The wheel dates back more than 6,000 years when artisans stuck wooden discs on top of shafts and spun them around, making fancy clay pots and all sorts of modern-day museum fodder. Mesopotamians later ...

Today, everybody's got custom wheels. The guy driving the Escalade to work runs 24s with paper-thin sidewalls and those ridiculous spinner wheels. Even the pizza-delivery kid's got 18s on his Honda.

Elsewhere in this issue we've explored all the myriad ways in which you can ruin a car's look by failing to consider all the elements that have come together to create a complementary look. One of the ...