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Originally Posted by
impolyt_one 
Hate tinted windows too. Good aftermarket wheels don't necessarily have to be expensive, though, price and aesthetics are separate. Because Japan makes so many rims, they're often cheap and fairly good deals, granted only a few are really good looking for certain vehicles. The facilities for wheel making, especially drop-forged, are expensive and very limited, I think there's only like 2 or 3 forges in Japan, and so the market is pretty tight and the prices are within range of each other unless it's a maker's brand, like NEEZ. Meanwhile, the same forges put out anything from RAYS to Mugen to BBS - you can tell these are all mostly products of the same facility because the finishing looks the same.
I think Schnitzer wheels (when they looked nice, and were form-cast) were made by Ronal, which is not the most prestigious wheel maker out there; likewise the Hamann PG series that everybody liked was made by OZ, and for a long time (still?) OZ stuff was mostly lame, maybe not cheap, but OZ never came close to BBS. The Europeans are great at the idea of making a business from a factory OEM'ing stuff and then having their own maker's brands to fill their free time (that goes for their clothes too) - OZ, Ronal, Zender, BBS, etc - but few of the maker's brands ever reach greatness.
When I'm talking about tint I'm not talking about 35% tint, more like limo tint from the b piller and back.
I'm not talking about OZ, Ronal etc. as they aren't cheap by any means (at least not in europe), I'm talking about those where you can get 4 19" tires and 4 wheels for a 1000$ or less.
Ronal and BBS makes a lot of the original oem wheels for VW, Audi, MB and BMW etc. the wheels on the Mk5 GTi are made by Ronal for example and a lot of audis wheels like speedlines are made by BBS, so I'm not surprised that a lot of the smaller tuner wheels are made by them as well.
Zender are cult wheels for vw fans now and actually goes for a good bit of money.
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Originally Posted by
RFX45
The ring is open to public when there isn't testing or racing going on iirc.
They're actually planning (or hoping) to open a ring in Nevada, hopefully they go through with it was I'd love to test out that track.
The ring is a officially a toll road, which is why you can drive there without a race license etc. and I highly doubt they will be doing ANY expansions within the next 10+ years, as they were very close to going bankrupt last year (or they actually did) due to some insane projects f.ex. a roller coaster going trough a building, which only drove once, as it would ruin the building due to the shaking etc.
http://jalopnik.com/5684589/save-the-nurburgring
