Tuesday 11th May 2010

Fuchs Wheels Back For 911

Porsche makes Sport Classic wheels available for 'ordinary' 997s

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Mmmmm....

The alloy wheels that epitomised the Porsches of the 60s, 70s and 80s are making a comeback on mainstream 911s, Porsche has revealed.

The Fuchs-style alloys first re-appeared on the 911 Sport Classic at the Frankfurt show last year. That near-perfect melange of new and retro was limited to 250 units, but now Porsche has decided to give the ordinary 911-owning masses a taste of Fuchs-style goodness.

Unlike the iconic originals, the new Sport Classic alloys (they take their name from the limited-run model) are cast rather than forged aluminium, but still get the classic black five-spoke centre section and polished rim.

The 19-inch wheels fit all 997 models and come wrapped in 235/35 ZR 19 (front) and 305/30 ZR 19 (rear) rubber. Porsche will sell them to you for 5569 euros (just under £4800).

[jon-]

£4800 and they're not even forged. Erm... Gobsmacked.

[Stu R]

Pretty nice, but there's some very special BBS wheels out there for less which are much nicer

[edo]

no no no.

Shameless bks. Leave them to the era of cars they came with. Stupid money too.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Cant help but think they look a bit too retro on the modern porks

Should of left this wheel 'exclusive' to the Sport Classic. Would be interesting to hear someones views who had just paid £140k for one of these cars!

Edited by Hong Kong Phooey on Tuesday 11th May 16:00

[knighty]

I'm sure on the back of this news that the "cal look" custom VW beetle community are now buying cleenex by the truck load......a legendary wheel by far.....good to see that Porsche are keeping some of the original 911 DNA with this wheel.

[thegoose]

Old news....

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[P4ROT]

[Hammerhead]

Design classics

[Hammerhead]

edo said:

no no no.

Shameless bks. Leave them to the era of cars they came with. Stupid money too.

Burn him. Burn him now.

[edo]

Hammerhead said:

edo said:

no no no.

Shameless bks. Leave them to the era of cars they came with. Stupid money too.

Burn him. Burn him now.

Design classic ON A CLASSIC Mr. D, Leave the past where it is!

Edited by edo on Tuesday 11th May 16:19

[Hammerhead]

But the 911 is a classic, Mr O. Your 997 went all 993-like remember

[Nickellarse]

Warm fuzzy memories of polishing those lovely rims on my old 3.2.

I think they'd look sooo cool on the newer 911's.

[SAndals]

fuchin' lovely

[edo]

Hammerhead said:

But the 911 is a classic, Mr O. Your 997 went all 993-like remember

Oooh, good argument. Let me think of a witty reply. I will be back shortly. Probably

[richterswil]

I really like them but £4.8k is above my pay grade for a set of alloys. Ouch.

[Greenwich Ross]

£4800?! Fuch right off.

[pSyCoSiS]

Nice wheels. Very expensive, though.

[E36GUY]

P4ROT said:

expensive but, what he said /\

[traffman]

If Carlsberg made wheels.......mmmmmm lvely.

[Soovy]

Kahn Design will soon be knocking them out for £200 a corner.