Design Details: Stylized Steelies Edition

"Amoore100" (amoore100) 09/10/2015 at 21:24 • Filed to: Design Details, Honda Pilot, Ford Mustang

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Back to Design Details after last week’s absence...after last time’s focus on the best plastic hubcaps, let’s look at which steelies looked the best, worst, or most distinctive. As you may know, several automakers choose to style their basic steel rims instead of fashioning a crappy plastic cover over a standard steelie.

Case in point:

Honda has created a slightly fancier silver wheel instead of a cheap plastic cover on the last Pilot (the new has all alloys...)

Also, one of the first things that appears on Google when you search “stylized steel wheels” are these Mustang ones, so I figured they get a mention here as well:

So what do you think, Oppo?

What are the best/most distinctive steel wheels designed either OEM or otherwise?

Hint: Try Googling the Nissan NV2500. Those are some pretty funky steelies.

Boxer_4 > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 21:30

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The white painted steel whees found on many ‘80s Subarus are pretty distinctive.

Amoore100 > Boxer_4 09/10/2015 at 21:38

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Quite! I had never noticed them before you mentioned it just now...

jkm7680 > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 21:40

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hnghhhhh Brat.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > jkm7680 09/10/2015 at 21:57

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I will own another one.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 21:58

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These are definitely steelies underneath. So awesome of fender flares

Boxer_4 > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 21:59

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Sometimes, they were red.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 22:00

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Pre-refresh Camaro LS wheels have to be my favorite modern steelies.

Amoore100 > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 09/10/2015 at 22:02

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Oooooh, yes! I saw these a few weeks ago and thought of creating this article but forgot about them in the meantime...one of my favorite looks for the Camaro...

Simply badass.

Amoore100 > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 09/10/2015 at 22:04

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Love the fender flares as well, and as ugly as those wheel covers seem, I love them and they seem to fit right in on the 240z...but the question is what did the steelies underneath look like?

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 22:06

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I just wish I could get that look with the V8. I guess the 321 horsepower V6 isn’t bad, but damn that with a V8 burble would be awesome.

Amoore100 > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 09/10/2015 at 22:08

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Wheel swap would probably be incredibly easy and you would end up with an awesome sleeper...

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 22:39

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Dude the want to buy and resto-mod a 60s era mustang is growing so much.

m-b-w loves his SUBAROO > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 23:12

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Personally I prefer the steelies on the base model forester to the alloys on the Premium and Limited models.

Amoore100 > m-b-w loves his SUBAROO 09/10/2015 at 23:16

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Eh, IMO the Forester steelies are kind of bulgy in the wrong places...I don’t really like the XT wheels either...

These really do it for me though, the lace wheels on the JDM tS variants...

m-b-w loves his SUBAROO > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 23:20

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I kinda like the bulginess. I kinda like the XT wheels, especially in the painted form on the Touring.

Amoore100 > m-b-w loves his SUBAROO 09/11/2015 at 00:15

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Mmm, they are much better when painted...

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Amoore100 09/11/2015 at 00:46

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That picture was from a 240ZG

This photo is from the base 240z

Amoore100 > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 09/11/2015 at 01:00

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Oooooh, I love those black steelies!

Reminds me of a C110.

Van Man, rocks the Man Van > Amoore100 09/11/2015 at 07:43

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The new Renegade has some cool steelies too:

Amoore100 > Van Man, rocks the Man Van 09/11/2015 at 10:09

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Yes it does, indeed...