You Can Option Your Ford GT With Posh Carbonfibre Wheels
If you know anything about the new Ford GT, you’ll know it has a bit of a carbonfibre theme going on. The chassis is a carbonfibre monocoque after all, and those heavily-sculpted body panels are made of the stuff too. Want more carbonfibre than that? Well - assuming you’re one of the lucky 500 to make it through the application process - Ford has just the thing for you.
It’s a new set of carbonfibre wheels, available with either a matte or gloss finish. Like the standard forged aluminium rims the GT sits on they’re each 20 inches in diameter, and save about 1kg of unsprung weight for each corner, giving a 25 per cent inertia reduction. They’re a lot stiffer, too.
Whether or not you’ll notice the difference to suspension performance and ride quality Ford says we should expect, we’re not sure. But we should think a lot of GT buyers will spec them for the looks alone…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Imagine kerbing these things!
And for the price the wheels cost you probably get a new V8 Mustang…
Physics says a Ford GT with carbon wheels will accelerate faster and brake harder than a Ford GT without carbon wheels, if you can only afford one extra, GET THIS ONE! :)
I guess you would just constantly worry about kerbing those. Kills the fun ;p
Expect centre locks to be honest
What’s wrong with carbon fibre wheels and kerbing? Please no hate!
Koingsegg wheels
Geeky question but how do the threads for the nuts hold up in carbon wheels? I understand that high-quality weave is actually stronger than steel, can endure greater torques etc. But does it still apply for such a thin, tiny structure, which must have a ‘grain’ or weave as opposed to forged metal?
Some rich idiot would probably keen them.
weight reduction bro!