Best motor type for driving a heavy wheel

For my bus driving simulator project i have the steering wheel and steering column from a bus, the wheel is about 450mm diameter and weighs a good few kilo's, likely over 5 and maybe approaching 10kg.
The steering column has a short drive shaft similar to what you'd find on a car to link the column to what would have been the steering box.

So this is all pretty heavy compared to a typical lightweight car steering wheel that most people mount directly onto a motor, and there is quite a bit of mass to it when rotated.

So i'm wondering what kind of motor to go for to drive this,

i was originally going to use a 24 volt brushed DC motor of about 150 watts with a belt drive with about a 4:1 reduction gear, but i'm thinking a brushless DC motor may be better, but would i be pushing it to go direct drive?

i don't need very fast rotations of the wheel like race games need, i need more torque than speed i'm guessing, and a bus has about 6.5 turns lock to lock (around 2400 degrees of rotation)

I have used just the bus steering wheel mounted on a driving force GT ffb unit, but that was very very weak, the tiny motor ran very hot and the wear on the plastic gears was quite pronounced.