New wheel from Rota - the Rota GKR is now available!

[richy200]

Rota GKR.. a.k.a. Enkei NT03

Do Rota actually plan on producing a single wheel they have designed them selfs? Or is that how costs are cut? By slacking on the actual 'lets design a wheel' part of the making a wheel process? Not hating.. just asking.

what do you mean is that how costs are cut?

where have they cut the costs

these are uber expensive!! would rather buy me a set of jdm rims for japan lol I would imagine you could buy the enkei wheels for cheaper

 

[matt]

Whats next, Ronal Teddybears?!

If they were 18xawesome and the teddy's arms and legs pointed forward (like a big gay hug) due to the dish I'd have some

 

[Struggle]

BTW maybe i'm being REALY stupid here but is it not illegal to copy a product???

do rota not EPICLY breatch this??? or are the other designs not trademarked/copyrighted????

 

[Struggle]

rota should make these

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l99/rockthebells/36897677-JohnsonsNine1-1.jpg

 

[Robbs]

im all for rota - they fucking rock, make more wheels with Dish! and more ET10's

too right they should, although they are good looking wheels im bored with the grid and gtr type rims, i want mega stepped dish .

 

[davesx]

Whats next, Ronal Teddybears?!

I would!

 

[initial_j]

not going to preach about the whole genuine vs copy thing. most people have bought things at one point

however those wheels are possibly the ugliest i have ever seen! and like jord pointed out, i dont think people realise how cheap decent rims are.

my works rezaxs 10j et6 with yoko tyres, cost me less than these.

 

[Ted]

I think these would look awesome on a rally car, or if they came in a 13-15" would look alright on something retro like a MK1 golf / Old skool jap cars or maybe even at a push a mini.

But on a normal road type car they are pretty pony!

 

[mint]

These kinda rims really suit teg's imo. John F had a set of his DC2 iirc and they actually looked real nice.

Examples of the NT03.

etc

 

[Dunnfords]

Mint just swayed a few minds im sure. I didnt like the stand alone rim photos, however on the FD <3

 

[Captain Muppet]

BTW maybe i'm being REALY stupid here but is it not illegal to copy a product???

do rota not EPICLY breatch this??? or are the other designs not trademarked/copyrighted????

You have to register the design in each country, and then when someone breaches your registered design you have to find them and prove you designed it first.

If someone copies your stuff and sells it with your name on it you have them done for fraud. Easy. But if someone copies your stuff then sells it as their stuff, and you didn't register the 3D design of the shape, then you have to suck it up.

Stuff I've designed has been copied, but there's not much I can do about the 60,000,000 replicas that get sold every year. And I'm not above using someone else's design if it's a neat solution and there is no legal reason why I can't. I'd feel pretty ashamed if I couldn't improve on it though.

 

[Quail]

I'm not getting in on the Rota debate, its boring now.

But as for the Japanese overpricing their products, that's not really the case. In America, a brand new set of 17" Enkei NT03s starts at 716USD (at the first retailer I Googled. You could probably find cheaper). That's 483GBP at the current exchange rate, even when imported in to America. If the Japanese wheels are that overpriced, how come they're 400 pounds cheaper than the copies in England!? They'd be stupidly cheap in Japan

 

[Cowpatmatt]

in simple words, England sucks!
I buy most stuff from abroad as it saves me loads of cash even including p+p and duty.

 

[S.W.A]

etc

totally off topic sorry, but where can i get them chocks?

 

[BLAZE]

totally off topic sorry, but where can i get them chocks?

+1!

 

[Adam]

Josef you have 2 Livers ?

 

[Thomas]

Everybody's whining and bitching about Rota copying wheeldesign....

....but in the mean time 87.3% of all driftcars in the UK are rocking Rota's, most of 'm bought from DW. Right.......

 

[Adam]

Everybody's whining and bitching about Rota copying wheeldesign....

....but in the mean time 87.3% of all driftcars in the UK are rocking Rota's, most of 'm bought from DW. Right.......

Those people aren't moaning funnily enough

 

[S.W.A]

chocks anyone

 

[big fat nick]

Or Go away and stop F*cking up every thread about ROTA with the whinging that they are putting precious japanese companies out of business. They aren't.

Correct, people who buy rotas wouldnt pay more than the purchase cost of their car for a set of wheels if rota didnt exist, they'ed go to halfords and buy the best looking wheel they could afford. I think we'd all be rolling around on team dynamics stuff, or *shudder* wolfrace.

This is the uk, people dont have masses of expendable cash like in the states etc, if you do, bully for you. But i know if i had 3k to blow on a set of wheels, i'd much rather buy a WHOLE bmw m3!