MOZA KS review: $279 for 70 inputs, and the $50 step to the KS Pro

The MOZA KS is a 300mm butterfly GT wheel at $279.00 regular, $229.00 on MOZA’s US store on 2 August 2026, and it puts what MOZA counts as “70 programmable input signals” on a MOZA quick release with no screen anywhere on it. The KS Pro beside it is $329.00 for the same 300mm butterfly shape with a 2.99-inch display, five rotary encoders instead of three, and two 7-way funky switches. MOZA sells the two off one “Model” picker on each listing, so the decision in front of a buyer is $50.00 and what a dashboard on the rim is worth.

Type	Butterfly-style GT wheel. MOZA's size row reads "Wheel Size: 300mm standard GT wheel"
Rim	MOZA's description reads "Crafted with carbon fiber-reinforced composites and TPE rubber grips", and a feature block adds "Reinforced with high-strength steel for a secure connection even under intense force feedback". 2.6 kg, 300 × 120 × 165 mm
Inputs	MOZA's spec block lists 10 RGB buttons at 0.25mm travel in 8 colors, 3 rotary encoders at 12 positions, 2 thumb encoders at 20 positions, 2 depressible joysticks, 2 magnetic shifter paddles, and 2 clutch paddles. Its headline figure of 70 counts signals rather than parts
Paddles	"Paddle Material: Aluminum alloy", non-contact Hall sensors, and dual clutch in three modes: "Combined Axis / Independent Axis / Button"
Display	None. The only light is "High Brightness LEDs: 10" in 8 colors, set in MOZA Pit House
Connectivity	"Quick Release: MOZA Quick Release" over "Communication Method: Via Industrial Conductive Slip Ring". Third-party bases through the $59.00 MOZA Universal Hub Kit. No port of MOZA's naming on the wheel itself
Platforms	PC is the only machine MOZA names. No console appears anywhere on the listing
In the box	Three lines: "MOZA KS Steering Wheel * 1", "MOZA Sticker", "Toolkit * 1"
Price	$279.00 regular, $229.00 on MOZA's US store on 2 August 2026. The cheapest MOZA base under it is the $349.00 R9 V3, for $628.00
Best for	MOZA base owners who want a butterfly GT rim with deep controls and read telemetry somewhere other than the wheel

Who it’s for

Someone already on a MOZA base who wants a wheel with real control density and does not need a dashboard in the rim.

Buy it if:

• You run a MOZA direct-drive base and want the controls a GT or endurance stint needs: three rotaries, two thumb encoders, two joysticks, and 10 backlit buttons within reach.
• You launch from a standing start often. The dual clutch paddles run in three modes MOZA names, combined axis, independent axis, and button, so you can set a bite point rather than modulating a single paddle.
• You read fuel and lap delta on a monitor or an external dash, which is where MOZA leaves them: there is no screen on this wheel and no MOZA statement of one.

Not the one if you want the dashboard on the rim, where the KS Pro below is $50.00 away, or if you want a closed circle for rally and drift, where the MOZA ESX is a 280mm round rim at $139.00 regular. MOZA also sells a 13-inch circle at this exact price, the CS V2P, whose spec block trades a rotary and four buttons for the one thing the KS listing will not give you: a list of the bases it fits and the three it does not.

KS against KS Pro: $50.00, a screen, and two more rotaries

MOZA sells these as two listings with two SKUs, T04W040001B and T04W180001B, each with its own price and its own spec block, and offers each as the other’s alternative on a picker headed “Model”. This site records them as two products for the same reason: the core hardware differs, which is the second of the three split tests on configurations.

Wheel	Price, MOZA US store, 2 August 2026	Generation	Lifecycle	What MOZA’s spec block gives it that the other’s does not	Buy
Moza Racing KS Steering Wheel	$279.00 regular, $229.00 that day	None published	Current, in MOZA’s US steering-wheel collection on 2 August 2026	”Joysticks (Depressible): 2”, a weight of “2.6 kg”, and dimensions of “300 × 120 × 165 mm”. Cheaper by $50.00	MOZA
Moza Racing KS Pro Steering Wheel	$329.00, no sale price	None published	Current, in the same collection the same day	”Display: 2.99-inch screen” and “UI Interface: Fully customizable”; “Rotary Encoders: 5” against 3; “7-Way Funky Switches: 2” and “Rear Buttons: 2”; “Shifter Paddles: Magnetic forged carbon with Hall sensors”; “Flag Lights: 6 side-mounted RGB LEDs” beside its rev lights; 16.7 million button colors against 8	MOZA

The screen is the reason to pay the $50.00. MOZA’s Pro spec gives “Display: 2.99-inch screen” and “UI Interface: Fully customizable”, and its own FAQ says you “can create your own dashboards, import community designs, or switch layouts based on different cars and racing scenarios” through MOZA Pit House. Nothing on the KS listing offers a display of any kind, so the choice between the two is a dash on the rim against a dash somewhere else.

