Here is the technology that michelin is developing. Its called the tweel. Contraction of the words tire and wheel. It looks damn bloody cool i think. Thats a pretty sexy tread pattern too!

heres the working prototype running on an A4. Imagine my car could be an everyday stair climber man....although thinking bout it, not only could they potentially make the car waay lighter, but also wit low profile wheels, they could adjust the dampning of the tire struts to provide a less harsh ride such as the one im experiencing now wit my low profile tires

maaan as soon as this come out and if i have a car by then...im definitely getting a set...just because of the shock factor. Imagine rolling on a set of these in singapore! youll get on every freakin car magazine just cos of them man!

here is the science...so theres the deformable wheel, and your flexible spokes which combine to be a very good damper in my opinion. Depending on the composition of the rubber, you could tweak it to be real hard or real soft...the tread concerns me because i would think if the tread band is thin, michelin might get lots of money from pple having to change it really often. Not so sure how this would handle a hard turn. thats alot of shear force right there man. In terms of flat spotting on the tire, which would make a hell of a lot of noise and a bad ride, its apparantly not much more than 5% differnce from conventional tires. speed loss due to increased friction is also real small at 5%, and the most important factor is gas efficiency. Wit softer tires and more surface area in contact wit the road, you need more gas to push off and stuff. that apparantly is not a factor either...very interesting stuff. I WANT!

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Here are my choices of potential steering wheels should i eventually decide to get one.Here's the momo champion...simple looking, but maybe a little too simple


slightly better i think, i like the sleek gun metal center which looks much nicer


heres the xavion...looks interesting but a little too flashy for me i think... expensive too

cheap (relatively) momo race wheel, same theme as the first two, again, a little too simple

heres the net air metal wheel. not sure if i like it or not...cant really decide. definitely dont like the stitched momo at the top but the chrome accents look pretty decent IMO

this is the millenium evo, looks real nice, a little better than the xavion i think, has the stylish feel to it..but probably could do better

this millenium is the wheel im leaning to right now. Can't ignore the bling bling. Although between this and the millenium evo, i think its a hard choice. Also need to get the quick release hub adapter but that also means that i have no horn. And no horn is hell for me...so i should decide what i really want. I might and might not get it. Coming soon will be a post on a revolutionary new technology that michelin is introducing soon.

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Today, i will display clones of my car. This right here is a mish mash of stuff together. To me, not a thought out process but it still looks really good. That suspension drop is really nice but waaay too low for driving in Indiana. Those are audi wheels...A6 i believe. Red sidemarkers are a first for me but she should change the fogs to something else. That is the euro lip that im planning on puttin on my car. Looks good dunnit? Also, i love how she had the door handles painted to match the rest of the body. Looks nicer than black handles IMO.

this pic is off of a manufacturer's site. I think they do the body kits. I for one love the boser, makes the car look real mean and all. Not a big fan of the bumper though. Note the removed rear antennae, the mirrors were also changed and so were the skirts. I believe those are the same fogs as mine. Also loving the deep dish wheels with some obvious use of spacers to bring the wheels farther out for clearance issues wit the massive drop. Overall, still a really nice car

pretty much stock but for the polished TT wheels. Lots of pple rock them but im not so sure i would. Again, a pretty drastic drop

alright so its got a supercharger...wheels arent very nice, i don't like the whole bumper grille and sideskirt combination so this car doesnt do it for me. C-

the only thing i like bout the car is the porsche wheels and brake upgrades...the extra fender pulls and the bumper just over does it a little i think. C+

this is alot better than the previous two. smoked mk4 looks are matched wit smoked euro fogs. The bumper looks more in line with the car too. this time, this baby is sporting m3 side mirrors

same car side profile. Loving the whole red and black scheme. i spy red calipers with a brake upgrade behind those gunmetal wheels. Notice how dumped this car is..you can barely fit a hand under the car!

