A new wheel type called tweel?

Post by **inphlict** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:35 pm

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/ ... 9888.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/03/autom ... ner=rssnyt
http://www.michelinman.com/difference/r ... 2005a.html

Doesn't really look that good, but interesting idea.

Post by **Dekard** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:45 pm

Id think you'd still need to enclose them, imagine a stick or pipe getting caught inside them and ripping out the bottom of your car, you'd be hella pissed

Post by **inphlict** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:46 pm

Yeah true, but they could probally make them look like normal tires minus the air.

Post by **R00k** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:49 pm

This would be great if it became available to the average consumer for cars. Making tens of millions of them a year and burning or burying them doesn't help the atmosphere much at all.
Not to mention it takes gallons of oil to make every tire today.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:11 pm

yeah, MSN had a good video of that way back at the NAIAS... here's the video.

Post by **The HavoX** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:12 pm

looks like shit

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:16 pm

The HavoX wrote:looks like shit

yes, because technology is all about the looks

Post by **inphlict** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:23 pm

I think the moon lander used a similar concept.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:25 pm

Dekard wrote:Id think you'd still need to enclose them, imagine a stick or pipe getting caught inside them and ripping out the bottom of your car, you'd be hella pissed

the same could be said for snazzy alloys, it's not too much of a problem

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:33 pm

Well it looks like crap because they don't have the innards of the tire covered but it'd be easy to cover that up with rubber to make it look like a regular tire.

dunno how that would work for low profile tires...

Post by **R00k** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:34 pm

lol, it's a low profile tire already.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:35 pm

What happens if I try to drift with those things? Will the little rubber strings tear?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:35 pm

Well super low profile, those don't look that low...

Post by **Ryoki** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:41 pm

Weirdness...

Post by **Scarface** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:23 pm

Seems like a good idea

Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:31 am

Dekard wrote:Id think you'd still need to enclose them, imagine a stick or pipe getting caught inside them and ripping out the bottom of your car, you'd be hella pissed

Why doesn't that happen with any of the eleventy hundred different spoked wheels on the market now?

Post by **zeeko** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:11 am

ooo burn...

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:32 am

The wheels can be retreaded from what I heard.

Post by **Dekard** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:37 pm

Nightshade wrote:
Dekard wrote:Id think you'd still need to enclose them, imagine a stick or pipe getting caught inside them and ripping out the bottom of your car, you'd be hella pissed
Why doesn't that happen with any of the eleventy hundred different spoked wheels on the market now?

I didn't say the 'spokes of the rim' It's about 1/2 inch of rubber before the inbetween section of the tires. Plus it's harder in 'regular' rims because of the brake pad and disk taken up the majority of the space behind them.

Anyhow, it would most likely be hard for something to get stuck in them at 50+ mph

Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:13 pm

I don't think that gap is a split in the wheel halves. It looks to be more of a channel for water ala Goodyear Gatorbacks or Aquatreads.