The control count moves with it. Two more rotary encoders, two 7-way funky switches, and two rear buttons are three rows the KS spec block does not carry. The traffic goes the other way once: MOZA lists “Joysticks (Depressible): 2” on the KS and names no joystick on the Pro at all, so a buyer who navigates menus with a stick loses one moving up.

Two rev-light counts, one page. MOZA publishes both for the Pro. Its feature block reads “Ten RGB rev lights, six RGB flag lights”, and its spec block two screens down reads “Rev Lights: 12 top-mounted RGB LEDs” beside “Flag Lights: 6 side-mounted RGB LEDs”. The flag figure agrees with itself and the rev figure does not. The KS carries one figure, “High Brightness LEDs: 10”, and no contradiction.

The boxes are not the same length either. The KS ships three things, “MOZA KS Steering Wheel * 1”, “MOZA Sticker”, and “Toolkit * 1”. The Pro ships five, “MOZA KS Pro GT Wheel x 1”, “Tool Kit”, “MOZA Stickers”, “User Manual”, and “Warranty Card”. Both are MOZA’s own box lists in MOZA’s own wording, including the two spellings of the toolkit.

The other two MOZA wheels at $279.00 and $329.00

MOZA sells four wheels at these two prices. The CS V2P is $279.00 regular and $229.00 on 2 August 2026, the same two figures as the KS to the dollar on the same store the same day, and the CS Pro is $329.00 with no sale price, the same as the KS Pro. What separates each CS wheel from the KS wheel it ties is the rim: a circle against a butterfly, at 13 inches and 325 mm against 300mm on both KS wheels.

Wheel	Price, MOZA US store, 2 August 2026	Generation	Lifecycle	How MOZA’s spec block differs from the same-priced KS wheel’s	Buy
Moza Racing CS V2P Steering Wheel	$279.00 regular, $229.00 that day	V2P	Current, in MOZA’s US steering-wheel collection on 2 August 2026	”Size: 13 Inches” against the KS’s “300mm standard GT wheel”; “Face Plate Material: Aluminum Alloy” and “Back Plate Material: Aluminum Alloy”; “Shifter Sensor: Non-contact Photoelectric Sensor” against the KS’s “Paddle Sensor: Non-contact Hall Sensor”. Fewer inputs: “Rotary Encoders: 2” against 3, “Mechanical Key Buttons: 6” against 10, no thumb encoder row, and no clutch paddle row	MOZA
Moza Racing CS Pro Steering Wheel	$329.00, no sale price	None published	Current, in the same collection the same day	”Dimensions: 325 mm” against the KS Pro’s “300 mm”, and round where the KS Pro is a butterfly; “Grip Material: Eco-friendly microfiber leather” against “TPE soft rubber”; “Backlit Short-Travel Buttons: 8” against 10 and “Rotary Encoders: 4” against 5; “Rev Lights: 10 top-mounted RGB LEDs” against 12, and this one agrees with its own feature copy where the KS Pro’s does not. Those five are the whole of it: the two blocks share 23 labels and 18 of them carry identical values, and the CS Pro adds a 24th row the KS Pro has none of, “Frame Material: Aluminum alloy”	MOZA

The CS V2P is the $279.00 MOZA wheel that names your base. Its FAQ opens “The CS V2P is compatible with the MOZA direct-drive wheel bases that feature wired (conductive slip ring) support”, lists eight bullets naming nine models, the R3, R5, “R9 V2 / R9 V3”, R12 V2, R16 V2, R21 V2, R21 Ultra, and R25 Ultra, then refuses three outright: “These models use the older wireless transmission system and do not support the CS V2P’s wired conductive connection.” The three are the R9 V1, R16 V1, and R21 V1. The KS names no base either way. If your base is one of those three, that is the whole decision.

