ICME: The Bling Package

By Julia Frey
April 9th, 2008 @ 7:10 PM Driving, West Side

blingpackage.jpg“Gold Packages” are so Y2K. Someone got themselves the full on Bling Package!

Saw this at my neighborhood Vons today. I only had my cell phone camera so it’s tough to see that the 24″ is all made out of diamonds, even when you do click it for bigger.  (Okay, probably not diamonds, but they sure are shiny.)

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7 Comments so far

  1. RumorsDaily (doorframe) on April 9th, 2008 @ 7:26 pm

    Stupid question: I’m looking into buying a new car, and one of the options you can get is bigger wheels. Do bigger wheels actually provide me any benefit? They seem superfluous, but I don’t know enough about cars to totally dismiss them without worrying that I’m missing something.


  2. Julia Frey (lajulia) on April 9th, 2008 @ 9:19 pm

    You know what they say about a man with bigger wheels?


  3. RumorsDaily (doorframe) on April 9th, 2008 @ 10:03 pm

    Bigger brake pads?


  4. Julia Frey (lajulia) on April 10th, 2008 @ 9:17 am

    Oh yeah, baby. Oh yeah.


  5. mikekelly on April 10th, 2008 @ 11:04 am

    RumorsDaily, bigger wheels do not have any benefits on the average street car. In fact, one decent pot-hole and the rims are damaged or even trashed. There are no potholes on a road race type of racetrack. They also make for a harsher ride, since the special tires ("low profile") used have smaller and stiffer sidewalls.

    On race cars, the low profile tires that make the bigger rims necessary improve cornering. On street cars, however, you’d never notice the difference (unless they’re on a sports car and it’s 3AM on Mulholland Drive, but that’s another story!)

    These rims make a car look like a Hot Wheels car, a really, really expensive Hot Wheels. And just about as childish ;)


  6. RumorsDaily (doorframe) on April 10th, 2008 @ 1:31 pm

    Fantastic. Thank you.


  7. daner on April 10th, 2008 @ 1:56 pm

    i like mike



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