another common mod is the jetta/golf front end swap. Jetta has the squarish look that i am not really a fan of. the breather gills at the side are not really to my liking but it doesnt do much to break the flow of the car. polished porsche wheels are dope along with a body kit. CHECK OUT THAT INTAKE MANIFOLD!! i want mine as shiny as that man! i saw yesterday on the tex another guys polishing work and i was jealous. He does waaay better work than the one that i have right now. But i think if i could find someone wit a orbital wheel and just use 800 grit sand paper i should be able to make it really blingin

this is another really nice car i think. Looks similar to mine besides the rear wing, painted mirror caps, kamei eyelids and the other stock vw wheels. A+

another well done car. sticking with the black and red scheme, black badges and smoked lights all around, black wheels wit the polished lip and for once, someone has been able to make an ABT grille look good.

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not very many mods at all on this car. It came stock with pretty sweet stuff. His exhaust always had extra detonation sounds and it sounded pretty cool. Probably from having removed his cat (catalytic converter for those still learning) the rear spoiler was the coolest part of the car. Like most porsches, it had a speed activated spoiler. i believe once you hit 45, it would automatically rise up. Some people have tried integrating this into other VWs but i doubt it wouldve looked good


first signs of ageing from the car. I was surprised the new owners didn't haggle more seeing as how this rust spot would be hella hard to fix. Definitely wouldve required taking the glass out and welding the body again..maybe they just wanted to do a full respray of the car. The hood also had quite a bit of hail damage, didnt look too good at all i must say.


the interior was just money man. the leather was so well conditioned and taken care of, that mustve been the selling point. Momo pedal covers are sported along with the customary radar detector. the cable shifter was a first for me, it felt kinda weird but definitely made shifting very very fast.


basically a completely stock interior. He had a freakin glove box and i didnt...unfair! The radio is also stock and the coolest thing is that he had an oil gauge and battery voltmeter in the center console infront of the shifter (the white thingee in the picture) that came stock with the car. Amazingly, the battery hadnt been changed since the car was bought brand new off the dealers lot.


theres the vr beauty in all her glory. same engine as mine, different car. Sounded very much more tame just because of the stock airbox. Never really raced him though to see the diff in our motors....probably shouldve. His engine bay was def alot cleaner than mine is right now


just thought id show this...this was a pretty sick setup with the polished runners and powdercoated oilcover...fully chromed supercharger just looks sick. I wish i could make my engine bay that nice but it might take too much time and money...both of which are a rarity to me these days


this is another pretty nice interior besides the stupid silver buttons i just hate...note the silver faced gauge cluster, i so wanted that in my car but think im goin another route now. Also, the nice tv install in the center console along with the autometer gauge beside the radio. It kinda hit me today that ill be in detriot over the summer. So i think i might get a momo removable wheel (excuse i know) That way, if any thug tries to steal my baby, hes gonna have a mr bean moment. Not sure which one to get, but once i narrow it down, ill show it to you guys..prob nothing too flashy...Not sure if i should beef up the security on the car at all...hoping the stock alarm would hold up


this is a sample pic of an LED swap i was talking about. I really wanted to get all white bulbs for the interior but the light switch is unmodifiyable and it will only be red...so i mgiht have to go wit all red and white back lit cluster which i dont think would look half bad and would make my blue radio light fit in a little better. All right, thats it for today! comments are always welcome on what i can do to make this a better blog!

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First of all, let me apologize for not posting for a week, hopefully i didnt lose too many customers. This was bryan's car. It is a 93 Corrado SLC, the second year of the revolutionary VR6 engine for VW. This was marketed as the ideal VW enthusiasts car. It had basically everything that people wanted at the time. The paint wasnt in the best condition, but for a 93 it looked pretty sharp. I believe those are euro spec headlights which run at a higher voltage and thus extra blinding to other drivers but who cares! note the stock vw steelies that came with the car. This is the car in winterized mode. In the summer, he ran stock speedlines wrapped in Falken Azenis that absolutely made the car pirouette in the slightest bit of water and stick like glue when it was nice and hot

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