Your Real Car Needs Hot Wheels-style Wheels

Concept Car Studio

Remember playing pinch Hot Wheels arsenic a kid? Well, I opportunity "as a kid" but I person a widebody R32 Skyline GT-R connected my table correct now. The dice formed cars we had arsenic kids lacked nan cleanable replica Volk TE37s of that modern car nevertheless — nan toys we had were simpler, little refined, and are much profoundly etched into our early emotion of cars. Search backmost into those early automotive memories, and you whitethorn good find thing acquainted connected that Civic above: Those classical Ultra Hot wheels. 

Mattel ran the original Ultra Hots statement successful nan mid-'80s, pinch agleam overgarment and these unique "low friction" wheels. The institution brought backmost nan statement doubly much — though only nan existent revival has nan classical wheels intact — but nan instrumentality artists complete astatine Concept Car Studio decided to hit Mattel astatine its ain game. Why settee for a classical Hot Wheels instrumentality creation brought backmost successful dice cast, erstwhile it could beryllium applied to your real-life tuner car?

Concept Car Studio builds these wheels — called nan UHOT — to order, meaning they travel successful a immense array of sizes and shapes. Diameters from 14 to 28 inches, widths from six inches each nan measurement up to 15, nan institution prides itself connected being capable to connection these wheels for immoderate you drive. That's a bully thing, because we'd beryllium fortunate to spot these retired connected our roads. Just look astatine that pinkish Maverick! Did I not conscionable say, mere days ago, that I wanted to spot much Mavericks laying frame? 

These wheels scratch a akin itch to Mercedes-Benz monoblocks, a level beforehand look that looks champion erstwhile it's almost flush to nan fenders. Will these Hot Wheels-style wheels beryllium Volk ray for way rats? Almost surely not, but who cares? Picture these pressed against nan soul fender lining of a slammed Toyota Crown, and show maine that's not a gorgeous picture. You can't, because these wheels are cleanable for VIP builds. Concept Car Studio did thing we don't spot overmuch of successful nan automotive world, and perfectly nailed it.

That thought of bringing thing caller to nan array was nan full idea, according to Concept Car Studio laminitis and friend of nan show Brent Lawson. Lawson said pinch erstwhile Jalop Andrew P. Collins over astatine The Drive, and summarized nan extremity down some nan UHOT instrumentality and nan marque arsenic a whole:

"People support saying that our wheels are ugly—and it's intentional, we don't want to make cool wheels for your cool BMW aliases Porsche. ... The marketplace has been dictated by able car group who don't really person taste. It's nan aforesaid logic why each luxury conveyance connected aftermarket wheels is sporting a 24″ aliases bigger multispoke instrumentality aliases large look monoblock style wheel. Everyone is copying each other, and we are genuinely conscionable present to effort and break that up."

The UHOT is simply a spot of artifact car nostalgia, a spot of tuner style, and a spot of a mediate digit to nan sameness of high-dollar car civilization each wrapped successful to one. Now each I need is for Concept Car Studios to make a motorcycle type that I tin propulsion connected my Suzuki.