By Antti Kautonen
Welcome to today’s second modified Russian car post. Continuing with the low, low theme of slammed Ladas, this time I’m featuring another post from the Russian tuning site rubnroll – but in the classic, boxy, rear-wheel-drive body instead of the FWD Samara.
This petrol blue car is similar to the black one featured on the video on Wednesday, and it too rolls on very pretty wheels.
The wheels in question are the very rare SSR SuperStar wheels, again a J-Tin favorite. The gold colour really stands out in the star-shaped spokes. On the wheels are impossibly narrow Nankang 155/50/R14 tires, which must be stretched to the limit.
“I still want a little something to prove to people that you can turn a Lada into a stylish and beautiful car”, says Artem, the builder. I think he’s succeeded, even if Russian streets must be hard on the lowered Lada and its wheels.
The taillights have been sprayed in uniform red, which makes them resemble translucent Lego blocks.
[Source: rubnroll.com]
Bradley Brownell
Nice car. Much better looking than the Cuban sticker special I posted about on StartingGrid the other day…
http://startinggrid.org/2013/02/20/street-parked-…
What's with the undersize tyre thing? Those rims won't last long…
Looks like it allows the tires to clear the body.
Something something stance something hellaflush lifestyle, mang.
As with so may car things, it used to have a reason and now people just do it to look cool.
Drifters would do this because stretching out the sidewall like that makes initial steering response faster. With a normal sidewall (in the 80s), the wheel will deform the sidewall a little before the tire changes direction to go with it, but if you stretch it out like this, the tire will have to follow what the wheel is doing more closely. It's probably not a substantial difference with more modern aspect ratios (nor is it even possible to stretch them very much).
Apparently. That's what I heard. I think I've made almost this same post before and I forget what my source was now.
…that does seem to make sense, and it definitely helps explain this trend. Still don't think I quite "get it", but I'm reassured to know that it is apparently rooted in reason.
Its called Eurolook. Big in Germany and close by countries. Some stuff in the UK but less so
http://southernworthersee.com/ – for the big yearly meeting of VW themed Eurolookers
Really? I live within 45 minutes of the German border and I've never seen this in real life.
Feels like German youth has moved on. This small rim, stretched tyre thing was big years ago with crazy offset wheels on Golfs, Jettas, Kadetts, Calibras, Corrados and cheap BMWs. I googled "Wörthersee VW" and there was very little this kind of wheels. However I remember clearly that old tuning mags had tons of pics of this style. A bit like this:
<img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7242/7344143226_0510d4e95a_z.jpg" width="566">
I'll stick to my guns and say its Eurolook and Worthsee is packed with it. The front page of Worthsee 2013 has a Golf with this look. I have not been for two years but a friend who goes year upon year comes back with 000's of pics of similar cars from De, Aus, Be, Cz and so on. All alongside Audis with Bentley rims on thin rubber. However long it takes! 🙂
I read the headline as "Siamesed Lada VAZ 2107" the 1st time.
I blame the licorice schnapps.
The taste of optimism.
(Lite beer and it would have been 'No taste!')