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Enkei RP-F1 Type IIs?

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 11:59 am
by KRVHUGR
I saw a picture of these at a local tire dealer who indicated 15 X 6.5 @11.2 pounds would be available at mid/end of June. The price he quoted me for one wheel would almost buy a new set of four Konigs from Goodwin Racing! Are you going to carry this wheel and if so what would your price line look like?

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 6:33 pm
by Brian
As your experience with the price suggests....we didn't see much point in carrying it. Not particularly light, not a size the racers will buy, and expensive for a 15x6.5. I thought it rather insulting for Enkei to call it the successor to the RP-F1. In fact, production of the RP-F1 briefly stopped to create room for the new wheel. Dealers went ballistic when we got the specs of higher price, higher weight, less favorable sizes, etc. That put the RP-F1 back in production.