sam90lx

Ginger!

huggerorange73

Moron

eric04

Yay its the only way for me

GoHokiesGo

This tends to be more of how I view it - I'm a young guy at 28, and I like both styles. It just depends on the look you're going for with the car.

I think that chrome tends to be more on the bling, showy, and classy side of Corvette styling. They're shiny, stand out and catch the light at car shows.

I think that black wheels tend to be more on the aggressive, evil, racing look for the Corvette. They make the car look meaner and and more intense to me.

I prefer the aggressive style for my car, so I'd love to upgrade to darker wheels when I swap out the stockers. I do think that straight black tends to get washed out at a distance, so I'm thinking more like matte gunmetal or something.

Deceptikon

Love em

ScottJ03

Chrome is not for sports cars!
Brushed, silver and black.

Real sports cars don't offer chrome as an option

Chrome is for dressing up a truck or passenger car. IMO

If you want someone to look at your wheels and compliment them, get chrome

If you want a compliment on your car get otherwise.

My 2012


My last 2007
Brushed

C6ROLLER

Hell yeah that's funny s--t!

florida john

Chrome for me. Black just doesn't do it for me any more.

It may be my age, but when I was young we left the wheel covers off so that we could change the wheels and tires out for the slicks at the track on the weekend. Painted the wheels black, so we didn't put on hub caps or wheel covers that would scratch off the paint.

debo

debo

Nice ride..

Supersonic 427

Is asking a question the same as bad mouthing? Maybe I should of started a thread here....Do you like Corvettes? This way we can all agree.

spinkick

My chrome spyders turn black on my Z, so I get the best of both worlds

J Vette

Really? Corvette has been offering Chrome wheels for years. They are a real sports car. Methinks you've been getting all your cues from the other side of the pond. That's alright if that's the way they want to do it there. And it's alright if you like it. But the charge that you made about real sports cars not offering chrome is ludicrous and erroneous unless you think that Corvette is not a real sports car.

As I have previously said, black is cheaper to produce than chrome. If I were a bean counter for GM or whatever company I'd try to push black wheels too. And because you have bought into the silly notion that black is the mark of a "real sports car" I could charge you a premium price for a cheaper item and make more $$$

ScottJ03

I love my corvette and now among true sports cars, it is around the bottom end of the latter.
Chrome deteriorates and can flake off, not cool.
Corvettes came with polished and the dealers had them chromed and charged you 2000- ha.
Just recently they offered GM chrome on some wheels. I am in marketing for over 15 years working with hundreds of wheel companies. So I think I know a little.

Corvette is really America's only sportscar in production!

There are hundreds of finishes for wheels today!

Yes Europe leads the sportscar industry. Why do you think when they builds new vette they the engineering is always looking at Porsche.

Don't you have to go to Wallmart...

mogulmike

I had this discussion with many folks as a consideration for my 13. What is peppered throughout this thread is the same results I got when talking to people. Black has left a bad taste in the mouth of those who were on the racing scene up through the 60’s. As it is looked at as cheap, where chrome, polished and aluminum are more of a way to dress up the car or make it pop.

Today Black is the look for a mean aggressive look and what people are doing at the track. The younger generation is grabbing the black wheels and will continue to be fans 50 years from now of black wheels …… just as the folks of the 60’s still grab the chromies today. It’s a generational thing.

The folks that have seen cars come and go over the last 40 years don’t know of the black wheels stigma and the black is new/different and a current fad.

I think the 96 GS had first black wheels and over the last 17 years more and more folks are putting black wheels on their cars. One of the baddest looks I’ve seen is a Velocity Yellow C6 with yellow calipers and black cup wheels. As the car rolls down the street it looks as if it’s floating as the wheels/tires get lost in the pavement. To truly appreciate this the car needs to be rolling down the street, not at some car show sitting still.

10 years from now C6 demand will be a younger crowd looking for Black wheels, 6spd with high miles, while the older crowd is looking for Chrome wheels, automatics with super low miles.

LOW01

I love my black wheels. Here is a pic of a good example. Below pictured is my dads Crystal Red GS and my White GS, both on opposite ends of the spectrum. My dad is in his 50's and I am in my lower 30's. Everytime we talk to older an older crowd my dads car gets all the praises. If its a younger / racing crowd then my car gets the attention. Still a lot of it has to do with the different generations. I am sure by the time the current young generations are old enough to by vettes etc.... they will want to have bright neon green wheels or something like that for their look.

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Don-Vette

I like your dads car!!!

C6ROLLER

I like your car! But im 34 so im supposed to like yours

saplumr

(1) I'm pretty sure Dodge produces a car that is in the same category as the Corvette and is "possibly" slightly more exclusive.
(2) Hundreds of wheel finishes? Most of us could at best come up with 10 not including paint colors.
(3) Did you actually read the bold sentence before you hit the "submit reply" tab?

sam90lx

Dad's car looks slower!