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Old 04-25-2024, 05:28 PM
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It's the color scheme. If they'd reversed the silver/black on the rim, they'd look 100% better (silver only in small slivers, black between the double spokes). In fact I think if they'd 2-tone'd the spokes so that the insides of the double spokes were silver--all the way to the rim--and the outside of the double spokes and everything between them including the rim was black...that would actually look pretty slick.
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They look way to busy and take your focus off the car.
Old 04-25-2024, 06:40 PM
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GM finally designs one of their best looking base wheels for the Z06 and then changes to this? Who makes these decisions? Trying to sell more carbon fiber wheels?
Old 04-25-2024, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Stingray23
They look like the C7 Z51 wheel

Maybe we'll get the C5 wagon wheels next.
Old 04-25-2024, 07:26 PM
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Can we have one the picture experts change those wheels black and repost the pics of those cars, so we can all critique the look
Old 04-25-2024, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Street_Carver
Looks like a new wheel design was revealed today at the bash. Not sure how I feel about them as of now.


Great
Old 04-25-2024, 07:58 PM
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GM blew it big time on the new wheels. Maybe look good on a Toyota
Old 04-26-2024, 12:27 AM
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It’s rare that (almost) everyone universally agrees on anything around here. The fact that is the case puts these wheels in a select category of failures.

*I'm not persuaded by the public. I saw these this afternoon and immediately sent it to a buddy of mine with something worded close to fugly

how did that make it out of design? Hopefully spiders are still available
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Looks to similar to the Taycan wheel and they don’t look good in person
Old 04-26-2024, 01:08 AM
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Zoomed out to full body shots.


Old 04-26-2024, 04:44 AM
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Originally Posted by switchlanez
Zoomed out to full body shots.


Looks even worse than the zoomed in photo. Makes the Z06 look awful.

Does anyone ever have the ***** at the bash to ask these guys what the hell they were thinking? Or does everyone just ooh, awww & clap like trained seals when they pull the covers off?
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Old 04-26-2024, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by JABCAT
Looks even worse than the zoomed in photo. Makes the Z06 look awful.

Does anyone ever have the ***** at the bash to ask these guys what the hell they were thinking? Or does everyone just ooh, awww & clap like trained seals when they pull the covers off?

Looks like the ultimate Boomer spec in this finish. Doesn't do any favors for the design or the brand perceptions they have done such a great job to change this generation.

Does anyone know if the Spider wheels are being replaced with this nonsense or will they still be available?
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Old 04-26-2024, 09:30 AM
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I think they look good all silver
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Old 04-26-2024, 09:54 AM
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I don't like two tone wheels and I hate wheels with machined lips, if the wheels were all black they would probably look better.

On 2nd look, they don't look bad.
Old 04-26-2024, 10:33 AM
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Maybe if they took the machined edge away from the 5 spokes it would look better
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Originally Posted by JockItch
Looks like the ultimate Boomer spec in this finish. Doesn't do any favors for the design or the brand perceptions they have done such a great job to change this generation.

Does anyone know if the Spider wheels are being replaced with this nonsense or will they still be available?
The press release states, “new additional ”, so hopefully the spider wheels stay. Id like to see all finishes though before I decide.

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Originally Posted by JABCAT
Does anyone ever have the ***** at the bash to ask these guys what the hell they were thinking? Or does everyone just ooh, awww & clap like trained seals when they pull the covers off?
I'll go with the latter. In Corvette-land, lemmings are the bulk of the consumer base.

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Old 04-26-2024, 08:57 PM
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Who at GM approved those? They're god awful.
Old 04-26-2024, 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by z28lt1
I like that they are very open and look super easy to clean.

Do not like the looks though, so would not order given the choice. Wonder if I would like them better in a single color.
i agree
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Can someone way more talented than me photoshop these wheels to all gloss black?


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