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You do make a good call there.... those plastic wheels are rather toy-like. A glass filled thermoplastic is kinda "cheap" (even though the tooling for an injection molded wheel is approaching that of a forged Fuchs . . tooling having to support a couple tons of force for every square inch of surface area.)

However, in keeping with automotive 'art' there exists some very cool composite structures . .wheels included.
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Old 06-23-2007, 11:41 AM
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