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In-car hardware we have tested ourselves, each with the dates it was tested and our own photographs.
Every review here is hardware we had in hand. How we check.
4 reviews
Hands-on review
8.5/10
Direct drive puts the front tyres in your hands. After driving Fanatec's entry-level CSL DD bundle at 5 Nm, here is how much road feel it delivers, what the box leaves you to buy and bolt down, and where a rig fits beside a real car.
Hands-on review
8.5/10
A dash cam clip only helps if it survives the loop, carries the right time and reaches whoever needs it intact. After three weeks with the S1 4K Infinite, here is how it reads plates after dark, how to get footage off it, and the settings that keep the loop from recording over the evidence.
Hands-on review
9/10
A third camera that watches the cabin in infrared changes what a dash cam is for. After two weeks with the A329S 3CH, here is who that camera serves and what it costs in frame rate, storage, wiring and the duty you owe your passengers.
Hands-on review
9/10
A parking mode dash cam is a load on a battery nobody is charging. After a month with the U3000 PRO on its OBD cable, here is what radar parking actually costs, how to set the voltage cutoff for your battery, and how to tell camera draw from a real parasitic drain.
