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 Do you care about wheels? - idle_chatterer
Funnily enough I was discussing this very subject with a colleague who was giving me a lift last night in his rather nice Holden Monaro (which has original fit 17" wheels with 45 profile tyres).

The super-big blingy wheels beloved of the M-Sport and S-Line brigade (on their debadged under-engined tax-dodging company chariots if I get on my soap box) in the UK are not in evidence down under. In fact steel wheels (often attractively styled) are in evidence on many 4x4s. You'll see E90 BMWs with steel wheels and trims plus Focus and Golfs similarly equipped. Wheel sizes appear slightly smaller too, your typical BMW has 16" or (where needed) 17" wheels and no-one is daft enough to run 19" wheels.

I wondered whether this was because of poor road surfaces, however they're not generally poor in my experience - certainly as good as I recall the UK being, even in Tasmania and New Zealand.

So, other markets (and Hong Kong is similar) seem to be less obsessed with impractically large wheels than the UK. I wonder why ?

I like the steel wheels fitted to the base (new BMW) Mini and looked for a set to fit my 330d for winter tyres but could only find alloys in the requisite 17" to accommodate the brake discs, pity.
Last edited by: idle_chatterer on Tue 23 Apr 13 at 05:22
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