GARRA. One body, configured around the driver

What is the ImSim GARRA?

GARRA is ImSim’s flagship racing simulator. A proprietary tactile system lets the driver feel the car through vibration at each of its four corners, and the sound arrives through the seat rather than around it.

The screen stays still while the machine moves, carried on a stand of its own. The computer is built in, so the whole simulator runs off a single cable. It can be driven static, or on four D-BOX G5 actuators.

Everything a driver touches — screen, wheelbase, wheel, pedals, seat — is specified with you, and the platform takes practically any hardware on the market.

The GARRA in profile: one body, 2320 mm from nose to tail.

Three quarters from the front, with the screen on its own stand.

Head on. The lit blades run down each side of the nose.

From behind, where the seat and the light bar close the shape.

The wheel and the five-inch dashboard on it.

The pedal plate, which slides fore and aft to the driver.

A tactile transducer, bolted under the plate.

One body. Your hardware inside it.

The chassis, the bodywork and the motion were engineered as one machine — 2320 mm long, 900 mm across, 1360 mm tall. What sits inside it is yours to specify: screen, wheelbase, wheel, pedals and seat are chosen per order, and the platform takes practically any hardware on the market.

An ImSim GARRA simulator in red seen from the side, with the screen, the wheel, the pedals, the seat and the actuators all visible.

01Screen on its own stand
02Adjustable wheelbase and wheel
03Adjustable pedal position
04Adjustable racing seat

Motion

Four actuators. The screen stays still.

A D-BOX G5 Motion Kit 4250i sits under the chassis, one actuator at each corner. The body pitches, rolls and heaves with the car; the screen is carried on its own stand and does not move with it, so the horizon stays where a horizon belongs and long stints stay comfortable.

The motion system is D-BOX. Its motion technology is officially approved by the FIA.

The lower body of a GARRA seen from the side, with a D-BOX actuator under each end. — One actuator at each corner, under the body.

Actuators: Four. D-BOX G5 Motion Kit 4250i, fitted as standard
Screen: Static. Carried on the ImSim GARRA stand, independent of the moving body
Maintenance: None scheduled

Sensory feedback

Four corners, four channels

Motion tells the body where the car is going. The tactile system tells it what the tyres are doing. Four transducers sit in the chassis, one for each corner of the car, and each is driven on its own — so a wheel spinning at the rear arrives at the rear, and a front tyre locking arrives under the feet.

Plan view of the GARRA chassis with the four transducers marked: a pair beside the pedal plate and a pair under the seat.

A tactile transducer bolted under the chassis of a GARRA.

Front pairBeside the pedal plate, where the front tyres speak
Rear pairUnder the seat, where the back of the car does
Each on its ownFour channels, so a cue arrives from the corner it happens at

01
Wheel spin and wheel slip
Per corner, which is how a driver tells the two apart without looking.
02
ABS
Through the pedal, where it happens in a car.
03
Surfaces and kerbs
Gravel, kerbs and road texture, on the corner that meets them.
04
Engine and gearshifts
Revs through the seat, shifts through the chassis.

Driving position

Any driver, in seconds

The steering column rises and drops on a button, and the pedal plate slides to the feet. Nobody carries tools to the machine and nobody drives in somebody else’s position — which is what makes a GARRA work on a venue floor as well as it works in a house.

01

Steering height

A button on the column, and the wheel rises or drops to meet the driver.
02

Pedal position

The whole plate moves, so the reach changes without changing the angle.
03

Then drive

A session starts from the screen in under thirty seconds. No mouse, no keyboard.

The finish

Any colour you can point at

The body is painted before it ships, to a colour you choose. Beyond paint there is vinyl, and beyond vinyl there are machines built one at a time.

An ImSim GARRA simulator painted in another colour, seen from the front three quarter.

These five are examples, not a range. A GARRA is painted to whatever colour you ask for — matched to a room, or matched to a car in your garage — as long as it is physically possible.

01

Paint

Any colour you can give us a reference for. Send a code, a sample, or the car.

02

Vinyl

Graphics and liveries over the paint, and your own cars and liveries inside the simulator.

03

Special projects

Carbon fibre bodywork and machines built to a brief, one at a time. Closer to another service than to an option.

The owner of a custom-built GARRA driving it at home in Monaco. — A special project in Monaco: a GARRA built to a customer’s own brief. Play the film.

A piece of design, before anything else

GARRA was drawn to be looked at, not only driven. The body is one continuous surface, the light is built into it rather than added on, and the machine holds a room the way a sculpture does — a statement, wherever it stands.

The front of a GARRA in the dark, with two lit blades either side of the nose. — Front. Two light blades either side of the nose.

The rear of a GARRA in the dark, with a single lit bar across the tail. — Rear. A single bar across the tail.

Software

We control every part of it

The motion, the tactile feedback, the wheelbase, the actuators — all of it runs on software we wrote ourselves. Nothing is handed to somebody else’s black box, which is why the motion agrees with the physics and why any of it can be tuned to the driver in front of it.

On top of that sits the launcher: a driver sits down, picks a car and a track on the screen in front of them, and goes. No mouse, no keyboard, nobody standing behind them. It drives practically every title that matters in this industry, racing and flight. The FAQ lists them.

Technical data

Dimensions and specification

Measured on the 49-inch single screen with four D-BOX actuators, which is how a GARRA ships.

Side elevation of the GARRA from the engineering drawing, with the overall height dimensioned at 1360 millimetres.

Side · 2320 × 1360 mm

Plan view of the GARRA from the engineering drawing, dimensioned 2320 millimetres long, 900 millimetres across the body and 1200 millimetres across the screen.

Plan · 900 mm body, 1200 mm across the screen

Dimensions	2320 mm long, 900 mm across the body, 1360 mm high. The screen reaches 1200 mm across
Motion	D-BOX G5 Motion Kit 4250i. Four actuators, fitted as standard
Tactile system	ImSim’s own. Four transducers, one per corner, independently driven
Screen	49-inch curved ultrawide, on the ImSim GARRA stand. Static under motion
Controls	Standard build: direct drive wheelbase, premium GT wheel, 5-inch dashboard, TALENTO throttle and brake. All specified per order
Adjustment	Steering height on the column and pedal plate fore and aft, both without tools
Finish	Painted to any colour that is physically possible. Vinyl and carbon fibre as special projects
Delivered with	Transport box, ImSim Rig Lifter and mobility trolley
Manufacture	Designed, engineered and built by ImSim in Europe

The hardware above is the standard build. Screen, wheelbase, wheel, pedals and seat are specified with you, so a machine on your floor may read differently.

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