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2. Hubcap - Wikipedia

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   On modern automobiles, full-wheel hubcaps are most commonly seen on budget models and base trim levels, while upscale and performance-oriented models use alloy wheels. Even modern aluminum alloy wheels generally use small removable center caps, similar in size to the earliest hubcaps. The variety of wheel trims on any particular car has ...

3. Alloy wheel - Wikipedia

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   Alloy wheels have long been included as standard equipment on higher-priced luxury or sports cars, with larger-sized or "exclusive" alloy wheels being options. The high cost of alloy wheels makes them attractive to thieves; to counter this, automakers and dealers often use locking lug nuts or bolts which require a special key to remove.

4. Rim (wheel) - Wikipedia

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   One engineering text says, "alloy wheels [are] often incorrectly called aluminum rims". [18] Some authors are careful to use rim literally for only the outer portion of a wheel, where the tire mounts, [19] just as the rim of a coffee cup or a meteor crater does not refer to the entire object. Others use rim to mean the entire metal part to ...

5. Wheel - Wikipedia

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   An aluminum alloy wheel. The rim is the "outer edge of a wheel, holding the tire". [47] It makes up the outer circular design of the wheel on which the inside edge of the tire is mounted on vehicles such as automobiles. For example, on a bicycle wheel the rim is a large hoop attached to the outer ends of the spokes of the wheel that holds the ...

6. Active rollover protection - Wikipedia

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   An active rollover protection (ARP), is a system that recognizes impending rollover and selectively applies brakes to resist. [1] ARP builds on electronic stability control and its three chassis control systems already on the vehicle – anti-lock braking system, traction control and yaw control. ARP adds another function: detection of an ...

7. BBS Autotechnik - Wikipedia

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   In 1994, the LM was released, a two-piece wheel based on the design of Le Mans race wheels of the era. [28] In 2011, the RI-D was released, the world's first wheel made of duralumin. [29] The market of BBS as an aftermarket wheel producer surged in 1983 with the inception of global sales by the company.