I love standard 20vt wheels in black or dark grey. Makes the car look mean, especially when lowered.

Absolutely agree.

The original wheels are the best, especially the LE ones.

Blimey, you've got the handbrake sorted on the Portofino! Mine wouldn't hold on that slope

But I don't think we would need too many. I would have 5/6 alloyes allowing for spares etc. Might be worth an investigation

Hi Mark.

The 20 V Turbo is what we affectionately call a ‘P.I.T.A’ I’m sure you can work out what those letters stand for

We have looked at quite a few options to work with this car and not all have been satisfactory. Some owners try wheel spacers, often with PCD variation bolts (not so many 4x98 wheels available) and we don’t really deem this as being safe, especially with a high number of owners wanting to do track days etc. Also, I haven’t been able to find a decent supply of commercially available aftermarket wheels – certainly things from the Team Dynamics or Compomotive ranges fit but not everyone likes the designs

As the standard wheel is a 16” single piece design it would take quite a bit of money to make the tooling and moulds necessary to do a production run of 17” Off the top of my head it would probably take an order of around 4000 pcs to make it viable. What I can try and do is, if you email me some decent pictures of the wheel, email this out to some manufacturers and see if we can get any feedback.

Worst case scenario is looking at a 3 piece custom design, maybe with a billet centre but this will have to have an outer lip so the wheel wouldn’t match 100%

Email me some pics and we can look further into this.

Regards

William Murphy

LOL - if you look very closely just under the back left wheel you'll see our brake failsafe system i.e. a bloody great brick!