While there are many points of intersection between cars and popular culture, few are as direct as the cross-over in enthusiast devotion of car culture and video games. Car racing games have been a staple genre of gaming pretty much since the dawn of video games, and the fast-paced evolution of the technology has pushed it into unprecedented realms of realism. That’s why it makes perfect sense that the country manager of Logitech New Zealand - one of the leading suppliers of both pro and consumer-level sim racing equipment - is an absolute car nut. Outside of his day job leading the local arm of the company that gives us such gear as the popular G923 wheel for PC, Xbox and PlayStation, the pro-grade Pro Racing Wheel, as well as the new - and thoroughly fantastic - RS50 wheel, Jamie Hall is a car guy through and through. And he has the garage history to prove it, not least of which is his current daily driver; a Subaru Levorg wagon that blurs the line between a practical family car and a true showpiece. If you first see Hall’s Levorg behind a low wall, you could be forgiven for thinking it is nothing special, giving off all the presence of a bog-standard white Levorg. However, cop an eyeful of it in full, with its aggressively low stance and bodywork almost scraping on the ground, and you quickly realize it is anything but standard. Inspired by the rather awesome American mini-truck scene that burst onto the scene in the late 80s/early 90s, Hall’s Levorg is a fully-airbagged lowrider that somehow manages to perfectly blend showy sensationalism and genuine family practicality. “I made my mind up on the airbags first and then was like, ‘What's the car to put them in?’,” said Hall.
A lowrider Levorg and the future of <b>sim racing</b>: we talk to Logitech NZ's Jamie Hall
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