- Every single time we talk about wheels,
every single person in the history of the world,
like all 12 of them that follow me on Instagram,
they always ask me what my favorite wheels are
for like XYZ vehicle.
And I always have a tough time answering it
because the wheels change
depending on the type of car that you own.
I mean, there are certain mesh wheels
that are looking good great on certain cars
and there's some that are gonna look absolutely atrocious.
You don't put mesh-style wheels on certain types of cars,
you just don't.
And then people do because I said I like mesh wheels
and they're like, yo, Alex, they don't look that good.
You're style is questionable at best.
And I'm thinking to themselves, you know what, no.
I like, I feel like I have pretty okay style.
I just think I do.
So I've thought about it for a while.
And I decided instead what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna show you guys
what my top five favorite wheels are of all time.
Now, my favorite wheels change depending on the weather.
So this may change in the next episode of this so that.
This may not change at all.
Some of these have had a pretty good placement
in the top five for the past few years.
And I don't see them moving any time soon.
These are in no particular order but they kind of are.
This is very general and doesn't really give you
a lot of feedback as to how important these are
in like a rating system.
But it's, I don't really want to put it
in a like retrospective
which one is my favorite over the others.
But there are some that I would definitely say
are at the top of the list.
So we're gonna start off with number five
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Let's try that again.
My favorite number five is a Watanabe RS8.
So the Watanabe RS8 came from the Watanabe line.
Now that was founded in 1949 by Toshiyuki Watanabe.
And that is probably one of my favorite brands to date.
Watanabe wheels, the RS8 is a iconic eight-spoke design.
It's one of my favorites
because it sits on some of my favorite cars.
The 2000 GT, the Dats, and a lot of the older
Japanese platforms where if you were an old drifting nut
or if you were just an old Japanese import guy
that loved old classic wheels the Watanabe RS8 was the wheel
that you put on your car.
In fact it was probably one of the original
extremely light weight wheels
that you could get for function.
And it's probably one of the most rare
in terms of lineups on the Japanese wheel side of things
that you can get your hands on to this day.
Lot of times when I see Watanabes out there
that are genuine, not reps or fakes or anything like that,
it is something that is actually pretty hard to come by.
So I always try to have a conversation
with the people that own those or have those on their 86s
or something like that because it's just a cool wheel.
The 86 was one of those cars that had the RS8s
and if you're one of those initial D guys,
I actually am pretty sure that they had those wheels
on that car.
The Watanabe RS8 is probably on of those wheels
that I would never actually buy
because of how expensive they are
but they are one of my favorite wheels out there.
Now those aren't really something
that you can just go out and get anymore.
They're actually pretty hard to get
from the manufacturer as is.
And their website looks like it's a 2001 version of Yahoo!
except it's in Japanese.
So good luck if you're trying to get a set.
Number four is the Rotiform ZRH.
Now Rotiform, I get it, it's kind of like a bro brand.
And everybody always like,
when they think about their favorite wheels
they always choose Rotiform.
And the brands that I'm trying to choose here
are like out of the ordinary.
So you have to forgive me, father, for I have sinned.
But the Rotiform ZRH is probably my favorite
in the Rotiform lineup and here's why.
The ZRH is this like forged multi-piece wheel
that is a five spoke with circles at that end.
That's the best way to explain it.
And it looks incredibly good on angry-looking cars.
It's a very soft designed wheel meant for angry cars.
That's why you see the ZRH on Lamborghinis
and different sort of angry long cars
that are just aired out on the ground.
The ZRH is probably one of my favorites
because of how unique it actually is.
The closer you look at it the more you notice
a lot of the little details of what make it so unique.
The depth on the circles, the depth on the spoke itself,
just how they accentuate a lot of what makes this
very simple design actually very elegant.
It's one of my favorites because of the fact
that it's a very hard wheel to pull off.
There's not a lot of people that can go out there,
put a set of ZRHs on their car,
and it automatically look good.
In fact, a lot of the times plenty of people get it wrong.
They get the ZRHs and put them on their car
and it makes the car look bubblier and worse than before.
There's very few different types of wheels
that you can put on cars
that are gonna look good across the board.
But you can go safe with some six spokes,
some seven spokes and things like that.
The ZRH kinda puts the whole game,
the whole wheel game in veteran mode.
It's like the mode that you click on Call of Duty,
and then you totally decide to go back and change it
because it was the worst decision you ever made in your life
'cause you get shot once you gotta start
all the way back over which is bull (static)
because I know for a fact
that Ghost can survive more than one bullet shot.
But according, in veteran mode, he can't.
You just, that's just how it is.
Anyway, the ZRH is that.
It's like the hard mode for your fitment
and for how your car is going to look.
And I respect people that are able
to pull it off appropriately
and because of that I absolutely adore the wheel.
I love wheels that are hard to pull off.
And the ZRH is a wheel that is hard to pull off.
And that's why I like it so much.
Number three would be the BBS E88.
That's one of my favorites because,
well, it's just the wheel that you put on Porsches.
It's the wheel that you put on RWBs.
It's the wheel that, well, sorry,
I know there's SSRs and stuff like that.
People get mad about that.
But E88s are like the wheels that you put on old Porsches.
And I love the fact that the BBS E88,
and a lot of BBS lineups,
are one of the few remaining wheel-model designs
that feature a convex-style wheel.
And it still looks good and it doesn't look cheap.
It's something that I took off my own car,
the convex design, because I hated how it looked.
It just made it look super dated and old.
But the convex design
is actually pretty hard to pull off nowadays.
