8%

  • Option 2 - Flat bottom

    Votes: 22 28.9%

  • Option 3 - Go all out!

    Votes: 23 30.3%
  • Total voters
    76
Dav the wheel nut said:
Never having driven with a flat bottomed steering wheel can someone who has, explain the advantages or otherwise :?
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There arent any imho (unless you're so fat that you cant place your legs under it).
If you do a lot of mountain roads, with a lot of hairpins (where the steeringwheel has to be turned more than 1/2 turn) it feels very unnatural to let the steeringwheel selfcenter when you're coming out of the hairpin and step on it. When the wheel glides through your hands, the flat spot is imho just a distraction that prevents you to let the wheel slip through your fingers.
I've driven 7 days through the alps (averaging 3 or 4 mountainpasses a day in that period) in an audi with the flat bottom wheel, and it's not for me.
 
Just on pure aesthetics alone I like flat bottom wheels. However like others have said I'm not sure they have any practical advantages. No3 looks a bit too Maxpower/Fast and Furious for me, at the end of day its a zed not a zonda. I do like the perforated sides though and went with this when I had royals re trim my e85 wheel
 
I had the stick flat bottom wheel in my 8.J TT 3.2 and I really liked it. I however am 6 foot 4 so the flat bottom actually served the purpose of keeping the wheel off my knees in the straight ahead position. It was a touch odd in situations that required you to hold the wheel steady when rotated 180 degrees though, e.g my local supermarket helter skelter carpark, but I did like it.

My Z4 lets me sit lower and bring the wheel closer to my chest so no such issues with the round wheel.

Ta!
 
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