Spinners are so last year...

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I like. That's quite cool. Shame about the car and culture they're attached to - not my scene. I wonder if they do them on 12s so I can put some on a Mini?
 
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Seen the price on these things?
customwheel.com
22" package with Pirelli tires ($12,500.00)
24" package with Pirelli tires ($15,000.00)
26" package with Pirelli tires ($19,500.00)
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Saw these at the SEMA show. Kinda dumb if you ask me, and too much of a distraction for others around, especially when the drivers of other cars try to read whatever you have scrolling across your rims. IMO, the price takes away from whatever coolness they have, and I only hope I don't end up seeing these tacky rims on something which normally has style. :yuck:
 
They suck.

Can't really think of much more to say to those 'things'.
 
Oh wow.. Those are expensive! And, not all that cool. It's a neat idea in theory, but pretty lame because of the potential road hazard it could become.

15,000 dollars. I spent 50 times less for wheels 50 times cooler. (they were 14" s, though)
 
You go to the insurance company.

"Nah I don't want to insure the whole car, just the rims"
 
They will be illegal. They just scream, "Take legal advantage of me!"

I can't wait until some "player" smashes into someone or causes an adjacent accident (god forbid), only to have their asses sued off.

This will probably be popular with basketball players and drug dealers. That's about it.
 
Well, I like the idea, but in execution, it all goes to hell.

1) It is a HUGE distraction for the driver to be constantly adjusting the photos with the onboard computer.
2) It is a HUGE distraction for other drivers on the road, more so (I presume) than the otherwise illegal Neon lights that have become so popular.
3) For $13,000 I would say you are better off just buying a damn Honda Fit for your nephew or something... A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY ONLY A RAPPER COULD BLOW THAT MUCH CASH ON!

Its cool that they can do that with just a few LED's on a set of wheels, but its just as stupid at the same time.
 
I love the technology.

Soon their will be no such thing as paint on cars, they will all be LED's :sly:

Would i buy them? No
Will their price go down? Yes
Would i buy them then? Only for a show car
 
Rappers wont like these its too tacky. The only way a rapper will have them if theyre the first one. After thats it will be uncool and i dont think drug dealers would have them as they draw attention.
 
god...that site is taking far too long to load. could someone describe to me what these things are?
 
Small_Fryz
I love the technology.

Soon their will be no such thing as paint on cars, they will all be LED's :sly:

Would i buy them? No
Will their price go down? Yes
Would i buy them then? Only for a show car
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I agree that is very cool technology. Nothing I would every buy or want but they still have a wow or wtf factor to them.
Yes that site took a while to load.
 
How heavy are they? I can see the advertisers loving them for motorsports. They had something similair a few years ago in the IRL, with a Toyota logo appearing in the wheels at a certain speed.
 
Poverty
Rappers wont like these its too tacky. The only way a rapper will have them if theyre the first one. After thats it will be uncool and i dont think drug dealers would have them as they draw attention.
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That's what they said about Spinners, back in the day.
 
I think thats the problem, rappers and tacky sometimes go hand in hand. The clock on Flava Flav, their videos, and even clothes and hair (remember Vanilla Ice? yeah, unfortuantly I do too).
The fact that they cost alot, which is a bragging right I suppose, will help sell them around the rap community. I just hope its not the subject for every rap song of 2006. :yuck:
 
Oh my gawd. As if it wasn't enough to have gaudy, weak chrome wheels that were way too heavy and broke axles and spindles, now we're turning them into T.V.s.

I resent DUBbers.

(DUBber: A term I coined, based on "Ricer," for a large luxury car with big chrome wheels and more stereo equipment than most people's dens.)
 
toyomatt84
That's what they said about Spinners, back in the day.
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No it's not..
Spinners were an instant hit the second they went on the market..
back when they were called "sprewells"(because of Sprewell Racing)

Anyway...I don't think THIS will catch on...however I think the LED center cap will catch on..

Its a center cap with a ring of "hidden" LED's that reflect off the rims in a certain color at night..

Colors like white/blue look rather clean..but it's when the pink/green's start debuting it'll get lame

and hey..think about it..

it's another chance for advertizement and sponsoring..
 
They use the hubcaps of taxis for ads now in Toronto, and I really can't see lights on rims as being more distracting than underbody neons, nor will trying to read them be more distracting than any ad or bumper sticker on a vehicle.

I imaged ~$2000 of the price are for the wheels and tires without leds anyways, so they really only cost $10,000 :)
 
10,000? I doubt it..
maybe for the top of the line..but even that I doubt..

it's LED lights.....so it couldn't be that much...It's probably just embedded LED's into some corny spoked rims..and at speed..the lights form a picture..
like that lame clock from spencer gifts..
 

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