What it is
The Simagic GTS is Simagic’s mid-range GT wheel, a 30cm butterfly rim that usually sells around $289 (down from a $339 list), sitting just above the budget GT Neo ($269) and below the screen-equipped rims higher up the range. It’s the sensible middle of Simagic’s GT line: a bit more button real estate and slightly nicer materials than the Neo, in the closed-cockpit butterfly shape that suits GT3 and touring cars.
It mounts on any Simagic base through the QR50 quick release, and unlike MOZA’s ecosystem-locked rims it’ll run on third-party bases with an adapter, which widens who it’s for.
Who it’s for
You’re the buyer if you’re in the Simagic ecosystem and the GT Neo has started to feel a button or two short. Race GT3, touring cars or endurance and want a few more inputs and a plusher rim without jumping up to a screen wheel, and the GTS is the natural step. The adapter route also makes it a tidy budget GT option if you’re on a Simucube or another base and just want a well-made rim.
In use
The butterfly shape does what it should - your hands fall where you want them for GT work, and there’s nothing awkward about the ergonomics. The step up from the GT Neo is real but incremental: better materials in the hand, more buttons to map, the same fundamentally sound Simagic build rather than a different wheel. The composite shell feels solid, the paddles are crisp, and for $289 nothing here feels cheap.
What you don’t get is a screen, or any on-wheel telemetry at all. That’s the whole conversation with this wheel, and it’s the thing to settle before you buy.
What to watch out for
Two prices sit either side of the GTS and both make you think. Below it, the GT Neo at $269 is close enough in what it does that if the GTS’s extra buttons don’t map to functions you’ll use, the Neo saves you twenty quid for much the same experience. Above it, forty dollars more buys a MOZA CS Pro with a display, so the choice isn’t really GTS versus Neo - it’s whether you want to stay in the Simagic ecosystem or you’d rather have a screen.
For a lot of Simagic owners the answer is obvious: you’re already invested, the QR50 mounts everything you own, and the GTS is the rim that fits. Just go in clear that you’re buying build and ergonomics, not data.
Verdict
A sensible mid-range GT rim that does the incremental job well. Its strongest card is the cross-ecosystem compatibility, the thing that really sets it apart from the MOZA rims it goes up against. At $289 it’s fair value for GT racing. For my money that flexibility is the reason to look past the cheaper Neo, though the catch is the company it keeps: the Neo is close behind and the screen-equipped CS Pro is barely more, so the GTS lives in a tight little window. If you’re a Simagic owner who wants the better rim without a screen, that window is exactly where you sit.