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Originally Posted by Purekoryo
Yes you are.
Go compare a race car steering wheel or Porsche's with our M3's. Additionally thinner steering wheels are a bit lighter, so less filtering from what the wheels/suspension are doing.
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100% disagree.
This is a personal preference - some people feel the wheel feedback through their fingers and prefer a thin wheel, others feel with their palms and prefer a thick wheel.
There is no right answer.
There are plenty of race cars with thick wheels (in fact, look at the in-car footage from any race series and I bet you will see a lot more thick wheels than thin wheels...)
You are correct about a thin rim having less rotational inertia, but with any e-pas system the feedback is effectively controlled by that system and it can be tuned to overcome any rotational inertia (that is how, for example, the amount of wheel vibration you feel with lane departure warning can be varied).
On our M3's the level of isolation (or lack of feedback, if you will) is a choice made by BMW. They have decided that reducing steady state feedback (e.g bumps on a straight road) is desirable, but at the expense of some cornering feel feedback. Nothing to do with wheel rim thickness.