What Wheels Look Good Only In The Original Car They Were Introduced In?

"Vicente Esteve" (vicente-esteve)
08/08/2015 at 17:48 • Filed to: VW, Wheels

There are some wheels that look god in just about every car, a design that somehow fits every line and crease of any vehicle. VAG is great at this and proof is with all the Audi/Lamborghini wheel swap hundreds of MK3 Golfs or Passats are seen with. There is one wheel that I have seen in several other cars that just can’t match anything other than the car it was originally designed for.

The Turbine 18 inch wheel of the first gen. Passat CC.

When fitted to the top of the line Passat CoupeCoupe they look excellent and really augment the design. It rounds up the package and overall gives a discreet elegance only VW’s most expensive car can. A lot of people must have thought that having the same wheel on their other VW would make the same effect. It doesn’t.

In this Passat it doesn’t look terribly bad, but the curvature of the spokes is overdone in such a restrained design.

On this MK5 Golf it just looks ridiculous, borderline nasty.

Again, ignore the stance, and something just doesn’t look right in this Golf.

Just, no.

You get the point. I found it very surprising that not only the model but a sole generation of the Passat CC can wear the wheel nicely.

What wheels only work on the original model they were intended for?

DISCUSSION (36)

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > Vicente Esteve
08/08/2015 at 17:54

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Not bad

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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Vicente Esteve
08/08/2015 at 17:55

I think they look quite good on all of those...

My citroen won't start > Vicente Esteve
08/08/2015 at 17:56

YES, this is the greatest example, those turbine wheels look great on the CC. But every single Gol, Polo, Old Passat and the rest of tuner folk car uses these and it looks awful, some goes for the 1st gen Cayenne S wheels and people who put 997 Turbo wheels on any other Porsches, even normal 997s’.

Vicente Esteve > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
08/08/2015 at 17:58

They look out of place to me, I dunno.

Vicente Esteve > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
08/08/2015 at 17:58

This is a good answer. The E30 is downright wrong.

Vicente Esteve > My citroen won't start
08/08/2015 at 17:59

Yes! Man I agree so much with everything you said.

Here I have seen more cheap hatchbacks with them than CC’s.

Birddog > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
08/08/2015 at 18:00

I think they look pretty good on the other cars.

Hoccy > Vicente Esteve
08/08/2015 at 18:00

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Good lick finding them on something else though..

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > Birddog
08/08/2015 at 18:01

My main problem with them is that they look cartoonishly big.

Leon711 > Vicente Esteve
08/08/2015 at 18:01

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TIL CC in the case of the Passat means “contoured coupe”

My citroen won't start > Vicente Esteve
08/08/2015 at 18:05

I think this is a localized issue, but here the lower class love to put these Gol wheels on everything, they are so popular that aftermarket companies make them up to 20”.

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It makes me sick.

TheHondaBro > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
08/08/2015 at 18:06

Wrong.

JayZAyEighty thinks C4+3=C7 > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
08/08/2015 at 18:07

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“Hey now... did the douchey hooligans take my wheels yet? Not yet... damn whippersnappers. ”

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Bruh check it... form over function af... can’t even check that nut lugs shit...

jkm7680 > Vicente Esteve
08/08/2015 at 18:10

I agree completely! The CC is such a great looking car though.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
08/08/2015 at 18:13

I think they look better on the other cars. The early C4’s have not aged well at all.

Vítor > My citroen won't start
08/08/2015 at 18:35

Orbitals, I HATE those wheels. I saw a 1* gen Fusion with those once. I wanted to puck

My citroen won't start > Vítor
08/08/2015 at 18:52

Hey, another Brazilian Oppo! I hate those.

pjhusa > Vicente Esteve
08/08/2015 at 19:05

I hate these wheels, but at least they work here:

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Not here:

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Birddog > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3
08/08/2015 at 19:06

That is odd. C4 wheels are only 16”. If I remember right the front and rear have different backspacing. I think that’s why the rear of the Bimmer looks weird.

Vítor > My citroen won't start
08/08/2015 at 19:39

Yep, but from Belo Horizonte, not São Paulo.

Vicente Esteve > Hoccy
08/08/2015 at 20:15

This. This is so true.

Vicente Esteve > Leon711
08/08/2015 at 20:15

Seriously?

Vicente Esteve > My citroen won't start
08/08/2015 at 20:16

Oh god no

Vicente Esteve > jkm7680
08/08/2015 at 20:16

Secci

Vicente Esteve > pjhusa
08/08/2015 at 20:17

It’s so funny almost every answer has used a VW as an example!

pjhusa > Vicente Esteve
08/08/2015 at 20:43

Yep. Explains a lot.

boxrocket > Vicente Esteve
08/08/2015 at 22:03

Ferrari F40, and probably F50. A bunch of Lamborghinis, too, though companies like VW have made their own interpretations (like the 5 circular hole ones on recent GTIs).