Heusinkveld Introduce New MagShift Mini Sequential Shifter

Peter Conway · Mar 5, 2025

"Thanks to its small size, it cuts the time your hand has to be off the wheel by a considerable amount."
Seriously?

If you're that concerned about time spent shifting a sequential stick get back to the paddles.
As far as I see it's trying to create a market for a non existent problem, no disrespect intended but... really?
250 quid for a fun sized shifter, whatever happened to 'bigger is better'

justageezer · Mar 5, 2025

Looks kinda cute I suppose, but £250ish for a shifter that only does sequential seems more midrange than budget tbh. To me 'budget' is <£100 th8s or Logitech Driving Force. Also it's not clear from the article how it produces 4 mappable outputs if it has no extra buttons? Doesn't it just go forwards and back?

My Fanatec unit might be a yuuuuge and heavy lump in comparison, but with it mounted near my wheel, and with a short shaft mod I can manage pretty snappy shifts in either sequential or H-pattern mode.
It was a bit dearer than the dinky Heusinkveld - but it's still cheaper than two shifters

[and yes I have too many buttons lol]

Slapped · Mar 5, 2025

justageezer said:
Looks kinda cute I suppose, but £250ish for a shifter that only does sequential seems more midrange than budget tbh.

I get what you say but it's Heusinkveld, and £250ish for one of their products makes it budget orientated - for them.

Anyway I've used quite a bit of their gear, and if this is built to the same standard then it's probably worth the money.

However it isn't for me as I already have their original sequential shifter and I don't use it enough anyway. Also the original has a really nice mechanical feel with a definite clunk as you shift, something I don't think these magnetic based shifters can replicate.

Mr Latte · Mar 5, 2025

Does seem a bit expensive.

Talk about timing eh....
I wonder what Simlab are thinking, in the timing of this but see pre-orders for their own upcoming SQ1 mini shifter have sold out.

Did get one of those ordered for £169 and reports from the trade show on it were excellent.

KSR Motorsports · Mar 5, 2025

Is it just me or......the shorter the shaft the FARTHER your hand has to travel from your wheel !?

Ever seen a V8 Supercar with anything less that a real long shifter shaft?

Better yet, a rallycar with a short little handbrake?

Seems to me having a sequential shaft as short as an H-Box shifter.....you gotta get way down there to hammer it(?)

pullmehome · Mar 5, 2025

I love their pedals, but for me the shifter market is ali express or nothing. I have the cheap h pattern and the sim jack sequential. Both are very good for less that 100$ and both offer very serviceable tactile feel. The simjack did require me to do a full teardown and loctite everything. So for less than this I have an h pattern and sequential. The h pattern is older than my pedals and DD wheel and strong after 3 plus years the simjack is over a year old and never misses a beat aside from the terrible assembly from the factory.

TeddyBearx · Mar 5, 2025

I still have this Heusinkveld sequential shifter

Will think to replace it but not now, I dont use it very often at all, mine is like new, maybe if I can sell mine, I will replace it, but not very hyped

Warren Dawes · Mar 5, 2025

I also have the older HE Seq Shifter, still working fine, so I can't see any need to upgrade it.

Christopher E · Mar 6, 2025

TeddyBearx said:
I still have this Heusinkveld sequential shifterView attachment 825337 Will think to replace it but not now, I dont use it very often at all, mine is like new, maybe if I can sell mine, I will replace it, but not very hyped

I have the same, love it for rally

Leynad777 · Mar 6, 2025

Peter Conway said:
"Thanks to its small size, it cuts the time your hand has to be off the wheel by a considerable amount."
Seriously?

If you're that concerned about time spent shifting a sequential stick get back to the paddles.
As far as I see it's trying to create a market for a non existent problem, no disrespect intended but... really?
250 quid for a fun sized shifter, whatever happened to 'bigger is better'

I was using the predecessor about an inch away from my paddle-shifters and mostly using it for DR2 and WRC. Certainly I just could use the paddles instead, but it's fun to shift sequential, especially if the handicap is reduced to the minimum. Like many I also was using it as h-shifter replacement. Using h-shifter with clutch is no fun in those games because the clutch-logic is too nitpicky. The 2nd advantage is: You have still enough space to mount a full h-pattern shifter and handbrake. My h-shifter was as close to the wheel as in a Porsche 962C and also sequential shifters in formula cars are typically very close to the wheel. Many full-sized sequential-shifters in sim-rigs are further away than in most race-cars because the profiles don't allow it to be closer.

xDriver69x · Mar 6, 2025

For those who need buttons on their buttons and some more then the shifter to go along with all the other mods to mod it till it just can't mod no more... Get em quick before EVs make them obsolete. or you end up in a Formula or LMDh and flappy tip tappy style. to bad they left out RGB for the nohesi crowd. gotta do that market research when 85% of AC is about that highway driftorito and the shiftyness

ricerracer · Mar 7, 2025

One of the ugliest things I have seen it won't be going anywhere near my rig. The old one is much better, I picked one up from eBay brand new condition for 100£ delivered

TeddyBearx · Mar 7, 2025

ricerracer said:
One of the ugliest things I have seen it won't be going anywhere near my rig. The old one is much better, I picked one up from eBay brand new condition for 100£ delivered

I confirm Im very satisfied with the old one, I'm just thinking to replace it with the H shifter from Simagic to have both H and SEQ.

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