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…
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Imagine kerbing these things!
NEVER
And for the price the wheels cost you probably get a new V8 Mustang…
Fair enough, but those who buy a Ford GT probably don’t care about that and already have twenty V8 Mustangs in their garage.
I don’t know, you can get carbon wheels on the $61,000 Shelby GT350R. I imagine they’ll cost a fair bit more on the GT though, cause, you know, might as well make money where you can.
Well you can get a Mustang GT350R with carbon wheels, some other weight savings and aero for 10,000$ over the ‘regular’ GT350, and everyone’s saying how the wheels themselves actually cost 12,000$ so it might not be that bad… but they can do that, because supercar.
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
Buy the CF wheels
Take them off
Hang them on the wall
Buy steelies
Put the steelies on
DRIVE LIKE A MANIAC AND KERB THOSE BASTARDS
Expect centre locks to be honest
What’s wrong with carbon fibre wheels and kerbing? Please no hate!
Way harder and expensive to fix them I think.
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?
There aren’t actually any threads on the wheels themselves, but at the mounting points where the lug nuts or bolts will contact the wheel there should be aluminum inserts to take the compressive load.
Some rich idiot would probably keen them.
LOL. jealous much? I see plenty of scuffed up chav wheels so don’t think it’s a money thing.
weight reduction bro!