MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: alexmccabe on November 14, 2013, 11:25:13 am
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Anybody know the name of these wheels? They're off a MK6 Ed35
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They're the Edition 35 alloys.. Believe they are called Watkins Glen.
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They're the Edition 35 alloys.. Believe they are called Watkins Glen.
Well that produces results on Google, so it must be. What a strange name for wheels. Thanks man :)
Time to begin the hunt. Not going to be easy.
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^^^^ That's them, great looking wheels too. :happy2:
Have a look at the 18" BBS SR's. Look similar (ish) with a better width/offset for stance and room for a BBK if required....
Oh and they're cheaper!
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^^^^ That's them, great looking wheels too. :happy2:
Have a look at the 18" BBS SR's. Look similar (ish) with a better width/offset for stance and room for a BBK if required....
Oh and they're cheaper!
Hmm, they are nice, but not quite the same. Not as angular. Thanks for the suggestion though!
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clearance on these is a an issue on BBK which is why my car has TSWs on it
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http://www.ebay.de/itm/18-Zoll-Alufelgen-Glen-Watkins-Edition-35-VW-Golf-5-6-Touran-1T-GTI-R32-Felgen-/161180954181?pt=Auto_Komplettr%C3%A4der&hash=item2587222e45
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Watkins Glen in a racetrack in the US, lots of GTI wheels are names after tracks.
Pointless obscure fact of the daaaaaaaaaay...
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Nah, cheers for that Tony! IIRC, the ED30 wheels are called "Rockingham" as well as Pescara, think thats a track too? :driver:
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Monza of course.
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As Mike said there have been loads of VW wheels named after tracks:
As well as the previously mentioned theres also Long Beach and Le Castellet (Paul Ricard) from the MK4 Bora, Road Americas and Daytonas from the Passat range, Detroits from the ED30, Indianapolis from the Mk5 Talladega from the Mk6 R/scirroco, Austin from mk7 gti, that's just off the top of my head lol! :grin:
Also some more pointless vw trivia, most of the models are named after winds :smiley:
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I think Leon SuperCopa wheels would look very nice on a Golf.
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As Mike said there have been loads of VW wheels named after tracks:
As well as the previously mentioned theres also Long Beach and Le Castellet (Paul Ricard) from the MK4 Bora, Road Americas and Daytonas from the Passat range, Detroits from the ED30, Indianapolis from the Mk5 Talladega from the Mk6 R/scirroco, Austin from mk7 gti, that's just off the top of my head lol! :grin:
Also some more pointless vw trivia, most of the models are named after winds :smiley:
The GTi wind? never heard of it ;)
Though Golf == Gulf Stream. This is why even though England is on the same latitude as Canadia, we are quite a lot warmer.
Passat ==Passatwind. is derived from the German word for Trade Wind.
Polo == Polar Wind.
This is fun :)
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Bora and Scirocco are winds too, think Touraeg is too :happy2:
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Touraeg is the name of a remote African tribe. They were supposed to be a nomadic, noble people.
Now they are a group of terrorists. :grin:
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Touraeg is the name of a remote African tribe. They were supposed to be a nomadic, noble people.
Now they are a group of terrorists. :grin:
I think you may be referring to the 'Tuareg' tribe? :happy2:
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Yes :)
(also spelled Twareg or Touareg)
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I was already aware of the Tuareg tribe hence why I believe the 'Touareg' may be the name of a Saharan wind, or at least thats what the instructor on the Touareg off road course at Wolfsburg told me :smiley:
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Haha really?
I was about 13 when it first came out and we were at that Birmingham NEC show. The guy driving the offroad course there told me it was named after the African tribe. Think they said that on Top Gear too
I'm too old to remember now LOL
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Yeah Really lol
It was back in 2008 when visiting the Autostadt, paid to do the Touareg off road driving course and the instructor was curious why an Englishman had travelled all the way to Wolfsburg to look at VWs.. :grin:
Got talking and turned out he was a lifelong VW nut, asked him about the wind naming thing and he rattled them all off even the obscure ones like Vento, Corrado and Jetta, according to him and a tour guide in the zuffenhausen the Touareg was named after the German translation for the saharan wind that travels rather like the nomadic tuareg tribe does I'd imagine..?
If they keep it up it might not be long till the Australia market launch of the 'doctor' :grin: