Simucube Savu Pro Review: Flagship Quality at a Flagship Price

Before getting into the wheel itself, a quick disclosure. Simucube provided the Savu Pro at no cost for review. They had no input on this article and did not see it before publication. For additional transparency, Moza, a competing brand, is a paid sponsor of the channel. As always, all thoughts and opinions here are entirely my own.

The Simucube Savu Pro is the company’s current flagship butterfly-style steering wheel and the first one built natively around the new Simucube 3 ecosystem. That alone puts a lot of expectation on it. This is a high-end brand, attached to a high-end price tag, and with something positioned this far up the range, the real question is never whether it looks serious. The real question is whether it actually feels worth it once you start using it.

And honestly, there is a lot to like here. The Savu Pro feels expensive in a way that is immediately obvious, even before you plug it in. It is dense, substantial, and built like an absolute tank. At the same time, it also arrives with the sort of price and ecosystem limitations that make it very hard to treat as an easy recommendation. So like a lot of Simucube hardware, this is a product that can be both excellent and quite niche at the same time.

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Build Quality Is the First Thing That Stands Out

The biggest strength of the Savu Pro is probably its build quality. This wheel feels extremely solid. It uses a full metal frame, metal inputs, metallic paddle shifters, and a very robust quick release system on the back. On the rig, it has that distinctively high-end feeling you would expect from a wheel sitting at a $1,400 MSRP, and in fairness, Simucube absolutely delivers on that part.

It is also not a light wheel. In my testing, it came in at 1769 grams, which puts it on the heavier side. That said, this is clearly a wheel intended for Simucube 2 and Simucube 3 wheel bases, so none of the bases it is meant to be paired with are going to struggle with the weight in any meaningful way. In practice, it still feels planted and purposeful rather than slow or cumbersome.

There Is Plenty of Functionality, Even Without a Screen

In terms of overall functionality, Simucube has packed quite a lot into this 295 mm wheel. Most notably, there is no display or screen of any kind, which will matter to some people. What you do get,…