Especially considering the type of cars
that you're putting it on.
Everything with multi piece is angry,
aggressive, and concave.
There's very few things that are running a convex style.
I love the BBS E88 for the fact that it's an iconic design.
And it's an iconic brand.
And it's one of those brands and designs and styles
and color ways that you can get
that when you look at it you just know
that the person cares about all the right things.
The E88 is one of those designs that I,
models I guess I should say, that I appreciate the most.
And there's lots of other BBS models out there
that I respect and appreciate.
But the E88 takes the cake because of the fact
that it's one of those that's meant
specifically for Porsche.
The five by 130 bolt pattern that you can get in 19s,
or you can actually get in some different sizes
depending on you upsize the barrel
and all that sort of good stuff.
But we won't get into that.
Another reason that I appreciate it
is just because of how simple it is.
Nowadays there's so many wheel brands
that you can get out there
and you can get all these angry different types of designs
that are super aggressive
and they're supposed to kinda look good across everything.
And the BBS has never really faulted away
from what it's really good at.
And the iconic mesh design comes from BBS.
And the fact that the E88 maintains that style
and maintains that look makes me really appreciate the model
and design of it as what it is.
And it doesn't really try to be anything else.
Now, I don't have $5,000 to spend on a set of BBSs
so I will just sit and drool
and look at the people that decided to spend
that amount of money on those wheels.
And stare at them until I look at my car
and go and get with something
that's incredibly way less expensive.
Because they're really pretty.
I just don't know if they're $5,000 pretty.
This next one comes out of left field
which would be my second pick
which is the Cosmis Racing XT-206R.
Now I know that sounds a little bit weird.
You're like, Alex, you're picking all
of these like unique things.
Why would you choose the 206R?
Because it's cast, I mean it's easy to get,
it comes in aggressive offsets
but it's still a one piece wheel.
It's not rare.
It's just, it's there.
And that is exactly the reason that I chose it.
XT-206R has like this weird thing that we've noticed.
Especially since we've start hosting them
and since we've started seeing them in the scene.
The 206R is everything a lot of the enthusiasts wanted
in a wheel.
It had this interesting step lip design.
It had multi colors.
You could pick different colors.
It had aggressive offsets, aggressive widths.
It was one piece cast so it was inexpensive.
It came in a bunch of different bolt patterns.
It was just offered in everything that what people wanted.
So it became this wheel model that a lot of people liked.
And then at the same time Cosmis Racing
was growing this brand of kind of being this like
local grassroots-style group of people
that just wanted to help people get wheels on their car.
And it just turned out to be this win-win scenario.
And a lot of people started running the XT-206Rs
and as long as you get a bigger size,
in my opinion I think that they're a great looking wheel.
There's a lot of depth to them
and because of that you would insinuate
that they're more expensive and they're really not.
The XT-206R kinda takes the cake for me
as one of my favorite wheels.
Not necessarily because it's rare or because it's expensive
or because it's old or because it has heritage
or anything like that.
It's because it's everything
that if there was a person to walk into our door and say,
I want a wheel that encompasses all of the things
that no other wheel brand can do, it would be the 206R.
And that's probably why one of my favorite wheels
is the 206R is because it accomplishes so much
of what people want in a wheel.
It's not that expensive.
It's actually not that heavy.
It's a great design.
It's great colors.
I'm repeating myself, but it's just something
that I feel like I need to argue with.
Because all the other wheels are like four or $5,000.
And then I'm showing you a $1,600 wheel.
And I'm sure you're like, wait, what?
My number one for me right now takes the cake
is a wheel that has kinda taken the cake for me
for quite a long time.
And it's kind of a weird choice.
So it's okay if you judge the decision
because there are other wheels that I mentioned
that are probably cooler.
But I would say the Vossen VWS-2 probably takes
the number one spot.
Now, if you didn't know,
the Vossen VWS-2 is a forged two-piece wheel
that was actually a collaborative effort
between WORK and Vossen.
It was something that they did,
I believe a few years back
and it's something that they took a lot of pride
and effort into from a marketing standpoint
to make this weird Vossen-WORK-esque style wheel.
The thing that you have to remember is
I'm a fan of the VWS-2 in the deep-lip format,
not the shallow-lip format.
So not the ones where the face is just right up at the top.
I think that looks a little bit too busy.
But when you're talking about the wide body GT-Rs
and Liberty Walks and things like that,
I think the VWS-2 looks absolutely iconic
because it is such an interesting looking wheel.
It's aggressive yet it's soft.
And it's one of those things that you don't see running
on a lot of cars.
It actually sits pretty well
on a lot of Genesis Coupes and things like that.
But not a lot of people spend that amount of money
on forged two piece Vossens.
They would just rather get your forged multi-piece
three piece wheels because I don't believe
the VWS-2 took off as well as a lot of people thought.
Now that's just my opinion. I know that a lot of people
got angry with Vossen and WORK for collaborating
because they're two very different markets.
But at the end of they day,
I really appreciated the fact that they did it.
Because it's something that's really cool.
And you can see the collaboration
within the actual wheel design of the Japanese cues
and the Vossen-esque style designing
to come together into this one wheel.
And every single time that I see it in the gallery
or every single time that I see it come through
on another website or I see it at a car show
I always like to stop and take a picture
because it is one of my favorite weird odd wheels.
It's extremely busy.
But when it's paired with a deep lip
it looks absolutely incredible.
And that's just my opinion.
So what are your top five favorite wheels?
Drop a comment below on which ones you think.
Which ones do you disagree with or agree with.
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