The same page then credits the connection to wireless. MOZA answers “Do I need a separate cable to connect the CS V2P to my base?” with “No. Thanks to MOZA’s Invisible Connect wireless technology, no extra cables are needed when paired with a MOZA wheelbase.” A wired conductive slip ring and Invisible Connect are two mechanisms, both published by MOZA for one wheel on one page, and MOZA reconciles them nowhere. The base list is the half of that answer you can act on; which cable, if any, runs behind it is not settled here.

The CS Pro is the only MOZA wheel with a published bolt pattern. MOZA answers “Is the wheel rim interchangeable?” with “Yes. The CS Pro uses an industry-standard 6×70 bolt pattern, allowing the button box to be paired with most third-party rims.” No other listing among the 13 states a pattern for the wheel itself, counted on each listing’s served HTML on 2 August 2026. It also takes a second pair of paddles: the MOZA Paddles Add-on Kit was $45.00 that day, and its own store record says it upgrades “the CS Pro Wheel” to a six-paddle layout. The KS Pro carries the identical “Paddle Add-on: Magnetic forged carbon with Hall sensors” row and MOZA names no wheel but the CS Pro on that kit, so which of the two it fits is MOZA’s to answer.

Neither CS listing names a console, and only one names a PC. “Xbox”, “PlayStation”, “PS5”, and “PS4” appear zero times each on both pages, counted word-bounded on 2 August 2026, which is silence rather than a refusal. The CS V2P names no machine at all, PC included: its one “PC” string is a Shopify banner id inside a stylesheet, which is the same lone hit the GS V2P listing carries, checked the same day. The CS Pro names one, in a feature block reading “Compatible with all MOZA wheelbases and supporting direct PC connection via the MOZA hub kit, the CS Pro also works with third-party wheelbases”, which puts the $59.00 Universal Hub Kit between the wheel and the computer.

What it costs to steer with

$279.00 buys a wheel that turns nothing on its own. Every compatibility answer MOZA gives for the KS names a base or an adapter, and the one sentence that names a USB port does not say what carries it, which the next section works through.

The cheapest MOZA base under it is $349.00. MOZA’s US wheel-base collection held five on 2 August 2026: the R9 V3 at $349.00 regular, the R12 V2 at $469.00, the R16 Ultra at $529.00, the R21 Ultra at $699.00, and the R25 Ultra at $899.00. KS plus R9 V3 is $628.00 at regular prices.

The bundle saves nothing at regular prices. MOZA sells an “R12 V2 and KS Bundle” at $748.00 regular, and $279.00 plus the R12 V2’s $469.00 is $748.00, the same figure to the dollar. The saving lives entirely in the sale pricing: on 2 August 2026 the bundle showed $609.00 while the two listings on their own showed $229.00 and $399.00, which is $628.00. The box was $19.00 cheaper that day and level with the parts at list.

The third-party route is $59.00 more. The MOZA Universal Hub Kit was $59.00 regular and $39.00 that day, and its own listing answers “Which devices are compatible with this hub?” with “The hub supports KS Wheels, FSR2 Formula Wheel, MOZA Vision GS Wheel, MOZA TSW Truck Wheel, SRP Lite Pedals, and other MOZA ecosystem products.” The plural in “KS Wheels” is MOZA’s, and that sentence is the hub listing’s only mention of either KS.

Which bases MOZA says it fits, and where it stops saying

One page, two widths. The KS spec block reads “Compatibility: All MOZA wheelbases and 3rd party wheelbases”. Its FAQ answer to “Can I use the KS with non-MOZA wheelbases?” opens “Yes. While optimized for all MOZA non-wireless wheelbases via the quick release system”. Those are not the same claim, and MOZA never names a base the KS refuses. The GS V2P and the CS V2P are the two listings in the lineup that do name refusals, the R9 V1, R16 V1, and R21 V1, and neither of those sentences is about this wheel.

The chart is broader still. MOZA’s support article “MOZA Racing Products Compatibility” ticks “KS Wheel” and “KS Pro Wheel” under all eight of its base columns, under a legend reading “Can be connected directly to the wheelbase.” Its columns are R3, R5, R9 V2/V3, R12 V1/V2, R16 V1(2023 later)/V2, R21 V1(2023 later)/V2, R21 Ultra, and R25 Ultra, so there is no R9 V1 column to tick or leave blank, and no R16 Ultra column for the base MOZA started listing on 28 July 2026. The MOZA wheel catalog works through what the chart covers and what it does not.

