Machine face wheel
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If it is a real option it's has to look great! Many cars are now offering black wheels with machined surfaces, and they look very modern. Here is my favorite....with nice black accents elsewhere on the car.
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They won't be black with a machined surface for the C7, the whole wheel is silver.
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I wonder if GM is hiding its pictures perhaps because it looks so close to the base wheel that they don't want people to refuse picking the additional cost option based on pics they have seen.
Either way, now that a bunch of C7's have been delivered including non-Z51's, I figured someone out there may have ordered this wheel and could share pics of it.
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Even if you find them, they are pretty expensive for just a polish at 1495...lots of really nice wheels avail aftermarket that are not much more....use the configurator for the c6 at tsw for few nice ones:
http://www.tsw.com/alloy-wheels-configurator/
also
http://www.vossenwheels.com/wheels/
http://www.tsw.com/alloy-wheels-configurator/
also
http://www.vossenwheels.com/wheels/
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Not according to the picture in the GM Ordering Guide for wheel option RQ1. I think you may be pleasantly surprised.
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It looks like the base wheel with a machined face:
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There is a small picture in the Chevrolet configurator:
http://www.chevrolet.com/corvette-st...-zipcode=91784
It looks like the base wheel with a machined face:
http://www.chevrolet.com/corvette-st...-zipcode=91784
It looks like the base wheel with a machined face:
If the background paint was darker I would have ordered them. But for that price, and looking so close to the standard wheel, I had to pass. I predict for 2015 or 2016 a darker paint will be one of the new changes for that year.
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Those wheels remind me alot of the wheels that came stock on my 2013 BMW X-5 50i. The ones that I took off and are now at the dealer with a "for sale" sign on them. They have been there since Jan. of 13 with "no offers". I ended up spending $5,000 for some custom "360 Forged" wheels.