- Hey guys, what's going on?
It's Alex from Fitment Industries and today
we're gonna be talking about the most iconic
replicated wheels that we think of
in our young tenure of selling wheels.
So number seven is the Gram Light 57F.
And the Gram Light is kind of like the stepbrother
to the Volk TE37, it's very thin-spoked design,
it is an extremely popular wheel that Gram Lights made.
There is some questionability as to who has copied who,
but Gram Lights has quite a few copies.
So the Rota Attack and the Rota Tight
and the Axis Circuit are some very heavily influenced,
I would say, wheels that look very similar
to those Gram Lights.
So number six is the Weds Sport TC105N,
and that's probably one of my favorite wheels.
Weds Sports makes some absolute killer designs,
they're extremely lightweight, this is a 10-spoke
I believe design and it definitely has some killer looks.
It has a flush center cap look,
kind of like a dug-in design.
Definitely a cool looking wheel,
and there's been copycats of it.
ROTA Titan also does kinda take some cues
depending on which generation they made it
that looks like the TC105N.
You also have some Fux wheels
that came up that look almost identical.
And the XXR 527 does look very similar to the TC105N.
Number five is the Enkei RPF1.
So you guys probably were expecting this one.
That twin six-spoke design is iconic for all things small.
Small sports cars, Miatas are known for it,
s2000s known for it, but definitely
a iconic replicated wheel.
Most notably the Drag DR-21 I believe,
has a very similar design.
There's a lot of other wheels
also that feature the same style.
A raised lip as well as a twin spoke design.
Now whether that's for aesthetic purposes
or performance purposes, Enkei obviously makes
their wheels with a performance orientation mindset,
so theirs are actually meant for weight rotation
and dealing with brake clearance issues
and things like that.
Number four on our list is a Work Meister SI-3 piece wheel.
So it's no doubt that that big, curved,
five-spoke design was extremely popular.
It's carried over into the new generation.
Obviously multi-piece wheels are a huge play
in today's market.
You're gonna see them being rebarreled,
changed around, widths, offsets,
all that sort of crazy stuff.
Work makes that possible just by having multi-piece wheels
so that's why the design has stayed current for so long.
But it's definitely a great looking wheel.
The curvature of the spokes have allowed
for big break kits to clear, it allows
for a lot of different applications
to work with the Work Meister
and it's just a clean looking wheel.
It's not too eccentric, not too crazy,
and it flows well with a lot of different designs.
The Rota D2 and the MST MT07 are common replications
of the Work Meister three-piece wheel,
but there are notably quite a few others.
You're gonna notice that a lot of the five-spoked,
curved designs are extremely popular
just because they're so timeless that they seem
to just go through decades upon decades
of just getting retouched and re-tuned.
If the company had been using these wheels
for almost anything, it would probably look good
on pretty much any vehicle made.
Number three is the BBS RS,
and this is definitely a popular one.
The BBS RS is like the most replicated wheel of all time.
It's been used over 20 different auto-manufacturers,
it's been used countless across the boards
in terms of rep wheels, non rep wheels,
China wheels, everything you could possible see
in terms of a meshed designed wheel,
probably came from a BBS RS imitation or inspiration.
It's a very common wheel, they're even sold to this day.
They're a EuroSpec wheel, there are tons
of BMW's and Audi's that run BBS RS wheels,
definitely a killer design.
It's the iconic mesh design
that everybody knows and loves.
A close replication to this
would probably be the Konig Maxxim.
It is a one-piece cast, BBS RS are not one-piece
nor are they only cast, they're a multi-piece wheel.
You can get them a ton of different shapes and sizes.
But BBS RS, just a solid looking wheel
especially on Euro JDM, VIP vehicles.
Definitely a killer wheel.
Coming in at number two is the Work Equip 05.
Now, this isn't a most replicated wheel
in the current scene, but back,
probably five to seven years ago, even 10 years ago,
this design was probably the most replicated design ever.
Just the way that it looks, it screams 90s,
but it does have a lot of copycats.
Most notably the XXR 968.
There are a few other brands that have done
the same style design, but definitely
a great, killer, looking wheel.
It you guys haven't gotten to number one yet,
I'm gonna be shocked if you don't get this right,
because this is the king of replicated wheels.
And I do have to give credit to this company,
they have still made it,
they have so many different variants of this design.
It's just crazy to see that such a design
has made it so far in the wheel game
that it's just the go-to for certain years, makes,
and models of vehicle.
Number one, the Volt TE37.
So the Volt TE37 is probably the most iconic,
replicated wheel.
It's a single six-spoke, peeled back spoke,
usually low-pressure cast, gravity cast,
rotary forged, things like that have all different planning,
but the Volk TE37 is iconic.
It features the bent six-spoke design which helps clear
for big brake kits, it has rotational weight mass reduction,
it has rigidity lines, it has pretty much everything
that makes a wheel a rockstar wheel
when it comes down to actual performance.
And Volk has capitalized on this wheel design,
and it is clear that it's probably
the most sought-after design
because you see these designs everywhere.
The SSK 031,
the Varrstoen ES2,
are just a couple replicas to name a few,
and there are so many others we couldn't even
go into description on how many wheels
have taken inspiration from the Volk TE37.
So those are our top seven iconic replicated wheels.
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is the original and what you think is replicated.
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