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TOPGEAR TOP 9
01 Saab 900 Aero Turbo
Saab had a rich seam of form in three spoke wheels, with various models right up to the early Noughties 9-5 saloon being available with handsome triple-spoke rims. Our favourite are the thickset, almost monobloc-looking wheels fitted to the 900 Aero Turbo from the late Eighties.
02Dodge Viper
Well if you’re building a car that does without a roof, exterior doorhandles, driver aids or airbags, then its only right and proper you do away with a wheel spoke or two. The Viper’s swept three-spokes with imitation centre lock lug nuts are peak early Nineties chic.
03 Vauxhall Nova SR
A car from a more innocent time. Wait, innocent is the wrong word when you’re talking about a joyrider classic. The Nova is as quintessentially late Eighties as a red-braced stockbroker in a whaletail 911. And don’t those tri-point wheels suit the angular looks to a tee?
04 Range Rover Classic
Why has the original Range Rover design endured? Because it’s so unpretentious. The body wasn’t even styled: they simply signed it off with the unadorned aluminium panelwork the development team had been using on the test mules.
05 Brabus Monoblock II
Is there a Nineties-era Mercedes that doesn’t suit a Brabus Monoblock II? Arguably not, since the German tuners made merry with fitting them across S-, E- and SL-Classes. And they’ve now revived the design for a newly tuned SL, giving the three-pointed star a three-pointed rim.
06 Ford Ka
Sometimes, something’s so bizarrely ugly, it comes full circle (pun not remotely in
