i love rotas!

 

real deal=expensive, but high quality, not always practical (especialy on a lower budget project)

rocking replicas=more practical, cheaper but, ultimately not as good quality

trying to pass off replicas as real=homo move

 

it all good until you try to buy some real deals and find out there fake. people that pass off their junk as expensive name brands need to be punched in the throat. i personally would never buy $4000 wheels to put on a daily driver or anything i would drive in VA

 

^goes along with phybers logic for the most part. just not wrecked, stolen.

 

I can't believe this thread is still going. And your right.. you dont understand..

It has been said a couple of times. In the thread. but I will use your analogy to help you understand.

Let say that you buy the $2 burger. Your gonna carry it over to the fancy restaurant and put it on a plate, to try and pass it off as if you paid $20 for it? That is the gay part.

You wanna rock cheap rims.. rock cheap rims.. nobody is dogging you for doing it. You dont have the money for them.. fine... not alot of people do.

But for the people that do.. they like to enjoy their rims and it does bring along with it a certain level of prestige. You dont need people second guessing if your rims are real, because they have seen some putts putting high dollar logos on dime shop rims. Thats the point.

It kinda along the lines of somebody building a kit Cobra and saying that it is an original car. Then the guy with the ACTUAL Cobra is having to prove that his car is real because some dumbass tried to pass his fake one off as real.


I really dont see what part of that your not getting. Honestly

 

No I understand what you're saying and I also agree with you. If you got the money to spend, do it up. If you don't, make due with what you can.

 

Are these really good analogies for your argument?
1. IF you buy a $2 burger and it's just as good as a $20 one, then are you the more intelligent person for not overpaying for meat and bread? If you spend that much money on a burger then you really don't care about money and want everyone to know this.

2. The Shelby Cobra argument:
Cost: 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 "Super Snake" - Sold at $5,500,000 vs. a factory 5 cobra kit car might cost around $40k built.

You could build a 'replica' of the Super Snake for a heck of a lot less. You can enjoy the hell out of the replica, actually driving the car and even racing that car in specific race categories. You can put in an LSX and actually have a fast light car with modern reliability. But would you ever even think about driving the actual Super Snake anywhere in this area with the condition of the roads? Would you park it at the mall and go in to watch a movie? For 1/100th of the price you have a car you can actually enjoy more than have people come over to the house to drool over.

My point being: Just because it isn't original, doesn't mean it can't be enjoyed. And if people are thinking your wheels are fake, is it really your problem? The people that know the real difference will know, and all others don't care enough to know...so what's the problem with that?

The whole real vs fake will never end, you still have people that want 'prestige' from buying parts being put on a civic. Despite what fanboys will tell you, rep's aren't likely to shatter on you driving down the road any more than a stock wheel would. Would I slap stickers on a set of rotas and tell everyone they were mugen? no, but that is me. Would I put a set of rota's on a daily driver in this area? Shit yeah. You have people hating on wheel's regardless if there are any fake markings on them. Those people are the fanboys I speak of. They will drool over someone's Backyard Special bumper that is an arguable copy of an Airwalker one. You still have the group that will always stick it's nose in the air because what they have or seen is better.

Just my opinion. I guess I don't "get" people getting angry over someone else's wheels, after all it's not your car. To me it's no different than painting another civic pea green and slapping a huge body kit, it just makes the nice ones stand out more.

 

i agree with above posts, and if someone tries to say their Rotas are Works by putting stickers and center caps in, then yes. that is gay.

and if you have an authentic Shelby classic uber-rare type car, by all means,yes, spend the money to get legit wheels.

but for the 95% of this forum population who drive beat ass jettas, civics, and entry level BMW's, i can't see dropping big money in them. horrible roads/shitty driving conditions are dieing to curb/kill ur wheels, and naggers in da hood iz always be tryna cop dem janks.

 

I'd say that’s debatable

HRE's were banned from IMSA and the Viper Racing League because they kept failing. Back in 2005 there were 9 HRE failures in one weekend during a VRL event.

Just because it's expensive doesn't mean it's good.

 

Why is this thread still even here?