The USB sentence settles nothing. MOZA’s third-party answer closes “You can connect it directly to a PC via USB for broader compatibility.” The sentence before it is about the Universal Hub Kit, the product description calls that part “our MOZA Universal Hub Kit PC adapter”, and the KS Pro’s own listing writes the same route as connecting “directly to a PC via MOZA’s universal hub kit”. So whether the port is on the wheel or on the $59.00 hub is a question MOZA’s KS page raises and does not answer. Treat the wheel as needing something under it until MOZA says otherwise.

Watch-outs

• No screen. The only light is a rev bar of ten LEDs in eight colors, which tells you when to shift and nothing else. Fuel, lap delta, and tire temperatures need the KS Pro, an external dash, or a monitor.
• No material on the quick release. MOZA gives it no version either. The KS spec row reads “Quick Release: MOZA Quick Release”, and “aluminum” appears exactly twice on the whole listing, both times about the paddles: “Durable anodized aluminum paddles” and “Paddle Material: Aluminum alloy”. Ten of MOZA’s 13 wheels name aluminum in the release row or beside it, and this one does not. MOZA publishes no generation number for the fitting on any of the 13.
• No console answer at all. MOZA names PC and nothing else. If you race on an Xbox, the ESX is the only MOZA wheel whose own listing carries a platform row, and MOZA’s Wheel Base FAQs make the license the wheel’s job rather than the base’s.
• The refurbished listing is a second SKU. MOZA’s collection carries “KS GT Wheel (Refurbished)” at $159.00 against a crossed-out $229.00, reading unavailable on 2 August 2026. It is the same hardware on its own listing, so a sold-out reading there says nothing about the new one.
• The review counts are the seller’s. MOZA’s own listing showed 141 customer reviews for the KS and 54 for the KS Pro on 2 August 2026. Reviews collected on the page that sells the product are a different thing from an independent test, and this site has driven neither wheel.

Alternatives to consider

• MOZA GS V2P: $399.00 regular for a 300mm forged carbon and perforated leather GT rim on the same quick release. The one to buy if the rim material matters more than a screen. It is the next MOZA wheel up from the KS Pro, tied on price with the $399.00 Revuelto.
• MOZA ESX: $139.00 regular for a 280mm round rim, and the only MOZA wheel whose own listing states “Platforms: PC & Xbox”. Half the money and the only console answer in the lineup.
• Simagic GT Neo: ~$240 for a 300 mm GT wheel with magnetic shift paddles and dual clutch, native on Simagic Alpha bases. The comparable purchase if your base is a Simagic rather than a MOZA.
• MOZA FSR2: $649.00 for a formula shape with a 4.3-inch touchscreen and six magnetic paddles. More than double the KS, for open-wheel cars and a real dash.

Check your base against MOZA’s own chart and the KS listing’s two compatibility wordings before ordering, and price the $59.00 Universal Hub Kit in if the base under it is not a MOZA. Rims and quick-releases covers what a cross-brand mount keeps and drops.

Sources

Every MOZA URL below returned HTTP 200 on 2 August 2026, and every price, spec row, count, and quotation above was read that day.

• MOZA KS Steering Wheel, for the price pair, the spec block, the box list, the FAQ answers, the description, and the review count.
• MOZA KS Pro Steering Wheel, for the same set on that wheel, including both rev-light figures.
• MOZA CS V2P Steering Wheel and MOZA CS Pro Steering Wheel, for the two family-table rows: the prices, the spec blocks, the compatibility and cable FAQs, and the bolt-pattern answer. MOZA Paddles Add-on Kit for the $45.00 six-paddle upgrade and the wheel its own record names.
• MOZA steering wheels collection, for the 15 cards, the two lifecycle readings, and the refurbished KS listing at /products/moza-ks-steering-wheel.
• MOZA Racing Products Compatibility, for the eight column headings, the legend, and the ticks on the “KS Wheel” and “KS Pro Wheel” rows.
• MOZA wheel bases collection and the five listings under it, for the base prices, and R12 V2 and KS Bundle for the bundle’s $748.00 regular price and its $609.00 that day.
• MOZA Universal Hub Kit, for its two prices and its compatibility answer.
• MOZA Wheel Base FAQs, for the Xbox sentence.