The quality of the steering wheel remains how often addressed unchallenged. While there is plastic, but the grip, durability and the feel is miles away from what we know nowadays cheap plastic, which alone when touching strange noises are from and threatens to break. In this original product by Nintendo, it looks quite different: None of the aforementioned shortcomings are noted here. If the steering wheel intentionally or unintentionally lost from the hands come and may fall sleep on hard ground: Do not worry! I had to realize that it may take a lot on yourself (keyword: marble floor).
If you hold the steering wheel with both hands one runs to no risk - not even with sweaty hands. Sure, it is indeed plastic and even slippery, you might think, but viewed subjectively reminds me this is absolutely not plastic, but at werterem something.
It should be clear to everyone that this wheel has no electronic attributes. In practice, it looks like that one placed his Wii-mote into the appropriate slot, and then can play like that. The need for and the investment should each decide for themselves.
"After all, it looks better," said one of my three cousins, with whom I have played "Mario Kart Wii" recently. I too believe that it must be tempting for outsiders well, but the player remembers very little or nothing. The most fun this is only maximized when all four participants have such a steering wheel and use it to control the race - after all, you control in real life the car or a kart not only a thumb and using Nunchuck. ;-)
Otherwise, you can also hold the remote flat horizontally and play so - no steering wheel.
Conclusion: Certainly a nice "Party-Gag" or hit with birthdays. Whether one but - despite one investment - wants to buy four steering wheels for the real game, of this may like to do. Perversity would you still do not lie.