Filed under: Aftermarket, SEMA, Etc.
SEMA: 34 inches of wheel wonderment
Every year at SEMA I look for the largest wheel I can find, and every year the diameters get a little larger. This year I found a 34-inch Lexani rim in the Asanti booth. It's so big that any vehicle shod with a set will be resigned to forever travelling in a straight line.
These giant wheels are so impractical that we've often wondered what people do when they pop one of their pretty low-profile tires. Thanks to Asani, now we know. Unfortunately, the tailgate-mounted spare probably exceeds the H2's maximum payload, which means throwing some groceries in the back might bend the frame.
Follow the jump for some more shots of Asanti's booth.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
IM 11:16AM (11/03/2006)
Ugly SUT, Ugly wheels.............
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Vinny 11:41AM (11/03/2006)
For fools with money and without taste.
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samuel 11:45AM (11/03/2006)
This big wheel craze is stupid, stupid, stupid. It looks bad, there is no functional benefit, it's expensive, and again, it looks bad. As the previous poster stated, for fools with money and without taste...
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Johnny B 11:57AM (11/03/2006)
WHY? Why would anyone in their right mind want something like this...Ugly just doesn't express my true feelings.
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Keith 12:04PM (11/03/2006)
I hate the human race.
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Brian 12:15PM (11/03/2006)
Eventually someone is going to have wheels that are taller than my Miata. I give it about a year...
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Mo Beta 12:19PM (11/03/2006)
This is so absurd - cars are beginning to look like Conestoga wagons crossing the American prarie!
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Mr_Oak 12:22PM (11/03/2006)
This is so retarded. I know so many people that buy high horsepowered cars, then reduce them to crawlers with this dumb as hell practice. Ultra low profile tires (tyres) work on race tracks where there are no man-holes or pothole.
Know this cat that dropped $3000.00 on 23" rims for his '06 Zephyr, the tires doesn't even quite wrap the rims completely. Now he can't corner at normal driving speeds without grinding the rims on the road and must dodge manholes as if they are land mines.
This other cat had 4 front wheel blowouts and two broken rims from manhole strikes, all in the first month of owning his rimmed-up C230. This idiot tried to blame Pirelli, saying the tires were defective. Needless to say, the Bridgestones fared no better.
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C_Rox 1:39PM (11/26/2007)
tru they make their cars high horsepower... but they are not crawlers... i've seen guys riding 30s & be able to do a burn out... & guys on 26s who can get they car sidewayz as soon as they hit tha gas.
i do agree that its a krayzie practice... but not all are crawlers
check out congos Phantom Donk in Cinci... Pushin about 1000 horsepower
Jay Evans 12:28PM (11/03/2006)
Proves an old adage. It can be very easy to separate rich people from their money, appeal to their vanity.
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stanley 12:30PM (11/03/2006)
I LOVE THOSE WHEELS OR WHATEVER DUBS. MAKES A WHITEBOY LOOK LIKE A PIMP IN FRONT OF DA LADIES
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Peter 12:45PM (11/03/2006)
All-caps makes a white boy look like a fool behind a keyboard.
I hope the big wheel trend dies. Maybe then tire manufacturers can devote more resources to produce desperately needed smaller, more normal sizes. Some of us with 80s cars need performance tires for our old 14x7 wheels.
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james 12:56PM (11/03/2006)
The best rims of SEMA where not the 24s, 30s but the CLEAR WHEELS - yes, clear, as in see-thru. Here is a video of these:
http://www.cartv.com/content/research/channels/index.cfm/channel/cartv_video/action/showvideo/vid/e_0300/vscat/SEMA/vcat/Event/pagenum/1
I bet we see these on a lot of cars at SEMA next year, as well as all the tuner shows.
James
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Phil L. 1:05PM (11/03/2006)
Somehow, I find the blinged trailer hitch the most amusing part of the combination.
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ZPrime 1:47PM (11/03/2006)
James / #12:
The clear wheel is funny.
Caliper/Rotor cooling? We don't need no stinking cooling! :p
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GDUB 1:58PM (11/03/2006)
You guys know where this is going right.
http://www.diseno-art.com/images/bigfoot_5.jpg
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Jim Graziano 2:04PM (11/03/2006)
This country needs a dictator so somebody can put a stop to this "dub" stupidity.
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Juan 2:05PM (11/03/2006)
I was thinking the same thing, #16. Police state FTW!
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vectorbug 2:11PM (11/03/2006)
I'm getting these for my miata. Expect RR of the week right here.
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Linny Smith 2:24PM (11/03/2006)
these big ass wheels are freaking stupid. derrick thomas of the kansas city chiefs was severly injured in a car accident due to driving his suburban on snow and ice with these stupid wheels and tires. his mother tried to sue gm for it. why didn't she sue the one who mounted those things on his truck. everytime i see something with those ugly things on them, i ask the owner if it has "Hot Wheels" embossed into the bottom of it. if those wheels get damaged, it's the owner's fault for putting them on their cars!
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