Originally Posted by jginnane

If my wife drives my Z, likely since I'll be getting the 7AT so she can drive it too, I'd have to factor in the cost of a couple replacement rims every year. New York City curbs and New York potholes are not kind to good rims.

(My stepson is one of the most careful drivers in the world, but lives in Queens. His $3K worth of chrome rims were almost completely square by the time he stopped trying to bang them out each week, and went back to OEMs.)